deddit@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoDisney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains.message-squaremessage-square165linkfedilinkarrow-up11.32Karrow-down116
arrow-up11.31Karrow-down1message-squareDisney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains.deddit@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square165linkfedilink
minus-squareRustyShackleford@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·2 days agoSince Santa isn’t real, I would say the answer is a definitive, no.
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·2 days agoSanta has an ethnicly homogenous slave workforce trapped in a secret location facing sub-zero work conditions and runs a global child surveillance system supporting an opaque punishment algorithm. There is no way he’s a good guy.
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 days agoBoth are old, bearded, and project a friendly, wise-grandfather image. Both lead a closed community with strict hierarchies. Both have elf slave labor. Both run surveillance operations: Dumbledore has the portraits, Fawkes, the Marauder’s Map (by proxy), and Santa has the Naughty-or-Nice list. Both maintain a mystique that disguises how much control they actually wield. However, I still think Santa is more likely to be evil.
minus-squareAxExRx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoFor anyone who hasn’t seen it, give David sedaris’ “6-8 black men a listen.”
minus-square0ops@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoThe elves should unionize. Let’s see that fat-ass Santa make a few billion gifts on his own.
Since Santa isn’t real, I would say the answer is a definitive, no.
Santa has an ethnicly homogenous slave workforce trapped in a secret location facing sub-zero work conditions and runs a global child surveillance system supporting an opaque punishment algorithm.
There is no way he’s a good guy.
Dumbledore is Santa Claus?
Both are old, bearded, and project a friendly, wise-grandfather image.
Both lead a closed community with strict hierarchies.
Both have elf slave labor.
Both run surveillance operations: Dumbledore has the portraits, Fawkes, the Marauder’s Map (by proxy), and Santa has the Naughty-or-Nice list.
Both maintain a mystique that disguises how much control they actually wield.
However, I still think Santa is more likely to be evil.
For anyone who hasn’t seen it, give David sedaris’ “6-8 black men a listen.”
The elves should unionize. Let’s see that fat-ass Santa make a few billion gifts on his own.