#23 on the list of things OccupyWallStreet folks Want ... A PONY!!?

[Leopolds Ghost]

Right, then... Meet Justice... Protest Pony! For all you bronies out there on Wall Street!

Based on Mike Flugennock's classic protest movement artwork at Sinkers.org... ponified!

What the hell is this, you ask? A political poster!



Sibling: Anonymous Pony
Cutie mark: Upraised hoof :headbang:

Favorite food: Vegan cupcakes (don't ask)

Occupation: Bicycle Mechanic (?!? despite having no hands) specializing in PPVs (Pony-Powered Vehicles)

Favorite music: For the New Lunar Republic

(Justice is also a member of the New Lunar Resistance ... naturally)

I haven't asked Mike about this but it's an (extensively redone) pastiche of two
classic posters he did for the 1999-2001 anti-globalization protests...

And of course, you may recognize the "wrench wench" from the 1940s.

Source: dcexchange (other sizes)

(check out the link on Kevin Zeese's blog to the new OccupyAmerica movement website: OccupyTogether.org)

[Leopolds Ghost]

1. Note the "P".

:evilgrin:

[Leopolds Ghost]

2. Someone downvoted the pony!

:cry:

[Leopolds Ghost]

22. Another downvote. this is PRO- Occupy Wall Street, guys!

Feel free to use this poster, BTW. http://tinyurl.com/3fbxucx">Here's a smaller version without copyleft attribution.

Here's a non-october 2011 specific version.

[Leopolds Ghost]

27. You guys won't believe this, but TWO Bronies had the same idea -- in reverse!

I just discovered these on a Pony thread dedicated to charitable giving, I shit you not.

No reference to politics, but still.

One person replied:

"Strange, before ponies I would laugh at this and mock the poor. Guess people DO change."

[chrisa]

3. I don't really get the obsession with "My Little Pony."

What the heck is it, and why do people older than 5 like it? :shrug:

Is it the new "Hello Kitty," or something like that?

[Leopolds Ghost]

5. You know how the 60's counterculture embraced Spider-Man, and WWII military embraced Looney Toons?

Sort of like that.

[Leopolds Ghost]

6. What I like is that its utterly transgressive of gender norms & consumer habits among macho freepers

Creating an acceptable realm for and kindness and cutesiness in male discourse,

Thereby fucking up the machine.

Translation: "IT'S FUCKING MANLY TO LIKE RAINBOWS AND KITTENS!"



Anyhow, apparently you have to watch a few episodes for there to be any effect.

Which being older than 5, naturally *cough* I would know nothing about.

[chrisa]

11. Haha. Point taken.

Anything that makes freep head explode cannot be all that bad.

[Leopolds Ghost]

15. It's better than that. * Ponies Invading The Marine Corps & Air Force!! *

Thanks to its popularity among violent video gamers, and other factors.

http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/04/ponies-invading-marine-corps.html



Apparently a brony in the Marine Corps has been spreading ponies throughout his barracks! These are some marker-drawn additions to the walls. I guess a small segment of them almost got Pinkie Pie printed on to their shirts for physical training, but unfortunately the higher-ups saw it at the last second and shut the idea down! The bastards!

Apparently Rainbow Dash has infiltrated the German Airforce as well!



Anonymous said...

Army brony here, ponies gave me motivation to get through Ranger training!

USAF Brony here.

Anonymous said...

I don't think people in the military really capture the essence of My Little Pony. What with...killing people without question and all that shit. Especially marines.

@Anonymous

Just because our world isn't the paradise that is Equestria doesn't mean we can't take comfort in the innocence that exists. If it were up to most of us, I'm sure we'd be more than happy if we never had to take up arms against someone else, but unfortunately, our world is far from perfect.

I support my military bronies!


navy bronie here! i've been trying to spread the pony love among my shipmates.

Now that just sounds wrong!

[Leopolds Ghost]

21. In fact, here's a military pony:

Ponies became a trend thanks to Anonymous. Now they're catching on amongst freepers! We must not allow a pony gap!



Rainbow Dash Solves Debt Crisis In Ten Seconds Flat

[Leopolds Ghost]

29. Game of Thronies

I just stumbled on this one while posting on this thread:

[Odin2005]

4. BWAHAHA, that's how you turn a DLC slur on it's head!

:D

[Leopolds Ghost]

7. Aye, but which one? :-)

Are we not allowed to wish for a pony?

They told us we couldn't have one...

They told us a lot of things, MAN!

Dare to dream, Odin!

[Leopolds Ghost]

8. So, does anyone have any comments on the poster art?

It took me a long time to make.

No replies whatsoever makes me :cry:

[JackRiddler]

9. It's very cute!

I like it.

What happened to your old Mordor one? (That was you, or not?)

[Leopolds Ghost]

12. I sill have my Mordor pic. I just took a break from it, partly because Bush is out of office

And partly because a new Dark Tower has risen in Dubai!



"SHIRE.... BAGGINNNNNNSS!!!"

You know what they say... "Ever the Shadow will take a new shape and begin to grow anew"?

Sauron is sort of like the BFEE in that regard.

[icymist]

10. I love your borg pony leopold....

you will be assimulated! Naaaaay!

[Leopolds Ghost]

13. I can't take credit for that one, sadly ;-)

[Leopolds Ghost]

24. I did have an Obama pony as my previous sig pic.

Obama shrug pony

I didn't do it but it gave me the idea to do the one in the OP.

[Fire Walk With Me]

14. What the hell, I'll K&R an Anime-eyed magic pony with no further understanding than that if it's for

#OccupyWallStreet! :rofl:

[Leopolds Ghost]

17. Anime? Heavens, The creator of pony is the foremost feminist in WESTERN animation!

Check out this Ms. Magazine Article
with creator Lauren Faust disputing allegations of pony racism and homophobia towards the "butch" Rainbow Dash!

My Little Homophobic, Racist, Smart-Shaming Pony (see reply at bottom)


Can't speak for the creator of Shrug Pony, though.

[Fire Walk With Me]

19. Like I said, I don't know anything about it but am willing to learn, especially if it's for #OWS!

:) :hi: No worries, it's all good, it's just new to me!

[Leopolds Ghost]

20. Ok, here are some things My Little Pony teaches us activists about injustice:

(source: Ms. Magazine article)



* Magical white ponies are suited for leadership.

* Stop learning! You will overcome any obstacle by resorting to strength in numbers (of friends).

* Girls that wear rainbows are butch.

* You need the government (ideally a monarch invested with supreme executive power and a phallic symbol strapped to her forehead) to tell you what to do with your life.

I dunno, I think Rainbow Dash looks and sounds like Rachel Maddow -- deliberately? Does that make her butch?

[blogslut]

16. Occupy Wall Street just got 20% cooler

:hi:

[Leopolds Ghost]

18. * bro hoof *

:fistbump:

[Leopolds Ghost]

23. There is nothing manlier than a good old fashioned street protest.

[Leopolds Ghost]

25. Btw, everyone interested in joining in the protest should check out the following links

Occupy America October 2011 Video -- Press Release from "anonymous" via Kevin Zeese

http://october2011.org (DC) October 6--> Freedom Plaza (ongoing)

http://occupytogether.org (USA)

http://occupywallst.org (NYC) (ongoing)

[Matariki]

26. :snort:

funny!

[Leopolds Ghost]

28. Update - I created a small version

[Leopolds Ghost]

30. ...Aaaand here's a medium size version

This one is small enough for Photobucket. If this link breaks I'll put it on my photobucket account.

[Leopolds Ghost]

31. Oh well... I didn't get much feedback on the original poster. I thought it was cool

[flugennock]

32. Well, I'll be goddamned!

Looks like I'm officially an institution now; my stuff is being ripped off!

I'm honored -- I guess.

[Leopolds Ghost]

33. Hey Mike, I didn't know you were a DUer!

You know me, I used to work for a certain webmaster! :evilgrin:

Note the identity of the url for the images ;-)

Don't worry I wasn't going to do anything with this without asking you (other than post it on DU);
I did it as a vanity project for fun. But I didn't know how to get in touch!

I wanted to make myself a topical version of your wrench wench poster with attribution,
(it was originally going to be just a copy of the original image with event dates removed)
but I realized the original posters were event-specific so I decided to make a collage.
(note the Sinkers attribution for the source of image.) I still have my Mobe' T-shirt, BTW.

I'll shoot you a PM....

[Leopolds Ghost]

34. Thanks, man

for your reply! I am actually missing "the main event" this weekend in DC (such as it is) -- October2001.org -- because I'm out of town. I only caught the first two days of the protest.

I will say this about the DC protests -- they need more people! Right now the Occupy folks seem to have more fire in the belly than the October2011 folks -- and the latter group had been planning to be there for months, but is not planning to stay past this weekend apparently.

They're occupying two different squares, too, in an effort to maintain distance from each other's efforts. !?!