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Jon Stewart

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

Jon Stewart

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The quote humorously contrasts the modern idea of a friendly Thanksgiving gathering with the historical reality of settlers taking land from Native Americans. It points out the dark truth behind the holiday by exaggerating the violent outcome of those early celebrations.

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