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   ☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭ (radical_egocom@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 13:06:04 JST ☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭

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   What?? Christmas trees and lights are only possible with commercial greed? This is a claim by Ayn Rand that isn't backed by any evidence at all. Besides the fact that the Soviet Union, for example, while not celebrating Christmas, had New Year’s celebrations where they did Christmas things, such as decorating trees and having glittering lights, what says that a socialist society can't also have Christmas trees, lights, etc? "Nothing" is the answer.

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     Mark Gardner (mjgardner@social.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 13:06:09 JST Mark Gardner

     The best aspect of #Christmas is the aspect usually decried by the mystics: the fact that Christmas has been commercialized…

     The Christmas trees, the winking lights, the glittering colors—provide the city with a spectacular display, which only “commercial greed” could afford to give us.

     One would have to be terribly depressed to resist the wonderful gaiety of that spectacle.

     —#AynRand, December 1976

     #MerryChristmas #GoodWillTowardMen #capitalism