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krissiefox · 11 months

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Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog - Sonic is Running (Screenshots & Review)

Now it's time for some political satire, Sonic Style!

This episodes starts off with a bang as Momma Robotnik breaks into Robotnik’s fortress to visit her son. Sadly, she's missing her cool mustache again in this episode, but it is still always fun to hear Kathleen Barr doing her thing. :D

She tells Robotnik that a friend at the home was telling her about their own child, who was president of their schools gardening club. This made Momma realize that Robotnik had never been president of anything, so she's come to make sure he fixes that! After being bullied for a while, Robotnik eventually caves and decides he is going to run for president of Mobius.

He has Scratch and Grounder start putting up flyers all over Mobius, which is how Sonic and Tails find out what's going on. They treat it as a source of amusement at first, since they don't see him having any chance of being elected. After the flyers are hung up, Robotnik also recruits Wes Weasely as his campaign manager. Unsurprisingly, Robotnik’s approval rating is at rock bottom, and his opponent Henry Walrus is largely favored by everyone.

“Mah gawd! She’s going for the chokeslam!”

“Here’s Some News!” Collie Chang, the cool car reporter gal, is back to report on the presidential race in this episode.

In light of this fact, Robotnik decides to start using more manipulative tactics. Wes Weasly builds him a robot wife (creepy!) and a robot dog to improve his image, akin to that of a hetero-normative kitschy American "ideal" president in our own world's USA. I would think he would also use Scratch, Grounder and Coconuts to show that he has "lots of children" too, but he has decided to simply leave them in charge of manual labor activities for the campaign, figuring they'd just mess things up on camera, I guess.

Wes Weasely creates “Robo Wife” and “Robo Dog” to improve Robotnik’s image. Robo Wife is clearly sentient, so that’s pretty rapey!

“Robo Wife” (the poor gal never gets a proper name) does have a pretty fun design. I like her big goofy smile. She’s also voiced by Kathleen Barr! Thankfully, she’ll be free of this bullshit situation by the end of this episode.

On a less creepy note, we also learn that Robotnik has a pet snake in this episode! His name is “Spalding”. But Is he a captain?

“Robo Dog” was made with a literal heart of gold. He enjoys biting Robotnik on the foot!

Soon, Robotnik’s campaign gets even more sleazy when he films a TV campaign ad that is designed to mind control its viewers. This ad is probably the best of political satire in this whole episode, as it eerily mirrors the same creepy rhetoric that regressive conservative candidates are still using today in the year 202.

“"Haven't you ever wanted to return a simple time on Mobius? when we had simple virtues? and simple people? remember simple family values, like apple pie? and mom?

isn't it time we had a president who cares about apple pie, mom, and the Mobius flag?"

Damn. Not too far from the kind of creepy campaign ad you'd see from ted cruz or something....

When the ad first airs, Sonic is at Bert's Diner, where Bert and Roxy have made a special chili dog dish for Sonic. That's nice of them! Robotnik’s campaign ad comes up on the TVs inside the diner, and Sonic is having a laugh due to the obvious propaganda and the constant screw-ups in the ad. To Sonic's surprise though,everyone else in the diner immediately says they're going to vote for Robotnik! Sonic is confused but starts to notice the subliminal hypnotic effect in the ad, which doesn't affect him due to the fact that whatever gives Sonic his speed powers apparently also affects his perception of time around him. That's an interesting fact about Sonic that doesn't seem to have come up before!

As Sonic expresses his dislike of Robotnik, the brainwashed occupants of the diner threaten to violence him (again, a sadly accurate prediction of American politics in 2023). He heads outside and runs into Tails, who thankfully didn't get exposed to enough of the ad to get hypnotized himself. Sonic decides that A - he himself is now going to run for president as well and B - if Robotnik is using dirty tactics, he's going to start playing dirty too and gets right to engaging in all kinds of acts of sabotage, up to and including more of the vandalism that he said was "stupid and illegal" in the very previous episode. Hey, Sonic...?

In one scene, Robotnik is trying foods from different cultural stereotype characters. Sonic keeps sneaking in and replacing their foods with literal garbage, which Robotnik eats! It’s a pretty effective gross out scene and I almost feel bad for the guy.Robotnik eventually loses his temper and tells everyone their food resembles the contents of a dumpster, losing popularity.

A lot of the stuff he does is understandable, but one of the more surprising stunts he pulls is dressing up in a Marilyn Munroe-like disguise, and getting Robotnik interested in cheating on his Robo Wife! Sonic plants lipstick stains on Robotnik, which makes his robot wife very upset, of course. I feel bad for the gal but considering she was designed to be a sentient "love slave" (which is super rapey), at-least this helps her to lose interest in Robotnik and hopefully find a happier life for herself.

All of Sonic's sabotage efforts do a great job of getting Robotnik to look foolish over and over again, as well as lose his temper and lash out at everyone around him, even his own brainwashed supporters. Sonic eventually wins the election due to this, and since his goal was simply to sabotage Robotnik, he immediately resigns his presidency and hands the victory over to Henry Walrus. We never learn much about Henry, so all I can hope for is that he'll a do a good job! It's also interesting to see that's at-least suggested that Mobius has a singular world government as opposed to all the silly tribalistic divided governments of our own world.

Collie is a tall gal! Also, I notice that her tail seems to disappear and reappear throughout this episode...

In the Sonic Says segment, Sonic teaches Tails about the importance of dental care as the poor little fox has possibly gotten a cavity from not brushing enough. Considering I have to get a dental crown myself next week, the timing of this is one showing up in my cue was a a painful reminder of how stupid it is for me keep passing out on the couch at night instead of brushing my teeth and actually going to bed. Don't be lazy like me, kids.....brush yo damn teeth....

Overall, this episode is pretty alright. While it feels a bit all over the place and rushed at times, it's a fun theme and I especially like that Robotnik’s TV ad poked fun at the creepiness of republican campaign ads obsessing over "tradition" and superficial things like flag worship. It definitely also gets bonus points for featuring some of my favorite side characters like Momma Robotnik and Wes Weasely, as well. Only a few more episodes left to review!

Til next time folks, stay cool and be good people!!

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endusviolence · 5 months

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I do not like wishing death on people, but it would be a fascinating time to live through if both Trump and Biden made it through the primaries and then died within weeks of each other.

#Politics #US Politcs #Donald Trump #Joe Biden #Presidental Election #i can imagine it would be fucking chaos at that point #kamala would get sworn in so we still have an acting president at least #but the republican candidates besides trump aren't popular among MAGAs so who knows who'd end up getting picked #we have one or two dems besides Biden trying to run atm but they're both weak af so it'd be chaos finding someone who could pull it off #could be a good opportunity for a third party candidate to roll up and run a super strong campaign #this whole scenario would be total chaos and it would honestly terrify me

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briiiiiiiiiiittt22 · 11 months

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Not it’s been 4 years & we gotta vote for a president again lordddd I feel like we gonna be doomed there’s no way them folks letting Biden get and second term… omg

#presidental election

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amberspyglxss · 3 months

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Käytin tähän kaks minuuttia mut ottakaa tää nyt silti

#sattuu #suomi #suomitumppu #suomitumblr #presidentinvaalit #pekka haavisto #this is about the presidental election of Finland

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anastasiamaru · 1 month

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Elections at gunpoint

How the propaganda show "russian presidential elections" took place in the occupied territories

As reported by the National Resistance Center, for three days, russians stopped Ukrainians at checkpoints and demanded they "vote", all under the watchful eye of armed guards who indicated where to mark the ballot.

Occupiers also conducted raids on homes, trying to obtain information about local residents who ignored the "elections". russians attempted to enter houses multiple times if the doors were not opened to them.

The patrol groups consisted of two civilians and a military member. They primarily targeted those who had voted in the pseudo-referendum and "local elections".

Collaborators from the "election commissions" recorded who exactly voted and compiled a separate list of "disloyal residents" who avoided "voting".

This is an inaccurate translation; it cannot convey all the despair and anger in the words of a person who is under occupation. It's just an inaccurate conversation context:

Womаn:"Quietly, please...

Man:"What do you want ?"

Collaborators:"Hello"

Man:"Who even allowed you kurva to come here?What the fuckin voting?Who allowed you to come into the yard?"

Collaborators:"We saw in your car your"...

Man:"What? Your?Our?.Crimea is ours,damn it!Why did you come here?WHY DiD you come here?What?"

Collaborators:"Put a signature"(on the vote for the dictator putin)

Man:"What a fuckin signature?...You came to me with a fuckin ballot, damn it... If I don't want to vote, I won't go vote."

Collaborators:"Do you have a problem with it?(the dictator and the voting)

Man:"Im against that shit.I didn't invite you here. This is my yard, my home. And I absolutely don't need you here,you fuckin sluts.Do you understand?"

Collaborators:"The Signature"

Man:"Go fuck yourself.You with your fags"

"I must remind you that many people disappeared without a trace due to their resistance to the occupiers, many people were tortured. Many Ukrainians were shot."

Abroad,russians eagerly went to vote for the dictator putin.This is exactly how one can love russia - from far away abroad.

Caricature by Oleksij Kustovski

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violottie · 2 months

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...so.... in 2022, the usa's republican party have publicly published a 920 page manifesto which is one part of their plan of turning the usa into a fascist conservative Christian nationalist theocracy via trumps re-election called Project 2025 or Mandate For Leadership: The Conservative Promise.

if you have the stomach for it but especially if you dont, read it. you can find the doc with a 3 second google. heres a video briefly discussing it.

their plan includes:

enshrining the traditional heterosexual family as the only recognised kind of family unit

pushing Christian nationalism

the complete, and i mean complete, restriction of all reproductive and lgbt rights and criminalisation of those who break those restrictions

the mass deportation of immigrants

enacting the Comstock Act which criminalises the mailing and distribution of "obscene, lewd or lascivious material" which mainly is focusing on abortion medication and pornography

it goes on.

...this is NOT me saying you should vote for genocide joe at all. all im saying is, yall need to get serious about getting a better person, NOT JOE BIDEN, into office. you better pattern up. FAST.

#important #usa #united states #usa election #2024 presidental election #republicans #christian nationalism #american fascism #fascisim #us politics #lgbt #lgbt rights #women's rights #reproductive rights #human rights #project 2025

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drinksandrunks · 1 year

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Não é a minha primeira opção, preferiria Leo Péricles ou Sofia Manzano, mas é o candidato mais a esquerda no cenário atual no Brasil que tem o apoio das massas e poder suficiente pra impedir a extrema direita de se reeleger.

Fiquem ai com essa foto que podia ser uma capa do Arctic Monkeys.

#lula #pt #left #elections #brazil #brasil #13 #politics #forabolsonaro #petista #president #presidente #eleições brasileiras #smoke #cigar #socialism #social democracy #aestheitcs

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under-loch-n-key · 3 months

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To anyone who is able to vote this year, please listen!

I know I haven't been posting much art lately. Sorry about that. I have been having some burn out and my mental health has been shit.

Anyways, I figured I would post what's been on my mind today.

I know many of us who currently live or are born in The States/USA have felt pretty hopeless with everything going on in the country at the moment. Especially because of the whole Biden V Trump shit that has been going on for a long while.

We have felt like that no matter who we vote for it's honestly pointless because either Biden or Trump will win. Well, honestly I would HIGHLY recommend checking out Mrs. Marianne Williamson.

Marianne Williamson is the only person in the Democratic party who has been calling for a ceasefire over in Gaza since the very beginning.

She stated that if she becomes the president she is going to be negoiating with the Ukraine and going to try and do as much as she can to help.

She, if she becomes president, wants to establish a Department of Peace because she believes that we need to better target and discuss peace just as much as we do war.

She wants to fight climate change.

She wants to make healthcare and college universal and free.

She wants to help disabled communities.

She wants to give land back to Indigenous tribes.

She wants to create more gun safety laws.

She wants to make jobs and homes more accessable.

She wants to help protect reproductive rights.

She wants to target mental health and make it more accessable to the people.

She wants to put more POC, LGBTQIA+, and disabled people into our government to be certain that when they are discussing matters that personally target those communities, people who represent those communities can speak their minds on it.

She wants to provide funding over the span of two decades to the black communities for the years of slavery that our country has put them through.

She wants to target poverty and the economy as a whole.

And lots more.

If you'd like to read up on her and what she stands for, you can find that -> here

Please spread this around as much as possible! We need a president who stands with Gaza, the LGBTQIA+ Community, the POC community, the Disabled Community, etc. She is that. She is just aaa. I checked out here site and was not disappointed. You can find her main site -> here

I just wanted to say that there's hope!!!! I know who has my vote this year. Please make sure you vote this year!

(Sorry for typos-)

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trashworldblog · 7 months

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its kinda funny how our perspectives of life were completely shaped by our parents. i didnt know people actually drank coffee until i was 10.

#my parents also didnt talk about politics around me til i was in highschool so when we did the presidental election in kindergarten i voted #for obama cus he was the prettiest

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nanoa1foryou · 5 months

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Koukus was polling their audience on music related questions. The question was, if it was up to the people, which of these artists would become the Finnish president?

Jere may be popular, but even after 5 years of retirement Cheek owns the Finnish rap scene.

#I just laughed so hard when they brought up this chart. look at it #käärijä #I love that sanni and käärijä get their artist names but JHT does not #also. this is a good time to note that apparently cheek is supporting pekka haavisto in the upcoming presidental election???#I found this out while doouble checking when he officially retired #also who the fuck voted for lauri and why? also why is the T separated on his last name???

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thatweirdnoise · 10 months

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Eggs cant run for president because everyone knows Richas would wipe the competition

#RICHAS PRA PRESIDENTE #qsmp #qsmp elections #phantom shenanigans

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deadmanrideagain · 2 months

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Here's a video of Cardones wife trying to defend the 75% management fee on the donation.

#trump #cardone #us #politics #2024 presidental election

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youareinlove · 2 months

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"Look, the next nine months or so - and maybe more than that, depending on the coup schedule - they're gonna suck. You're gonna be getting emails with insane subject lines like 'Hello, Jon, it's Chuck Schumer. Donald Trump is right behind you with a knife. Donate?' You're gonna get inundated with robo calls and push polls and real polls, and people are going to tell you to rock the vote and be the vote and vote the vote and finger-bang the vote. And it's all going to make you feel like Tuesday, November 5, is the only day that matters. And that day does matter. But, man, November 6th ain't nothing to sneeze at, or November 7. If your guy loses, bad things may happen, but the country is not over, and if your guy wins, the country is in no way saved. I've learned one thing over these last nine years, and I was glib at best and possibly dismissive at worst about this. The work of making this world resemble one that you would prefer to live in is a lunch pail fucking job, day in and day out, where thousands of committed, anonymous, smart, and dedicated people bang on closed doors and pick up those that are fallen and grind away on issues till they get a positive result. And even then, have to stay on to make sure that result holds. So the good news is I'm not saying you don't have to worry about who wins the election. I'm saying you have to worry about every day before it and every day after, forever."

- Jon Stewart on the US Presidential Election (x)

#i've been thinking about this all day so i thought i'd bring it over here #bc it's very important #.txtpost #jon stewart #us politics #us presidental election

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inexpressiblybeautiful · 1 month

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#this is based on pure vibes only #just choose the one who do you think your intuition is more positive about #also I wonder how each name makes you feel when reading it #anyhow #bs detected #slovak presidental elections #Slovakia #Czech bros #come on #čumblr #hezky česky #tumblr #tumblr polls #polls #2024

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local-magpie · 5 months

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"you cant vote fascism away" We Are Not At That Point Yet And I Personally Would Appreciate If We Kept It That Way By Not Voting It In Thanks

#about to eat glass at some of the bad takes ive seen today #im blocking the OPs dw its just. jesus christ #yeah voting alone isnt it but good fucking god man VOTE #and vote for more than just the general and presidental elections #voting gives you more power than you think im #yes it fucking matters that we dont hand the presidency to a fascist on a silver platter #sorry that people care about this??#genuinely what the fuck is wrong with you if you think people insisting you vote are just wet paper towel liberals or whatever #im a leftist with very strong stances thank you very much and one of them is I AM A TRANS MAN WHO LIKES HAVING RIGHTS #yelling at the void

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skitskatdacat63 · 3 months

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Every evening I hear updates abt the outlook of the 2024 presidential election, and every day I am filled with a deeper and deeper sense of dread

#im pretty depressed most of the time lately #this certainly doesnt make things better 😄👍#and i see people younger than me talk abt voting and they just are so fucking naive and stupid #i study politics so its not smth i can or want to get away from #but idk w this presidental election. its just futile and hopeless #but people take that ^ as incentive not to vote and im just so frustrated #tw politics #<- i dont wanna talk abt serious topics on here too much but god its stressing me out so badly #every time i am reminded the reality of the situation #catie.rambling.txt

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