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My Little Alpaca Nother Nonymous (Element of Threadkilling) 36782088

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTOK_3JNfuA
Ponies grow wool and go Left (clip).

Last edited at Thu, Oct 23rd, 2014 16:48

NostalgiaSchmaltz!jdKt6Dif02 36782089

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Oh wow, yet another MLP satire cartoon. How witty and original.

Totally hasn't already been done 10+ times, nope.

Last edited at Thu, Oct 23rd, 2014 16:57

Nother Nonymous (Element of Threadkilling) 36782091

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>>36782089
Unlike the MAD TV stuff, this isn't about ponies or MLP. I thought that it was interesting that the MLP:FiM frame had spread sufficiently into the common culture that it could be used for political discourse. What other examples did you have in mind?

Last edited at Thu, Oct 23rd, 2014 17:28

Marimo!Mrb.TaRPks 36782092

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6uJkI9DE14
>>36782091
Yeah, it kind of reminded me of this cartoon which used the Lorax. The source material is more of the framing for the satire to talk about an issue.

NostalgiaSchmaltz!jdKt6Dif02 36782094

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>>36782091
>this isn't about ponies or MLP

Uh...what? It's designed to be a satire of FIM. The art style, Flash animation, pastel-colored four-legged characters...right down to cloning the look and feel of Ponyville.

There have just been so many of these that they're bland and boring. The MAD TV one, various CollegeHumor stuff, and other things released over YouTube. The "MLP Satire" has been done so many times it's practically a trope at this point.

Dee Twenty(Element of Cheer)(Thuerlesday)!Nat20kBygE 36782096

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>>36782094

Don't forget Pretty Pretty Pegasus from Teen Titans Go.

Marimo!Mrb.TaRPks 36782097

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>>36782094
What I think he's saying is that it's not satire on MLP, like how Animal Farm isn't a satire on farm animals or running a farm. It's just used to make a metaphor for what it's actually critiquing, which in this case would be class differences.

NostalgiaSchmaltz!jdKt6Dif02 36782100

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>>36782097
Yeah, it's not *about* FIM, but it's still a "My Little _____" parody. To which, I say ECH.

36782102

>>36782100
the point is that the message they are trying to convey is to show the problem with the actual economic system.

while it isnt a "letgs make fun of the show and the bronies"

lets just say that they got the mlp parody as a tool.

Dee Twenty(Element of Cheer)(Thuerlesday)!Nat20kBygE 36782103

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>>36782102

Dee doesn't really get the point, it's not like the alpacas made it any funnier or more entertaining.

!dmE/Zk0X6M 36782104

>>36782097

He's actually talking about income inequality. Class differences only come into play because he has no real idea how an economy works. I mean, he's got one guy in one factory handing out job assignments and that's why you have income inequality. Because this one guy is an asshole. The more you know.

36782105

>>36782103
you saw it isnt it?
if it wasnt a pony pardoy, it probably wouldnt be here.
ergo you wouldnt saw it

Unlikeable Pony (element of being banned. again) 36782110

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>>36782096

Eh, Pretty pretty pegasus annoys me because its a satire of the stereotype of how MLP was in the 80s. It was kind of funny in terms of a generic cutesy show that Raven was watching, but as an MLP parody I didn't really find it that funny.

Geldon 36782128

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>>36782088
That was actually pretty good, in a certain light.

Basically, they're using a MLP:FIM-similar approach in order to entice the huge fanbase that they know are watching that to watch this. And it worked, that's why it's here on /pony/.

Then, now that they have the attention of their target demo, they dropped the liberal propaganda bomb on them OH HEY WEALTH INEQUITY IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM. This actually isn't a comedy skit at all, it's politics.

I don't really disagree with the message, few people can ignore the harm wealth inequity has caused in our day-to-day, but I do find their method of delivery just a tad tactless.

Last edited at Fri, Oct 24th, 2014 08:14

Nº 441 !fOINzMA0KU 36782133

>>36782128
Y'now, we need less people complaining about the problems in our society and more people doing something about it. Everybody's always making these political cartoons and shit to raise awareness of a folly in our society, but they never do anything to actually help solve that problem.

Yeah, it makes people aware about the issue, but it doesn't make them passionate about it, 90% of the people who read about an issue just go "Wow, that sucks" and resume their every day lives.

Dee Twenty(Element of Cheer)!Nat20kBygE 36782138

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACrMZAzAHlo
>>36782133

Unlikeable Pony (element of being banned. again) 36782146

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A big issue with the US inequality was started by Reagan's tenure as president, sadly. Regan firing the Air traffic controllers when they striked was a HUGE blow against Organized labor, and it hasn't ever recovered from it truly.

This, combined with trickle down economics policies pretty much screwed the pooch as far as the ability of workers in the US to bargain for and gain monetary gains from employers.



So basically, thanks reagan.

DemonioBlanco 36782150

>>36782133
while people do nothing
nothing would change.
and outside going "lets rape them up right now"
you cant do anything outside just rising awareness.

and you have no idea how much people ignore how stuff work, and they are manipulated by the gouberment...

well, maybe you have idea. but i dont know.

Dee Twenty(Element of Cheer)!Nat20kBygE 36782152

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>>36782150

Ufufu, gooberment. Dee approves of this typo.

Nº 441 !fOINzMA0KU 36782160

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrH8gd3qTaw
>>36782150
Obviously, we need Gray Fox to save us.

Anonymous 36782173

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A political cartoon parodying MLP. A bit trite, if you ask me.

DemonioBlanco 36782180

>>36782173
>a bit trite

i dont know what is that

Anonymous 36782181

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>>36782180
Boring, dull, uninspired. I'm not much of a fan of political cartoons.

I only know alpacas though Animal Crossing Anonymous 36782194

>>36782110
BUT TARA STRONG! Also, the 80s show still exists and is easier to make fun of.

Unlikeable Pony (element of being banned. again) 36782196

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>>36782194

Yes, sadly I think the 80s My little pony will *always* remain in the public mind as what "My little pony" is.


I just don't like it, that's all :(

Nother Nonymous (Element of Threadkilling) 36782222

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxrCut1CRjE
>>36782181
Of course, there's a lot of sociopolitical satire in pony music videos, going back to G2.

Geldon 36782225

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>>36782133
We've been trying, but it's tricky. The whole trouble is that some people are so good at making money that they're capsizing the entire economy.

So the real way to bring them back into alignment is to stop the people on the top from being so damn good at making money. To these ends, you institute government regulation on the more effective loopholes (outsourcing jobs, ect) and institute taxes that mostly target upper incomes.

Suddenly, the American Dream on the line. Hey! I thought this place was supposed to be about "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit Of Happiness." If I'm ludicrously rich and able to kick back and live in complete luxury without lifting a finger, it's because my father, my grandpapa, my great grandpapa, ect all worked their asses off 24/7 until we found a way to pull that off, and some people were really mean over the decades but we finally beat them. How dare you come in here and take away our money for being too good at the game?

Ugh! I get that, but you're fucking breaking the economy with how effective you are at it. Maybe you should-

NOPE. The 1% bought the conservative party, and use the fact that they own most media outlets to snowjob half the country and keep their wealth secure. They do this by demonizing this supposed "for the people, by the people" agency, targeting the government itself, so the people are not going to be on the side of instituting those higher rich-targeting taxes and government regulations.

So, speaking as an individual, what can I do? I can write this post and promote greater awareness. Or you can create something silly like we've seen in the OP pic to promote greater awareness. But ultimately, we're up against ignorance, and there's a 100% ignorant person created every time a babby comes out of smebody, so it's an ongoing battle.

Nº441!fOINzMA0KU 36782230

>>36782225
You could start rounding up the rich people and killing them. Worked for the French.

I dunno man, at least you can still sway the government to the side of the people. At least the problem isn't that the government hasn't been run by a bunch of corrupt fucks that have used the contry to line up their pockets while leaving the common man to rot and starve, mantaining themselves in power by manipulating the uninformed majority of the country with cheap populistic manuevers.

The same political party has been in power for 12 years, and I fear that they'll be in power for 4 more years.

Dee Twenty(Element of Cheer)!Nat20kBygE 36782238

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>>36782230

>At least the problem isn't that the government hasn't been run by a bunch of corrupt fucks that have used the contry to line up their pockets while leaving the common man to rot and starve, mantaining themselves in power by manipulating the uninformed majority of the country with cheap populistic manuevers.


Assuming you meant has rather than hasn't, sounds like the US government to Dee.

Nother Nonymous (Element of Threadkilling) 36782240

>>36782238
Well, in general U.S. judges and legislators aren't in the business to put money in their own pockets, unlike the situation in many other countries. Nevertheless.

I'm reminded of Humbert Wolfe's little verse - -

You cannot hope to bribe or twist
(Thank God!) the British journalist.
But seeing what the man will do
Unbribed, there's no occasion to

Nº441!fOINzMA0KU 36782241

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>>36782238
Dee. Look at this. This is a fucking Castle. It was built by a Politician from here using Taxpayer money, and he got away with it being built for a long time by declaring it underneath his son's name.

A castle.

Nother Nonymous (Element of Threadkilling) 36782242

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>>36782241
We got castles, too. Check out the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina and the Hearst Castle in California, for openers. Of course, these places are public parks now. And Hearst and the Vanderbilts weren't politicians; they just owned politicians.

But as I recall, the politicians in Equestria also go in for some pretty spiffy chateaux....

Unlikeable Pony (element of being banned. again) 36782243

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>>36782242


well of course, alicorns can get whatever they want: they are the master race of course ;p


but on a more serious note, Twilight's castle was built by magical forces so it didn't cost money. Now, the Crystal palace in the crystal empire is questionable, due to the fact that it was inhabited by princess amore first, so one does have to ask about that.
The two sister's castle in the forest was built by Brainwashed animals befriended by luna working with some of their servants, so most of the labor was done by animals and not 100% politically represented ponies.


Now, one DOES have to question how the canterlot palace was built though :/
However, given how the mines underneath canterlot were mined by "Greedy unicorns", I'm going to guess that it was built by Princess platinum and her father as their new home once they moved in, and Celestia "inherited" it later on since the unicorn monarchy was gradually phased out due to obsolence.

Nº441!fOINzMA0KU 36782245

>>36782242
THAT WAS A LUXURY FUCKING CASTLE! HE BOUGHT THAT SHIT WITH TAXPAYER MONEY!

In fact, I think he ordered that shit built.

Corruption in this country is fucking ridiculous.

Nothe Nonymous (Element of Threadkilling) 36782247

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>>36782243
Seems plausible. But doesn't that imply that the unicorns were the governing caste in the new Equestria?

Key fact about Equestria: it preserves the old Indo-European (and current Indian) division of society into three castes or grades: the Brahmans (the priests and wizards: unicorns), the Kshatriya (the military elite: pegasi), and the Vaishya (farmers, herders, merchants: earth ponies). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna_(Hinduism) .

Nothe Nonymous (Element of Threadkilling) 36782248

>>36782247
No, actually, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trifunctional_hypothesis .

Unlikeable Pony (element of being banned. again) 36782249

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>>36782247

well, since the Capital wasn't canterlot back then but was the Everfree castle, its probable Canterlot didn't have any actual power back then beyond its own city borders: Cloudsdale and whatever cities the earth ponies lived in would have been co-equal.


Presumably canterlot only became the Ruling city once celestia moved there, and at that point Celestia most likely would have voided the ruling unicorn caste's power in favor of herself to avoid the unicorns having an upper hand.

Marimo!Mrb.TaRPks 36782256

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>>36782243
>The two sister's castle in the forest was built by Brainwashed animals befriended by luna working with some of their servants, so most of the labor was done by animals and not 100% politically represented ponies.
It wasn't built by servants. The pony help they got was from various other settlements who volunteered to help out.

>>36782243
>However, given how the mines underneath canterlot were mined by "Greedy unicorns", I'm going to guess that it was built by Princess platinum and her father as their new home once they moved in, and Celestia "inherited" it later on since the unicorn monarchy was gradually phased out due to obsolence.
>>36782249
>Presumably canterlot only became the Ruling city once celestia moved there, and at that point Celestia most likely would have voided the ruling unicorn caste's power in favor of herself to avoid the unicorns having an upper hand.
Canterlot wasn't built until after Luna became NMM and Celestia chose to move elsewhere because of the painful memories. First it was just the castle, and then a city once other ponies started moving there.

Last edited at Sat, Oct 25th, 2014 14:19

Anonymous 36782257

>>36782256
>Canterlot wasn't a city until after NMM was banned
Where is this headcanon information coming from?

Marimo!Mrb.TaRPks 36782258

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>>36782257
Rogers.

Anonymous 36782267

>>36782258
Hmmm. Yeah. I don't really put much stock in Rogers since Filli Vanilli.

Marimo!Mrb.TaRPks 36782268

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>>36782267
Well I wasn't really talking to you in the first place, I was talking to Unlikable who does based on how he's using other information Rogers came up with (with some input from Meghan and Lauren).

Last edited at Sat, Oct 25th, 2014 18:44

Geldon 36782269

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>>36782241
Democracy is generally supposed to stop corruption from happening, but they basically found a way around that, it works like this:

1) You need to be noticed to get votes in order to get elected.
2) To get noticed, you needs lots of money and media coverage.
3) Rich benefactors, particularly with media outlets, are thus most empowered to see their buddies appointed into office.

Whoops, I don't think the founding fathers saw that one coming (but then, they lived in a very different world than we do now, and would probably think "media" was some country east of Europe).

About the only saving grace we have in all this is that not all rich people are myopic knobs, and some of them realize that running the economy into the ground because "they got theirs" is not a great long term plan. That's why there's any pushback at all against the knobs who have largely infiltrated the government with the three steps above.

>>36782247
I think magic changes the rules a bit. The reason why unicorn, pegasus, and earth pony get along so well without any particular feelings of inequity is because they're magical creatures that are empowered by camaraderie and get frozen to death by windigos from discord.

Consequently, the ruling alicorn race largely measures its power not in land nor bits, but rather how well their subjects are getting along, with translates to alicorn magic. They're incorruptible by virtue of altruism being their ultimate goal, not greed.

Next to that, this whole earth pony < pegasus < unicorn thing is rendered infeasible. Besides, which, earth ponies like working the land, it's what they're magically inclined to do. Likewise, pegasi the weather, and unicorns more arcane crafts.

Last edited at Sat, Oct 25th, 2014 19:13

Unlikeable Pony (element of being banned. again) 36782270

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>>36782268

Truth be told, I kind of wish they'd release some more backstory books detailing Canterlot and Cloudsdale. Rather interested in how those two cities early days went.

Kind of wonder if cloudsdale was founded before canterlot for example.

Anonymous 36782271

>>36782268
I don't care who you were talking to, quite frankly.

Anonymous 36782283

>>36782269
The other big problem with our system is that you don't even need to bribe your way into the rulebook, you just need to be rich enough to afford better lawyers than whoever you're attacking, and then you can throw your legal weight around all you like without reprimand.

Anonymous 36782762

>>36782283
Absolutely true. Hell, you don't even have to be legally in the right. If you have enough money, you can sue your opponents on whatever ridiculous grounds you want, and just keep suing them until they go bankrupt from legal fees. Winning or losing doesn't matter, so long as you can keep your opponent in court until he's too poor to fight back anymore.

Nº 441 !fOINzMA0KU 36782763

>>36782762
And this is why we need to start solving legal disputes with fistfights instead of this bullshit of pitting manhorses dressed in three-piece suits against eachother in a "who can be the biggest prick" competition. I'd like to see a flabby crusty white hairy man smile his way out of a jab to the teeth.

Anonymous 36782765

I want this to be a series. I would seriously watch these three argue politics every week. Happy being all pro-business, Sunshine being all pro-people, and Giggles just trying to figure out what's going on.

Season finale is about Sunshine raising a communist army to bring down the lollipop corporation.

Then eventually Giggles gets tired of being the one caught in the middle, loses her mind, and becomes an insane Alex Jones supporter who thinks the government is secretly controlled by alien reptiles who faked the moon landing and put mind-controlling nanobots in vaccines.

Anonymous 36782767

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>>36782763
>manhorses

And then Bulk Biceps fixed society.

Unlikeable Pony (element of being banned. again) 36782772

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>>36782767

Nah, it'd be icepack.

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