
| Anonymous #410266 11 months ago |
My brain really hurts...
Stupid sexy intelligent Twilight... |
| Lance #410273 11 months ago |
My god, she is right |
| Anonymous #410278 11 months ago |
So, the entire Bureaucracy works is because Celestia is perfect? |
| Saufsoldat #410288 11 months ago |
Football! |
| StalkerZHS #410294 11 months ago |
^spend time with books all day
become sexy intelligent |
| d715 #410300 11 months ago |
^^ I think that's just Twi gushing about Celestia |
| Anonymous #410329 11 months ago |
So it's not a complete monarchy, but rather a form of government where a ruler with absolute, unquestionable authority rules with the assistance of advisers and bureaucracies, kind of like... an absolute monarchy. |
| marioandsonic #410362 11 months ago |
Stupid sexy intellectual Twilight. |
| Anonymous #410513 11 months ago |
Look, when it finally happens and the peasants revolt and you shoot a few priests and unarmed protestors during a demonstration which leads to you getting gunned down by Hungarian POWs, don't come crying to us. |
| Anonymous #410673 11 months ago |
Here comes another Ponese earthquake |
| Anonymous #410694 11 months ago |
Honestly the bureaucracy sounds more like communist China, just throw in an all-powerful premier with religious and royal connotations. |
| NucleicTwist #410778 11 months ago |
The age-old problem with benevolent dictatorships has always been that someday the benevolent dictator dies, and the replacement dictator could be awful.
Celestia solves this problem. Seems reasonable enough to me. :) |
| Mizukame #411028 11 months ago |
Should I worry if I managed to perfectly understand everything?
Well, my career covers up a good chunk of that. By studying international business I gotta understand how relationships among people work. After all, it is my job to get past all the bureaucracy to get a contract done ...heh, that actually places me...somewhere slighty above the middle. Super duper mega intelligent and smart Twilight is best Twilight. And Twilight will always be the best pony ever :3 |
| Anonymous #411192 11 months ago |
The best part about being banished to the moon: No more goddamn paperwork.
Luna now has a Get Out of Boring Official Stuff Free Card, via guilt-tripping Celestia, too. |
| Anonymous #411852 11 months ago |
This is the best and most sensible explanation of Equestrian government I have ever heard. |
| zralf #411963 11 months ago |
thaaaat expaaaaliiiiins everything. |
| Anonymous #412140 11 months ago |
For me its cloppin' time all the time. |
| Anonymous #415539 11 months ago |
Actually the problems with benevolent dictators include the representation of minorities and the justification of their authority.
Part of the justification of a democratic society comes from the vote. Every leader's right to govern is affirmed at regular intervals by the people. Even if you elect a king, if he's king afterward there will be people born and raised who did not vote for them, and they may lose the confidence of those who originally instituted them. Basically, even a benevolent tyrant needs to justify their right to that sort of power (especially if they ever make a decision that's unpopular or affects a minority group disproportionately) and they can't really do that, especially for new citizens who are born since their reign began. |
| Anonymous #421384 10 months ago |
Personally, this doesn't sound like either a dictatorship or a true monarchy. It's more of a combination of Representative Democracy (the entire process of sending a petition to an elected official, then them taking that petition to Celestia), and a Principality (Since Celly is a Princess, after all).
It doesn't seem like Celestia has anywhere near absolute power due to any legal or force-based measure. She seems like a President, of sorts. Only one who has been elected in perpetuity due to 1) her undoubtedly long life to the current point in time, and 2) her immortality giving her an easy advantage in maintaining stability. I think that everypony listens to her due to respect for her godlike status and centuries of knowledge compared to them. Just my five cents |
| Anonymous #617166 8 months ago |
tl;dr |
| Anonymous #888880 6 months ago |
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Here. Are you now convinced that I can be modo? |
| Anonymous #888961 6 months ago |
@#410513
Are you implying that Hungarians would gun pony and more so Twilight?! What kind of fiend would do that?! Where the fuck is that country in the map to uhmm... liberate it? |
| Anonymous #888972 6 months ago |
If I was an absolute ruler I would love a great portion of my subject to be anarchists. I'd hate to have stupid obedient sheep as my countrymates. |