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I write pony words. Millions of them. Some people actually think they might be worth reading. I am very thankful for that. Also, I have a Patreon now?

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  • 5 weeks
    So I asked Gemini AI...

    To summarize the story TD the Alicorn Princess. The result I got was... interesting.

    1. Fimfiction story: This story involves Peter Westmoore, a responsible college student, who is transported to the magical land of Equis and transformed into an alicorn princess named TD. He faces challenges adapting to his new life and ruling his nation.

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  • 15 weeks
    So...

    As many of you well know, I'm a father of three. A four-year-old, a two-year-old, and a one-year-old. It's pretty great. Can be difficult, but overall a pretty big blessing. How my wife takes care of three kids five days a week is beyond me, as I have a hard time taking care of them two days a week when my wife goes off to work.

    So yeah...

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  • 26 weeks
    Editing help

    Yes, I'm calling out for editors again. I want to submit a story to the Cozy Glow contest, and I want to make sure that the story I just wrote for it is good, or "wow, that's a jumbled mess of ideas, far too mean, and the ending is terrible."

    Let me know if you'd like to help. Any extra eyes would be highly appreciated.

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  • 33 weeks
    I totally forgot

    To mark this as a "sequel" to the original story. So, if you're in the mood for more TD/Comet...

    https://www.fimfiction.net/story/515715/the-eventual-daughter-of-a-non-brony

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  • 41 weeks
    Bluey

    So I'm sure a lot of you have heard about the Aussie preschool show Bluey. It's a show largely aimed at small children that a lot of adults like, too. Even ones without kids. It's... ugh, I can't think of a good parallel for that kind of thing.

    :rainbowwild:

    So, is it actually that good? I've been watching it with my kids, so I should have a good idea.

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6th
2020

Redskins · 1:33am Jul 6th, 2020

So as anyone who follows football even casually knows, there's a bit of controversy regarding the name of the Washington Redskins with a lot of people saying it has racist connotations. This isn't helped by the arguably most hated owner in the league Dan Snyder saying he'd never change the name. Recently he lost I think about 3.5 billion dollars in sponsor money, and now he's changed his tune. They're "reviewing the name". I think it'll get changed. 3.5 billion dollars is a not insignificant amount of money, and we all know money talks. That amount of money speaks loudly.

I dunno. What do you guys think? This has been a controversy for years. This doesn't have anything to do with whether you follow football or not. Is it a racist name that should be changed, or are people making a mountain out of a molehill?

If they do change it, I'm behind the Babylon Bee's suggestion.

Either way, go Broncos!

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"Lizard People" is actually still pretty racist, though much subtler. The whole "politicians are secretly lizard people" thing has roots in antisemitism, meant to imply that the people in power or those "controlling" them (usually meaning Jewish people) are secretly not real humans.
Personally, I'm a fan of the suggestion of "Redtails", after the WWII Tuskegee Airmen.

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Interesting. Didn't know that. Satire article either way.

There's an easy fix to this. Just change their mascot to a peanut. The name will stay the same, but will no longer carry racist connotations. Of course, Planters might have something to say about that.

Georg #4 · Jul 6th, 2020 · · 14 ·

I am reminded of the Capitol Steps chestnut:

The Washington Bullets have decided to change their name, because the old name was associated with too much violence and death. From now on they will simply be known as The Bullets.

The cancel culture cretins who are driving this will never be able to be satisfied. There will be no time at which they will look out upon the country and not find a statue that should not be torn down, a sports team that doesn't need renamed, or anything else they wish to sacrifice upon the altar of destruction. The only reason they're hammering on the Redskins right now is they think they will win. I live in a state named after an indian tribe (oh, wait. Native American), in a county named after one, in a city named after one, with *three* sports teams named after one, and that's not counting the Kansas City Chiefs. These nitwits come around regular as clockwork every year with one hand clutching their heart and the other stuck out for cash. "We are so insulted! We will sue!" It's time to tell them to bugger off and go beg for money elsewhere.

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This is not a very good argument for anything, to be perfectly honest.

The R-word has only one dictionary definition, and that definition says it's a racist slur. They've even lost rights to the team name as a trademark because you can't trademark a racist slur. So no, I don't think the team name is appropriate at all. Kind of a no-brainer, really.

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It's long overdue. The Cleveland Indians are changing their name too, and I'm glad, as a Clevelander (who doesn't actually live in Cleveland and has zero interest in sports).

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These nitwits come around regular as clockwork every year with one hand clutching their heart and the other stuck out for cash. "We are so insulted! We will sue!" It's time to tell them to bugger off and go beg for money elsewhere.

Yep.

Also, things like this distract from real issues.

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Actually, I really like that idea for a team name.

I'm not really a sports guy, though.

Yes. It's a slur. But this is just one of many things which are problematic when it comes to this country's treatment of Native American tribes.

There is no redemption for The Original Sins that are used to justify the rewriting, elimination, and condemnation of history. Nothing good will come of acquiescing to a name change.

The best serious nickname suggestion i've heard is to keep the logo and change teh name to the Americans


Honestly I think It'd work.

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Eh, I think the name isn't terrible (not a good idea, but not disrespectful necessarily), but the mascot couldn't be more Redface if you tried. It's like somepony said, "gimme the most racist-looking Indi'n you got", and when they saw the result, they sent it back to the chef for more racism.

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We do have the Patriots already.

Although, we have the Redskins and the Chiefs, so...

Now that I think on it, if the Redskins name changes, they might go for the Chiefs next.

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The only reason they're hammering on the Redskins right now is they think they will win.

This simply isn't true. People have been "hammering" on them with increasing frequency for many years now, especially the local natives. Several years ago the team lost trademark for the name because it's a racist slur so the trademark office won't approve it anymore, and the NFL debated it internally at that time. It's now being discussed by a wider audience because of the recent killings and general awareness of racial issues, but that has nothing to do with why people oppose it.

To be honest, "the only reason they're trying to do something is that they think they can do it" doesn't even make sense. That isn't a reason to do a specific thing.

They could change their logo and mascot to a potato...

I think whether or not the name changes should be left to the team. If it gets their sponsors to pull out after years of standing behind them over similar controversy and for the team to tank then so be it. I would not want a fairweather friend.

Lastly, the issue is with Native Americans and redskin is typically a racial slur directed toward them. Four years ago a poll from NBC Sports found that about ninety percent of Native Americans stated that they do not find the name offensive (sorry, I could not find a more recent poll, Google keeps throwing up links to the history of the word redskin).

I, ultimately, have little stake in this (I don't follow sports much), but I hope this can reach a swift and peaceful resolution.

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These nitwits come around regular as clockwork every year with one hand clutching their heart and the other stuck out for cash. "We are so insulted! We will sue!" It's time to tell them to bugger off and go beg for money elsewhere.

This is also false. People aren't seeking cash settlements for use of the name, they just want them to stop using the name.

I like you, Georg, I really do. I just don't understand how you can openly lie like this and not be embarrassed by it. I agree with you that people are overreacting in many cases, and a lot of this is from unchecked emotion with good intentions and little self-control. Using falsehoods to encourage more anger toward people is not what we need right now.

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Also, things like this distract from real issues.

My earlier response to this exact quote:

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This is clearly an issue a lot of people care about, or it wouldn't be so hotly debated right now.

5302112 IF they do that, they'll have hard time, I think, given that "chiefs" is a pretty generic word, and is just basically a form of rank.

And I think whoever tries to change it will get just as much static from the folks in KC as the nimrods who are agitating to have the name of St. Louis changed because it's named after a French king who lived (and died!) nearly 900 years ago have been getting fron sensible St. Louisans!

So, can we agree that things are out of control now, or we need to wait to someone asks to change the name of the "snowflake weather" 'cause someone would be offended by it ?

I have c9me to say I give no fucks they will be the red skins forever changing it won't mean much I am fucking sick and tired of this home bullshit. Are there racist fuckers out there yes are they all white no. I don't give a shit what color your sk8n is or what your nationality or religion is. Nor do I care what sex or sexuality you are. You are a human I will treat you the same as I treat any person. So if y9u do some retarded shit I will tell you. You can call me.racist all you want if I call some African American an idiot but if some white.european says the.same thing I will call them on their shit to.


Sorry if this felt like a rant I have been screaming at my computer because I keep hearing all these idiots with single IQs talk and it gives me a headache.

On a side note I wonder how long it will be before they tear down a statue of MLK.

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I understand why people are resistant to changing the name, after all it's been their name for DECADES, but it doesn't change the fact that Redskins is a terrible name for a team.

Would we be having this discussion if the team name was the Washington Ni**ers?

Cuz that's basically what Redskins is to Native Americans, only it's been normalized so much people actually say it, as opposed to the N-Word.

In my opinion, they should work with local Native American groups to come up with a new Team name. It's the least they could do for using that name for so long. Who knows, maybe we'll get a team with a cool Native American name and motif, like the Washington Thunderbirds or something.

Anyway, that's just my piece.

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I heard the Lincoln memorial got vandalized. So yes, a statue of MLK wouldn't be safe either.

Georg #24 · Jul 6th, 2020 · · 7 ·

(From the Wiki) Snyder addressed an open letter to fans that was published in The Washington Post on October 9, 2013; in which he stated that the most important meaning of the name is the association that fans have to memories of their personal history with the team. Snyder also states that the name was chosen in 1933 to honor Native Americans in general and the coach and four players at that time who were Native American; and that in 1971 coach George Allen consulted with the Red Cloud Indian Fund on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation when designing the logo.

FYI: This is more or less the same process that nearly every team with Native American ties did when they where named, from professional leagues down to Little League, i.e. go to the local tribes and negotiate some sort of deal.

5302121 Only in rare occasions will these hustlers collect money from suing their designated targets directly. They collect their money by begging/fundraising from the 'usual suspects' in non-profit corporations, certain leftist causes, and a huge roster of wealthy leftists who wish to signal their virtues (and divert the alligators from attacking them). Their process includes smearing the targets as racists, which invokes the usual defensive urge that most people feel when being accused of being terrible people. "No, I'm not! How can I prove that?" Then using that as leverage, they attack donors, advertisers, fans, bondholders, and anybody else they can cover in smear.

It's called extortion.

To a defender, settling is tempting. Running a commercial team has a fairly narrow long-term profit margin in the best of cases, and the attackers are crapping all over your bottom line. Caving on a fairly minor issue like a name in order to keep from losing a few million dollars, heck yeah.

Of course, when you do cave, then comes the hand stuck out, because it would show 'good faith' if the team were to 'donate' a substantial chunk of change to the same people who just got done trying to put them out of business, and you know it would be a terrible thing if we were to have to do this again, right?

This happens just about every year to a high school or middle school in Kansas. Same stuff every time.

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I'm not so sure. Lincoln is a problematic figure for many, however far from the worst, and I don't think taking down his statue is a good idea. MLK was the voice of the oppressed, he fought for a better world. I do not believe a MLK statue will be torn down, it wouldn't make sense (unless a bunch of racists do it). The very biases of all of this is stop glorifying horrible people. It won't solve systemic issues, but it will hopefully break some of that American mythology and move people forward to help with reforming the big systemic issues. But judging from some of these comments... we have a long ways to go.

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Would make sense to a group that says they fight facism to deface the statue of one of the bigher responsibles for the defeat of nazism and facism ?

And, yet, they did it.

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If you mean Churchill, that is a complicated subject. Churchill was a conflicted man, and it's understandable why people have problems with him. He helped defeat the Nazis, true, but he wasn't exactly a bastion of equality. Not that he'd need to be, but there's a reason he was so widely rejected in the general election right after the war. FDR was very similar in some regards. FDR made some of the biggest reform in US history, got the country out of the Great Depression, helped the Allies win the war, and won the war of the Pacific. But he also rounded up all of the Japanese living in America, US citizens, and put them into camps. It is a dark stain on US history. Should FDR statues come down? I'm not sure, but I'd understand why people would want to take it down. I think it's important to recognize what both FDR and Churchill contributed, but we don't need to idolize them with statues.

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It must be nice, to judge someone that was in impossible situation, defending his country against a whole continent, with very limited resources, being pushed, in a daily basis, to make hard decisions that could save or destroy his country. And, now, decades after saving his country, he is "controversial". He is "not ant-facist enough", in the eyes of youg people that don't know the meaning of the word "sacrifice".

Members of the actual community have come out in the past and explicitly stated that they don't care about the name. They'd rather that the energy put towards stupid stuff like the name of a football team actually go towards fixing their communities and the reservations as a whole.

My two cents: Changing a name does nothing. That is armchair activism. It is an insignificant change that does nothing to actually fix the problems we acknowledge we have. I feel this way about removing monuments and statues as well. It is better to fix things that matter and have actual impact. Like for example our (I'm American) broken and jacked up prison system. We don't see that in daily life so it doesn't seem to matter. But by God that statue of that one guy who inherited a slave before freeing said slave and fighting a war to explicitly free all American Slaves must come down! Why? His facial hair and weeks long slave ownership from over 100 years ago offends me... Nah man. That's stupid. In case it was unclear, that was General Grant I was referencing.

A statue you don't like is an eyesore and nothing else. Folks are on their phones and hooked into technology so often these days, such things can easily and readily be ignored in favor of literally endless other options thanks to the internet. Smoke a joint and end up in one of those prisons though? Can't ignore that when you're in it. Otherwise? Our prison issues are almost entirely out of sight and subsequently out of mind. Changing the name of a sports team is just as ineffective and meaningless as tearing down the statues. Actually, it's less meaningful, more meaningless if you prefer. The Overwatch League got more viewers than the superbowl for two straight years. The statues were erected by folks who cared in places they cared about. As many people watch football to see the funny commercials and advertisements for Coca Cola as they do for the actual game. More depending on which study you read.

Nobody but actual members of the Native American community should give a single solitary crap about the Redskins. Actual members of the Native American Community have explicitly said they don't give a crap. I don't see why any of us should either.

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I think America at its best is the greatest country in human history, and it's at its best more often than people think. However, I haven't seen anyone who doesn't think our prison system is one of the worst in the developed world (would rather be in an American prison than a Russian prison) and needs major fixing. The first step is removing for-profit prisons. Prison should be about rehabilitation, not revenge and punishment. To a point, obviously. If you murder your family with an axe, yes, I want you in prison forever. For-profit prisons have no reason to want to rehabilitate. Every prisoner who leaves and doesn't come back is money out of your pocket. In any case, our system needs to work to cut down on recidivism, as well as not punish people once they're out. I know in some countries that when your time off served, that's it. You're a normal member of society again. You paid the fine. Here it's "you paid the fine, but you'll be paying interest forever." Prisoners who get college degrees in prison have an almost 0% recidivism rate. That's telling. Right now prisons are criminal colleges where you're paying for your mistake even once you've theoretically paid your debt to society. We need to give prisoners the tools to succeed when they get out, not leave them in a worse position than when they got in.

Well if they're renaming it now, they're just in time to name it after a soon to be staple of Washington wildlife, the Murder Hornets.

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There's a reason Churchill lost in a landslide right after the war, and it has little to do with "making hard choices." Churchill was very much pro Empire and colonization. Stalin helped defeat the Nazis too. In fact the USSR contributed more to defeating the axis than anyone else. Should we keep status of him around? See this is the problem with glorifying people versus knowing about them. And yes history will judge them and their actions.

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The Lincoln memorial paid for by freed slaves, symbolizing them being freed, specifically. If i remember right.

Ah the culture war, the new opium for the masses. Perfect for any politician who wants to get voters riled up to vote for them, but without actually changing anything that might upset their rich donators. Really, these types of things seem like a massive distraction compared to issues like endless wars, growing wealth disparity, the growing deficit, the shrinking middle class, the US's massive prison population, and so on and so forth. I can think of a hundred issues more important and worth our time than the name of a baseball team.

It's the name of a baseball team, it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. Change it to something less offensive so that we can move on and focus on things that actually affect our daily lives and the future of this country.

I can see the SJWs are out in force upvoting the hell out of patting themselves on the back that something "offensive" got changed.

This is modern activism in a nutshell.

Don't care about shit like China suppressing Hong Kong, having an actual holocaust against the local Muslim population, and many of the products a lot of people buy in the West are built using actual slavery.

A decades old name from a sports team getting renamed? Oh yeah, gotta stand up and applaud that.

For the "activist", it means they get to feel good about their politics without having done anything on their own with either their time or money.

For the corporation these "activists" champion most likely have much deeper and darker histories that they're trying to bury and are just doing this as a cheap ploy to win some free advertising during a depression.

But hey, keep patting yourself you're on the back that you're on a side in a cultural civil war that's so Progressive, that you need to give black people their "safe space" and bring back segregation so they can be with their own kind instead of mingling with whitey.

Ultimately it’s going to come down to money. Will the team lose more money in rebranding or from bad PR. My advice is go where the money is at.

I don’t really understand the problem with the name, sure it’s a slur but we have to ask in what context it is being used. Sports teams choose their names on a matter of pride, intimidation or local symbolism. I would think they chose the name Redskin due to it invoking the image of a Native American warrior so as to appear fierce and intimidating to opposing teams.

And besides what team would name themselves after something they think less of.

did you know they were the only NFL team that refused to sign black players into the 1960s? Only relented when President Kennedy threatened to block them from playing in their new stadium cuz it was on Federal land.

Lmao trash franchise. Worst stadium in North America. They did not deserve Joe Gibbs.

I still hate the C*wboys the most, but the Washington Slurs are definitely my #2 in the division lol. Giants games are like beating up your brother.

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that's the best name idea i've seen, fuck i hope they don't do that lol.

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Speaking of Stalin, there's a really interesting series named The Untold History of the United States I recommend everyone watch.

I saw part of it (still need to find time to watch the rest) and the relevant bit is that, as terrible to his own people as he was, historical evidence shows that Stalin wanted to keep the deals that were tentatively made with FDR, and that it was Truman and his backers throwing their weight around that made a mess of things.

It also wasn't dropping nukes on Japan that made them surrender. They saw those as not appreciably different from all the firebombing.

The day before the first bomb was dropped, Russia made a big push toward Japan and the Japanese decided that, with a massive force of people who had already executed their own emperor on their way, at least surrendering to the Americans may keep their semi-divine leader alive.

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I'll have to check that out. I knew some of what you mentioned. But with Japan surrendering, I thought it was more a matter of when, and dropping the two atomic bombs was the quickest way to end it. But that's really interesting. I'll check it out.

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Yeah. Martin Luther King is spinning so hard in his grave, I'm surprised he hasn't come out of the ground yet to call out these dumbasses. All that work he did. Gone, shoved into some manure field somewhere.

I think the Onion really nailed this subject in a single paragraph by demonstrating--in the most offensive and hilarious way possible--how the name "Redskins" would be completely unacceptable if it were a slur against almost any other ethnic group:

https://www.theonion.com/redskins-kike-owner-refuses-to-change-team-s-offensive-1819575738

And again, I'll warn you that the article uses profoundly offensive language to make its point.

What do I think?

I think Dan Snyder is a schmuck who should be tossed in the Potomac to wash out to sea.

I think the change has been a long time coming.

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Note: almost any other ethnic group, much to the chagrin of the Romani.

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