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[–] StraySojourner@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed, and that's not even accounting for how insanely corporatized those holidays are. I guess that you're supposed to have fun and enjoy the celebration but after a certain point it feels like these solstice holidays have become ads.

[–] Supervivens@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Become? Santa as we know him was litterally a Coca Cola ad.

[–] StraySojourner@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Become, because I imagine they didn't start that way.

[–] amtwon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The Night before Christmas is from 1823 tho