Occupy Santa?

[Zeljko Kitich]

Re: Occupy Santa?

Occupy bellies...organized by the pro-lifers...
Occupy virgins...self explanatory...
Occupy sanity...obviously not a favorite of the denial industry...
Occupy prisons...strongly favored by the Harper government...
Occupy chesstalk...Ruben probably wins the prize for this one...
Occupy the center...Endorsed by both Liberals and chessplayers alike...
Occupy the net...a good principle for hockey goalies who are too ambitious...
Occupy the penalty box...for the hockey goons...
Occupy facebook...a primary occupation for millions of people...

Agreed; the whole occupy concept is only fit for making lame jokes about.

[Peter McKillop]

Re: Occupy Santa?

Occupy the john!!

[Paul Beckwith]

Re: Occupy Santa?

Occupy bellies...organized by the pro-lifers...
Occupy virgins...self explanatory...
Occupy sanity...obviously not a favorite of the denial industry...
Occupy prisons...strongly favored by the Harper government...
Occupy chesstalk...Ruben probably wins the prize for this one...
Occupy the center...Endorsed by both Liberals and chessplayers alike...
Occupy the net...a good principle for hockey goalies who are too ambitious...
Occupy the penalty box...for the hockey goons...
Occupy facebook...a primary occupation for millions of people...

[Vlad Drkulec]

Re: Occupy Santa?

Santa has everything to do with commerce and nothing to do with religion and in fact is a clear example of commerce supplanting religion. That being said the .001% (occupy Santa protesters) are just going to anger the 99.999% who just want to mind their own business.

[Jonathan Berry]

Re: Occupy Santa?

Maybe if all those who actually worship Santa Claus would tell Adbusters that to occupy Him (just being respectful of their beliefs) is interfering with their religious observances, this might morph away.

When I read this: "Black Friday on November 25, a notorious day of shopping excess in the United States" in the Spectator article linked by Zeljko, I thought, hey, maybe there are some [fifth columnists, eh Z?] on the Spec staff, but then I thought, nah, it's a simple statement of fact.

[Zeljko Kitich]

Re: A Great Debate

Hi Zeljko:

Communists don't like Christmas........hmmmmmmmm.

A great philosophical debate is in the offing. Is it because:

1. Communists are godless?
2. Communists are anti- consuming?

And do you mean Communists or Marxists or both?

This has the potential to be a great thread, rivalling climate change!

Bob

Well coming from a country where my father and family did not get Christmas day off and had to rush home after work to celebrate, where their religious freedoms were thus violated, where you had to have your child baptised in secret lest the authorities find out; I think I can safetly say communists don't like Christmas. Communists includes Marxists; communist is the overall term like ice cream and then Marxists, Leninists, Titoists, Maoists are just the wacky, fun flavours. I don't know if they are godless so much as they don't want any other gods above themselves; Mao was pretty god like and so was Stalin. This Adbuster attitude smacks of the 'we know what's good for you better than you do yourself' activist mantra. Next thing they'll be demanding people replace their turkey dinner with strained carrots.

Are communists anti-consuming on purpose or is just because they can't get their economic act together to fill their store shelves? From each according to his ability to each according to his need doesn't seem to suggest bare shelves.

All I can say Bob is Santa loves you and so does Jesus :) And if this gains traction I'd be careful if I was you - with that beard you like jolly and somewhat Santa like...

[Bob Armstrong]

A Great Debate

Hi Zeljko:

Communists don't like Christmas........hmmmmmmmm.

A great philosophical debate is in the offing. Is it because:

1. Communists are godless?
2. Communists are anti- consuming?

And do you mean Communists or Marxists or both?

This has the potential to be a great thread, rivalling climate change!

Bob

[Zeljko Kitich]

My gosh, now they want to Occupy Santa? http://www.thespec.com/news/world/ar...-targets-santa

Will these ideologues stop at nothing?

Communists don't like Christmas either. Just saying.