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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 minutes ago

Not accounting for the naughty kids who flipped a light switch on the Sabbath. Probably Santa would have to visit about 3 homes in total, which is why most adults don't believe in Santa.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 minutes ago

based. haters gonna hate

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

He is already too educated stupid

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

Evil oneness

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It's literally no issue, Santa can just stop time. Haven't you heard of his stand? He has "The World". It can stop time. Santa is all-powerful. He can stop it for as long as he wants. Checkmate.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

also every one of these tweets seems to accompany a fresh accusation. wonder who accused him on Christmas two years ago

[–] [email protected] 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Realizing Santa wasn't real at 4 years old was the beginning of my radicalization. After that I believed nothing without looking it up first, which of course led me to communism. Idk how all these other contrarian fucks ended up libs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I was the first one in my class to realise it was all fake and I broke so many souls that day. I went to every other kid "you think Santa is real? Guess what you dork it isn't"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

I beg to differ. We can see his exact route in realtime on Christmas eve delivering presents. 100% possible! https://www.noradsanta.org/en/map

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago

and he will visit them, as santa is an eldrich horror beyond our comprehension and our belief keeps him banevolent

[–] [email protected] 35 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 63 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (23 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I figured out santa was fake when I was 5 and the toys said made in China

[–] [email protected] 24 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 minutes ago

I stand for the troops and salute the flag 07 flag-trans-pride

[–] [email protected] 19 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 46 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 17 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago

new Ed Edd n Eddy episode idea just dropped

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

If they join forces with Disney adults they would be unstoppable but alas factionalism wins again

[–] [email protected] 25 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 18 hours 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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 16 hours 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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 17 hours ago

so? he's just really good at his job

[–] [email protected] 16 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Has anyone powerscaled Santa yet?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Sounds like the type of person who always says their favourite Christmas movie is Die Hard.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 17 hours ago

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

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