And a Very Merry Gulag to You

Let me see if I understand the T-shirt on the right correctly:

Don’t buy that Christmas gift and thereby perpetuate the consumerist mentality.

Do obliterate the lumpenproletariat, terrorize the masses, and establish a one-party dictatorship.

All by Christmas morning?

I went out and bought 11 more things just for spite . . .

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