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Santa's Surveillance State **TEASER**

Binchtopia

Julia Hava & Eliza McLamb

Society & Culture

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The girlies bring you a seasonal episode to discuss some terrifying Christmas lore — the Germanic tale of Krampus and the panopticon horror of the Elf on the Shelf. Digressions include our thoughts on the United Healthcare CEO shooter, why we should be shaming people more, and a quick digest of our recent nightmares. 

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0:00.0

Here's the thing. Usually I'm like, it's fucked up that like churches are forbidding people from

0:03.3

celebrating their traditions. This one I'm like, maybe they were kind of right. Maybe they were right to,

0:07.5

like, ban. You're like, I kind of think we shouldn't let drunk adults just beat people senselessly in the street.

0:11.5

Maybe the church was kind of right about like, this seems a little bit. Like usually they're calling

0:15.6

things demonic that are not demonic, but beating people with sticks dressed as demons is demonic. It's kind of reminding

0:21.2

me of that scene from Borat, like the running of the Jews, where they have those like,

0:24.7

have you seen that scene? They have these like giant like anti-Semitic like puppets and they're

0:29.2

like running around like beating people. Like it's kind of, it's kind of that vibe. Anyway, so this is a

0:34.3

quote about what the purpose of crampus serves. We are convinced that the crampus offers a unique opportunity to think through contemporary

0:41.4

social and political configurations in Austria and beyond.

0:44.8

Despite the fact that there is now a small but growing number of women becoming crampuses,

0:49.3

period.

0:50.4

Women in crampus fields.

0:51.7

Now, women should be running around being able to beat people men, specifically.

0:56.7

Yes.

0:57.2

The overwhelming majority of active participants in crampus are men between the ages of 16 and 30.

1:02.9

What a surprise, the same age of school shooters.

1:05.2

Yeah.

1:05.6

What a surprise.

1:06.6

You're saying white men love a holiday to get drunk and violent?

1:10.6

Shocking.

1:11.6

This age range, we believe, is one important reason why the crampus is so strongly associated

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