Santa Claus

[Acriku]

I've been thinking, and after that I decided to watch Futurama. One episode brought up Santa Claus, and I wondered - isn't the Santa Claus story promoting communism? Think about it...

[Caid Ivik]

Nicolaus became a saint because he was good from own intentions. Communism teaches forced "goodness", in fact, oppression of both sides, donor and acceptor as well.

[Dude_Doc]

Hehe... he is dressed in red....

[Inoculator9]

I think that's a HUGE leap Acriku ;)

[Edric O]

Obviously, since Caid is a right-wing conservative and the biggest supporter of capitalism on these forums, he knows far more about communism than the actual communists do, and everything he says about communism is an objective and unbiased explanation meant to enlighten us puny mortals on just how evil those evil commies really are. ::)

[Inoculator9]

Like Rush Limbaugh giving an unbiased report on Black history ;D

[Acriku]

Well Inoc, think about it. Doesn't Santa reward you based on whether you've been "good" or not, in other words based not on luck or chance as advocates of communism would say capitalism is based on, but on what you do.

[Inoculator9]

I did think about it, and it still seems like a leap ;D I mean, he lives in the South Pole, and enslaves the world's entire population of elves... sounds fascist or nazi oriented to me ;)

[Acriku]

I guess when you combine Stalin and Hitler, and give them an innate purpose to go into people's houses to give their children gifts, you get Santa ;)

[Inoculator9]

Indeed ;)

[Edric O]

Actually, Santa fits quite well the 18th century model of the "enlightened despot"... :)

As for his economic stance, he is closer to socialism (presents for those who deserve them) than communism (presents for everyone).

[Inoculator9]

This is the stupidest conversation I've ever heard :P

[Edric O]

Fine, let's move to something more serious: Does the Easter Bunny support the war in Iraq? ;D

[Inoculator9]

Are you joking? Of course he does!

[Dude_Doc]

Do the Easter Bunny support birth-restrictions? ;)

Anyways, I don't think Santa is a Nazi, since he didn't enslave the elves. They work for him, in a fashionable way, I mean, they aren't forced to obey every order Santa gives them.

However, I'm not surprised if Santa is actually Mr. Freeze, or Arnold. How can he live 24/7 every year in minus 30 degrees?

[Dante]

Deep underground, in a bunker with central heating powered by elves on a treadmill...

[Acriku]

The elves, as I recall, do not get payment for their hard work. So, they're slaves.

[Dude_Doc]

But they get feed, besides, even if they did get payed, what would they do with the money? Travel to Hawaii for a vacation?

[exatreide]

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he is a commie......look at him and stallin add bushy white eyebrows and beard....

walla!

[ordos45]

We all know that if you re-arrange the letters in "Santa" you get "Satan"...or maybe he really is just a cross between Stalin and Hitler. Or maybe even more frightening...he's a real Communist and runs the North Pole by the writings of Marx and Engles. :)

[Inoculator9]

Maybe... since Satan is so bad, when he has pre-Christmas drinking parties, he gets drunk and becomes nice! The whole opposites nonsense you know ;)