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Dusty Sage


I've been writing online for thirty years. One of these days I might actually get good at it.

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  • 329 weeks
    Falling behind

    I'm getting to the point where just keeping up is beyond my dwindling capacities. I'm not sure what's going on, but I suspect I'm not going to like it when I find out.

    Anyway, I apologize for having been such a lousy correspondent this year.

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  • 343 weeks
    Having gone wandering off somewhere

    Of late, I seem to have been overtaken by events: my health has taken a turn for the worst, I wrecked my car, and the guy they hired to help me out at work has moved away. (Another guy has drawn the short straw.) I'm still alive, but it's not something I much feel like bragging about.

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  • 384 weeks
    A night at the beer garden

    I mean, I'm not allowed beer anymore, at least not until I get off some of these damnable medications, but our little table had massive fun discussing Jenga, photography, classic and modern weaponry, beer (of course) -- and ponies. Apparently they'd read my stuff. Who knew?

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  • 396 weeks
    Newer avatar

    Regular visitors will remember that I'd asked the estimable LeekFish to knock out a sketch for my, um, OC. I posted it here, and it was well received; our own Twifight Sparkill came up with an idea, and heck, there's no reason you shouldn't see it here, especially since she's revised it to give me a more, um, scholarly look. (The LeekFish original is still in the sidebar at

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  • 399 weeks
    Back in the Real World

    I think I would rather spend two weeks in the Everfree, trying to avoid everything that can kill me, and in the Everfree I assume everything can kill me, than one more minute in a hospital room.

    That said, their definition of "on the mend" doesn't quite coincide with mine.

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Jul
19th
2015

I've seen better trolls · 9:24pm Jul 19th, 2015

This anguished bit of agitprop showed up in, of all places, Yahoo! Answers:

It's a tad hard for me to fathom that such an innocent magical show actually took a political position that insults the notion of equality or collective responsibility. I am referring to a set of episodes in the Season 5 called "The Cutie map" where the Mane 6 visit a village that is essentially Ayn Rand's "Anthem" turned into ponies. Everyone is equal, everything looks the same, they sing triumphant choirs of how they are but mere cells to the community, food tastes bland, and those who don't follow the status quo are forced to by fear tactics.

As a leftist myself, I'm of course offended by these totalitarian stereotypes of democratic socialism. But beyond that I'm just surprised that instead of some dumb *** Fox News documentary, this is MLP propagating this BS.

(Source here.)

Of course, the hilarious aspect of this is that "democratic socialism" works only to the extent that it is totalitarian: the moment someone steps off the page, the entire illusion starts to unravel. It was always thus, and thus shall it always be.

Q. "What's the difference between Utopia and Tartarus?"

A: "Tartarus readily admits to what it really is."

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Comments ( 4 )

We've learned a new word today: Agitprop.

I like it. :rainbowkiss:

I don't know enough about democratic socialism to dislike it. I'd imagine that the greatest offense MLP paid to a democratic socialist society is that there would be far less singing and far more forced smiles. Provided more forced smiles be possible.

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Nopony is actually, you know, commanding us to smile. (Except Pinkie.)

Then again, I was a monarchist at heart before ever being introduced to Luna and Celestia, with an overlay of H. L. Mencken:

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

I'm probably just as common as the next guy, but I'm leery of things that are supposed to make me smile, especially if those things are going to be funded by taxation.

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Well, a government-funded park could certainly be a sign of a totalitarian government. :raritywink:

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