You are viewing a single thread.
View all comments View context
16 points

Why have it on a Tuesday? Why not on a weekend so more people aren’t at work?

Oh, yeah, that’s why.

permalink
report
parent
reply
8 points
*

It’s apparently a hold over from olden times when good Christian farmers weren’t going to skip church to travel to the county seat and vote. So Monday is a travel day and Tuesday is when you vote. Or something like that.

Voting day and daylight savings time are the two immutable objects in American life.

Edit: and both are catering to farmers. Those and corn subsidies are the 3 immutable objects in American life, all catering to farmers.

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

Voting day and daylight savings time are the two immutable objects in American life.

Unless your George W Bush, in which case DST can be rescheduled by 2 weeks and cause everything with automatic time changes but no updates to be manually adjusted twice a year…

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

Valid point. In my head I was speaking of the existence of DST, not when it changed. But I did use the word “immutable”, so I guess I’m back to 2 of those - Tuesday voting and corn subsidies.

permalink
report
parent
reply

People Twitter

!whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

Create post

People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.

RULES:

  1. Mark NSFW content.
  2. No doxxing people.
  3. Must be a tweet or similar
  4. No bullying or international politcs
  5. Be excellent to each other.

Community stats

  • 9.9K

    Monthly active users

  • 871

    Posts

  • 41K

    Comments