Celestia privatizes the sun.
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You are beautiful.
incredibly pertinant
Certainly worthy of a like, and certainly topical, as the gentleman below say. Actually reminds me of another case a few years ago. What was it again? Ah yes:
*In a dour voice* Royal Mail for sale. Queen's head privatized...
H E
I S
B A C K
All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and ponykind is at last compelled to face with sober senses its real conditions of life, and its relations with itself.
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HE IS RISEN
WTF?
Also
Anyone that care to explain what a Wittgenstein is? I only managed to find the philosopher, but that doesn't make that sentence less confusing.
...... You've been running lines of Scratch-n-sniff pony pictures, haven't you?
Do you mind if I make a Dramatic Reading of this?
7131323 It is a reference to the philosopher. Wittgenstein was a philosopher of language, but his examination of the relationship between thing, language, logic, truth and meaning can be terribly dense. In the story's context, I read it at least as suggesting that the subjects of the psychoanalyst think that they speak of the truth, with the same profundity and linguistic flexibility as an extraordinary (or .001) kind of Wittgenstein.
I could be wrong, however.
Wtf?
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It is a reference to the philosopher, as is the "world of facts" (which is independent from things, which are the actual brute reality of arranged atoms in absence of a mind to compile them into information).
Specifically, it means that Celestia believes the statement that she is going to privatize the sun, within .001 Wittgensteins. Whatever things might exist does not factor in to this evalutation.
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Do ast thou wilst.
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If we all pull together, there is nothing that cannot be sold.
Especially babies.
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Actually, I am completely sober these days.
This is me sober.
Well, clearly, since the free market is capable of solving every problem, it was actually regulation that was to blame for Equestria's demise.
For example, the tragedy of the sun becoming unprofitable wouldn't have happened if there hadn't been a rule against beaming advertisements directly into ponies' brains. I think we can all agree that that would have been a small sacrifice for poor ponies to make in order to keep all life from going extinct. Seriously, why the fuck were they so selfish that they'd choose to kill everything rather than becoming mind-controlled slaves of subliminal advertisements? Not that we're pointing hooves.
So yes. Regulations are the problem. And the poor.
The trouble with capitalists, as with all governments, is they won't leave you alone. If you have it, they'll poison it and make you buy theirs. If you won't buy their product, they'll pass a law requiring you too. If you live in a country George Soros is unhappy with, you might soon find his people flocking to power.
But the masses are pretty fine with being corralled so long as they're provided a way to have fun. In this case, the elites were not especially smart from the start. If Celestia has the power to own the sun, she has the power to reclaim it when it suits her. Even more so when she can say the words 'national security'.
Our sun has not yet been commercialized, so we still have a bit. I guess I'm in and out, too.
Some things don't die, just fade far into the background.
7135025 "This is me sober." gods all around this statement is terrifying.
It's good to have you back. :)
That last line made me laugh like a fool.
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Meh, no system of governance is ever perfect, but, hey! Least it's better than socialism.
You can has review!
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Fun fact: in my country's national history classes, students are taught that he is a non-insignificant factor in the Indonesian economic crisis of 1998. He's pretty much vilified as a villain in the few sentences dedicated to him, because he told the media that Indonesia is dying and potentially undergoing balkanization, which had everyone pulling capital out of the country.
In reality it was Soeharto's old wrinkly arse trying to squeeze a bit more funds from the national treasury into his family's pockets, and if it weren't for Soros's "predictions" the economy wouldn't've tanked as hard and the recovery would've been much smoother after the dictator was brought down. It was sheer luck that his replacement Habibie was a competent enough person that he managed to bring back most of the economy.