• Crowtee_Robot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    It always blew my mind. Like, y’all are watching the same show as me about friendship being the greatest magic there is, working together to make things better, and helping people even if they’re different and thought, “This will be my template for the Fourth Reich.”

    • laziestflagellant [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      The show did have some really weird politics even from the beginning though, with the racialized Others being literal different species compared to the (apparently all caucasian) important and relatable ponies

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        The show was weirdly revealing about the liberal worldview. It accepts as totally natural and unavoidable a bunch of classist and racist things, but papers over them with pastel colors and says that everything can be perfect as long as we don’t question authority and don’t make waves and trust the immortal god emperess to run the kingdom.

      • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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        You know, given that Caucasians have a long history of being the Racialized Other in Russia, I’m not sure that this was the best wording, exactly… If you mean “white” you should probably just say “white” instead of using weird racial pseudoscience words, right?

        Anyways my own headcanon is that earth ponies are Hispanic people, the pegasi are Francos, and the unicorns are Anglos

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        Like you can’t look at the cum jar shit and not think that the fashy side of bronydom wasn’t at least partially in it because they enjoy “sullying” something innocent and girly

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      8 months ago

      To be fair My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was also the show where a shapeshifter who feeds on love kidnapped the bride of a royal wedding and took her place, and I’m just saying that I can honestly kinda see a straight line from there to “Judaeo-Bolshevists are scheming to overthrow our Western Values by tricking good Christian men into spilling their seed inside the fake peepee women all the while kidnapping our children for blood rituals, God save the King”

      Anyways Equestria is the Great Shaitan, victory to the Axis of Resistance of Chrysalis, Tirek, Cozy Glow, Sombra, and Grogar

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      Part of fascism is literal fantasy and esoteric beliefs in biology, history, destiny, and hierarchy. It doesn’t surprise me that it’s what they got out of a kids show about magic ponies living in a kingdom