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[-] kristina@hexbear.net 68 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Isn't it kind of fucked up to teach your kids about Santa. Like you're basically telling them that family didn't do much gifting for them it was all Santa. Its better for the kid to know you love them and thought about them rather than lie to them and subvert your relationship

Anyways I'm going to the local mall to debate a phony Santa Richard-D-Wolff

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 51 points 1 week ago

I do think about that a lot, and how not receiving gifts is explained as a consequence for bad behavior. As a kid, if you notice all the poor kids aren't getting gifts, isn't the obvious implication that they're all naughty?

[-] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago

Santa is just another part of the American Civic Religion that reinforces prosperity gospel. The rich children are rewarded by gifts from Santa while the poor are punished by being ignored.

[-] HelluvaBottomCarter@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

Naughty kids get clean-burning coal, the backbone of our Nation's energy supply. If the poor kids would just save up their coal and start a Koch competitor, they wouldn't be poor.

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[-] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As a postal worker im also kinda annoyed with Santa. Mfer I busted my ass all month delivering presents and even the elves get more credit than me

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago

if you're gonna lie to your kids, lie about fun shit Calvin's dad would say.

[-] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Current parenting best practice is to have Santa bring one gift that's not the ~~penultimate~~ best gift of the day. Helps prevent kids from realizing too early that Santa tends to favor the rich kids.

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[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My kid is 4 and Santa is hitting hard this year even though we don't play up the Santa stuff. The level of pervasiveness of Santa in American culture is huge. What I've started saying to her is: "did you know that anyone can be Santa? Sometimes mom is Santa, sometimes Dad is Santa, or grandma and grampa, and one day you'll get to be Santa too."

She gets all her ideas about Santa from media and other people. It feels almost impossible to avoid.

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

At our house the big gifts under the tree is from family and loved ones. But each of the four Sundays of advent Santa puts small gifts in the children's rooms at night and on Christmas eve he knocks on our door and leaves a bag of small gifts after they've opened the ones under the tree.

There's also a Christmas fox who hides treats in their rooms in the afternoon on the 24th, which helps pass the time until Christmas eve and the big gifts.

That way we get both things. The kids know they are getting gifts from the people who loves them and they get the excitement of Santa visiting them.

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

Yeah but why make kids do magical thinking? Its far better to teach them dialectical materialism and scientific rigor

[-] dannoffs@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago

Getting my toddler several yards of linen for Christmas and writing "from a worker's labor" on the tag

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

marx-ok this is the way

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[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 41 points 1 week ago

Ngl I do like doing the “if this obviously fake thing were real what would that take” but Neil is still annoying as hell

[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 39 points 1 week ago

timmy-pray please god make neil delete his twitter and shut the fuck up forever i'll never ask for anything again

[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago

He's magic, Neil. He does it with magic.

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

☝️🤓 Ah, but, have you considered that any significantly advanced technology would appear as magic to those who do not comprehend it? Santa simply uses quantum teleportation to achieve this miraculous feat!

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[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago

I think ots important for there go be people from the scientific community who act in the role of "popularizers of science." Its good to have liasons to speak to a general audience and make people aware and excited about what they do and discover.

But damn if this guy isn't the most insifferable prick about it

[-] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago

The “I heckin love sciencerino” crowd has a lot to answer for

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

They're literally the opposite of what the point of popularizing science is supposed to be

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[-] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago

Santa is a very powerful wizard. Possibly the last wizard on earth. Next question

[-] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There is a good series on tiktok about how santa is an eldritch horror. It is much more fun. He killed the other wizards and stole their magic.

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[-] Seasonal_Peace@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In case you were wondering, for Santa to pass through every chimney of the houses of all those who celebrate Christmas, he must be no wider than 25 cm. However, not every house has a chimney—and technically, breaking and entering via a chimney is a crime. If Santa were caught, he might end up in jail!

AITA because I shot Santa while he was entering my house via the chimney??

ELI5 how big is Santas sack?

[-] TheDrink@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

I shot Santa while he was entering my house via the chimney

That sounds like a comedy premise. Santa gets shot by a paranoid homeowner and someone has to save Christmas.

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

I think that's the plot to "The Santa Claus" with Tim Allen. Basically a guy catches Santa on his roof, startles Santa, and Santa slips, falls, and dies. Apparently being Santa is some kind of memetic curse, because Tim Allen is now turning into Santa against his will, experiencing all kinds of body horror as he grows a big beard, his hair turns white, and he gains stupid amounts of weight.

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

Dark and gritty Santa Clause reboot where Santa says "fuck"

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

Bobby McChud shoots Santa in an instance of castle doctrine. Because of the intricacies of Christmas magic McChud becomes the new Santa. He gives AR-15's to white children and coal to woke children. Hillary ensues.

[-] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

Hillary ensues

hillary-apartment

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

NTA your chimney your rules

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

ELI5 how big is Santas sack?

NSFW?

[-] smokebuddy@lemmy.today 13 points 1 week ago

A lot of houses have a chimney that's just an exhaust for a gas furnace, not a fireplace... an interesting twist I've never seen an attempted explanation for

[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

in the Santa Clause movie Tim Allen goes down those too.. as he thins out to fit into the pipe and goes down, at the bottom the wall turns into a giant fireplace, until he goes back up again and it turns back into a normal wall.

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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

Thank god for epic reddit science man to explain this mystery smug-explain

[-] lil_tank@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

Santa has developed a Uber-like app to outsource delivery work to the exploited elfs

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[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 week ago

I don't really hold this against him, tbh. It might sound insufferable but also is a nice piece of trivia. Maybe because I'm autistic I tend to sympathize with people who write tone-deaf and completely pointless infodumps

[-] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

This is also exactly the kind of thing every kid gets into after they find out Santa isn’t real, they go through an ex-Santa believer nu-grinch phase where they need to find facts to process their new reality.

People leaving religions go through the same process of militant atheism because they have to dispel the lingering doubt in themselves

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[-] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't hate him because he's annoying, I hate him because he is (allegedly) a sexual assaulter

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[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

I hate Elon Musk for a lot more reasons than NDT but for those reasons where my hatred of them overlaps I hate them equally

[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

Santa is confirmed as an Omega level mutant with reality warping powers so thats easy for him

[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

so? he's just really good at his job

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

Has anyone powerscaled Santa yet?

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[-] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Expanding the definition of night to some 36 hours to improve the lore is a pretty good bit. Like, he is racing the international date line so he gets one hour of night for each time zone and about 10 hours he could spend in each zone to play around with does cut down the time pressure a little bit.

[-] bilb@lem.monster 15 points 1 week ago

What Mr. Tyson doesn't understand is that there are four simultaneous 24-hour days in a single earth rotation

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

Quantum Santa entanglement

[-] FunkYankkkees@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

If Santa Claus was real, he would not survive the yankee reich. This would be mitigated by no USAmericans being on the good list

[-] godlessworm@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

adult santa enjoyers are SEETHING. they can't withstand his logic

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[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

we never had wrapped presents from "santa" under the tree... all the presents were from mom and dad.. but on christmas morning our stockings would have candy and small toys like a yoyo or a harmonica or something in them and the implication was that it was from "santa"

[-] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 week ago

It's actually a 26 hour night. That sounds like it makes no sense, but trust me, time zones are weird.

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