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It's cable. Discovery Family. No can do.

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That was only in Luna's manufactured dream world. IRL, so to speak, they are regular individual ponies.

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"Arguments from authority have no meaning." - Carl Sagan

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Princess Celestia will send Ham to the Moon for a thousand years. She's done it for others.

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To quote a bumper sticker I saw on an Abarth Spider at this weekend's Minneapolis pony convention "I'd rather be in Equestria."

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And we know that Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kid.

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OK, now this is on my mind even if this is an older post and no-one is likely to see this comment.

I've tried picturing it in my mind. I've tried sketches and diagrams. I even tried out some 3-d modelling software, but I just can't wrap my brain around it:

How do lesbian ponies scissor?

Yeah, yeah, I just took my pain meds and I'm a little whirly in the head.

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How did I miss this delightful article? Speaking of my little pony, here's a funny true story: A lady ordered a Moana cake from Dairy Queen for her little girl's birthday. The DQ manager thought she said Marijuana cake. So on the day of the birthday imagine Mom's surprise when she was handed a red and green cake with a huge marijuana leaf on it festooned with a My Little Pony smoking a doobie with bloodshot eyes. I'm still laughing.

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Whaaaat? Of course something was done about it! The victims and any family members who stood up for them were persecuted as liars, ostracized and threatened, while the perpetrators were shuffled around to fresh hunting grounds! ...At least, until the crimes were finally no longer deniable.

Sadly, I think the War Against Children will go the same way.

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Not reading the article; reading the URL was sufficient for the LOLs. :-)

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I thought Lyra and Bon Bon's coy flank-smackin' scene in "Slice of Life" was astonishingly courageous, and there was barely a peep. https://www.youtube.com/wat...

(For those who aren't rabid fans of the show: "Slice of Life" was a 100th-episode special that featured all the "background ponies" prominently for a change, and saluted a variety of fan-canonized concepts. The whole "Sweetie Drops" thing refers to how Bon Bon's toy figure was originally packaged under that name. "Sitting on benches" is a whole 'nother thing altogether.)

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... where "binary" is the hammer and every problem looks like a nail.

As a software engineer, I strenuously object to that analogy!

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My problem with all organized religions is that they rely on "revealed" truth. That in turns boils down to a person saying "God said..."

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I didn't realize both your kids are gay.

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It's not just the gay kids they're worried about. What about all the straight kids who watch these shows, then grow up to become liberals who accept LGBTQs as human beings? When they die they'll go to hell, because that's where liberals go (along with everyone else fundamentalists don't like). And it's all your fault, cartoons!

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I must admit, I got a chuckle when I Googled "gender fluid t-shirt" and they came up split into "men's" and women's" categories.

However, I recognized it as the cultural anomaly that it is, not as concrete evidence from god that fluid gender doesn't exist.

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