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All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.
This is where America is now
This is where America is now
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Though, the Elf isn't the only problem. Santa himself normalizes both surveillance culture ("making a list, checking it twice") and the stigmatization of poverty (if you didn't get good presents, you must've been "naughty"), as I wrote about a few years back.
www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
The Real Problem With the ‘Naughty List’
Kids’ presents are determined by their families’ resources, not their behavior—but Santa teaches otherwise.
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Though, the Elf isn't the only problem. Santa himself normalizes both surveillance culture ("making a list, checking it twice") and the stigmatization of poverty (if you didn't get good presents, you must've been "naughty"), as I wrote about a few years back.
www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
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of course none of this controversy is about defending or explaining journalism or human rights investigations—it’s about a group of powerful people who want to reserve the right to deny reality, however poorly, whenever they want to or are told to
December 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM
of course none of this controversy is about defending or explaining journalism or human rights investigations—it’s about a group of powerful people who want to reserve the right to deny reality, however poorly, whenever they want to or are told to