Celestia is a terrible ruler

Since this is the final round, I will not bring up anything new unless it is in response to something that my opponent just brought up last round (meaning this is my first and only chance to reply to it). Of course, my opponent is allowed to do the same in their round. Though I will try to link everything back to previous arguments. For ease, I will stick with the format my opponent is using. 1) No Pony Ever Rebels This is the first time my opponent mentions the Mongols, so I will address that. The Mongols ruled with fear and power, as my opponent said. This does not match with what my opponent said in their R2 that they love Celestia too much to rebel. This shows that the example is not adequate. The Mongols are the only point my opponent holds in this section, so we can call it thoroughly refuted. 2) Sovereignty The episodes are listed as sources for both of us from all rounds. I imagine that not all people are going to watch the episodes for sources, so I will be taking pictures from the episode and posting and explaining them so everyone can see how things played out. Here, when our hero’s enter the city, they comment on all the guards (this is one of several shots showing guards EVERYWHERE). Here, Chrysalis reveals herself and makes a speech (Celestia appeartly just watches for the fun of it, but there are no guards in the wedding at all, they must all be elsewhere). When told that her minions will never break the barrier, she doesn’t say “we are already in” or anything suggesting that they are the guards or anything. She says “Every minute, his spell gets weaker and my minions are chipping away at his barrier. ” Suggesting that they are all outside. Here we see them outside ramming the barrier. And they finally break it, showing a ton of them outside of it. They run through town from the wedding chapel to the castle (to where the Elements are) and no guards are seen, despite black winged terrors falling from the sky leaving craters in the ground. They get in a big fight with the changlings and win and continue running to still find no guards. Remember, 6 not fully grown girls, none trained in fighting (only two are considered though) and only one with any combat useful magic beat down countless of these creatures. It is hard to imagine that the guards would be so easily over powered. Though they eventually get caught. These are the only two guards shown in the entire thing and they are just brushed over during a song about Chryslis’ victory. Of all the guards that were shoulder to shoulder when they entered, they did absolutely nothing. Please remember, this is not a new argument, only showing the sources already presented to those that may not choose to watch them. While my opponent presents an interesting theory about changlings hiding as guards and fighting off screen, there is no evidence of it at all in the show. 3) Tirek My opponent says the Bin Laden example is “kind of different” then does not explain how. Now my opponent never mentions Discord’s view on friendship, so I will address that as well. Firstly, the desire for friendship is part of the comparison (remember, I was talking about if we attempted to reform Bin Laden, the “friendship” is the reform). I will point to the source that have already been given. Firstly, when it comes to “friendship” Discord says “I’m doing this for my friends… It’s mostly for Fluttershy. ” It is also no secret that none of the mane six (except Fluttershy, of course) actually like him. In this same episode, Applejack says, “Sometimes I think the reformed Discord is more obnoxious than the before he was reformed Discord,” to which no one disagrees. My opponent brings up Tirek’s speech. I will point out a quote from one of the sources already given. Right after Tirek took Discord’s power, AJ said, “surely you saw this coming? ” suggesting that it was obvious and not that cunning. I would also like to point out that Tirek consistently messes up when talking saying things like “my will” to which Discord corrects with “you mean ‘our’ will, right? ” Those slip ups clearly undermine any sly cunning that one can claim. Let’s go to Celestia not fighting for 1,000 years and being rusty (this is a new argument and so my first and only chance to reply). First, I did not say that there has been 1,000 years of peace. I said that all of my opponent’s previous examples were over 1,000 years old. I did not say anything about the last 1,000 years to present. While no conflicts are told to us, we do not know. In addition to this, it is pure speculation to if she was rusty or not. Though after she got her butt handed to her by Chrysalis, one would expect her to get back into shape (or get some form of defense). She is immortal (as far as we know, she hasn’t aged in thousands of years) so being too old is not an excuse. As for Tirek walking into his own defeat, I have talked about the power balances for this and have to let what I’ve said in past rounds speak for itself (since it is not new, I will not re-address it). I am merely stating it here to remind people to evaluate the reasoning behind it as well as to show that it is not a dropped argument. For the murals, bringing up the other murals and Discord is new, so I will only quickly address it. Obviously, Celestia would not know how or if Discord would mess with them. She only knew the starting configuration of the murals and that starting configuration was outing her entire plan (it just almost wasn’t outed because of Discord’s chaos almost confusing Tirek). My opponent goes into an interesting conspiracy theory about how Celestia apparently knew everything that was going to unfold, down to every last turn of betrayal to each party. Though I see a complete lack of evidence for this theory. I will also point out that my opponent does not show (with any evidence from the show) that Celestia’s plan of hiding the power in Twilight would save any ponies and only save the power (clearly, she is more interested in the power, than any of her ponies). With all her failures to maintain power, her failure to see her shortcomings and compensate, her failures to utilize the tools around her to protect her subjects (not just her Alicorn power), and her inability to formulate a rational plans we can clearly see that she is been completely ineffective and is a truly terrible ruler. Thank you,