• @[email protected]
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    873 days ago

    I’ve been seeing Christmas shit in stores since before Halloween I don’t wanna hear any shit this year about the war on Christmas.

    If there’s a war on Christmas, it’s fucking winning.

    • @trxxruraxvr
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      293 days ago

      That’s not Christmas winning, that’s just commercialism winning.

      • @[email protected]
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        123 days ago

        Indeed. The “Christmas” we know is not the same kind of Christmas that empowered the Christmas Truce of 1914. A shared celebration of common humanity and good will and forgiveness and love. Gifts exchanged from the heart, not out of commercial obligation.

        We must remember everything. EVERYTHING is co-opted and meddled and sold back to you mangled for a profit. It’s the same reason people associate Memorial Day, a day of rememberance for fallen warriors, with friggin mattresses and truck sales.

        Labor Day? Man that one’s also been blunted. (Gee I wonder why). Forget all the sacrifices of union workers and labor organization who were brutally assaulted by their bosses to win things like universal safety standards and days off and overtime…BUY A TRUCK, RIGHT?!

        So here we have it. Masses trampling each other after “Thanksgiving”, which is more about football and gluttony than sharing and companionship. Christmas as a prime directive to consume instead of celebrate the breaths we have left with people we love.

        Speaking of the Christmas Truce: The Christmas spirit could stop one of the most brutal conflicts in history if only for a moment…

        …but now it’s not enough to stop the working class from being coerced into work away from their families because the profits must flow eternal.

        Christmas was for everyone, because Christ is for everyone. These megachurch-flocking, immigrant spiting, flag-worshipping, suburban-nitpicking types don’t even know what a Christian is.

        • @MutilationWave
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          53 days ago

          Holy shit Labor Day. A day the people who get paid the least labor extra hard because people who make decent money are off and spending. I had my first Labor Day ever off this year, and it’s because the day it fell on made the people at the corporation we contract for get a long weekend, so there was no work.

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      153 days ago

      Ironically, I think the war on Christmas is the one co-opting Christmas.

      The moneyed are winning. The city-sized trash piles are winning.

      If Christmas was taken back from Wall Street, we’d be singing and bringing food to our neighbors and making peace with our rivals. Quarterly earnings would be gleefully, beautifully, “disappointing.”

    • ditty
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      63 days ago

      If there’s a war on Christmas, it’s Christmas is fucking winning.

      FTFY

      • @Warl0k3
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        3 days ago

        What a needless nitpick. Grammatically, the OP phrasing is fine.

        • @[email protected]
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          53 days ago

          Gramatically correct but I was definitely confused at first as to what the “it” referred to (the “war on Christmas” or Christmas itself)