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US Republican beats up AI Santa for some reason

Every year, the radical right gets louder and louder with the message that the left wants to destroy Christmas. This year, however, a little-known senator has decided it’s the Republicans who should be attacking Christmas — specifically Father Christmas (or ‘Santa Claus’, as the Yanks call him):

Death to Christmas

As we’ve reported, the right’s ‘war on Christmas’ rhetoric gets more ridiculous each year. Silly as it is, however, it does usually make some sort of sense at least. That is not the case here.

In the tweet above, Garten attempted to make the images work by suggesting Santa Claus was visiting his state to perpetrate bureaucracy. The problem is that the text is significantly less memorable than the image of Garten mercilessly assaulting Santa.

A week from now, no one will remember why he generated these images; everyone will remember that he did indeed generate them.

Garten himself justified their creation as follows:

By all means, have fun creating goofy images with your children. By all means, post them to the internet too. If you’re too Christmas pudding’d to understand why people think it’s freak behaviour, that’s your problem!

People responded to Garten as follows:

 

Warriors in the war on Christmas

In the fantasy world they’ve created for themselves, the right are on the pro-Christmas side. Garten’s post is a great example of how social media and AI are destroying these people’s ability to live in any version of reality.

The Christmas post isn’t his first foray into fantasy, either; in November, he posted an image of himself riding a turkey:

You’re supposed to kill the turkey and befriend Santa, bozo — not the other way around!

Featured image Chris Garten

By Willem Moore

This post was originally published on Canary.