That one anvil that needs to be fucking dropped, right now!

"...violence is not strength and compassion is not weakness! We are civilized!"
Sean Connery as King Arthur in First Knight

"You are not heroes. You are not martyrs. You are not fighting some good fight for justice. You are pathetic, spurned by anger over something you have no reason to be angry over. [...] So get off your high horse and grow the hell up."
- Lewis Lovhaug, a.k.a. Linkara

If you hunt like a wolf, you're not different from one. If you behave like a monster, you're a monster. If you use the same tactics of a bully or a coward, I'm actually sorry to tell this to you, but that is bond to mean that you're a bully and a coward. If you think I'm wrong, here I am, offering both cheeks for you to slap like a coward, or a mind to debate with like a grown-up person. Your actions will decide which one you are.

First of all, sorry Actually I'm Dead's fans for not making today's editorial, I promise it will be up tomorrow. Also, yes, that shit up there is not self-censored as I usually do with my curses when on FiMFiction. For whose who don't know me long enough, it means that I am hands-shacking, blood-boiling, mouth-growling, mind-on-fire, levels of pissed off.

What is this time? Well, I'll not tell you the exact event, because there are other people involved who would only get hurt if their names are brought here, so I'll just flat out tell you what's on my mind right now.

First, I want to bring up a story, from my Chile. During Pinochet's (that bastard) brutal, brutal, brutal dictatorship (thank you Nixon), in the last years, Ricardo Lagos Escobar, had the massive balls to call Augusto Pinochet (rooting in hell) out for his crap of trying to hold himself as the one with the moral highground:

I'm not old enough to have witnessed that on person, but when I learned about it over a decade later, I learned a lesson I'll never forget. Might doesn't make right, ends is not a valid justification for the means and overall, when something is wrong with the world, is our duty, as human beings, to stand up for those who can't and/or are alone, because that's the right think to do. And right now, I'll say the truth, to make justice and to help a friend, because that the fucking right thing to do, ¡Carajo!

Here it goes:

When attacking someone because of political, religious, social, etc, views, some people think of themselves looking like this:

Sadly, what they end up doing (which goes between the lines of harassment and verbal bullying), looks more like this:

And deserves a reaction like this:

In case that some people out there still doesn't get the message straight, here it is in big cap bold letters, just in case.

BEING IN THE RIGHT, OR THINKING THAT YOU'RE ON THE RIGHT DOESN'T GIVE YOU A LICENSE TO BE AN ASSHOLE!

Also, going on that same line

IF SOMEONE IS WRONG ABOUT SOMETHING, THAT DOESN'T MAKE HIM/HER AN ACCEPTABLE TARGET FOR HARASSMENT, NEITHER DOES IT MAKE THE OPPOSITE SIDE AND ABSOLUTE RIGHT BY DEFAULT!

And finally

USING METHODS LIKE HARASSMENT, DOWN-VOTING SOMEONE'S STORIES WITHOUT READING THEM AND OUTRIGHT DOING ALL ON YOUR REACH TO ANNOY SOMEONE MAKES YOU A FUCKING BULLY, YOU IMBECILE, REGARDLESS OF YOUR POLITICAL/RELIGIOUS/SOCIAL POSITION OR MINDSET!

On a side not, and I'm actually amazed that I have to spell this out

THIS IS FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC'S FANDOM, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO LOVE AND TOLERATE EVERYONE, EVEN THOSE WHO YOU DON'T LIKE BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THE SERIES WE'RE WATCHING IS ALL ABOUT, DAMN IT!!!

P.S.: Congratulations, you made an historical step for LGBT's rights a bitter memory because you couldn't let aggressiveness apart for one fucking day.

P.P.S.: Want to attack my stories because of this? Well, I'll be the grown up here and tell you how little I care about you, but if you dare to touch any of my co-writings (Stay and Actually, I'm Dead) that also belong to people not related to this whole mess, I'll do all in my reach to get you banned for even touching one of my friends.

Comments

[Captain Lunar]

I don't know what to say given I don't know the specifics but... All I can do is leave you with these words of encouragement.

These are dark and desperate times. I know that some of you are afraid. It's alright. It's perfectly natural. But I want you to know that I am not. I am not afraid to die this day because what we do here is necessary. It may seem impossible, our enemies may appear to be endless, but that doesn't matter. Because there is no one else. Look at me. I believe in an idea, an idea that a single individual who has the right heart and the right mind that is consumed with a single purpose, that one man can win a war. Give that one man a group of soldiers with the same conviction, and you can change the world.

Captain America is not here to lead the country. I'm here to serve it. If I'm a captain, then I'm a soldier. Not of any military branch, but of the American people. Years ago, in simpler times, this suit and this shield were created as a symbol to help make America the land it's supposed to be... to help it realize its destiny. Ricocheting from super-villain duel to super-villain duel doesn't always serve that purpose. There's a difference between fighting against evil and fighting for the common good. I'm not always able to choose my battles... but effective immediately, I'm going to make an effort to choose the battles that matter. Battles against injustice, against cynicism, against intolerance. I will still serve with the Avengers. I will continue to defend this nation from any and all threats it may face. But as of today, I am not a "super hero." Now and forevermore, I am a man of the people. Together, you and I will identify and confront America's problems. Together, we will figure out what we are and what we can be. Together, we will define the American Dream and make it an American reality.

Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world — "No, you move."

[Mooncalf]

Well said.

I don't have anything meaningful to add beyond that, but I agree with this 100%.

[The Cynical Brony]

[Dr Yeis]

Er...well...ugh...darn it. I'm not good with these types of things.

[Diamond dust]

jealousy my friend
jealousy, from the ones who try so hard to write a displaced story (because it must b so hard) and get 40 downvotes,
while they see a fic they don't likes gettng a lot of likes.

But in all seriousness, well said, why carring for a little guy who want to waste his time downvoting every fic on sight ?
I mean if this one guy wants to waste it's time actually doing this.....damn his life must be sad, sad and boring

take some Pringles Wave, cool down and forget about...whatever happened

[Avenging-Hobbits]

What the fuck happened?

[Magenta Cat]

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Long story very short; typical social justice warrior's bullshit hitting one of my closest friends, hard, hurting him/her. When idealism is corrupted to an excuse for bullying and used against someone I actually know personally, all my berserk buttons got pressed with a sledgehammer and I just had to do something about it, even if it was just rant over it in my own blog.

What really upset me, beyond having this happening to a friend, is that using bullying to prove a point has become a perfectly acceptable move if it's used against someone with an unpopular point of view. All of that, amazingly, has become absurdly common today, and I'm not going to stay silent when the worst bullshit I've heard in my life hurts one of my friends.

That reminds me, guys, you are my friends too, and if something happens to any of you, anything, don't even doubt that I'll be right there to support and help you guys, even to the lengths of doing something amazingly stupid out of simply trying to help, so never hesitate to ask me for help if you need it, ever. There's a very short list of things I wouldn't do for a friend, all under the file of "physically impossible", for anything else, you can count on me.

And thanks for worrying, but sadly, I'm not the one who ended wounded here, but a friend of mine who is hurt enough to consider leaving the fandom for good. Even more sadly, I can't even mention his/her name to protect him/her.

[Dr Yeis]

3190452 It's okay, Wave. If you have anything that's bothering you, anything at all, just tell at least one of us. Even if we don't have all the answers like Mr. Bond, it doesn't hurt to tell us. We're your friends, Wave.

[Diamond dust]

3190452 i really hope the best for your friend, he or she shouldn't leave or stop sormthing they like just because of some semi-brained idiot who hink this is actually funny to make fun of other
popular or not, telling those peoples to fuck off is a good way to start, better stay who we are than change because of little bitch.
i know, i've been bullied too when i was younger, it was really a bother, i stayed myself, they moved on, the next year, one of them was seen as the biggest and dumbest guy of the school.

anyway, hope your friend will get better, no one deserves this