@TexasUberAlles  
Do you have to bring politics into everything?

@Crystal Neighybánya  
Both sides in the repulsive artificial duality that is American national politics seem hell-bent on trying to outdo each other in their rush to declare that we’ve always been at war with Eastasia.

@TexasUberAlles  
What is that supposed to mean?

@Crystal Neighybánya  
Kurt Vonnegut considered George Orwell one of his main inspirations  
Well, he’s qualified to run for President in 2016, then.

@Background Pony #79AF  
Why can’t she be inspired by elements of both? Besides, Kurt Vonnegut considered George Orwell one of his main inspirations.

@Evowizard25  
Oh yeah I forgot all about that.

Harrison Bergeron is the key inspiration to Starlight, not Animal Farm. And Harrison Bergeron isn’t about any variant on communism either. Even Stalinism didn’t “downgrade” people to conform to what the average citizen was supposed to be.

@Mrmildock  
Well the problem is that Twilight does possess incredible magical abilities, she has the problem of multi-specialization, meaning she spends more time trying to learn new spells and less on specializing on the ones she already has. Not to mention she’s not exactly the most competent mare in a fight, since her friends usually have to bail her out. As with the fight with Starlight, she kept closing her eyes and making grand gestures one can see a mile away.

@Tragiclady  
Though the Dazzlings are my favorite villains/characters, I do agree. For a unicorn, her magic seemed just as powerful if not superior to twilight’s. (At least I thought so)

I’m certainly not gonna say that Starlight did nothing wrong but, || dividing her into 100 pieces with a high frequency blade while screaming about THE EDGE || should be saved in case she turns evil again or does something equally nasty :3

@Background Pony #5017
 
That was exactly what made Starlight Glimmer my favorite villain. Her being seemingly the only other unicorn in existence gifted at magic helped a lot too.

@Background Pony #5459  
……Someone needs to draw that.

@Background Pony #85BA  
My point is that even if the writers didn’t make her an exact Stalin analogue, the writers were clearly referencing elements of Stalinism, Maoism and other totalitarian ideologies.

@Evowizard25  
That makes him closer to Donald Trump.

She is a cutie patootie, And she is my fourth favorite character in the series, so I guess why not.  
:/

@Background Pony #85BA  
The obsession with Equality (while simultaneously being led by an all powerful leader) was clearly supposed to be a jab at Stalinism, Maoism and other such mutated forms of Marxism. Hell, her enterplay card contains a reference to Animal Farm.

@Crystal Neighybánya  
Not even close.  
One of the key policies of Stalinism was deportations of “enemies”, which is nothing like what happened in Our Town.  
It’s just a generic cult, it has no traits specific to Stalinism

@Background Pony #5017  
Discord screwed with entire country for lols.

@Evowizard25  
Hmm… Oh I don’t know… Maybe fucking up the lives of all equestrians just to get back at a single pony has something to do with it… :P

@Crystal Neighybánya  
Meh, I hated Rainbow Dash when I first came into the fandom. I didn’t even start to like her and realize I was wrong till season 3. She’s certainly not my favorite, not even top ten, but I’ve come to appreciate her.

@Evowizard25  
I’ve written about the topic so much I’m not going to even bother aside from saying “to each his own.”

@Crystal Neighybánya  
Well I don’t see how she can be worst pony.

@Evowizard25  
Puh-lease.