Arrested for Giving Gifts: Anticapitalist Santa Claus Protest in Copenhagen

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[@lamascomentada1627]

Great video!!

[@waxon2]

What fantastic history. Thank you.

[@nowtopia]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@Trylobyte]

those authorities panicked and completely lost it! All because of santa giving away junk. The idea of someone getting something for nothing makes them cack their pants in horror!

[@FabienDelisle]

Merci beaucoup. C'est réjouissant!!!

[@nowtopia]

Merci d'avoir regardé. Je suis heureux que vous ayez aimé!

[@sofiaamadora3579]

So interesting! This channel is really good 👍🏼

[@JohnLovellJr]

It's beginning to cost a lot like Christmas

[@nowtopia]

😆

[@bag2963]

It's not about Christmas, not even Capitalism that much, it's just greeeed.

[@JohnLovellJr]

​How old will Jesus be ? 2024 years old ?@@bag2963

[@barriolimbas]

"Deny it! cried the Spirit stretching out his hand toward the city. Slander those who tell it ye! Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse! And bide the end!" Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol.

[@w1o2l3f4i5e]

It is cyclical in man’s development. When we are at that puberty to early twenties period we see what commercial damage is being done to us. Then we become parents and want our children to have the best so we feed into the commercial go round.

[@ninedragons1]

If they want to give then go ahead and give. No one is stopping them, but don't go about giving away other people's things. My brother was doing the same thing. He kept giving away our things. While all his stuff stayed safely in his room. That is stealing and hypocrisy. You can't force people to be communist and that's exactly what they were trying to do. Everything here is someone's time and labor and money. It doesn't appear out of thin air. He wants to be communist, that's fine. Be communist, but he can't force us to be communist with him. He wouldn't stop and He's an adult so we threw him out. Even in a tribal community, if you give away the food and skins they spent time hunting for and you'll see what happens.

[@RedstoneNinja99]

If ownership is about working to make a good then why do executives who do nothing to produce the toys own them? Surely the manufacturing workers and delivery drivers and other workers should own the toys?

[@ninedragons1]

@@RedstoneNinja99 Ownership? I have no idea what you're talking about. As a delivery driver myself I am not entitled to the products I deliver. They already been bought and paid for by others. That would be stealing. My job is to create value for the company in exchange for value in money. Likewise I'd feel horrible if someone broke into my truck and stole everything. Not only would that make me suspect if I have no proof, but if it happens too often they'll deem it too dangerous to deliver in this area and end my job. Executives also don't own the toys. Their job is to work for me the shareholder. I have been investing since I been working at McDonald's. I don't have millions, but the dividends I earn is the same as my pay so I make double the pay. I have voting power equal to the shares I own. I have voted people out of executive positions before. Me, a lowly delivery driver. To think my friends made fun of me for working so much and investing like some old man, while they partied. Now they struggle to pay for all their unintended children while I'm just inconvenienced in this economy.

[@alvinhugosson6911]

fan va ball, aah dansken läggern ändå

[@radiCarlikoff]

"On the night before Christmas, we’ll all be about While the people are sleeping, we’ll realize our clout We’ll expropriate goods from the stores, ‘cos that’s fair And distribute them widely, to those who need care." - Santa Claus (aka Peter Kropotkin)

[@sadev101]

ie no problem with theater on streets but to rip items from storeshelves and give them away . basicly stealing. thats idiotic.. for stores to survive the more is stolen the higher the prices will be

[@anthony9475]

oh no, stealing :(

[@Ridingrules10000]

"anti-capitalist"...aka communists.

[@nowtopia]

Some of them, probably

[@GiarcraiGO]

Its possible to be anti-capitalist and anti-communist simultaneously. Their both evil liberal ideas.

[@Ridingrules10000]

@@nowtopia, oh, I'm sure that some of them are anarchists rather than communists, but the anarchists are being used by the communists who organize these disruptions of civil society.

[@radiCarlikoff]

0:50

[@Ridingrules10000]

@solomongrundy145, "capitalist" is a dialectical term. "anti-capitalist" is necessarily communist. If you're disrupting civil society because you're "anti-capitalist", but not communist, then you've swallowed a lie and you're being used by communists for their aims. They say the word "capitalist", while referring to modern civil society (or western civilization more specifically). A non-communist anti-capitalist is like a libertarian socialist. It's not a real thing.

[@gj1234567899999]

What clickbait. These “Santa’s” were not arrested for handing out presents, they were arrested for attacking buildings and harassing people. Your video has Santa’s with pickaxes hitting buildings and driving construction equipment being destructive and impeding people.

[@nowtopia]

There were different phases of action and the video is clearly referring to arrests from the department store intervention