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| Gabe #645625 8 months ago |
God damn, you people really know how to kill a mans dreams. |
| Anonymous #645634 8 months ago |
Serves 'em right for what they do to the poor sheeps and their lack of democracy.
You know that's what the U.S. Ministry of Defence would say when their prospectors would find shitloads of precious gems in Equestrian soil. |
| Iona #645635 8 months ago |
I'd happily hit any person who ever did this. And save the pony. |
| JP #645649 8 months ago |
Lets just hope then that humans and ponies will never meet. |
| MisterSeven #645670 8 months ago |
#JP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wFSX7hH3Io&feature=related 1. We have preliminary knowledge of them, making negotiations simple. 2. They have silent allies (i.e. ourselves) Who would cause an uprising in the event of enslavement. 3. It doesn't seem likely to happen anyway. /over-analysis |
| DJGoldNF #645671 8 months ago |
^else we must care for them like we do for humans ... not like dogs or other animals :S cus tht won't be friendship :S |
| DJGoldNF #645673 8 months ago |
FFF i mean to JP |
| Iona #645678 8 months ago |
Not to mention, they're sentient. They can speak, reason, think. |
| Anonymous #645705 8 months ago |
We should leave negotiations to China and North Korea. They have a more similar governing, their culture is more familiar to the concept of immortal God emperor and they don't really give a shit about democratic values.
inb4: Equestria has cheap plutonium and we are fucked. |
| Anonymous #645706 8 months ago |
^That hadn't stop people from turning others into slaves. |
| gashunk #645732 8 months ago |
Also there's the whole unicorn\alicorn thing. It'd be hard to catch something that could potentially drop a mountain on you. Not impossible, but pretty hard. |
| zanzibar #645747 8 months ago |
Actually, I think THEY would probably enslave US...
They have living, physical gods capable of moving the sun and the moon... Besides, we'd probably make funny pets, expecially our 'foals'... |
| Iona #645751 8 months ago |
Foals > human babies, any day. Sorry, but I can't stand babies. |
| Anonymous #645760 8 months ago |
nope.avi |
| Anonymous #645866 8 months ago |
^Iona
It depends. If you are a parent they are a royal pain in the ass. If you are an uncle/aunt visiting nephiews and moreso nieces make you d'awww and smile like a fag. |
| Sn1perandr3w #645894 8 months ago |
*pulls out steyre aug assault rifle* STEP THE FUCK AWAY FROM THE PONY AND LET IT GO! |
| Kooner #645908 8 months ago |
I would treat them with respect and love.
And not like this , they are not pets =/ |
| YenaMuffin #646727 8 months ago |
"Your name is Toby!"
Seriously though, considering how inhumanely man treats his fellow man, is it any stretch of the imagination that humans would attempt to enslave an intelligent race of equines, using the fact that they are not human to support said slavery? This is a sad picture- and the fact that it says "Page 1" in the corner makes me suspect that it is going to get even bleaker. |
| Glord #647349 8 months ago |
Time to commit genocide of the human race it seems.
Let's do this. |
| Anonymous #647875 8 months ago |
Perhaps its overloading the headcanon here, but the existence of magic could be proved by unicorns without any further prodding, and this would allow humans to regain the forgotten arts of the arcane
After that, we're one magi moment and one instance of mage synthesis away from complete diaster O-O |
| Anonymous #647878 8 months ago |
Also, props to whoever knows half the reference. |
| CaravanPalace #699835 8 months ago |
Why this would happen, tl;dr: ponies as pets.
1. We have preliminary knowledge of them, allowing us to more easily manipulate, deceive, and enslave. and they have no such knowledge about us leaving them at a disadvantage. 2. They have essentially no human allies because the majority of people would see ponies as not human and therefore exempt from human values such as freedom. most would view such enslavement as correct, perhaps even benefiting those we dominate. You don't see anyone crying out to free our cats and dogs, and while MLP ponies are sentient, it also changes nothing because we've been enslaving our own kind for thousands of years, ponies wouldn't even register on our moral scale. 3. We take from everyone and everything we can based on proximity and military might. They have alicorns & dragons, we have nukes, they have unicorns, us firearms, they have a disproportional ratio of females to males, we breed like rabbits. We outgun them, we outnumber them, we outlast them, and we're more technologically developed. We'd sweep over equestria like a wave of death, segregating and cutting it into pieces for colonial interests like we did in africa. We'd sell what remained of ponykind as expensive novelty pets that can follow instructions, to the wealthy. forced breeding camps would become common to maintain pony numbers just enough for there to still be a market, and equestria would be no more. |
| Anonymous #699840 8 months ago |
^ But you forget Magic must defeat Magic Jackie. |
| Anonymous #699842 8 months ago |
#699835
Or we could be friends. :3 |
| Drasvin #700143 8 months ago |
@CaravanPalace:
1: Who's to say that they don't have preliminary knowledge of us? There have been many instances in the show, such as the foam finger, the Groucho glasses, and the skulls on the CMC talent show costume and Pipsqueak's eyepatch, that suggest some level of knowledge about humans. Maybe humans are (popular) mythological creatures in their world, like unicorns and dragons are in our world. 2: They would have some allies among the human populace. One group being the bronies. Another would be animal rights advocates. I doubt the Equestrians will let themselves be enslaved without a fight, so there would be war, and many could see that as cruelty against 'lesser' beings. I'm not saying that they would be enough to prevent the nations of the war from trying to forcefully exploit them, but it would be enough to cause tension on the homefront, especially if the sentiments spread to others. And enough tension on the homefront can cause a war effort to crumble. That's what happened to the USA during the Vietnam War. 3: Even if we were able to launch/drop nukes upon Equestria, I doubt we would. Nuclear weapons carry a heavy burden in their choice. They are weapons of such excessive destruction, that to use them carries the risk of causing the rest of the world, including your own populace, to recoil in horror. Also nukes are a horrible choice if you plan to colonize the area. We might have firearms, but the ponies(not just the unicorns) have magic. We have seen Twilight use some combat magic, namely a bubble shield. Given that it's magic, it's not too much of a stretch to imagine that such a shield would be able to resist most infantry firearms. Then you have the magic of the Pegasi, namely flight and weather manipulation. To learn how devastating weather can be to armies, one just has to look to the invasions of Russia by Napoleon and by the Axis Powers. Unless the first strike was against the weather factory in Cloudsdale, the Pegasi would be able to bury our troops and equipment in a blizzard. Or even worse(for the attackers) rotate between blizzards, thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, and other potentially destructive storms. The ponies control nature and the weather. While they generally keep to a seasonal schedule, they don't have to, provided they have the supplies to assemble the desired weather. Their armies can march in the sunshine, while ours suffer torrential storms. A disproportional ratio of females to males does not necessarily mean their birth rates are less then ours. They only would be if the ponies held strictly to monogamy like many humans do. If the ponies allow 'harems,' like many real life horses do, then they don't need as many males as females in order to have a high birth rate. Actually, in that situation, too many males could lower birth rates as the males have to spend time competing for mates, instead of getting on with the deed. Now I'm not saying that the ponies would have much hope to defeat the armies of the humans. Just that on Equestrian soil, we would be at a severe disadvantage against them. Warmages could use magic shields to protect their armies until they could get close enough to tear into our infantry and the weather teams would be able to wreak havoc on our machinery. Though due to the fact Equestria is a peaceful land, they probably don't have much in the way of standing military capacity. So they would have to first mobilize. Humanity's best chance to defeat the ponies would be surprise and blitzkrieg. If the ponies are allowed to get themselves together, then it'll turn into a bloody grind, as ponies have numerous advantages on Equestria (namely that they will know the terrain better than us and they have the weather factory) The ponies best chance would be to stall the human armies until the tension on the home front builds enough that the human war effort becomes untenable. And if we did defeat and enslave the ponies, the humanitarian groups (and the bronies that feel sickened over how the ponies are being treated) would raise a fuss. It would take a while, but I'm certain the ponies would eventually gain liberty, given that they are sapient creatures capable of building a civilization. All it would take to really kick off the movement of pony civil rights would be for someone to draw attention to the issue. Maybe with a book or a movie that puts us humans in the ponies' place. |
| CaravanPalace #700612 8 months ago |
good answer, very good answer! there are a couple of flaws in the argument, but overall it would bring nothing to the table for me to mention them. good counter-argument :) |
| ChickNeighney #700629 8 months ago |
Would we really classify them as animals? I mean, really? Come on, now. That's just insane. |
| Anonymous #700682 8 months ago |
4 legged beasts. They're pretty much animals. |
| ChickNeighney #700708 8 months ago |
Yes, but they think, talk, and feel like humans. I don't much see any reason why to classify them as "animals." If they actually did... happen? I can see it causing major confusion and such, because, you know, talking ponies, but I can't really imagine anyone trying to make them pets. That's kind of extreme. Like finding an alien race that speaks English then enslave them. It just wouldn't really work, I don't think.
Just a random thingin, we're just two legged beasts, so how does that work? |
| Drasvin #702279 8 months ago |
@ChickNeighney It's only partly that they're four legged. It's that they're non-human. I thought that humans would consider the ponies sapient and treat them as such, then I remembered that dolphins are sapient, just they have yet to build a civilization so Stone Age sapient, but we still subjugate them.
The fact they speak English(assuming that translation conventions are not being used in the show) probably wouldn't help too much. It would humanize them some, which would pave the way for some people pushing to get civil rights and such for the ponies, but I doubt them being able to speak human languages would prevent them from being enslaved/exploited in the first place. If you met a talking dog, would you honestly treat it any different than a regular dog? |
| Haemonculus_Gruemeneal #844438 6 months ago |
Replace "the planet" with "Equestria" and you have my thoughts on the matter. |
| thps48 #848043 6 months ago |
How well did the humans get on with the ponies in the original show? <_< |
| Bernoullis_Principle #982494 5 months ago |
This entire thread is over-thinking it. |