#Capital Christmas

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[prokopetz]

The local big-box store has decided not to let Hallowe'en get in the way of Christmas and set up the twelve-foot animatronic skeleton right next to the twelve-foot inflatable Santa. The inflatable Santa's wobbling keeps setting off the animatronic skeleton's motion activated flail-and-scream routine, which in turn sets off the inflatable Santa's motion sensor and makes it play "Jingle Bells".

[mos-twin-mattress]

This was her FAVORITE time of year... She should be spending it with family... she should be be alive. I'm pissed she's not. I'm so so pissed. I'm hurt. on the verge of tears.

Please dont forget her face, her name, her smile, her caring soul.

She wanted to be a nurse. Wanted to help mothers and babies... And she never got to.

The world was a better place when she was in it...

Merry Christmas Breonna... Thinkin ab you...

[magnetothemagnificent]

Anyway, "Scrooge" should actually mean "wealthy capitalist who doesn't care about the lives and welfare of their workers, even on Christmas", not "person who happens not to like Christmas".

The overly cheerful corporate ads spreading "Christmas cheer" and then making their employees work overtime without pay during the holiday season are the actual Scrooges, not people who just don't like Christmas for one reason or another.

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

You're a mean one, Mr. Rent.

[whispsofwind]

I know they are jokes but I still utterly disagree with the people in the Dickens December tag going "Scrooge has a point/Scrooge is a mood" etc.

Because the problem with Ebenezer Scrooge is not that he dislikes Christmas and hates people forcing it on him, or that he refuses to give money to an unknown charity banging at his door.

The problem with Ebenezer Scrooge is that he is everything wrong with capitalism.

Scrooge doesn't refuse to participate in charity because he thinks it's a sketchy business and social problems should be addressed systematically at a higher level: he simply thinks any charity is a waste of money because to him, the problems are already taken care of. Poor people should be in prison or put to work, sick people should be in prison or in hospitals or even better, should be dead, and at the end of the day it's not his problem because he worked his whole life and he is perfectly fine and people die every day, so who cares.

And Scrooge doesn't shut down Christmas because Christmas is an over saturated, inescapable commercialised hell that he doesn't believe in. He hates Christmas because he dislikes anything even vaguely joyous, because joy doesn't bring money, or even worse, it requires money to be spent.

The only thing that counts to Scrooge when the reader meets him is to make money, and that drive shuts down any compassion in his heart. The more money he makes, the more miserable he becomes, and the more miserable he is, the more money he wants. Christmas is just a symbol of how utterly devoid of... Well, anything, Scrooge is.

Love is ridiculous, anything that makes anyone happy is useless because it distracts them from earning more money, and if you are poor it's your fault for not working hard enough.

And that's why the contrast with his nephew and employee in these first 3 entries work so well: because here's a man who married for love, and is as warm and ruddy as a candle in winter, and here's a man who would stop to play with the children in the street on his way home, just for the joy of it.

And then there's Scrooge.

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[thenib]

Gemma Correll.

[bootleg-nessie]

If Santa were real I’d slaughter that capitalist pig with my bare hands. Serves that classist piece of shit right for only giving expensive gifts to the rich kids

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[redstonedust]

idk if this is universal but i love when garden centers and hardware stores have Christmas displays that get so complex they become their own attraction. one of our local garden centers has started advertising their display as it's own event and my favourite part is that you can be looking at their elaborate miniature Christmas village with a moving train set and turn the corner to see 2 for 1 deals on ceramic plant pots in the same aisle

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[thornescratch]

No regrets.

[foreos]

bitches will really watch a christmas carol every december and walk away from it thinking like “if you don’t celebrate christmas you’re bad!” and not “the rich need to redistribute their wealth.”

[drumlincountry]

Just had a phone call with my mother about her friend who toooootally wants to rent their spare house out to a refugee family but just needs to know all the ins and outs of the government supports available first. like "mhm and is that €500 a month tax free? and can they ask them to pay more rent on top of that? But the €500 is guaranteed right? Yeah they're very generous they'd be easygoing they're a great landlord but they just wants to have assurance the tenants won't wreck the place...."