indistinguishable from Nazi rhetoric. "The Russian brainpan can't comprehend True European Ideas like life is valuable. This is why we must kill them all"
I love the idea of Christmas, that is a midwinter festival that involves community, family, food, and colourful lights to brighten up those long December nights. I love that it has the power to bring people together even in the darkest of times (I learned about the Christmas truce of WW1 at a very impressionable age). I love giving someone a thoughtful gift and seeing them light up with joy. I'm even a sucker for going to church and singing Christmas hymns and reading the story of Christ's birth even though I'm not religious.
I detest that it is an orgy of consumerism. I detest that it's just another empty vessel to sell crap. I detest that for two months there's never ending pressure to buy this or that, the advertising pressure that it's not Christmas without buying a bunch of garbage that nobody cares about.
I still come out on the side of loving Christmas but it's in spite of its modern incarnation, not because of it. I absolutely understand people who hate Christmas, it's been hollowed out and transformed into just another capitalist festival of consumption
Canadian libs are the fucking worst. They're identical to american libs in every way except they have an even worse holier-than-thou attitude just because they were born north of the border. If you dare criticize the canadian government/system in any way they'll inevitably fall back on "hey, we might have our issues but at least we aren't america!" as if that's something to be proud of. Being "better" than america (and canada isn't) is such a fucking low bar to begin with its pathetic that's all it takes to be satisfied in their minds.
Not that they actually care about the distinction when it comes down to it. They'll be waving an american flag with a maple leaf on it to show their support for the brave american troops if/when they drop the charade and formally annex canada.
I've been using this for years as part of masking without realizing it. It's the easiest way to keep a conversation going. The slightly more advanced method is asking related questions but copying the person word-for-word with a raised inflection works in a pinch
I'm still so fucking smug that I clocked him as a piece of shit in like 2010. Basically everyone I knew thought it was ridiculous I was a hater of Le Epic Reddit Science Car Guy but I felt so fucking vindicated when it became widely acknowledged that he sucks
Yay it's the time of year when I get to explain why I refuse to wear a poppy over and over