Iron Cross, steel magnate, found nationalized in his bed. Was 58 · 10:16pm Mar 2nd, 2021
“You can’t just take control of an entire segment of Equestria’s economy!” Twilight Sparkle protested. “Who said you could do that?”
“Nopony said I couldn’t do it,” Starlight Glimmer countered. “Besides, I did it humanely.”
Twilight stared at her. “What… what does that even mean? How do you humanely nationalize an entire industry?”
Starlight took a sip of her tea to buy time. It was jasmine, with a bit of willow bark to help ease the mild discomfort of all the bruises invisible beneath her coat. Her mind cycled back through the hours, remembering the dark climax of the previous night.
“Shhh, shhh…” Starlight held the pillow over Iron Cross’s muzzle. His struggles grew weaker and weaker with every passing moment. Finally, his hooves beat against her chest one last time, then fell limp to the covers binding him tight against the mattress. She pressed her ear against his chest, listening for a heartbeat. Tha-thump... Tha-thump… … … tha-thump… … … … Slower and slower it grew, until finally...
“Sleep,” Starlight whispered. “No more profits, only dreams now.”
“With the softest pillow I could find,” Starlight mumbled into her tea.
“What?”
“I said, with the power of Collective Syndicalism,” she said. “There were no significant objections.”
Jaxie did it so now I have to.
So what's this about G5 ponies? Crazy!
I know, right?
Human...
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And lol how I read Nationalized as "Died" until I read again, and yet was accurate the first time.
So... that's what nationalize really means. Did she have help nationalizing the Board and major shareholders, as well?
I mean, to really complete that goal she might have to corner the market on willow bark, and that would strike me as... distasteful to her.
"Oh hey! Well, that's another conglomerate nationalized!"
Never mind!
Jesus fucking Christ
why is everyone posting stories in their blogs now? <.<
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Equinely?
OK but see I actually support this. Maybe not executing every rich capitalist, but certainly putting them in reeducation camps and re-distributing their assets to people who actually need them.
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I dunno, but I’m kind of tempted. There aren’t enough ponies kicking people who deserve it.
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We're trying to encourage people to start reviewing blog posts.
5465304 So tempted... I can't even get my long-format stories all the way done.
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Your schemes will never work! Nyah-ah-ah!
... looks like Stalinism to me.
"Well," said the Master of the King's Revels "His Majesty Henry the Eighth wants a first-rate production for Twelfth Night this year. It's a special occasion. You see, we're nationalising the monasteries--but if they offer you one don't take it because if Bloody Mary gets in they'll privatise them again."
--Flanders (and sometimes Swann), "Greenfleeves"
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You’ve inspired me to publish what is likely to be a controversial blog post right before going to bed so I won’t get the fallout until the morning.
I’ll let you decide if that is bravery or cowardice. In the morning, or after work tomorrow.
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I said this in Wanderer's blog and I'll say it again: y'all really need to start reserving top comment so that we can upvote the blog post.
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I try to be a positive community influencer.
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I for one am enjoying the results of your japery
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... so this is it. This is where it all began.
Imagine what you could tell your three-days-ago self now—what horrors you could show them.
You maniac.
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I know. I checked on it this morning like "I wonder how AB's post is doing?"
Breeding monsters. Breeding monsters was the answer.
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I do know my power. Remember Twilight Eats a Peach? FimFic Authors are in your Bed? A 0-word breakup fic which inspired no less than Present Perfect to actually punch me?
This is ‘bigots crawl out of the shadows and paint themselves fluorescent yellow, the blog post,’ and I have zero regrets. Well, one regret, my Mom read some of the comments because I didn’t warn her not to in time.
Point is, anybody who needs to know who to avoid or who to whack upside the head with a Snap-On 1-1/4” wrench, they called themselves out. Repeatedly.
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Like, would you expect anything else when I put out bigot bait?
Besides learning a few new creative insults (’lick a belt sander’ was a good one; I also got to use tangentially ‘go f
k a flaming cactus’), I made some new trans friends, so that’s a win.
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To most everyone’s surprise, so am I. I’ve got the block function at my fingertips, the delete function for comments (or just nuke the whole blog post if I want), and I’ve legit made a new trans friend as a result of it and possibly lost a bigot follower. Not to mention people who needed the bigots to call themselves out, well, they did, and those people also have the block button.
Wins all around.
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On the other hand, I know of at least one transgender person who's permanently left the site and deleted all their stories because they couldn't tolerate the rhetoric allowed on display in that thread. I get where you're coming from with regard to exposing the bigots, but at some point I think it's much better to just block them from your own "forum," so to speak, once they make it clear what kind of people they are, before things just keep escalating for 3-4 days and over 1200 comments. The point was made by page 5 at the most, IMO. Now, it's all just profoundly sad and infectious to the community at large.