Who's the guy with Octavia?

I figure her less feminine color scheme, awesome hat, and down home country values give her an appeal to a rugged manly man like Glenn Beck. Note how the other guy has Octavia who's just black and grey.

There is something promising here. Most will recall my journey away from Libertarianism coincided with my growing love for MLP. Both Glenn Beck and I first embraced Applejack. I forced myself to watch some episodes out of morbid curiosity, and the character that kept me coming back was her. I eventually warmed up to the rest of the characters, and maybe Glenn Beck will give the show a shot as well. After all I'm sure he wants big balls too.

Abandoning libertarianism for MLP is really kind of a lateral move.

I don't see him abandoning libertarianism, and I'm still not convinced either he, or you, were ever a libertarian to begin with. (didn't you once tell me, back on poeNews, that you considered yourself a conservative rather than a libertarian?) I imagine it'd be hard to stay a Republican and social conservative after watching the show, and in that sense I'm looking forward to post-pony Beckster, but the show itself is very third-party friendly, being a mixture of libertarian, green, and shariah ideas.

I considered myself libertarian, though many doubted it. I was sorta a social liberal, supporting gay marriage legalization. My main hinderance was my belief in supply side economics.

As long as you're not Jeremiah Wright.

Oh yeah, he loves free speech so much that he sued (and lost) over a parody making fun of his double standards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck_v._Eiland-Hall

That being said, five stars for Glenn Beck doing something I don't completely hate. Never thought I'd see the day.

I still hated the his rant about diversity at the end.

First Mike Judge and now My Little Pony.

I smell plot

There's definitely a big fat plot front-and-center in this video.

Word. HA HA! I wonder if Shoebox knows what he just said.

I'm sure he knows. Shoebox is committed to the cause.

Quite aware. Don't really know what I was thinking and currently just feel really dirty.

If GOD IS DEAD is in comic sans I'd give him an indian burn myself.

I wouldn't risk the indian burn. Kid that edgy, he might put a curse on you and not even need DNA to do it.

Besides, the bajillion kids into Nietzsche might be outnumbered at the moment by the gazillion bronies, but they've got a far older and more deeply entrenched fandom behind them. Your best bet is probably to get the little dork into Pinkamena, and hope he snaps out of his Nietzsche phase.

If you think "a bajillion kids are into Nietzsche", you are not at all in touch with today's youth. It's a phase college psych 101 kids go through, the few kids smart enough to read philosophy without it being part of an assignment in middle or high school are not going to be the trendy "hey look I just discovered a new way of thinking" wannabe types, he'd probably be a thoughtful kid.

As a philosophy grad student, I can say that there are plenty of interesting people that are interested in Nietzsche. But, if you run into "that guy" and mention philosophy? Yeah, his favorite philosopher is Nietzsche and BY GOD is he going to tell you about his half-formed angry highschool know-it-all interpretation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

(Not poetv's that guy, that that guy is cool.)

Yeah, every highschool know-it-all I ran into as a kid was really, really into Nietzsche, and would eagerly chew your ear off about him. They were usually also into Marilyn Manson and cartoon shows where people got eaten alive.

But maybe you're right, Gmork. Maybe the youth of today have moved on. As an adult, I don't really have my finger on their pulse... but you seem to know a lot about children, so tell me, what ARE kids into these days? Wittgenstein and the Lindy Hop, I'll wager.

They're millennials - they're into themselves, mainly.

But then one minute passed and he began rambling about the evils of diversity like always.

If Jesus were alive today, he'd probably end up getting shot dead by one of his faithful.

The tan, the hairstyle, hair color, baby goatee, glasses and quirky old timey microphone just scream douchebag. He is really in love with himself. The camera slowly panning as he speaks just made me want to puke as he talks about Hasbro's disturbing new marketing hit.

He looks like he should be on the set of Sprockets.

Pretty much, this guy will try to grab any demographic he sees fit as long as he can stay "relevant"

I can only dream of this happening.