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Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


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Since the premiere of Detective Pikachu's trailer there are many questions about how pokemon would exist in the real world

If Pokemon existed in the real world, would they have inalienable universal rights or be exploited by a capitalist system?

Examples:
Machokes are used for manual labor, such as Furniture moving services but did they consent to this? Is this indentured servitude?

Combat veteran War Criminal Lieutenant Surge and his electric type pokemon were used in warfare. Are pokemon expendable killing machines to secure a military objective? How would Afghanistan look today if Pokemon were deployed as combat ready troops? Would we have to respect the fallen?

When Hillary Clinton told people to Pokemon Go to the Polls, did she not know that pokemon are not a monolith?? Their political alignments should not be appropriated by a single major party imo

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Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


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*blows on bubble pipe* the dichotomy of pokemon red and pokemon blue clearly reflect the political alignment of the United States

pokemon yellow is clearly a result of the bipartisan marketplace of ideas

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


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Wall Street bankers exploitative use of Meowth to hoover up any funds they can find

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


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https://twitter.com/siewann140/status/1058975313378476032

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


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ShriekingMarxist posted:

wait wait wait wait wait

before we get too deep into this

are we talking about a world where pokemon suddenly appear

or are talking about a world where humans civilization developed with pokemon

this is very important as it'll determine where i anchor the crux of my speculations

pokemon already mirrors the real world in the games, the technological levels are similar and it functions as a capitalist democracy (or does it?), there are goods and services exchanges for money, infrastructure such as trains and modern housing etc. so there's no need to trend it as human civilization developing with pokemon, otherwise it would have looked very different

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


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how would you deal with pollution when you have pokemon like muk or grimer, as the pokedex entry states "Its purple sludge body contains a variety of pungent bacteria, which are so potent that it renders soil barren and incapable of supporting plant life"

would they be disposed of as an environmental hazard?

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Sep 7, 1997


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Gum posted:

You trap animals as big as buildings in objects the size of a tennis ball and then upload them to the cloud

Have you seen how antiquated Bill's PC looks with a CRT? It's got quantum computing, deceptively


Obviously these devices are mass incarceration funded by Big Silph

follow the money

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Sep 7, 1997


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Moridin920 posted:

Healthcare is free and there are no homeless people

in pokemon world the healthcare is only restricted to pokemon, there no human hospitals also this is about if pokemon were in OUR world too

would there have to be pokemon vets to treat pokemon? imagine the bills in the US

imagine people abandoning pokemon and there have to be rescue shelters for pokemons across the US under capitalism

California bans Ponytas and Rapidashes among other Fire Pokemon under an "exotic animals ban" that is dogwhistled for anti-fire pokemon advocates

Lastgirl has issued a correction as of 06:50 on Nov 13, 2018

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


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the FAA outlaws flying pokemon without a federal registry much like drones

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Sep 7, 1997


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Shear Modulus posted:

president trump i urge you to call detective pikachu, ace detective, to crack the case and get the evidence you need to LOCK HER UP!!!

Ayn Randi posted:

special counsel pikachu. MISMAGIUS HUNT!

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


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ekans is appropriated for the gadsden flag

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Sep 7, 1997


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Missingnoleader posted:

Pay Day also inflates the economy so hard.

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


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what Pokemon would the fascist police use to disperse the riff-raff from gathering to protest the inequality and injustice of capitalism?

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Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


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Joe Rogan podcasting about Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee in the MMA ring fer dosh :homebrew:

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