Oprindeligt skrevet af fixfireleo:

Can someone explain this phrase Steam is using to me? It better NOT be a political message or a dis on Thanksgiving. Businesses should NEVER EVER get political!

It says that about black friday

The "black friday" sale was called holiday and there is a note like that below. I assume it's a joke.

It made me smile to be honest.

Thanksgiving(the relevant one) is a holiday for the united states and is only relevant to the sale by it's date.
Black Friday is a shopping season/shopping holiday that exists in the united states as well as elsewhere, disjointed from thanksgiving itself.

Someone at Valve got a hold of every year's argument abut why calling the sales 'holidays'

Could it just be a British thing... the term "Bank Holiday".

Throw away account, not a real person.

Valve is an American company in case you were not aware.

Oprindeligt skrevet af fixfireleo:

Can someone explain this phrase Steam is using to me? It better NOT be a political message or a dis on Thanksgiving. Businesses should NEVER EVER get political!

Because business wants you think that shopping the sale that (used to)followed Thanksgiving as part of that holiday. It isn't. It's just a marketing tool to make you buy things you don't need.

Oprindeligt skrevet af rawWwRrr:

Oprindeligt skrevet af fixfireleo:

Can someone explain this phrase Steam is using to me? It better NOT be a political message or a dis on Thanksgiving. Businesses should NEVER EVER get political!

Because business wants you think that shopping the sale that (used to)followed Thanksgiving as part of that holiday. It isn't. It's just a marketing tool to make you buy things you don't need.

Wait til he finds out that Business and Politics have been married since before any of us were born in the US. Just not in the way that people like he thinks.

Hint OP: The reason the rich get richer and the poor get poorer is because businesses own the US government.

Probably because Black Friday isn't really a holiday to begin with.


It was something that just a business started by accident by putting a large amount of items on sale to get rid of them after being in red and it made them go into black instead.
So a lot of other stores started doing the same thing.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Zefar:

Probably because Black Friday isn't really a holiday to begin with.

You could say it's a "capitalist holiday*"

* Admittedly loose use of the term Holiday

Oprindeligt skrevet af fixfireleo:

Can someone explain this phrase Steam is using to me? It better NOT be a political message or a dis on Thanksgiving. Businesses should NEVER EVER get political!

Thanksgiving is a Holiday?
In all seriousness. OP gives the vibe of someone looking for an excuse to be morally outraged about something.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Tito Shivan:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Zefar:

Probably because Black Friday isn't really a holiday to begin with.

You could say it's a "capitalist holiday*"

* Admittedly loose use of the term Holiday:lunar2020playfuldog:

Stores do love it. Maybe it's just here in EU but the sales are along the line of normal sales for majority of the stuff.

Don't know if they still do deep discounts in USA stores.