(I didn’t, largely since I’ve never watched a single episode, but the psychic damage and whiplash of Wholesome Pony Show having said this line was too fuckn much for me)
EDIT: More replies than upbears now. It’s probably an official struggle session now (although most of it is that one person). One must imagine SisyFEWs happy.
No, it’s literally just a call to stop the active conflict. That happens by letting the settlers keep all the land but giving the buffalo a stipend of food. Like it’s so absurdly egregious that there’s no soft reading of it in context.
It also establishes the situation with the land use as a dichotomy between the settlers making productive use of the land vs the buffalo just leaving it barren and stomping around in it for fun. It does basically everything wrong, right up to its conclusion being that the buffalo stop resisting and just accept that the land isn’t theirs anymore, but they get a little bit of food thanks to the “productive” use of their land by settlers. It is basically a manifest destiny storybook narrative.
Ok, yeah, that sounds pretty bad.
Uncritical support to the landless peasant buffalo in their struggle against Twilight Sparkkkle and her fellow pony settler-colonialists.
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lmao that’s so bad wtf, they’re putting this shit in cartoons? Western kids never had a chance