(I didn't, largely since I've never watched a single episode, but the psychic damage and whiplash of Wholesome Pony Show having said this line was too fuckn much for me)

EDIT: More replies than upbears now. It’s probably an official struggle session now (although most of it is that one person). One must imagine SisyFEWs happy.

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    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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      I'll always have a soft spot for it because it was a cute and happy show that I watched during a very dark and isolating time in my life, but goddamn if it doesn't have just the absolute worst fucking values in retrospect. It's not the worst thing liberals have made, certainly, but it is exactly what you said: just peak liberal fantasy where monarchism is fine as long as it's nice and a horribly inequitable society is charming and happy so everything's fine.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Pony Stalin

      is this site trying to turn me into an MLP fangirl now

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    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      Aren't the ponies assigned to various jobs at birth or something? Like they have a magical inclination to be lower class or whatever.

      I've never watched this cartoon and I don't know shit but from the little I know about their society it did seem like a capitalist realism framework

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        • grue@lemmy.ml
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          you might find yourself wondering something like "what if a pony's special talent is something they can't get paid for doing" or "where did the fashionista pony get the startup capital for her dressmaking business".

          Or "what the Hell is Fluttershy's business model? Do the animals have money?"

          The show mostly sidesteps questions of exploitation by depicting every main character as an artisan with no employees

          The "fashionista pony" does have employees, albeit in her Manehattan boutique instead of her studio in Ponyville.

          Also, Pinkie Pie is an employee of Mr. and Mrs. Cake.

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            • BeamBrain [he/him]
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              Yeah, that subplot was introduced around season 4-5 I believe.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      The HOI4 MLP mod (which is, by far, the best made HOI4 mod) has Our Town join the larger more successful communist state of Stalliongrad, which it bordered.