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twovests wrote
Reply to comment by twovests in "christmas is fascist. holiday cheer is fascist. santa clause is fascist. gift giving is fascist. sorry to ruin your fun but it's true" by hollyhoppet
post updated to be extra funney
twovests wrote
Reply to comment by flabberghaster in "christmas is fascist. holiday cheer is fascist. santa clause is fascist. gift giving is fascist. sorry to ruin your fun but it's true" by hollyhoppet
this but unironically a little bit
flabberghaster wrote
Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in "christmas is fascist. holiday cheer is fascist. santa clause is fascist. gift giving is fascist. sorry to ruin your fun but it's true" by hollyhoppet
Friendship is fascist because friends are an in group contrasted against the outgroup of non friends (/s)
twovests wrote
Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in "christmas is fascist. holiday cheer is fascist. santa clause is fascist. gift giving is fascist. sorry to ruin your fun but it's true" by hollyhoppet
yes but what else will i do on christmas if not view everything through a lens if moral absolution
i also have to say my post isn't as funny as i intended in retrospect so im gonna try to rework it
hollyhoppet OP wrote
Reply to comment by twovests in "christmas is fascist. holiday cheer is fascist. santa clause is fascist. gift giving is fascist. sorry to ruin your fun but it's true" by hollyhoppet
sure there are problems with the way the us treats christmas but i mean just let me chill and hang out with my found family and give them tasty home-smoked foods. not everything has be looked at through a lens of moral absolutism
twovests wrote (edited )
Reply to "christmas is fascist. holiday cheer is fascist. santa clause is fascist. gift giving is fascist. sorry to ruin your fun but it's true" by hollyhoppet
unironically this a little bit though
(EDIT: im rewriting this post to be funnier. if u see this post with this message, please pretend it has more jokes)
edit 2: in lieu of a joke i have instead simply downvoted my comment. i will upvote it when it is funny
edit 3: i am adding jokes in bold. please laugh
i think u will probably like christmas if it's the only time you get off to spend with a family. but if you're observing it from the outside, like a snowglobe, it's pretty thoroughly awful
christmas is all wrapped up in the capitalist american fantasy dream. it's the destiny that was manifested. it's the beautiful loving white grandpa all americans strive to become. and by god, the best way to prove you love your children more than other parents is to bring financial ruin upon your family.
don't forget the lies. the most important thing is to lie to children. (edit: ignore the rest of this paragraph, lying to children is funny as it is.) everyone must maintain the lie. santa claus is real. if you disagree and a child hears you, it is acceptable to make threats against your life. that's christmas baby
the best thing about christmas is it's capitalism denouncing itself. christmas giftgiving is theoretically and empirically an economic inefficiency. there is an argument to be made that gift-giving can provide value in a paternalistic or knowledge-transfer sense (e.g. if you're a tech nerd, a six hours of work and a few $80 retropies can provide $100s of value for ur loved ones). but that doesn't balance out the deadweight loss. (edit: it would be funnier if u just gave people gift cards to shops that are not around in the area)
it's the largest trickle-up-economics machine imaginable. the yearly US christmas spending is about $250B. that's about 1/4 of the yearly US military budget.
can you imagine what we could do with a fraction of that money (edit: i bet u can think of something funny to do with the money. todo, come back and do this.)
for me personally, christmas was the eerie eye of the storm of a familial-abuse torment-nexus. i'm free from that now, but the atmosphere is still so cloying and overwhelming. christmas is inescapable, and if you want to escape, people will think less of you. and i'm speaking as a white american with practically no assimilation pressure! (edit: this one isn't a joke. i've heard some harrowing things about people unfamiliar with the us holiday canon, almost all of which about christmas, and one about halloween.)
don't forget our troops. they're overseas so that you can eat santa cake. the same "ugh, people who hate christmas are annoying" is the same sentiment wielded against people who decry the salvation army, or the US army.
but the main thing is what christmas does to people. i think there's something to be said about the stress does to people, the stress of the darkest, most financially-stressful, work-crunchiest, parents-in-law-iest times of the year. (edit: i saw a child break down when it could not sit in santas lap and then i saw the parents break down too. it is unclear if this is funny or not.)
i spent christmas with my in-laws last year and i'm happy to say it didn't make me aggressive. but my in-laws are christian Christian. like, unironically-believe-God-is-real white christians. (edit: this, too, is already funny. please laugh) i stopped tracking calories because i didn't even clear 1000 in a day, and i spent too much time asleep to worry. they wouldn't even let me put my erotic rudolph art on the trees (edit: the rudolph art part is a joke. they couldn't stop me if they tried)
christmas turns people into their worst selves
so unironically this but only a little bit though. it's not really more fascist than the rest of the united states
hollyhoppet OP wrote
Reply to comment by devtesla in "christmas is fascist. holiday cheer is fascist. santa clause is fascist. gift giving is fascist. sorry to ruin your fun but it's true" by hollyhoppet
it wasn't. the person doubled down with some screed about the evil of hierarchies (they were a turbo-anarchist) when somebody was like "what are you the fucking grinch?"
cute_spider wrote
Reply to "christmas is fascist. holiday cheer is fascist. santa clause is fascist. gift giving is fascist. sorry to ruin your fun but it's true" by hollyhoppet
The smiles on the faces of children are fascist. The warmth of a fire and the love of your family are fascist.
hollyhoppet OP wrote
Reply to comment by twovests in [w: bad post] where did you come from, where did you go? by hollyhoppet
thank goodness he got those pesky rail workers back to work
twovests wrote
the train
neku wrote
Reply to Drives me crazy how people pretend not to understand why folks might not vote for Genocide Joe despite his main opponent being worse. by flabberghaster
it is bewildering to me that the entire democratic party has lined up behind this guy. they had 400 candidates in the 2020 primary but now that he's been Weekend at Bernies-ed through four years of governance nobody will say a word against him. the dems are a gerontocratic personality cult
twovests wrote (edited )
Reply to I'm not a big "Call Congress" type of guy, but please call and tell your senators and representative to not line up behind genocide. by flabberghaster
Hey, thank you for posting this. I haven't called congress before but I'm going to do this now.
done!
This was my first time doing this. A lot of things caught me offguard and this took me 1.5 hours in total, but if you are a functional human being and comfortable reading a script, it would probably be closer to 5 minuntes.
Things that might catch you off guard:
- Scripts: The site provides you with a script right as it calls you. This caught me off guard and messed me up, as I tried to adapt my script live. I usually write my own script and take three or four rehearsals before I can make calls. I have copied the provided scripts below.
- You might reach someone: I did not expect to get reach someone so quickly.
- They might request your contact information: I'm proud to put my name down when begging to stop war crimes, but I didn't expect them to ask for this information.
- Senators and Representatives: I'm a smart person, but I accidentally got these mixed up when trying to adapt to the script and I think I lost legitimacy in the eyes of the office for it.
- Adapted script: I used the numbers on the Wikipedia outline of the war (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_the_2023_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war), and I compared the number of displaced Palestinians in proportion to that of my district.
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iPhones are difficult to call with: If you're used to landlines or Android phones, and are not familiar with the iPhone dialer, be warned. I absolutely fucked this up, and I'm someone who regularly uses the mainstream desktop and mobile OSes.
- iPhones can and will allow other audio to take over your call at any time. I have no mental model for understanding it. Close any other app you have open, and do not interact with Airpods if you are using them (since they can invoke Apple Music).
- I don't understand how phone calls are supposed to work on this phone. The numberpad in the phone app is not the same as the numberpad in the phone call you receive.
- EDIT: Turns out this is true on Androids too. There is nothing to obviously indicate that you have two different numpads. I am going insane
Scripts copied below:
Script 1 – For House offices My name is {Your Name}. I am a constituent of {Representative's Name}. I am calling you regarding the unfolding crisis in Gaza. It is absolutely urgent that the Representative join H.Res 786 calling for a Ceasefire Now and for humanitarian assistance to be let into Gaza. I also ask that they oppose sending any more weapons to the Israeli military as it carries out mass atrocities against Palestinans in Gaza. The only way forward is addressing the root causes of violence: Israeli military occupation and apartheid, and ending U.S. complicity in this oppression.
Script 2 – For Senate offices
My name is {Your Name}. I am a constituent of {Senator's Name}. I am calling you regarding the unfolding crisis in Gaza. It is absolutely urgent that the Senator call for a ceasefire, call for humanitarian assistance to be let into Gaza, and to oppose sending any more weapons to the Israeli military as it carries out mass atrocities against Palestinans in Gaza. The only way forward is addressing the root causes of violence: Israeli military occupation and apartheid, and ending U.S. complicity in this oppression.
Script 3 – For House offices sponsoring Ceasefire Now Resolution
My name is {Your Name}. I am a constituent of {Representative's Name}. I am calling you regarding the unfolding crisis in Gaza. I want to thank Representative {Name} for standing up for humanity and calling for a ceasefire. The Representative's courage in calling for peace and de-escalation will save lives.
anethum wrote
Reply to comment by neku in Bandcamp’s Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off by hollyhoppet
china did this in the mid-'90s as a country-wide strategy during the reform, by the "good communists"... as a side note, i understand, like on an intellectual level, that the US fucking hates communism. but man, the amount, like, of hate is unfathomable to me
neku wrote
this is a bland observation but it is deeply fucked up that billion dollar companies can choose to pursue a different strategy, sell off a subsidiary, etc, and in the process severely disrupt the lives of thousands of people for nothing but dollars
hollyhoppet OP wrote (edited )
I know 404 media articles require (free) signup but they're a legit place owned by the writers who were laid off when vice declared bankruptcy so I'd say it's worth it
hollyhoppet OP wrote
Reply to comment by neku in The History of Adults Blaming the Younger Generation by hollyhoppet
all magistrates are bastards
neku wrote
ya i dont give a FUCK about the magistrate
flabberghaster wrote
Reply to comment by cute_spider in OpenAI Sued for Libel After ChatGPT Allegedly Accuses Man of Crime by hollyhoppet
I'm gonna cancel a bunch of business deals with him due to these accusations.
cute_spider wrote
I believe the AI. If the AI makes an accusation, that person is definitely guilty
twovests wrote
hollyhoppet OP wrote
oops i meant to post this in /f/technology but honestly vote_satan works too :P
Moonside wrote
Reply to Communism ©️ 1848 Karl Marx by hollyhoppet
No private property, respect my intellectual property.
hollyhoppet OP wrote
Reply to Is the Biden Campaign Running on False Hope? [Custom headline by me: Democrat Puts his Fingers in his Ears and Yells "LA LA LA LA LA"] by hollyhoppet
I can't believe the fucking NEW YORKER feels more left leaning than the democratic party these days.