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by Super Trampoline

Chapter 78: The Talk

One day, I was catching up on She-Ra and the Princesses of Power on Pony Netflix when I heard a knock on my door.

"Come in!" I shouted, and Discord and Twilight walked in. Well, Discord more floated in, but you know how it is with him.

"Hey Twily, hey Discord. What's up?" I asked, jovial and carefree.

Twilight answered. "Well, we've been talking, and we came to a bit of a startling conclusion."

"Well actually, you are both projected figments of my imagination modeled after characters in a children's TV show, so more likely, I myself came to a startling conclusion and y'all are just avatars for me to say this through.

Discord sighed. "Super, has anyone ever told you that your pedantic insistence on constantly acknowledging the metatextual narrative of your fanfics is really annoying?"

Twilight side eyed him. "I'm pretty sure you just misused half of those words."

"Whatever," Discord said. "Moving on, Twilight and I feel that we have largely been replaced by Starlight Glimmer and Pinkie Pie in your stories."

Super considered this for a moment. And then decided it was probably true. "You know, I'm not going to try to debate you, because you're probably right." He took a moment to check when he had written stories with Discord tagged as a main character. There were two from the past five years and six from 2013-2015.

"You know, I'll be honest, Discord," Super explained, "you're a real pain in the rear to write, because you're constantly doing random stuff. And you don't show up in this particular story that often because I'm not dating you, because I'm just not that interested in cisgendered men, stallions, male draconequii or however you pluralize it, etc."

"I see how it is. I'm not sexy enough for you."

"This is a rated everyone story. Is he allowed to say 'sexy'?" Twilight asked.

"Probably not," I replied, "but also I don't think any masochists still reading this drivel particularly care. But anyway, yeah, Twilight, while you're who I initially really related to in the show many years ago, once Starlight--ostensibly a utilitarian--came around, I connected with her a lot more. And Pinkie Pie is both easier to write and less than a jerk than you, Discord. No offense."

"Some taken," he replied.

"But anyway, now that y'all, brought this up, even though again, I really brought it up for myself after reading Alara's excellent story

EWhat About Twilight?

• MLP: FiM
• Slice of Life

Endcap to "What About Discord?" Twilight confronts Discord as to his true motives for getting her friends to exclude her.

• Twilight
• Discord

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since you aren't real, I will try to include y'all in this story a little more often, and also try to write Twilight a bit less grumpily. Fair enough?"

"Yeah, I guess?" Twilight responded.

"We lit, fam," Discord replied.

"Gucci," I said. "So, with that out of the way, are you too ever going to ?"

"WHAT?!" they both yelled.

I chuckled. "Yes, TempestLight is in vogue ever since the movie came out, but DiscoLight is still my OG Twilight ship. Don't think I've forgotten."

Twilight rolled her eyes. "Please, Super, I'm begging you to stop inviting me into these awful chapters."

"Yeah, I would never date Twilight," Discord added. "She has cooties!"

They turned to leave together, bickering.

"That's why you wouldn't date me?"

"Well, would you rather I not date you for other reasons?"

"I dunno, maybe?!"

"Well, what reasons would you rather? I'm curious."

"Oh my, where to begin?"

As they wandered off, I smiled.

Author's Note:

God bless Lopoddity for drawing the best DiscoLight pictures.

Comments

[NecromanCREEEEEE]

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... Libertarians and socialists literally cannot be in the same boat... Libertarians are against big gov, while socialists are entirely for it. You really can't get more opposing view points if you tried...

Plus, libertarian is closer to right ideals than left... at least at this point in time. You sir are very, very confused.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/libertarianism?s=t

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/socialism?s=t

By definition, libertarianism wants to limit government involvement, which would include taxing, healthcare, industry, etc. Socialism is the exact opposite, it wants everything to be shared(which in general is done through the government), which is usually done by force since not everybody wants to share. For good reason in my mind at least.

[Super Trampoline]

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Libertarian socialists are very much a thing, as are AnarchoCommunists (AnComs). Socialism isn’t just “when the government does stuff”. It’s when workers own the means of production, which can take place under a variety of government types and sizes.

[NecromanCREEEEEE]

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Okay, but then there's the broader libertarian philosophy which I adhere too, and is probably the most true to the spirit of the idea. personal responsibility. A worker can own the means of production, they just need to go through the trouble of making their own production.

All of these things remove autonomy and, are in all actuality, a form of government in of themselves. A group of people in some form of hierarchy, because that's just how systems tend to work, debating on how to best distribute work, funds, etc etc. It's in the name as to why socialism cannot be married to libertarianism. SOCIAL is for the good of the group, which will ultimately sacrifice your liberties. I forget which philosopher it was, but it's the 'social contract' I think. In order to gain the safety of a group/government, you must give up certain personal liberties.

Libertarianism is based on personal liberties, and as soon as you start to focus on social, you lose the personal. You can't have both. You can't be personal while working for the good of the group.

Example: you and your group are climbing the mountain, strapped together for 'safety'. You slip and begin falling but are cought by the group. The group will now debate whether it's safer for them to risk saving you in the long run, or if cutting you off will ultimately be better for the group.

Now, libertarianism is this: You and your group are climbing a mountain, but you aren't tied together, or rather you choose who you're tied too. If someone falls, it doesn't effect you unless it's the person/people you've tied to yourself. You've tied yourself to that person for a reason, so you'll pull them back up or at least try your hardest, but the relationship is mutual. If you fall, they'll pull you back up.

They're two totally different philosophies, one is 'the good of the group' the other is 'the good of me and my own'

The two are incompatible, and trying to meld them together gives you the same bad results as our hellscape of a medical system in the USA right now.

But you know what, those are just my opinions. Feel free to respond and refute my points, I'll read them but I think I'll stop replying here. This is magical pony land! We really shouldn't be talking politics here.

[Phantom Night]

Well, he definitely is not a Mary Sue.
He is definitely a Gary Sue.