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Kind of cheerless but I enjoyed this Nuclear Weapons Anthropologist's critical take on the NORAD Santa thing.

https://mobile.twitter.com/NuclearAnthro/status/134189570521...

Obivously not directed at you, but I would actually take this as a cynical take, for goodness sake, it was just a happy coincidence that the number was misprinted (which evolved into this, and he didn't dispute this). It seems that he was angry on NORAD (which its merits and dishonors can be discussed endlessly), but I hate the absolutism of his post.

The US military just shifted its bloody campaigns in Afghanistan and Libya to a bloody war against Russia, a focus of its new massive military budget while it cries poverty regarding the needs of even its own workers for domestic programs.

That the Christian holiday is tied into the US military apparatus with its imperial bases and adventures throughout the world is no surprise.

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