Santy get a boyfriend...

The very idea of taking something completely innocuous, that nobody ever had an issue with, that nobody ever argued about or was angry about, and then purposefully creating an antagonistic campaign out of it is just plain pathetic.

But it's worse than simply pathetic, it is also yet another in a long line of antagonistic bs that has at it's core one simple goal, to annoy people. It creates division where there was none before, it creates arguments where there were none before.

There wouldn't have been a single person involved in this stunt that didn't recognise they were creating controversy. That was the point.

It just so happens to be Santa clause in this case. Nobody was wondering about the sexuality of a fictional character that delivers presents to young children. Nobody.

Here's a few more ideas to wreck people's heads for no reason. Let's paint all postboxes with Nazi swastikas, why not? Everyone is wondering about the political leanings of postboxes, right? That won't annoy anyone at all. Perfectly normal.

Everyone is wondering about the preferred genders of washing machines, right? Let's have an advertisement campaign from whirlpool about washing machines being born in the factory as men and women and everything in between. People are crying out for it.

You get the society you deserve and nobody wants to live in a raging dump of antagonism like the United States, the birthplace of this derangement. If you think this kind of stuff is in any way, whatsoever, "lovely" or "nice" or promotes "togetherness", you need to pull your head out of your arse and realise it is precisely the opposite in intent, and precisely the opposite in result.

There is literally no other explanation.

They took an innocuous thing that everyone likes, and then created an advertisement campaign with the explicit intent of riling people up. Everyone behind it knew exactly what they were doing.

Someway or somehow, the ones behind it will have their calculations done and came to the conclusion that creating this micro division will in some indirect way get them more money. These companies and advertisers are just awful, anything for a buck.

As someone else said, they'd do the exact same thing for Jesus and make him gay, or Mohammed, or whatever you're having. The only thing stopping them from doing it is that they've calculated it's probably not going to get them a buck. But as soon as the calculations come back differently, they'll be all over gay Jesus like a cheap suit.

It's pathetic.

I'll ask you a similar question, an ad featuring George Floyd kissing Donald Trump, how would that make you feeel? I'll make it even easier, George Floyd kissing Martin Luther King. How about that?

I know it's unlikely you'll answer honestly, even to yourself. But it made your skin crawl a bit, didn't it? You've just got different value system with different sacred ideals. So what about it? Any fuss over George Floyd kissing Donald Trump in a TV ad?

Interesting and clever way of avoiding the question. That's not what I asked.

I don't think anyone here cares whether the santa outside the local tesco goes home and kisses his pet baboon, as long as he's not livestreaming it to kids. The question is not who kisses who, it's would you be ok with an ad on TV showing George Floyd kissing Donald Trump? It's clear from your answer you can't even write the words and instead evade the proposition entirely with a more comfortable and completely abstract concept of 'anyone kissing anyone'.

I'd love to see an honest answer 'I am ok with a TV ad with Donald Trump kissing George Floyd'. But you've already given your answer by avoiding it.

I know you do, that's why you are here and also why I asked. I knew you would evade it. That's the point.

There are several actors at play in these ridiculous scenarios, it's not just one single monolithic conspiracy.

Companies have learned that clicks = money.

Controversy = clicks.

It's that simple. Pick something that people have no opinion on, and then inject something that's bound to stir up clicks. Easy. Nothing to do with being gay, I'd say some of the owners of these society splitters are off in their mansions reminiscing about their ad campaigns for the Nazi's. That's how much they "care".

Secondly, there are the "activists", again, a tiny group of soldiers that have so little going on in their lives that they must throw their entire existence into the de rigeur cause of the moment. They'd be the same type, again, that would have been tripping over themselves to join the hitler youth, braindead.

What always makes my eyes narrow in suspicion is anything that targets children. Such as santa clause. When your ideology is so weak that it can't stand up to adult scrutiny, and you therefore need to target the immature minds of children instead, yeah, that's an alarm bell. Just like the indoctrination programmes of the Nazi's that specifically targeted children.

And so on. There are a few malodorous parties at play here.

And it all sucks. It's about as "Christmassy" as rte playing the Texas chainsaw massacre on Christmas morning.

So brave , what unpopular cause will they stand up to society for next ? Women's right to vote maybe !?

*** sarcasm for those who need extra help

I just can't find humour in this kind of thing anymore. It's the kind of humour that's essentially laughing at people for getting upset at something that was purposefully designed to upset.

It's a woeful state of affairs that there's such underlying venom within so many people that is being fanned and enflamed by these companies. And I reckon the origin is the same as the result, it's antagonism for the sake of antagonism. A snowball effect.

Looking at the United States, I just don't want to live in such a wreck of a society as that where everyone is at each other's necks and everyone is a policeman with a phone looking for outrage.

This ad is a great example of how those eejits over there got to where they are. It's not harmless and it's not funny. Nobody likes to be po-faced, but it's time people started saying "f off" to these bloody companies and advertisers trying their best to stir up trouble.