• OpenStars@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    Teaching true facts about the world - that some people will never truly love you, only what you can do for them - since 1939.

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        6 months ago

        First and most especially the single most important factor: b/c I thought it sounded cool. 😎

        Second, I googled “what does Zaddy mean” - oh wait that was earlier in the day, cough, I mean I googled “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”, found that it was first aired in 1939, and so put that.

        Third, it is a popular meme format.

        But mostly b/c it sounded cool (yet is accurate).

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    6 months ago

    I thought Fireball’s reaction to Rudolph’s glowing nose was a little extreme. He’s a magical, flying reindeer who lives with Santa and his elves at the North Pole. Surely, he has seen some really weird sh*t.

    But he reacts to Rudolph as if his skull had burst into flames.

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    6 months ago

    Reminds me of some nature movie where there was an albino antelope and it was shunned from the pack because it was different and then some snake ate it

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      Well there is a clear evolutionary advantage to being wary of ‘difference’ and you can see that behaviour in nearly every species. Yes, even fluffy puppy dogs.

      Human society is the one exception. We have beaten mother nature in the natural world (hunger, warmth and shelter) and now we are focussing on the primordial mother nature within us. Where we cant directly fix a physical or genetic weakness, we reprogramme ourselves (via society) to normalise and accept differences amongst us.

      Attitudes to Rudolph show how much we have changed in recent years.

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    Also, Santa, who’s implied to be the guardian of the reindeer, chose not to intervene in the slightest on behalf of Rudolph. He never at any point even acknowledged the bullying and went straight to using Rudolph for his own benefit. This, despite a 0% chance he didn’t know about the bullying considering that his literal thing is knowing if you’re bad or good. Bullying isn’t considered bad?