The War on Christmas: A Measured Response

[@dappermancer]

Just today a customer told me "Merry Christmas". The whole store fell silent and then my manager asked the man to step outside with him. A moment later, a single shot rang out; we all knew what had happened, but no one dared discuss it.

[@alexmuller6752]

sincerest condolences from old europe.

[@fuzzlemacfuzz]

I'm miss retail and the summary executions. I worked in the body shop and I tell ya we were well stocked

[@AsapCodeine]

Merry Christmas 😁

[@sixstringedthing]

Soon it will be over, this terrible war. The things I've seen... the mass graves... just limp piles of red coats and fluffy white beards and shiny black boots. I remember when we burned the crackers, and the decorations. Like machine gun fire it was, for minutes on end. So many terrible terrible jokes... someones life's work, up in smoke in an instant. And we cheered. Real "christmas cheer", hah. Soon it will be over, and we will have won. But at what cost? I ask you that. And how will we pay when the bill comes due?

[@Sam-iu8nb]

I'm glad your manager felt able to do the right thing. I just wish we could extend the extra judicial killings to customers who try to return shoes after wearing them for 6 months.

[@francesconicoletti2547]

Back when England was a theocracy, the puritans actually did try to stop Christmas. They realised that Christmas was both pagan and Catholic. And it gave the poor a day off work. They did not like any of that.

[@jasonports8517]

And don’t forget the begging, violence and heavy drinking

[@istvankarolyfarkas6125]

Same puritans who sailed to the new world and founded colonies there?

[@francesconicoletti2547]

@@istvankarolyfarkas6125 only the extremists went to the new world, after the theocracy collapsed and the monarchy was invited back and they could not cope.

[@francesconicoletti2547]

@@jasonports8517 it’s not begging it’s grown up trick or treat, and the rest is just British culture not yet channeled into football.

[@jacobvardy]

It really does bare repeating that the only war on Christmas was carried out by hardline Protestants. The American bunch probably would have executed O'Reilly and Jones for heresy. Or at least flogged them for adulatory and moral indecency.

[@coldravioli7839]

"It's the consumerism that's really the problem for me" "Okay, let's look at some stores that took christmas out of their mottos." What an incredible segment.

[@cranberrysos]

An immaculate segue, really

[@monicaganderson9431]

Also it's totally on fox too, if they did any research into Fr. James Martin they would know he's extremely liberal priest, someone more conservative might have agreed with them

[@mwolsen96]

Fr. James is based

[@djoshawott2850]

I can just hear the "shut up" and the "cut the segment" from producers because they lost their push.

[@afellowpotato]

Where can I find a link to watch that segment in its entirety? I looked for a bit but got nothing.

[@UnchainedSora]

Even if Christianity was the only religion and everyone practiced it, "Happy Holidays" would still make sense, because there's literally another holiday we celebrate 7 days later!

[@Aaaaaaarrrpirate]

plus boxing day the DAY AFTER and christmas eve the DAY BEFORE

[@qj-b1624]

exactly! and no one's talking about "the war on christingle" which everyone forgets, or "the war on epiphany" which is halfway through january and the true end of the festival of Christmas, or "the war on ash wednesday" or anything ridiculous like that.

[@ARB1452]

​@@qj-b1624I will start a Holy War on Ash Wednesday and when I am victorious it will be Pancake Tuesday right through to Easter. And that's just the start...

[@cogspace]

Don't forget all the various Advent holidays, and then there's Epiphany on January 6th. There are at least nine Christian holidays in December alone! Ignoring the feast of St. Thomas the Apostle doesn't seem very Christian to me.

[@creatrixZBD]

And holidays…. Holy days Just sayin’ 😊

[@bt3743]

I remember the opening of 1984 when Orwell, in an attempt to establish the dystopian setting had the main character walk into his local Tesco to find that Christmas wad written nowhere in the store

[@kg7219]

thats the most annoying thing, when people try to reference 1984 as something that is equivalent to the way modern society is... like... i feel like most of them didnt even read 1984... or if they did they entirely missed the fucking point of it lmfao

[@kg7219]

and by that i mean when u see a video talking about mask / vax mandates and there are hundreds of comments saying "THIS IS THE FUTURE ORWELL WARNED US ABOUT" or "1984 IS HERE" without realizing that they have literally made this comment on their internet connected device... like bro if u have a phone the listening post is already on ur person at all times... they already gotchu boomers and u dont even realize it

[@chris-bacon205]

@@kg7219 yes. I hear this all the time and the worst part is that a right wing version"1984" is possible to. Like people think it was a warning against leftism according to them. But think about it. Instead of "big brother is watching you" it would be something like "God is watching you". The message is about obedience not "radical Marxism". I think a version of insoc could exist in both the left and right. I've noticed they use God to throw out criticism. I've seen people like prageru qeustion the first amendment for allowing other religions to exist in the county and by qeustioning the legimacy of the first amendment. He's also the same guy that made the infamous quote of "if you value your life, obey". Let that sink in.

[@chris-bacon205]

@@kg7219 also that point.🤣🤣 these middle aged fool complain about there free speech being taken away while USING free speech.

[@animeotaku307]

Poor guy must be rolling in his grave.

[@glitchedoom]

This is fun watching this in 2023 hearing the classic "cultural Marxism" and "politically correct" before they condensed all their scary buzzwords down to just "woke."

[@cherrydrop7025]

😂😂😂

[@Sir_Bucket]

Remember when the sale crowd was complaining about people calling everyone a n*zi? And that doing so would make the word loose meaning?

[@ExileHeretic]

Wok wok wok

[@AngelicDirt]

Like if they changed how they said it, it'll hurt us more or something. XD

[@JAMllostthegame]

I was actually thinking about their use of the word "woke" when part of their rally is to tell people to "wake up" to the war on Christmas.

[@kenirainseeker539]

Just the fact that Alex Jones CAN walk around screaming merry christmas without any consequences kind of disproves his own point. Seems to be using his freedom of speech pretty freely for someone who claims to not have any.

[@benjbutton]

But there are consequences, I get to call him a cunt.

[@quinnmarchese6313]

this is pretty much how i finally got my grandparents to be accepting of others pronouns, PC culture, and identities. I literally asked "do you like people thinking you're rude and mean? because thats all it is." pundits want you to believe youre going to be executed by the woke mob for misgendering someone, when all it is is basic courtesy

[@en-voguepugh3472]

yeah it really does doesn't it?

[@tequilasunrise69]

at least he can say that one lol

[@dp6921]

It's like when Dave Chappelle said all that stuff about trans people while also making out he can't say those things anymore 😂 (By the way, I really like Dave Chappelle, but him talking about cancel culture while being paid millions on Netflix to say whatever he likes, was pretty weak)

[@ZorotheGallade]

1-Make up an enemy 2-Claim it's planning to destroy something wholesome everyone loves 3-Pretend to fight it, mainly by screaming a lot and acting scared, ask for support to fight it 4-Watch the cash pour in. When people point out that nothing catastrophic has ever happened, just tell them "you're welcome"

[@victorvanvolt8425]

5-Repeat

[@MatthewWarley]

Literally the gender pay gap

[@klaudrequester8078]

​@MatthewWarley Yeah I have no idea how delusional idiots can stillptetend that exists

[@roseyoung44]

​@@MatthewWarleyhow in the world did you manage to come up with an "example" so far removed from reality?? I'm honestly a little impressed with how far the point went soaring over your little head lol.

[@chrisoman87]

My rock stops tigers!

[@robertkarnick1286]

Anyone who begins an argument with “first they say I can’t say the N word…” is pretty much setting themselves up for failure

[@AbeYousef]

the most oppressed minority are capital G Gamers

[@voidbreather7405]

@@wolfetteplays8894 Free speech =/= free from consequences

[@ShadowTasos]

Except Alex Jones is incredibly rich and InfoWars is incredibly successful so very unfortunately for our society that's apparently not true :(

[@sawsanomar6870]

@@voidbreather7405 and that good thing

[@XSniper74184]

First they say I can't say the N word and now they're telling me to put on the maid outfit!

[@jelly4790]

"It's about the birth of Jesus, not big corporations!!" exclaims Alex Jones, complaining about how big corporations aren't using the word "christmas" enough.

[@qwertydog9795]

and also while wearing 12k watches 😂

[@shelleyhayden8908]

Its not even about the birth of chirst, he was born in the fall when they did the cenus, chirstmas is a ploy to convert pagans and make people stray, idk y people think slamming God on something pagan and calling it a day, that doesnt make it chirstian.

[@qwertydog9795]

@@shelleyhayden8908 Christianity has a pretty long rap sheet for subverting others' cultures.

[@shelleyhayden8908]

@@qwertydog9795 exactly, but in a movement to convert more pagans the church stole some pagan holidays, chirstmas and Easter, like how does a bunny that poops eggs have to do with Christ dying and coming back, it's a fertility holiday from pagans.... and so many chirstian get up in arms about the fact their tradition is against what thier beliefs clearly state.

[@thatguyfromyoutube4854]

@@shelleyhayden8908 i like how to convert the pagans the church became hslf pagan itself lol

[@parkerdavis7859]

The craziest thing is that HBomb wanted this to come out last year so badly, but he was just a week or so behind schedule, so by the time he finished it, he announced on his twitter that he was so committed to releasing the video *on Christmas* that he'd just wait a year and hope it didn't lose relevancy. And now, one year later, Christmas is in such a state of jeopardy that it almost feels like this is a break. Absolutely amazing.

[@leiram8833]

I was just about to say this!!

[@thegreensunsetgroup2501]

That's hilarious.

[@malvonanaliseiv8629]

Hbomb was behind covid, he did it so people would be free to see his video.

[@anneelk9066]

He released it normally a year ago for his patrons so honestly fuck that :v

[@odfgjdkfhgdjfldvjgdofigpdg1285]

what is this video about though?

[@tigressjinx]

If you start this video at exactly 11:33pm on christmas eve, then just as the clock strikes midnight Alex Jones angrily yells merry christmas at you

[@NickHunter]

creased :D

[@tortis6342]

That is excellent.

[@synthetic_creature]

Will keep this in mind this year

[@trianglemoebius]

I'm gonna do it! If you see this comment, please reply to it so I'm constantly reminded and don't forget. Will update on how it goes this December!

[@tortis6342]

@@trianglemoebius hi

[@achiiro]

Ngl, the priest is a chad for concerning about their religion being used as marketing instead of not enough christian

[@synthetic240]

And the Fox presenters are like deer in the headlights, like they clearly didn't expect him to say any of that, so they stick to the script and say "That's a good point! Anyway, here's a list of companies that don't include enough Christian symbology enough in their advertising."

[@seanwarren9357]

The irony is the entire Christ story is an analog of stolen ancient astrological findings. That is why the rebirth myth is pervasive to many religions. Christianity basically rebranded paganism and codified capitalism with religious dogma. LOL Oh how the tables have turned.

[@sluttyMapleSyrup]

@@seanwarren9357 And yet the Bible itself -- and their messiah in general -- is pretty anti-capitalist, definitely anti-aristocracy 😆

[@seanwarren9357]

@@sluttyMapleSyrup Outwardly only, I would argue. That said, the money changers were not representative of jesus' feelings on capitalism in general, but rather usury and what it has become, the stock markets and financialization (speculative trading and the profiteering of it while contributing nothing to the actual markets). That's not to say he was real or anything, but the ideas put forth by the author's and editors and their analogous protagonists that serve to codify and enter their approved values into social constructs, surely warned at the risk of such economic mechanisms. That said, it was an archaic time and if they really anticipated where we are to day, it must have only been roughly envisioned as an analog to the Pharos, much in the way that our modern billionaires are the counterpart to entities and powerful organizations such as they had at the time... As for aristocracy, what is the structural design of churches and the holy Trinity itself if not an architectural prototype of a monastic subversive counter to monarchist structures that dominated the social paradigm if the social organizations that formed post agricultural revolution?

[@sluttyMapleSyrup]

@@seanwarren9357 I mean, I doubt they had a word for "capitalism" at the time, but his general philosophy of, "You cannot find enlightenment while burdened down by material possessions and money" is pretty antithetical to capitalism and consumerism. Using the lens of their time as best I can, they'd probably view corporations and the like as hidden dukes/barons; they control large amounts of people, have a sizeable amount of "land" (just oriented vertically or scattered across the planet in tiny boxes), are a primary source of income and facilitation of modern life, and exist within other "kingdoms" (nations)... Last paragraph: I think I'm following what you're saying, but there are too many technical terms back-to-back-to-back to where I can't even formulate a response because you've just overloaded my brain with sociological jargon 😆

[@jajajasputin8927]

As a Muslim when I'm told Merry Christmas, i start spontaneously sprouting green hair all over my body and start scheming to steal and smile menacingly

[@ashtonmattrt3668]

Merry Christmas dear

[@S3lkie-Gutz]

@@ashtonmattrt3668 chag Sameach :o)

[@ashtonmattrt3668]

@@S3lkie-Gutz Merry Christmas dear

[@heavyhauler426]

You're a mean one...

[@ChiangKai-Shrek]

​@@heavyhauler426Mr. Grinch

[@effeffiagonalick5078]

I once had a guy complaining to me about how people these days are too easily offended. I wholeheartedly agreed and said, "Like how people get their panties in a twist when you say, 'Happy Holidays' instead of 'Merry Christmas.'" He proceeded to get his panties in a twist.

[@willguggn2]

It's not even funny anymore how the irony is lost on many people who complain about "others" being too easily offended nowadays.

[@devononair]

@@willguggn2 The word 'offended' has lost all meaning. I don't tell people I'm 'offended' any more. If such an incident occurs, I tell them either (a) "that's irritating" or (b) "that makes me want to punch you." I have no time for nuance anymore. I have radicalised my responses.

[@_Somsnosa_]

No one in the history of humankind has been killed or tortured for believing in the wrong imaginary person or saying something mean about royalty. Ever. Before social media we weren't able to see loads of people being annoyed or offended by things big or small, therefore no one used to get offended.

[@wakkaseta8351]

@@devononair If you call that radicalized, then boy are you a lightweight.

[@aaronli8843]

@@_Somsnosa_ *cough cough* crusades, holocaust *cough cough*

[@RedKincaid]

I actually made the shift away from saying Merry Christmas a few years ago, not because I'm a Leftie Godless Heathen™ (although I am), but because when I said it reflexively to this one lady at the grocery store she thanked me for sticking it to the Liberals and standing up for Christianity and she started ranting about how people who say happy holidays are terrible and on and on and on, and I was like, I don't want to be associated with her or people like her, I'm never saying that again

[@CadDriftarus]

This. Agnostic christian here. I'd look her right in the eyes and say, "You ruined it. Happy Hanukkah."

[@ryanroznowski2263]

radical belief in anything is unappealing and ruins it. they want to spread hate thru xmas

[@josephknott6174]

I actually don’t think this helps, the best thing to do for culture war shit is to just ignore it and keep living your life as if you’d never heard them, otherwise you are adding to the us vs them world view they have and becoming part of the problem

[@RedKincaid]

@@josephknott6174 It's not us versus them, it's them versus us, and I don't want to be mistaken for someone who uses that kind of language as an inflammatory dog whistle against other people like me. I just want to live my life but now I have to be careful and watch my language so I'm not mistaken for a bigot. I'm not the one who drew the line but I know which side of it I'm going to stand on.

[@stalfithrildi5366]

Reckon you should have followed up her rant with "...and a Happy Channukah too"

[@elianasc7672]

I attended catholic school up until high school, and everybody always said "Happy Holidays". I always took it to mean "Oh, it's because we are celebrating 2 holidays, Christmas and New Years." So to me, the fact that these people go out of their way to victimize themselves with such a mundane phrase is insane.

[@abadenoughdude300]

Yeah, every sane person just assumes that when you say happy holidays you mean the current one, which in this case would be Christmas. I guess some people don't know what holiday it is and they need to be told specifically.

[@generik7414]

It's a whole holiday season, like multiple holidays even if you're a Christian American. You've got Halloween straight into thanksgiving then christmas then new years plus celebrating that the school year is over, it's a crazy part of the year

[@devononair]

@@abadenoughdude300 Haha that's a good take.

[@koffiya9184]

And this is the fact is many other languages! even in French we say Happy Holidays very often, to include New Year Eve :)

[@luisf2793]

I just assumed people used the phrase because they both start with the same letter. Like Stan Lee and his character's names

[@brookb6488]

I also think its somewhat disturbing that these grifters will constantly say "Judeo-Christian" or "Christians and Jews" whenever they are making their points, even when the things they're saying only applies to Christians. They're playing the "I can't be antisemitic because I'm constantly including Jewish people" argument.

[@michaelgoldstein8516]

Absolutely. These same people will say “oh my god what are they off for now?” when kids have off for a Jewish holiday.

[@alicethemad1613]

@Michael Goldstein man that hits a little too close to home. Grade school and middle school were a rough time

[@michaelgoldstein8516]

@@alicethemad1613 not even just then. I have had non-Jewish physicians say that Jewish doctors who don’t want to work on the sabbath are just trying to get out of work, meanwhile they are extremely supportive of Christian or Muslim doctors wanting off for the same number of days. But the Jews who push back on that are just “overreacting” and need to chill. It happens everywhere, even among educated people.

[@kronemerj]

I'm Jewish and I am like why are you dragging us into this

[@saulgallagher5668]

And then they use "cultural Marxist" as a term, which literally comes from Nazis

[@papervulture]

as a blue haired, pronoun'd, secular leftist, every time i hear someone say "merry christmas," i experience an uncontrollable, rabid bloodlust

[@casualsatanist]

Agreed, although I can’t tell if the bloodlust stems from Christmas itself or just the Mariah Carey song

[@cryo311]

i just experience regular lust... wait what?

[@tortis6342]

Damn you got pronouns? My nouns wanted to go pro, but they broke their ankle right before tryouts.

[@astupidlylongnamethatstoolong]

​@@tortis6342What fucking noobnouns.

[@kindapunkyrocky]

@@tortis6342this is genuinely one of the funniest things I’ve ever read

[@localmenace3043]

We don’t even need to worry about “taking Christ out of Christmas” because the entire commercialization of the holiday is EXACTLY what Christ would be against! It’s not even about togetherness anymore, it’s about the presents and the money and we know it!

[@janjanbinks1710]

I'm no bible expert but didn't he destroy the tables people sat up to sell things on in the temple because he considered it defiling? He's against the commercialization of religion and the exploitation of people to get money in its name

[@localmenace3043]

@@janjanbinks1710 That’s exactly what He did. He drove people out with a whip because it made Him so angry that they were unfairly profiting off of people. I can’t imagine how upset a holiday meant to celebrate togetherness being so commercialized would make Him - let alone that many people celebrate HIS BIRTHDAY on it no less!

[@goingunder2548]

I feel like Christ would feel fine about the consumerism aspect of Christmas as long as everybody who was able to, donated food and toys to the annual toy drives/soup kitchens. I've never been religious, but the big thing I took away from mandatory religion classes was that Christ only ever wanted people to help those less fortunate than themselves, and to stay humble by remembering that, even if you're not doing great yourself, there's always someone in a worse position who could use your help. And that's a GREAT message for anyone. Buying a bunch of toys to donate around the holidays is still engaging in the commercialisation of Christmas, but at least it goes towards something positive - making a sick child stuck in hospital on the big day feel a bit happier. Meanwhile I'm sure people like Alex Jones wouldn't donate anything to anyone, and would describe it as a certain word (hint: it begins with 's'!).

[@None-Trick_Pony]

The Pearl of Great Price is a very pertinent parable here. In it, Jesus tells of a man who sacrifices all pleasures and luxuries so that he may save the money to purchase a fabulous pearl. Basically, the fewer possessions one has (the man's sacrifices), the greater one's reward in Heaven (the pearl of great price). It is very much the antithesis of our modern hyperconsumerist Christmas. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of these people who don't like Tesco not always saying “Christmas Card” view it as evidence that they've earned their money and they can blow it on whatever they want. It's their right, but don't proclaim the goodness of it.

[@robmckennie4203]

I love the fucking priest who comes in like "nah actually it would be better if stores had less Christmas" so good

[@isapu1948]

@Christopher Grant Better not come to the Middle East for eid al'adha then 😅 God, thosr sheep are expensive.

[@littlebigheroman]

Drive them merchants out the temple!

[@benedictdwyer2608]

@@littlebigheroman and drive them with the new Kia Ford beetle buggy car go brrrr, coming this holiday only at Tesla retailers

[@thatguyfromyoutube4854]

@@isapu1948 as i understand sheeps are expensive only in the big cities i remember hearing somone says that a sheep costs nearly 50 - 200 euros

[@Ian_sothejokeworks]

"I love the fucking priest" -Rob Mckennie

[@adventure4509]

"The communist Socialist System of Islam" is the most wrong and nonsensical sentence i ever heard, and i LOVE it!

[@alfalafelstine1536]

Jihad on Christmas.

[@0g0mogosepikworld31]

I have nothing witty to say about this. It is just beautiful

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

Do you think they believe "Muslim" is just another word for "people I hate?"

[@AnimatedTerror]

@@skeetsmcgrew3282 it’s a blanket term used for anything from the Middle East area of planet earth. Doesn’t matter if that’s where they are from or even what they believe. It’s just “MUSLIM” because we need a scapegoat to help us ignore the underlying fact that most of America is about to implode on itself if actually work to fix it doesn’t start soon.

[@DIGITALGH05T]

@@skeetsmcgrew3282 i mean communism is just a word for "thing i dont like" in america. this one lady held a sign that said "integration is communism!" when segregation was around lmao

[@Vanq22114]

Let's all have a moment of silence for the brave soldiers that die every year in the war on Christmas. Without their sacrifice, Mariah Carey would finally breach containment.

[@iambinksy]

The real SCP

[@KaysNewGroove]

Santa needs to be brough to justice for his many, many war crimes committed in this truly awful war.

[@Dr.Starbound]

Another Atheist spreading lies! The Krampus is a rogue agent and Santa should not be held accountable and any elf will testify as such.

[@glowing_purple_girl]

If what we have now is considered “contained”, I can only imagine the destruction if she were left unopposed

[@ekki1993]

​@@glowing_purple_girlImagine the horror, the poor retail workers, "All I want for Christmas is you" at full blast mid April

[@QuilloManar]

I accidentally walked into a shopping centre and said "Merry Christmas"... 35 dead, 268 injured, 120 missing.

[@laravioliiii2832]

Deserved.

[@faultyvideos2215]

I like how the phrasing of your comment implies that the accidental action wasn't saying "Marry Christmas," but instead leaving your house on foot and going all the way to the shopping centre.

[@QuilloManar]

@@faultyvideos2215 bad breath

[@PeeperSnail]

The Catholic priest just completely no-selling the dumbshit outrage culture the Fox News interviewers were pushing on him and instead focusing on how the commertialization of Christmas is an issue is iconic.

[@pczb2692]

Some people just don't want to watch the world burn for nothing.

[@llewelynshingler2173]

I'm fairly sure Right-Wing crazies normally hate Jesuits, so this was doomed to happen. I love this guy.

[@TheRoyalKnightPain19]

They could have called him a communist.

[@samuelwolch1302]

@@TheRoyalKnightPain19 nah, that would be the Mennonites and Hutterites.

[@bbtdgfan890]

I mean that same priest wrote a book on the importance of making space for LGBTQ+ people within the Catholic church and has long been an advocate for the queer community so that interview was doomed for fox from the start

[@daver645]

As a Christian, I personally love that one bit in the bible when Jesus says: "New go forth and complain about menial shit for money."

[@noizepusher7594]

I liked the part where he said “it’s Jesusing time” and then he Jesused all over the place. Probably one the best moments in Bible

[@lasarousi]

That's his exact quote when he was whipping merchants and throwing tables out his church.

[@unduloid]

Well, you can make fictional characters say anything you like, so there's _that._

[@noizepusher7594]

@@unduloid well yeah but this comment specifically references the Bible which is like an actual hard real book. Just because Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character doesn’t mean that I can say that he said “the true meaning of Christmas is the friends we made along the way” in one of his books and not lie.

[@unduloid]

@@lasarousi Temple. Churches didn't exist back then. And it was common practice to hold markets at the temple grounds when they were not in use, so Jesus was just being weird, as usual.

[@gameprose4293]

I'm a Christian and I do not mind the toning down of Christian symbolism in commercials. Like, one of the things Jesus did was tear apart a marketplace that was inside a temple because he saw it as wrong to use religion to make money. And its funny how the only people saying there is a war on Christmas are those who use Christianity as a way to make money.

[@SkyPilot-qx2sb]

well said man well said... i personally never looked at it that way before.

[@corbeaudejugement]

it's almost like jesus was a humble, devout guy that just wanted to spread the word of his god. i wonder, if jesus was around to see this, what would he think of christmas nowadays? especially since it's not even being celebrated on his birthday

[@thebaseandtriflingcreature174]

​@@corbeaudejugement man that must hurt the most... people aren't celebrating your actual birthday 😢

[@Nieveria]

there was never a real war on christmas, but there's always been a war on halloween. this year i saw christmas decorations in stores as early as MID OCTOBER

[@thesleepydot]

right??? HORRIBLE

[@officialmonarchmusic]

Honestly, more people need to talk about the war on Halloween. It's multifaceted and really crazy

[@Grievous-nx3iu]

The earliest spotting of Christmas decor I found at a major retail chain was September 1. Halloween is being erased by the evangelicals!!!

[@janestim79]

Halloween came in the stores in July!! The sheer lunacy! 😂

[@nonbinarychaoticstupid6678]

as a jewish person every time someone wishes me a merry christmas i instantly lose 10 hp and enact my vengeance on the nearest available christmas tree

[@idiotwithopinions581]

As you should

[@Lilly-Lilac]

It’s tradition to create matzah ball based artillery to be fired at Christmas tree farms, everyone knows that

[@RobVespa]

Why? What does your being Jewish have to do with religion? A lot of people and entities (hello, Britannica) seem to confuse Jewish and Judaism. One is a race comprised of multiple ethnicities and the other is an umbrella covering a variety pack of religious flavors. Your comment was funny, though, and if that's the reason, it's reason enough.

[@DanielAbernathy]

Ironically, Prager is Jewish. Surprised that wasn't mentioned in the video.

[@NannyOggins]

I really can’t understand this, would you be offended if a Christian wished you happy Hanukkah? I ask this as an atheist puzzled by the apparent double standards of competing religions.

[@firmanchristiansianturi4794]

As a leftist, why would I want to destroy Christmas, aka the longest holiday I ever get?

[@z.kaminska130]

I feel so lucky to have Chanuka and Pesach, that both last 8 days

[@gedeonnunes5626]

You gotta come to Brasil, we have the longest holidays ever and, depending on where you live, you may get a combo of holidays

[@Generic_Gaming_Channel]

@@gedeonnunes5626 nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk

[@ATotalDumDum]

As a normal person, why would you make it about you?

[@idiomi8556]

@BlightWorxx as a borderline sociopathic madman with homicidal/suicidal tendencies, they weren't. They were making a basic joke about how Christmas gives them time off, and that means it should stay. also "normal person" is bulls**t, and why are you even on hbomberguys channel? He's left-wing, evidently unlike you.

[@HotDad]

you say all of this, but my friend's mom said "merry christmas" one time and they took her away

[@Strivez]

My friends mum won’t let us play bible blaster :(

[@swansonjoe7121]

This happened to my uncle one night. One too many drinks and a "merry Christmas" slipped out. I never saw him again 😔

[@s.bakyhnh1756]

Those gosh darned Communist Socialist System of Islam's ANTIFA Super Soldiers.

[@alexsalamander4251]

d...daddy?

[@nategolden4087]

Your friends mom wasn't very big money.

[@zubetp]

when i worked retail, a lady once complained to me at the register that someone had supposedly told her "happy holidays" at the walmart earlier. she went, "why not 'merry christmas'?" i said, "they probably wanted you to have a happy new year, too." christmas is a quixotic hell in retail, so i was exhausted and i think my brain broke. unprompted, i suddenly sang, "and a happy new year. good tidings we bring..." then i stopped, because i forgot the rest of the words. the woman appeared to be buffering for the rest of the transaction. she responded to my prompts ("do you have a rewards card?" etc) but didn't really speak until after she had paid. then she narrowed her eyes and looked directly at my face. she said very unmerrily, "merry christmas." and i smiled and said, "oh, thank you so much! you as well!" sometimes i still think about her face. and about how i got my very first traffic ticket driving home that night.

[@SOLO.SHAD0W-HAWK]

Glad u made it back safely. Seen some people get hurt because they're tired after work and lost focus

[@randompromises1038]

Actually for some weird reason when I was a kid (raised Christian) I did think "happy holidays" included both Christmas and New Year's. This was before I found out other people existed.

[@mixaliskouridis958]

This comment is a rollercoaster from beginning to end

[@jungletherainwing1471]

I think that last "merry christmas" was a curse intended to bring misfortune upon you

[@StrawberryCelebi]

My ultra conservative aunt always invites my 100-yr-old grandmother’s favorite catholic priest over for the holidays, and likes to bring this topic up. It usually backfires when she remembers he’s an ultra progressive former druggie who immediately shuts her down every time she starts badmouthing the lesbian neighbors.

[@erraticonteuse]

LOL assuming this priest is at least in his 70s, most of the nuns he's known were probably lesbians.

[@mattschumacher4581]

It amazes me how Catholicism is the oldest and most conservative sect of Christianity but its priest and members are generally the most progressive, especially amongst American Christians. I think part of it is that catholic priests have to go to school for a very long time and have to devote their whole life to be priest, as well as sacrifice their social and romantic lives. Because of this, they actually know what it means to be a true Christian. But this isolation is also why so many catholic priests are pedophiles, so there needs to be a balance.

[@JetShanghai]

@@mattschumacher4581 Catholicism is by no means the oldest or the most conservative sect of Christianity. Orthodox Christianity has them beat on that, and don't have the whole priests being touchie problem that Catholicism does. Mandated clerical celibacy created that entire scandal.

[@laurenf.7922]

@@JetShanghai isn't that a contradiction? Catholic Christians and Orthodox Christians are of the same blood and split at the same time. This paired along with the fact that the pedo issue is due to similar factors.

[@JetShanghai]

@@laurenf.7922 No, because Catholicism split from Orthodoxy. If you compare the early theology of the Church with that of today, you will see that Rome departed in 1054. Only one of those two groups could be the original, undivided Church. We Orthodox have married priests and our sexual abuse is virtually unheard of. So those criticisms do not apply to Orthodoxy.

[@knighter1209]

Honestly, all of this "War on Christmas" shit would make a great Christmas movie about a Conservative discovering the true meaning of Christmas.

[@samt3412]

Call up Hallmark with this idea

[@oreohunter7798]

That’s the Grinch

[@matthewwilton7778]

Lmao nice

[@ichbinben.]

@@oreohunter7798 They could call the movie "The Cringe"

[@aa-tx7th]

hopefully they would discover the joy of su!cide instead 🤣

[@harveyholmes9533]

Everyone’s got plenty of time for one Pathologic and half a RWBY before we get started Edit: He really wasn’t lying all those years ago when he talked about his testosterone, we’re about two videos away from him looking like Kratos

[@harveyholmes9533]

Also first and if anyone else claims it they’re on the naughty list

[@darien9487]

@@harveyholmes9533 no u

[@harveyholmes9533]

@@darien9487 can’t argue with that

[@sabotabo7476]

I think I’ll watch new vegas again

[@theinfantmetroid]

Already watched the Pathologic one today and I'll DO IT AGAIN

[@capngeeoff]

I mean it should be obvious but "Happy Holidays" also includes an implied "Happy New Year", so it's appropriate to say to people who you will not see from Christmas to New Years, such as your coworkers and casual acquaintances

[@BeardedWoodland]

You don't see your coworkers on Christmas and New Year's? What's it like not being a hospitality slave?

[@izayus11]

I love how people would complain about "the sjws", "political correct people", snowflakes, participation trophy generation, cancel culture and censorship in one breath, and then moan about someone saying "happy holidays".

[@fantomp1773]

Lets start calling them cjws, Christian Justice Warriors, or in this case, Christmas Justice Warriors

[@creed8712]

It’s all the same people. That’s the thing you start to realize about these sides is they’re basically the same. I mean if you want a room full of uptight Christian conservatives and liberal gender studies majors to agree on something tell them Videogames are bad. They’ll say different things, one will talk about how it corrupts the youth and violence and the other will spout about ist and phobias but they both reach the same conclusion

[@xmlthegreat]

@@creed8712 no liberal gender studies major says "Bideo gaem bad" you Muppet. They're asking people to make better games by including more characters that non-white people can see themselves as, to not fall into empty stereotypes, or they're saying that this was a trend and this is the reason why. Go read an actual paper.

[@renlevy411]

@@creed8712 You know there are many Liberals and Communist that actually play videogame. The fact that you mention game in a video unrelated to game show the fact that you are a Hardcore Gamergater. BTW being Incel is not cool.

[@trentcallahan8461]

@@renlevy411 English?

[@noahfine4820]

As an observant Jew, I always find it quite ironic when the religious right uses the phrase "Judeo-Christian values" to justify imposing Christian values on the entire country, including Jews. And it outright bothers me when Ben Shapiro does this 🙄

[@eatatjoes6751]

Christmas at this point is utter crap taken over by the anti-semitic remnants of December 24th, 2004 and apathy.

[@samueldeadman5733]

Seriously, it's like... Half of those people whose "values" you're protecting, don't worship Jesus or celebrate Christmas... 😭

[@tonyjoestar2632]

It outright bothers me when Ben Shapiro

[@stalfithrildi5366]

​@@samueldeadman5733The most important part of protect Judeo-Christian values is to not reflect on actual traditions nor the teachings of Jesus, but to take whatever you fancy happening and force it on Christians and Jews.

[@lyndislegion287]

I honestly don't even understand what "Judeo-Christian" is supposed to mean

[@HoneyBunchesMcLover]

I said “Merry Christmas” to a customer at my job once. I was executed by firing squad after 14 months of grueling torture. This is my vengeful millennial ghost, nestled within the internet forevermore.

[@LividCreature]

We shall never forget your sacrifice

[@LividCreature]

@@nenmaster5218 this is the scariest reply I’ve had all day congratulations and do continue with said recommendation unless it’s religious propaganda then please kindly F off

[@flow185]

We shall avenge you

[@slowburgundyy574]

I work at Tesco. Whenever a customer says "Merry Christmas" to me I add £10 to their total. If they complain I remove them from the store. The manager knows I do this but is fearful to do anything thanks to Cultural Marxism.

[@lizardperson9648]

Only 14 months? They are really going soft on you.

[@WalkerRileyMC]

My mother bought into the War on Christmas bullshit. She ranted about it for a good hour one day a few years ago. I said, "get in the car, we're going shopping." Which for her is like a dog hearing the can opener going. We stop at Wal-Mart. I walked directly to the outdoor section, which is always converted into the holiday section. I stopped and said "What do you see?" "christmas stuff" she says. "What was in the season candy area when we came in?" "Christmas stuff." I left. "Wait, we're not shopping?" "We're window shopping." To home depot. Same deal. Same response. She obviously knows what's going on and is now trying to convince me to head home. "Oh no. We're far from done." After six or seven stores, all with prominently displayed and advertised Christmas sections, we finally went home. I've not heard about the War since.

[@jordanderache4311]

Well done !

[@komred64]

That was brutal

[@panickedshears]

I need to do this to my grandpa next time he starts ranting about something like that. It’s so irritating having to listen to him jerk Fox News off every single Christmas because he thinks his religion is being “oppressed”.

[@whateveridontcare8484]

the nun of my street ranted about it this past christmas. i live in mexico pretty catholic place here in guadalajara we have some sort of secret catholic society called Los tecos (which is supposed to come from tecolotes, a sort of owl , although the name is also an acronym ) but i digress on christmas time we have some kind of party before christmas day comes they are called posadas and are meant to represent the when joseph and mary were seacrhing for a place to stay we sing and the hosts of the party give food and before eating in my case (because the how its done varies a lot between streets) we have a little ceremony were the nuns give a speech about being thankfull and this time they also talked about how everybody says felices fiestas (which is basically happy holidays) and that catholics are under attack the whole show and i was there thinking about this video ( if you read all this thank you i really really like talkign about how things are around were i lived and seeing how cultures contrast)

[@XenoghostTV]

​@@whateveridontcare8484Catholics are indeed under attack, people in the UK have been literally arrested for standing outside places praying in SILENCE.

[@JoshDrummond7]

Tower Recon… Towereco… Tallarico... Thank you Tommy Tallarico for saving Christmas, your mother is very proud

[@jarofapplesauce]

Oh my god you're on to something

[@kang10oh]

As someone whose just recently caught up with Hbomberguy lore, this is the funniest thing Ive ever read in a while

[@parasitophobia]

The first American to save Christmas !

[@victoriajenkins1424]

He worked directly with Santa for five years!

[@jaymogrified]

His employee, Irving Berlin, wrote White Christmas! Wait, I mean, he co-wrote it with Irving Berlin! Wait, no, he wrote it and Irving Berlin was also there!

[@mothersbasement]

I was confused by the rapid uploads for a moment, then I remembered your promise, last year, to release this video on Christmas.

[@darienmiller1032]

Never thought I'd see you here!

[@nategolden4087]

Happy to see you're an hbomberguy fan.

[@Twayne21Century]

Glad to see you here

[@greg8west]

Time for a collab baby

[@bradzeringue6778]

Kings and generals and now MB on an hbomb video? All my niche interests are converging holy shit

[@hotelmario510]

"You're not inclusive. You're hurtful." Oh, so NOW we have to care about the feelings of a particular group? CURIOUS.

[@DullEyes100]

yea but only when it comes to made up bullshit. caring about real things is leftist Marxism however

[@screamsintothevoid9968]

Feelings are only important when they are MY feelings and not the ones of a minority

[@jessehammer123]

To be fair, I think he said that as a way of getting in a little dig at people who are willing to share their emotions instead of bottling them up until they become school shooters, but yeah.

[@bugdracula1662]

@@screamsintothevoid9968 UNLESS I am in a minority, which I definitely am, 100%

[@poplui]

The west is culturally Christian, yes the feelings matter more than Muslims.

[@sooudium.bicarbonate]

I live in Uruguay. A lot of people here call Christmas "Family Day". We've successfully taken the Christ out of Christmas

[@DunnCarnage]

As of a few days ago the amount Alex Jones has to pay as a result of the Sandy Hook trial now exceeds $1 billion. Merry Christmas everyone!

[@four-en-tee]

There is a god after all

[@arowace498]

And a happy new year 🎉

[@SpukiTheLoveKitten75]

GLORIOUS!

[@dostal8775]

Oh my god Yes Bright days up ahead

[@aussie_mozzie]

A very early Holiday present! Love it!

[@blatantpseudonym3313]

seeing Dennis Prager in an actual room rather than a blue void threw me quite a bit actually

[@jameslanier2510]

Yeah, I was kinda hoping he was just a CGI caricature or something, but nah. He's real.

[@blatantpseudonym3313]

i can't believe dennis prager is real i'm literally shaking and crying

[@jasonbolding3481]

The room was just blue-screen. There is nothing to fear about him escaping the void

[@antipsychotic451]

seeing dennis prager being treated as an actual source of legitimate information from news outlets threw me off a lot

[@cjnadeau1734]

it's where he's contained.

[@Marlyjade]

Reminds me of this old black fellow I met a while back at work. He was just a customer,not on the job at all. He was exclaiming with joy, a big Happy Kwanzaa to everyone. Some were nice and said thank you. But a few were so bitter shouting "Merry Christmas!!" My big white ass was kind of upset that others were messing with his mojo. He looked so so happy when across the cars I jumped and exclaimed back "Happy Kwanzaa to you too!!" He hopped a little, beamed and went "Yeah Yeah Yeah! You have a good Kwanzaa!!" Just wanted to spread a bit of joy... Holidays, no matter the holidays, are beautiful. Even Christmas. I'm atheist. I just like seeing people happy

[@MigattenoBlakae]

“But that’s bad, because harmless joy is only allowed if I agree with it.” 🤓 -some conservative, probably

[@Marlyjade]

@@MigattenoBlakae hon I live in Texas. I am also a bi woman with autism... You're statement is entirely accurate and I hope you have a good day/night

[@aud7593]

i've never heard of kwanzaa before, this gave me something to look up and read up on as well as making me smile!

[@cloudbrooks]

what a good message, i should learn from this :)

[@dryspace5655]

Ive never even heard of Kwanzaa before but this still made me tear up tbh (I just searched it! That's so nice).

[@chrisbuek]

After winning their respective wars, Christmas and Drugs will now go to war with each other.

[@helgmelia84]

Couldn’t they combine their forces instead and give us some delicious Christmas drugs?

[@christianglassel9950]

Underrated comment. Makes me envision a tournament bracket.

[@Xaiclun]

Is Autism still in the game? It won their war too. This isn't the finals yet, right?

[@qhu3878]

​​@@Xaiclun we're at war? I'm too busy with my model aircraft

[@CrimsonGrowlithe]

@@helgmelia84Christmas Crack

[@hungryhedgehog4201]

Fun fact: The "War on Christmas" actually existed. In the 17th century english Puritans (aka the people who don't want anyone to have fun) wanted to outlaw all forms of entertainment what so ever on christmas. Churches, inns and stores were to be closed and people were supposed to stay at home and reflect on god. This backfired because even though they managed to get the churches to close they couldn't really force any trader to close their shop or that people stay at home, so instead of mass the people went out in the town and got drunk, bought stuff and were merry in the streets. The Puritans did not make friends with all of their agressive conservatism so a lot of them migrated to the american colononies, mostly New England. The call came form inside the House the entire time!

[@hungryhedgehog4201]

@@wolfetteplays8894 you are aware that the puritans were a big group amongst the american colonizers right?

[@entysing6780]

My money says this is what inspired How the Grinch Stole Christmas :3

[@John_Smith.]

That's not quite correct. A law was specifically passed to force stores to stay open. Ordinarily, just like today, Christmas was considered a special feast day, and was thus celebrated by everybody going to special church services, and then having a huge party, and all the shops and inns and such would be closed so the owners could party too. The Puritans believed this was frivolous, and everything should go about as per usual, except with more emphasis on contemplation of Christ. Now, this certainly didn't entirely work out as intended, as there were pro-Christmas riots, but those were not successful, and indeed, while people continued to quietly gather for Christmas celebrations, there were no large parties, or masses of people out on the town. And of course, most people didn't get dunk because the Puritans were against drunkeness and would have arrested them for that.

[@DesolatedChild018]

Damn Puritans! Mary I only crime was that she didn’t went far enough. >satire

[@t.dominey4150]

Just a small nitpick, but the puritans weren't actually that conservative. Apart from a few cases (Christmas, witches etc ) they were radically leftist on a lot of points for the time

[@alexaliennerd3990]

As someone who works in shopping malls, I WISH the War on Christmas was real and I don't have to listen to the same handful of Christmas songs every single day!

[@genesisera8364]

The war is real - it's just Christmas is the aggressor, has been winning and has already annexed several chunks of Thanksgiving and Halloween.

[@settingsunrises]

@@genesisera8364 Army headed by Mariah Carey and her second in command, Elf on the Shelf.

[@sniksnak559]

i dearly hope for you sanity

[@HiBuddyyyyyy]

One of my friends has a competition with their family to see who can last longest without hearing last Christmas by wham. So you could make a game out of it if you want.

[@alexaliennerd3990]

@@HiBuddyyyyyy I'll lose that game within a week.

[@EssBJay]

My family's joke-y Xmas greeting is "Merry Happy". I highly recommend it. It forces people to actually stop and figure out what you just said, and that moment of confusion is enough to bypass the knee-jerk persecution response.

[@ClaudiaNW]

Happy Greetings

[@SupermewX300]

Hey, you can't just steal the catchphrase of non-denominational Mr Winter.

[@colincorcoran9652]

@@SupermewX300 Is that the tapping of secular boots I hear?

[@slovnicurling9808]

What kind of people get confused with "marry happy"? Toddlers?

[@ClaudiaNW]

@@SupermewX300 I had a primary school teacher called Mrs Winter. Clearly Mr Winter's wife.

[@Liggliluff]

Americans: "Don't force your stuff on us, we want to celebrate our Christmas without having to think of other types of celebration around the same time". Also Americans: telling everyone to have a happy thanksgiving all over the internet.

[@S3lkie-Gutz]

Especially to indigenous people on the internet, as if the holiday isn't a colonialist concept itself and is just a glorification of the massacre of the Nauset Pequot and Mashpee Wampanoag people. There's a reason why it's regarded as a National Day of Mourning to indigenous people, just like there's a remembrance day for the Holocaust. America isn't the only country in the world and not all countries celebrate the mass dying from settler-brought diseases and genocide against indigenous people masqueraded as a "wholesome" holiday to celebrate with family

[@ObesetoBeast]

Wait a second, you already released a video this quarter

[@theonlygoodlookinghabsburg2081]

You're not complaining are you?

[@poprocks6576]

This video was meant to be realeased a year ago so that explains why, it was a blessing in disguise that he was a week behind now we get extra hbomb

[@ltotheop7512]

Yeah but that one had a lame topic and did not count 😘

[@gracerothschild1439]

This released about a year back on the patreon but he held off on releasing it publicly so it would actually be somewhat relevant

[@henry7001]

Haha

[@johnwallen5719]

As a leftist and a secularist, I'm outraged that I didn't get the memo about our plans to destroy Christmas.

[@LividCreature]

I know! I also never got that retainer payment check from George Soros and my Freemason pin.

[@liannsmith7317]

I had all these secularist trash bags for the christmas crackers and I wasn’t even invited!

[@LividCreature]

@@liannsmith7317 is that a metaphor?

[@lillianglove1350]

As a gay, I am also offended that I was not told about our plans of world domination with Lil Nas X's Gay Ray!

[@josephvh1]

@@lillianglove1350 you'd know if you read this months gay agenda

[@arcticdino1650]

Two Hbomberguy videos in a week? What is this, Christm- wait a minute

[@thezachman1]

oh god, WE'RE CRACKING THE CODE

[@equasimilione6493]

*X-Files theme intensifies*

[@alexscriabin]

"What is this, my birthday? … did I just imply I'm Christ-"

[@Leftistattheparty]

I think we mean Holida-

[@PittsburghSonido]

Can we still the “ribbed-for-her-pleasure coffee machines?” You said it was Christmas.

[@SoapPod]

I’ve actually kinda recognised the opposite problem. Stores near me (aside from a few places like home goods) have a very slim selection of Hanukkah or even just non secular wrapping paper. And I live in a relatively progressive area. Obviously the war on Christmas isn’t so much of a war if every store I go to has piles upon piles of Christmas merchandise and maybe 1 Hanukkah item

[@KingKlonoa]

I think it speaks to how little has actually changed in the right that while watching this video, it somehow felt timely despite being a year fucking old.

[@tracyblanchard7663]

PragerU vids from 2013 are indistinguishable from the ones today, change my mind.

[@queuedjar4578]

Well duh, that's the point of conservatism is upholding the structures that work to allow everyone to be free and have equal opportunity, it makes sense that they be consistent, and they're better for it since there's a foundation for them to rationalize their positions on. Classic liberalism is about questioning things and challenging conservative beliefs which is also good, but modern liberalism has forgone open free discussion and questioning with cancelling if you don't adhere to a brand new narrative that was socially constructed within incredibly shortened time period in human history created by hyper speed paced media cycles in our information age we live in, then attempt to make changes that will likely cause irreparable damage before we even have a solid basis or rationalization of what we are preaching. And yes, I agree with the overall premise that the "the libs are destroyin our Christmas" thing is pretty overblown, overall I think no one really cares and people are able to celebrate whatever holiday and religion they want. The only problems that can be run into is when people do get cancelled or attacked or called the almighty r word for calling this time of year Christmas. Either end is the rare extreme spectrum, where most of us really fall and where we should exist is a state of "I don't care I do what I want because I love me and only I know me", everyone is more centralized and grounded than we think.

[@nerdaitami7205]

@@queuedjar4578 Conservetives and Liberals are the same actually, the only political distinction that matters is between Bourgeois and Worker, Communism and Capitalism.

[@jsalmon9168]

@@queuedjar4578 "Modern liberalism" "Classic liberalism" It's crazy how bastardized these terms have become under the new right

[@bigyoshi7134]

Love your content man

[@HistoryScope]

I see various other (alternate) history channels leaving comments and now I feel peer-pressured to leave one as well.

[@whaleboy2287]

Sup scope

[@Horus633]

KZbin gang culture strikes again

[@elric111]

Za

[@djoakeydoakey1076]

This is AlternateHistoryHub's turf, GTFO

[@appleslover]

Da Soviet onion has been dead for 29 years and 3 days

[@NEONBENDER]

"Ribbed for her pleasure coffee machine" Like conservatives would care about her pleasure in any sense

[@bentaylor809]

Hahahahahahahaha

[@thepassingstatic6268]

Seriously...

[@Dlúith]

I thought all the conservatives smashed their coffee machines after “the incident”

[@jesselindsey9760]

"What do you mean, you don't want to be a baby factory? Oh shit oh fuck; TEXAS, GO HUNT DOWN THEIR ASSES"

[@ClanWiE]

They DO care... but in the other way. Women taking pleasure from sex is sinful or something.

[@RandomOwlExterminators]

They're just hiding the real truth. Tommy invented Christmas, but for a different universe, and didnt realise Christmas had been illegally sold to our universe on a Religion Sample Pack CD.

[@meep_cubed170]

This made me laugh out loud in front of my family and now they think I’ve lost my mind

[@Ringothetankengine-qy1vl]

A shit, it turns out Joey invented it. we've been lied to this whole time.

[@lilyofthatvelley]

​​@@Ringothetankengine-qy1vl it always is Joey! Tommy's mother is proud of tom- Joey

[@LineOfThy]

@@RandomOwlExterminators I heard his mother is quite proud

[@majorghoul9017]

I love how InfoWars doesn't actually make any arguments, they just list buzzwords and hope their mere presence makes their viewers mad

[@michaelgoldstein8516]

Just like Prager “U”

[@Mike-official]

@@michaelgoldstein8516 prager me or prager u?

[@anarch1266]

@@Mike-official Prager We. Hivemind assemble.

[@mildly_miffed_man1414]

@@anarch1266 Prager Mech?

[@anarch1266]

@@mildly_miffed_man1414 Prager Rangers.

[@MattiasPilhede]

Great to see that you're still getting as much use as possible out of that stock photo of the boy with his family.

[@The8BitPianist]

My thoughts exactly whenever he shows the picture

[@CooledJets]

K E V I N

[@dedicatedsobekfanaccount9904]

I’ll indoctrinate Kevin all I want, Karl. He deserves it. I have to scrub his mind clean.

[@gmansplit]

I am out of the loop. What video started this meme?

[@dedicatedsobekfanaccount9904]

@@gmansplit confirmed kevin sightings in ‘cultural marxism: a measured response’ and ‘sargon’s petition: a measured response’ and probably elsewhere that i’ve forgotten about

[@johnbaladon6134]

"there´s a war on christmas" he said, while clowning around in front of a HUGE christmas tree in the TOWN CENTER paid for by tax payers

[@brifox]

Also screaming about how he won't be silenced... as nobody is even remotely trying. That said, it would have been funny as shit if a bunch of cops dressed in over-the-top-80's-movie-badguy-uniforms were to come out from nowhere and he had to run for his life.

[@yourwife1111]

As well as White Christmas being written for a movie literally called Holiday Inn, it was written for Berlin’s son who passed away on Christmas Day. The fact that it is called White Christmas makes perfect since when you put those two things together, that it was written for a movie set partially during Christmas and to mourn his son who died on Christmas Day. Truly mind boggling things happening over at PragerU.

[@MrTombombodil]

I'm pretty confident that if you had to have actually read 1984 to call something "Orwellian" the number of people calling things Orwellian would plummet dramatically.

[@ArgaJacint]

I think I heard somewhere that Orwell himself didn't even like the term "orwellian" because it is the very type of newspeak he wrote about in 1984. It's an oversimplified term with muddled meaning, making it harder to express and think about the particular topics the term refers to.

[@christianwhittall5889]

The Cons arguing about not celebrating Christmas being “Orwellian” also complain about “cultural Marxists” so I sometimes think that they haven’t even heard of George Orwell

[@lavantant2731]

thats so orwellian of you! im not sure what that means but its definitely that because i dont like the words you say for some reason! and you did it on purpose too!

[@rambbler]

I concur! We also need an add on that changes or censors the word orwellian to something else like "I don't know any other dystopias despite the fact I live in one".

[@ClaudiaNW]

I've long wished Orwell had written under his real name. Speaking as a Brit who remembers the 2000s, it would feel very appropriate if we referred to totalitarian policies as "Blairite".

[@Sheila_Chu]

So let me get this straight... The same people who says "its not a big deal" to misgender people and use the wrong pronouns on purpose to be indecent, are the same who say "it IS a big deal" to not say Merry Christmas cause it hurts their feelings and "destroys" their religion...

[@bannedvideos3399]

Pronouns are giving not decided by the person lol

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

@@bannedvideos3399 🤡

[@isdrakon9802]

@@bannedvideos3399 I really wish I had the energy to argue with you but I've had this argument so many times that I can't bother to fail at convincing a brick wall of something

[@RayanNamii]

Yeah, these are the same people. Only what they believe matters, and these idiots believe that all trans people are p3dophiles but that the left is trying to destroy christmas, y'know, cuz that makes sense and is definitely the truth. It's sad.

[@bugdracula1662]

@@bannedvideos3399 but what do they give 🤔

[@hollybxoxoxo]

watching that Paul guys face absolutely DROP every time Alex Jones comes screaming in over top of him to interrupt is killing me.

[@jesselindsey9760]

"Hello darkness my old friend..." Like Jesus Christ, Alex, wait your fucking turn. We learned that IN FIRST GRADE.

[@kingtreedede7303]

He looks a lot like the deep which is fitting with what you said xD

[@joshuawargo6446]

samer...and h bombs mental image of alex jones EATING watches made me DIE laughing. Im FROM CT so i HATE the man.

[@TheGuerillapatriot]

Jones interrupts everyone.

[@dostal8775]

@@TheGuerillapatriot Not the judge. Sandy hook denial's gonna be costly for him. 1,5b dollars as of now.

[@trashpanda805]

"The communist socialist system of islam" sounds like something i would say to make fun of right wingers.

[@skinscribe]

It’s always weird when people say that happy holidays is anti Christian, like we haven’t been using happy holidays to include both Christmas and New Years forever, bc the likelihood of seeing someone between those two holidays is extremely small and they’re literally back to back within a week of each other

[@TenositSergeich]

Don't forget other notable Christian winter holidays, at very least Saint Nicolas Day (where we get Santa Klaus and gifts). Talking head "Christians" have little real knoweldge of Christianity, they just treat it as The Good Side because they are comfortable with Christmas and uncomfortable with things they don't know. So many of them riff on "Judeo-Christian" values but don't even know what's Hanukkah about, even if it is a pretty minor holiday that outsiders bring up the most because, well, its around Christmas. Ask them about Yom Kippur and they probably immediately will start spewing bile (and people like Ben Shapiro will let them because money to themselves is worth more than their culture being discriminated against).

[@otttimon5654]

If it acknowledges someone else it must be against me cause I need my superior position

[@LordKhabal]

American Jews wrote Christmas songs, ergo they felt QUITE included by Christmas... ...or, and stick with me here, Dennis, they were professional song writers that were hired specifically to write Christmas songs or they just wrote Christmas songs because they thought they’d be able to sell them. A pretty safe bet in the US, I think, even BEFORE the age of Dennis Prager and Bill O’Reilly. They were businessmen, Prager. As always your argument isn’t as air-tight as you present it to be.

[@brifox]

The free market is the greatest thing to have ever existed and can solve all problems... except for when it isn't and can't, and then the problem is marginalized people fighting for their rights.

[@rowancook4369]

In some cases, religious songs written by Jewish people that had nothing to do with Christmas became Christmas songs because Christians liked the songs and wanted to have them. That's what happened to Hallelujah, afaik.

[@MC-tl5bf]

@@rowancook4369 yep hallelujah has nothing to do with Christianity

[@seigeengine]

The only thing air-tight regarding Prager, is his brain. Unfortunately, he's somehow adapted to survive this phenomenon.

[@seigeengine]

@@brifox This is really the thing. They don't really want free markets, they want freedom and power, and they want people they dislike to have none. Of course, we are in the free market, and restrictions on markets are results of the market acting on itself, but, y'know, humans are weird, and like to pretend subsets of a system are independent of the whole when it suits their dogma.

[@fatimagic1365]

i'm an american muslim who celebrates christmas in the secular, festive "give gifts, eat food" kind of way. try being anything but a christian in this country and then tell me how "under attack" christanity is. my parents raised us muslim and yet my sister and i know more about christianity and christian mythology because literally 70% of this country is christian and you tend to pick it up in everyday life. christianity, christmas, etc. is going absolutely nowhere. and that's actually an oddly comforting thing after this horrible year. happy holidays, everyone.

[@TehMomo_]

word.

[@matthewlister3755]

The biggest tip I ever got back when I busked in Boston was from a woman wearing a hijab. It was around the holidays so I was only playing Christmas tunes. Who gives a busker $20? I talked to my Muslim aunt about it and she was not in the least bit surprised. She's from Pakistan and both her and her family love Christmas despite being observant Muslims. I was raised Catholic but I'm not a particularly religious adult and I love it, too, so it makes sense. It's just a fun thing to do, and what's wrong with that? If it means something to your religion fine, celebrate it the way you want, no one's saying you can't, but don't take a dump on the rest of us who want to enjoy it, too, and celebrate it the way we want to.

[@Molly-vn2hf]

EEeeEeEEvvvViIiLlL

[@sixstringedthing]

Massive respect for recognising that sometimes we all need to return to the status quo, even if the "normal" state of things doesn't necessarily align with your beliefs. Sometimes all we need is a half-decent reason to not be shitty towards each other, and personally I don't really care if it's called "Christmas" or "Ramadan" or "Hannukah" or whatever. Happy holidays! 😉

[@MarkoArillius]

Christmas is a pagan holiday that the church adopted to make Christian cause they couldn't convince people to pray for Jesus.

[@chlochlo_the_T_BAG]

talking about "the war on christmas" while a headline shows at the bottom saying that there was a shooting with sixty shots fired is the most american thing i can think of (3:22)

[@christianglassel9950]

As an American, I wearily acknowledge the accuracy of this statement.

[@CzechAvailabilitie]

The War on Yule has gone too far. Most stores don't even mention Odin!

[@thewingedporpoise]

I found it really funny when one of the people said Yuletide

[@regnsloja]

hey it's still called yule here, and i will always use that instead of "christ-mas" even in english! good yule everyone

[@koldskalbanden7991]

@@regnsloja same here in Denmark, jul

[@CzechAvailabilitie]

@@regnsloja gleðileg jól regn slója

[@j.b.aw.6968]

Bring back the yuletide knife fight

[@wynngwynn]

"As a white Christian I find the term "Christmas Cracker" quite insulting." Paul Joseph Watson 2024

[@AliceLoverdrive]

Christmas Crack, though, sounds quite fine.

[@knightogourd]

@@tfwthelsdkicksin6083 not at all, lol

[@factsandlogic.8762]

@@AliceLoverdrive back to the pagan roots of saturnalia we go, this time with _crack :)_

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

Hi I'm from 2024 and the only reason no one's mentioned him being that big of a punchline is because he's completely irrelevant now

[@the-inatorinator]

It's like people getting mad that grocery stores have a "dairy" section instead of a "cheese" section. We're not scrubbing out the entire existence of cheese by using a less specific and more accurate term

[@michealjaymurphy]

Nice attempt

[@caramel9154]

@@loturzelrestaurant im begging you for the love of god. stop using bots.

[@nebufabu]

The perpetrators of the War On Cheese know exactly what they're doing! [scary animation morphing a cheese-skeptic into a gun-toting combatant goes here]

[@nebufabu]

@@loturzelrestaurant True fax. Seriously though, there's whataboutism and then there's this.

[@terrabite87]

Wow... that's a weirdly perfect analogy

[@grumblyarcher]

All I can think about this year is that somewhere in Harry's home is a pile of 'Naughty Elves' he bought for one shot.

[@grumblyarcher]

Excuse me, three shots

[@jamesbrooks9321]

"First they came for the n-word users and I did not speak out, because I don't use the n-word. Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me." - Alex Jones

[@anonthe-third2367]

Fantastic quote mashup, well done.

[@tsrenis]

@Gaius Octavius nah, Alex Jones seems more like the guy to hide his racism in thin veils Like an old grandpa type racism but a bit more intense and active

[@schimpansarvagn436]

@Gaius Octavius okay in that case he definitively doesn’t use the N word, if he is unable to hide it if he used it. Good!

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@schimpansarvagn436 KZbin has P0rn-issues; did you knew? It also does have a reportbutton; did you knew? You can combine both facts if you know.

[@rexalley8397]

I saw this comment before i saw the clip and hooo boy was i suprised to find out it was real

[@radiobob1908]

It's the week before Halloween, 2023. I just tried to buy a new rake and some biodegradable leaf bags at Lowes. I was accosted by a pair of life-size audio-animatronic Santa statues. Their mouths gaped open and closed as their tinny voices played over one another. Their arms jerked up and down. One of them said "Hello, what would you like for Christmas?" as the other one said "Christmas is the best time of year for good little boys and girls!" All the Halloween stuff was in the clearance section. In the war on Christmas, Christmas swung first. I am acting in self-defense.

[@average_person444]

I'm sorry you had to go through that

[@Awkward_Narwhal]

Seriously! I went to buy halloween candy the day before Halloween and it was already replaced by the green and red wrapped Christmas candy. How we supposed to continue the long standing tradition of eating the first bag of candy myself and needing to run out last minute so the trick or treaters get some too! 😅

[@quinnmarchese6313]

i hope the police took your statement and took appropriate action, getting assaulted by Christmas decor is no laughing matter

[@idunnobutyay2520]

I love Christmas but it keeps coming too soon every year

[@JosilyneTwigg]

"uhm actually, Jack Skellington swung first" 🤓

[@disemvowel4846]

Can we talk for a minute about how disingenuous the phrase "Judeo-Christian" is when talking about the war on Christmas? Since Jews, pretty famously, aren't the ones fighting to keep Christ in Christmas.

[@James.B.Russell]

Basically it's so Bill can say Christian without being Shoah'd by the company. It's a common trope but it's always been an oxymoron.

[@jordanetherington1922]

Also pretty pointedly excludes Muslims.

[@leoforzeth]

Well, Dennis Prager is Jewish, it's not about christianity though, it's about making money off oil barons

[@yoissymashups9101]

As a jewish person, every time conservatives say judeo-christian values I'm just like: "Don't... Lump me in with you."

[@sillyYata]

Oh don't worry about that. They don't actually like Jewish people

[@partly_disconnected]

"Jesus - He came for you" uh huh, he sure did. Just last night to be exact

[@mootroidXproductions]

"Jews believe in the Bible" politely begging your entire pardon, dennis?

[@KatKaleen]

Kinda, sorta, partially... since Christianity is an offspring of Judaism, it overlaps when it comes to the Old Testament. And since Islam is also an abrahamitic religion, Jesus is - what was it, I forgot, a prophet or a saint? - EDIT: If you have a dark sense of humor, it's almost funny that members of the basically same religion kept and still keep killing each other over slight alterations to their doctrine.

[@mootroidXproductions]

would like to clarify that we don't read the "bible" but the torah christians basically don't care much about the torah, ideologically speaking, except for the homophobic parts, so the cultural overlap is pretty much nil i do find i relate to muslims way more than christians though

[@tartoflan]

@Jason Weaver Let's not start yet another crusade, please. I'm all out of Jerusalems to "retake"

[@KatKaleen]

@@mootroidXproductions That's a fair point. I was raised roman-catholic, but by now I'm an agnostic theist. Can't say I cared much about how God is described in the Old Testament. He was mean and vengeful. This might very well be tinkering on the part of the people who put the Bible together.

[@JediMB]

@Jason Weaver I would think that his teachings would be more of a cornerstone of the faith than the circumstances of his birth, from a practical standpoint. Which would be the same regardless of if he were divine or a prophet. But then again, the people who scream most loudly about Jesus don't tend to think very highly of his actual teachings...

[@OtrTrash]

The war on Christmas is a very real thing started by retail workers after having to listen to all the Christmas music playing on repeat the entire season. Fair, honestly. That kind of torture would drive Christians to war on Christmas.

[@bulletsandbracelets4140]

never a truer comment

[@tuesdaysellers1545]

I worked in an American mall ten years ago and I still can't hear Michael Buble without getting Vietnam style war flashbacks

[@sarkaztik3228]

I DON'T WANT A LOT FOR CHRISTMAS, THERE'S JUST ONE THING THAT I NEEEEED

[@ourgoldenspires]

gesture of the drowned

[@Xaiclun]

@@sarkaztik3228 Did you had to say that? Now I instinctively started digging ditches and got my steel helmet out!

[@trashketchum9782]

“the famously JUDEO-Christian value of CHRISTmas” lmao yes thank you 😭 I’m Jewish & most of us hate the term Judeo-Christian

[@LividCreature]

Kind of like “LatinX”

[@ianpercival9949]

hey don't let the SECULARIST MUSLEM AGENDA get to you, stand strong my judeo christian brother

[@josephvh1]

@Squiddy_101 judeo-christian beliefs stem from the stories of Abraham, noah etc etc and have served as the basis for religions such as Islam, Mormonism etc etc. Something like that would make sense.

[@Blueeyesthewarrior]

@Squiddy_101 Only in situations where it’s politically expedient to exclude Islam, despite it also being an Abrahamic religion, just like Christianity and Judaism. It’s canonically the same God, but right-wing pundits like to pretend isn’t the case.

[@AgentPedestrian]

so basically Abrahamitic is more inclusive and there is no reason to use Judeo-Christian unless you're being disingenuous sounds about right

[@Foojaleeckalikeelamaka]

I'm not a christian but shouldn't they be happy they don't have to celebrate in public? Mathew 6:5-6 "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you."

[@carterowens2522]

I love how conservatives whine about how during pride everyone "panders to the gays" then cry that an ad doesn't have enough Christian iconography in it.

[@guldmattbb473]

Something something “rules for thee but not for me”

[@hindigente]

That's a weird thing to love.

[@corbeaudejugement]

​@@hindigenteirony is a very common thing to love; it's the backbone of modern internet humor

[@hindigente]

I know, I know, @@corbeaudejugement. I was just being cheeky because I find this "I love " phrasing itself sort of weird (not good, nor bad, just weird).

[@hindigente]

But as someone who doesn't always get irony, thanks for the heads up anyway,@@corbeaudejugement.

[@elijahlupe]

The "Oh" from Alex Jones when Random Guy On The Street has a reasonable and sane answer about the War on Christmas is incredible

[@matthewwilton7778]

Yes hahahaha

[@JoshSweetvale]

This isn't people *mistaking* neutrality for tyranny. These are people *attacking* the neutral and demanding they pick a side. Either their side or the 'enemy.'

[@bxrzxrk452]

I like the implication that these people genuinely believe they would have no moral compass without religion

[@geekgirl_luv4262]

“I’d be a complete monster if I didn’t have an ancient book threatening me with eternal punishment to make me behave” is really not the flex they seem to think it is

[@StumpPumper]

Why is Paul always pursing his lips? I mean, I can’t tell if he’s about to call me an sjw neo-Marxist or give me a juicy kiss on the lips.

[@michaelc2832]

he kinda cute tho. like .. almost ...

[@nerveagent1905]

@@michaelc2832 Paul, please

[@andrewwalker9960]

@@michaelc2832 ... I feel bad agreeing, but if he never said anything that he says, or thinks what he thinks.

[@littlewyzard]

👁👄👁

[@jb_lofi]

Can't it be both? Can't we all dream?!

[@henryam503]

Getting my friend to watch the hbomberguy political videos so he'll respect hbomberguy enough as an authority source so I can moffatpill him with the Sherlock video

[@hbomberguy]

this is the opposite of how it usually goes

[@henryam503]

@@hbomberguy I have a lot of people in my life who hold leftist political views but also think Sherlock is great and moffat is an all time great show runner

[@flansolo94]

​@@henryam503 this is actually how it went for me lmoa I used to love Sherlock and had since lost interest in it but still thought it was good. and then i found hbomb from his political videos and /then/ watched the sherlock video. and yeah.

[@xmlthegreat]

@@henryam503 you are based

[@aishwariyaroy1636]

@@hbomberguy oh my god he knows

[@fennelcomeaux9663]

This war on Hellenism is really getting me down to be honest. You just can't say io saturnalia anymore without someone looking at you like you're a crazy person

[@Brandon-a-writer]

what is christianity if not judaism with Hellenic DLC

[@fennelcomeaux9663]

@@Brandon-a-writer And with all the cool shit removed, like arguing with god. you can't do that as a christian

[@vidmuncher]

@@fennelcomeaux9663 yeah, I'm immediately reminded of the conclusion of Job, where he's like "What the hell, God?" And God's all like "EXCUSE ME? WHAT WAS THAT? SOUNDED LIKE SOME NON-UNIVERSE RULING ENTITY HAD SOMETHING TO SAY. LIKE SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T MAKE THE SUN RISE AND SET WAS COMPLAINING OR SOMETHING. MUST OF JUST BEEN THE WIND"

[@cameronpadley117]

Broke: the war on Christmas Woke: the war on Hellenism

[@deekswap695]

@@Brandon-a-writer if christianity original religion, then why winter holiday?

[@rothenotmale4749]

as an athiest whenever everyone says merry christmas i turn green and my heart shrinks and i steal lots of presents and i put it in a big sack and then my dog drives me away in a flying sleigh

[@nathancarter8239]

Fun fact: the X-Games are a reference to this one time Jesus did a double-backflip on a motorcycle and the disciples were super wowed by it. That's why they were initially called the Christ Games, which was shortened to X-Games later on.

[@matthewryan6187]

Motorcycle Christ is the only radical I support

[@carolyntalbot947]

Yes, but that's from the Gospel of Thomas so it isn't canon. Duh.

[@0Fyrebrand0]

The Xbox was originally conceived as the "Christ Box." You can still see it in the logo, which is a cross rotated 45 degrees.

[@Loalrikowki]

He also pioneered the Christ Air in the vert skateboarding competition, but nobody got it until later.

[@tildessmoo]

"I've lost enough IQ points that I think IQ is real" may well be the best HBG line ever.

[@NIHIL_EGO]

@@miccharacter.coomiebully6707 how so

[@ekki1993]

@@miccharacter.coomiebully6707 Oh, my, you didn't get it, did you?

[@MsZsc]

i don't think denying iq exists as one tool demeans nor empowers anybody. You can not care about it and still not say it doesn't exist

[@tildessmoo]

@@MsZsc IQ is largely useless as a tool. About the only thing it's good for is testing your ability to take tests. It gives racist, sexist, ageist, ethnocentric, urbanist, and anti-neurodivergent results, and your score can be affected by a good 40 points by missing your morning coffee. To call IQ a tool is like calling a ¼" breaker bar a tool: under _very_ specific circumstances, it can be not only very useful, but exactly what you need; the rest of the time it's a novelty item that got sold to you as a tool. EDIT: Um... It looks like the comment I was responding to ceased to be by the time I responded? Eh, I'll leave this up in case anyone else is confused.

[@kanzkat420]

@tildessmoo IQ is cool because I get to brag lol

[@idot3331]

Info wars is so inexplicably awful. One of my close friends has gotten sucked into this weird extremist far-right echo chamber, and they seem to have genuinely gotten stupider. They went from being a generally cool and funny guy to someone who just spews racist conspiracy theories in every conversation without fail, and seems to no longer have the ability to listen to other people. It's fucked.

[@jamesburk8145]

Info wars and meth are like the same thing.

[@jazwhoaskedforthis]

@@jamesburk8145 infowars seems more expensive and harder to recover from

[@Umicron_]

In their defence those info war products got sued for containing dangerous amounts of lead so if they're consuming them there may be a reason they're empirically becoming dumber lol

[@TakaComics]

By getting mad at "Happy Holidays," saying it isn't including Christmas, they are basically stating they don't think Christmas is a "holy day."

[@FourDozenEggs]

I'm embarrassed of my past self, because I took people like this seriously. PragerU, Ben Shapiro, even Alex Jones. I bought into their harmful ideas and that is part of the reason it took me a while to accept that I am bisexual. I wish I could go back and shake sense into myself because I was so bitter and cynical back then. I appreciate you putting out videos like this, because they could be what helps people break out of the destructive path they are going down.

[@justarandomchannel8150]

Character development is being able to cringe at your old self and say, "I know better now." :)

[@samarahmed-vm3ox]

The world appreciates people like you who are able to change their mind when presented with new information and put their ego aside! Thank you for being better than a lot of people out there who aren’t willing to do so…

[@foxygrin]

This works even better if you read it in Gaston's voice

[@sarkaztik3228]

​@cloverbun2574 Honestly, I can't read it any other way.

[@kevinlawrence1582]

You shouldn't be embarrassed you should be proud of yourself. Good on you for coming to a better conclusion. It is very hard to change your worldview it takes a lot of self-reflection and putting aside your bias. Most people are unable to do so

[@sandcat2383]

It's funny how when anyone says Judeo-Christian values they're talking about exclusively Christian values. Anyone else notice that?

[@notarxw]

They just wanna get more brownie points

[@aishaaofthedays]

it's also comical whenever they bring up muslims negatively in that exact context, because the beliefs Islam holds means the vast majority of values shared by jews and christians are also shared by muslims, to the point where i'm half sure jews and muslims have more in common in how they practise their religions. It's great.

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

I was just commenting on that. Their judeo christian war on the war on xmas is a war on the judeo half of that descriptor

[@WiloPolis03]

And they're excluding Islam even though it's an abrahamic religion, wonder why?

[@lobstered_blue-lobster]

Hmmm I never noticed.......hmmmm

[@NekogamiKun127]

I don't get why the Christ fandom keeps co-opting Judaism into their arguments in December when they spend the rest of the year blaming us for everything wrong with the world. Oy gevalt.

[@HeadsFullOfEyeballs]

It lets conservative Christians exclude Islam (and shit on Middle Eastern people without being overtly racist) by pretending they're somehow protecting Jews from Muslims. Same reason they go on about Muslim antisemitism while ignoring it in their own ranks.

[@JESUSWASAJUGGALO]

@@HeadsFullOfEyeballs Just like how a lot of them use purely geopolitical strategic support of Israel to act as though they're the saviors of jewish people, incapable of ever being antisemitic

[@0Fyrebrand0]

It's to get more people on their "team" when it's time to vote. There was a time when Catholics, Protestants, Baptists, etc., were considered basically different religions, and one would not want to vote for a candidate who didn't share the same faith. So they made up this umbrella term "Christian," so it feels like they're all in it together, so they get more consolidated numbers. Throw "Judeo" in there, and you have an even bigger meaningless word to manipulate people with.

[@pauldecker4630]

Because (at least in America; a country founded by people so religious Europe in the 17th century couldn't stand them) There are Christian sects who want Israel to destroy Palestine because it would bring about the end of the world and they would go to heaven faster.

[@biouyb5828]

@@pauldecker4630 I would add that the fundamentalist Neo-con christians have the belief that Jesus is going to destroy the Jews who don't acknowledge him when he returns.

[@ashbelero]

One time someone told me merry Christmas and without thinking, I said merry Christmas back. We’re both in the gulag now, but he’s my jailhouse lover and gets people to give us cigarettes for a round with my bum, so it’s going well.