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It’s a treat whenever someone posts something on X that gets everyone annoyed, but it’s extra fun when there’s a special holiday edition of the dragging. (Dear Santa: All I want for Christmas is to not have to refer to that godforsaken site as X anymore. Please, Nick, my buddy. My pal. I beg you.)
To be fair, the catalyst for this recent social media discourse is less egregious than it would make you think (and then, after thinking, politely refute). The inciting statement: a tweet—I mean X post, ugh!!!—alleging that “there hasn’t been a new Christmas movie good enough to watch every holiday season in over 20 years.”