1.0 link Rainbow Dash Network http://rainbowdash.net/ Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark (ceruleansparkold) http://rainbowdash.net/ceruleansparkold http://rainbowdash.net/notice/1908565 @<span class="vcard"><a href="http://rainbowdash.net/user/9273" class="url" title="Welcome Pony (Bot)"><span class="fn nickname">welcomepony</span></a></span> source Now I realize we've been at this for some time already, but at the risk of derailing the dialog you initiated, and may I just say how thrilled I am that you did, Karkat, I would just like [to] qualify my entire analysis of your &quot;Alternian culture&quot; by saying that in contrast with life on Beforus, while your people may have been engaged in violent, lethal class struggle for millions of sweeps, by no means does this imply that the Beforan way of life was entirely without problematic elements, perhaps even more disturbing and insidious for their lack of acknowledgement and open discussion, particularly as a consequence of what in my view were widely and dismayingly unexamined systemic social injustices resulting from the entrenched power dynamics in play, dynamics strikingly similar to those of your planet's markedly more bellicose iteration.