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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 days ago

Past would be like: "Remember that Christmas morning when you and your Grandpa went to one his Emerald mines and watched one of his "workers" get punished for taking a pause HEY why is this your most cherished Xmas memory?"

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I respect that, from a labor prospective

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Sounds like they need a union.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

My favorite take on Christmas Carol was the Blackadder version where he starts out as a good person and then the ghosts visit him and show him what right bastards his ancestors were (it was a special that included bits from other seasons of the show, which featured a different Blackadder ancestor asshole each season) and convince him to start being a prick too. IIRC the next morning he kicks Tiny Tim's crutches out from underneath him. Just a great reverse take on the trope and I'm surprised that nobody else ever did anything like that (as far as I know).

The Musk version would start out with him being an asshole and ending up an even bigger asshole.