I didnt think you were dunking on people with ADHD
@toilet_rainbow its all good. Pissa does admittedly look like the worst of the worst, the ones who deliberately let it fester and use it as an excuse, because of course thats what she has done.
Agree about the Yule festival. It looks like standard procedure and a lot of people on the counsel will be glad of a new and unique event in the town. A lot of small towns hurt for events that are different from whats offered everywhere else that will also bring in revenue. My guess is it will be welcomed with open arms, but permits are required and the formalities have to be observed.
It's more like this: the city issued a permit for an organized event that would bring people (and their money) downtown. In order to get an event permit for any kind of street fair, you have to agree to provide adequate toilets, trash pickup, and security, and have everything installed/removed within a certain time limit. That this is the second year in a row the Yule organizers got a permit tells me they did a good job last year, and the city fully supports this year's event.
But there are always segments of the population looking to get offended over something, led by "community leaders" who seek to enhance their leadership position by being the ones who step forward to overhype and protest whatever it is they're offended by. They're the ones who organize letter-writing campaigns, protests, or barrages of complaints to the city that force the city to hold a public hearing.
The city's not going to pull the permit for this event. But they have to let the offended complain about it, and their leaders do their grandstanding, virtue-signalling bullshit, even though it's all a complete waste of time. And the offended—or at least their leadership—know they aren't going to succeed, but they do it because it gives them a chance to appear righteous amongst each other, and in public.
It's probably a bunch of fatass Southern Baptists complaining about the Yule event. In the town I used to live in, it was a handful of proto-Woke white people who got offended at a long-standing "Indian Days" event, and who forced a similar public hearing (which was attended by members of nearby tribes who spoke up in defense of the event, because
actual Native people make money selling t-shirts, crafts and frybread at it). Whether it's the religious right or the Wokescold left, it's the same thing—somebody with the wrong views is daring to host an event, so they have to make a big attention-getting to-do in order to showcase their own righteousness (and enhance the organizers' positions as community leaders and spokespeople).
The controversy, and empty threat of cancellation, will actually be good for the Yule event, because it will provoke outrage in people who may have been sympathetic to it but not committed to going. More people will show up (with their $$$) to support it. It's the best advertising an event like this could ask for. "Indian Days" had its biggest turnout ever in the year offended white liberals tried to cancel it, and is still going strong.