• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    57 minutes ago

    I wish this only cracked me up like it used to

    And wasn’t followed by the dread these days that the country is half made up of morons like this

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      52 minutes ago

      I think the internet was a mistake. Before the internet every town had a few hand full of complete idiots and everybody just laughed at them. Now idiots that share the same delusions meet online and discuss stuff like “flat earth physics”

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      Come to the Netherlands, we have layers on this since Santa Claus is Coca Cola’s take on our Sinterklaas, who is usually acompanied by “six to eight black men” (more commonly known as “zwarte Piet”, black Pete). he was was taken to the US by Dutch immigrants, after which it evolved in the current Santa Claus. And it gets worse, because while it has alway been a bit of a battle between team Sinterklaas and team Santa Claus, the last twenty years or so there is a different battle going on between team “Dutch tradition” and team “kick out zwarte Piet”. Both of these last two teams are obnoxious, and would choose confrontation over dialogue every day of the week. This has resulted in a conflict with no end, where it would have been easy to phase out the blackface character with no fuss in a short time.

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        I just could not imagine, as an adult, caring about that shit. I think North America’s war on Christmas shit is dumber though.