I’m with you.

Give gifts because you want to, when you want to, and if you need ideas - ASK.

There’s no reasonable reason not to ask or communicate directly with the recipient if you genuinely don’t know what they want - or even what they prefer within a group of things they may have mentioned.

Also, holidays in the USA are heavily commercialized and this should be avoided, especially when teaching kids financial literacy.

Being susceptible to advertising is dangerous- kids need to understand that finances act as war against citizens, by deceiving, trapping, and manipulating us into debt for things we don’t need or that don’t work.

Financial literacy and refusing to give in to advertising makes a stronger person. It doesn’t mean we don’t have Xmas, it means we stick to our budget and ignore advertising in favor of research, reviews, and actual data about what we want.

Hello, fed or propaganda victim.

Ah, well that makes a lot of questions unanswerable. But it does explain things and I’ve left that group.

I do!

My own post was removed as a response to a question about the biggest successful cons/grifts in history.

A felon fooling a third of the country has got to be the biggest successful con in history.

I’ve observed that anti- Trump things are being heavily censored on Lemmy.world “ask” type communities.