🔵 Azureality

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• Symbolism: Rationalism, empiricism, logic, skepticism, science, reason, scientific materialism, social liberalism, social justice, the Democratic Party, left-wing politics

• Signature Move: Rational Flash

The leader of the Progress Pokémon and embodiment of rationality, science, and logic, Azureality represents RationalWiki and its virtues. It is a blue donkey-goat hybrid draped in symbols of science;

🟠 Crimsolusion

• Symbolism: Denialism, crankery, fascism, authoritarianism, Nazism, cognitive dissonance, nostalgia, longing for an idealized past, pseudoscience, misinformation, propaganda, ignorance (willful or otherwise), the Republican Party, right-wing politics

• Signature Move: Obfuscating Mudspray

As the leader of the Regress Pokémon, Crimsolusion is the embodiment of irrationality, fascism, and nostalgia run amok.

🔵 Dawseculab

• Symbolism: Secularism, the scientific method, controlled experimentation, scientific methodology (double blind, precautionary principle [as in ethics], reproducibility etc.), secular humanism

• Signature Move: Delusion Destroyer

Dawseculab represents the scientific method — a secular point of view that focuses on empirically gathering information about reality in order to arrive at the most accurate possible conclusions about the workings of the universe, with no presuppositions other than those necessary for science to function (mainly uniformitarianism and materialism)

🟠 Cleragate

• Symbolism: Fundamentalism, religion gone bad, Dominionism, megachurches, cults, bigotry, hatred, the Ku Klux Klan, the Westboro Baptist Church, hate groups in general, dogma, intolerance of dissenting opinions

• Signature Move: Abrasive Sermon

Cleragate represents Evangelical pastors, Wahhabist imams, televangelists, and other (questionably-sane) religious leaders and pundits who support theocratic movements (such as the Religious Right in the United States) and other forms of way-too-old-school, exclusionary, tribalistic, holier-than-thou, no-dissent-allowed, don't-question-my-worldview, no-seriously-don't-question-my-worldview-or-I'll-fricking-kill-you, only-my-opinion-matters, my-holy-book-is-the-only-valid-source-of-knowledge-so-anyone-who-disagrees-with-me-is-wrong-at-best religion.

🔵 Ratitchepy

• Symbolism: Direct action, peaceful protest, civil disobedience, equity, leftist counterculture (hippies, peace & love)

• Signature Move: Hate Breaker

Ratitchepy is the embodiment of peaceful yet firm and forceful protest against legitimate injustice, such as the civil rights movement, hippie culture, Gandhi pushing the British out of India, the Arab Spring, etc. — but for the most part, yeah, it's a hippie. It's big on peace and love, bright colors, clothes whose best days are behind them, funky music, calling out the establishment for dragging its citizens into nasty and pointless wars, etc., etc.

🟠 Koallution

• Symbolism: Fossil fuels, Big Oil/Big Coal, climate change denial

• Signature Move: Resource Burn

Koallution represents the fossil fuel industry and its contributions to the denialist movement (namely, the denial of global warming), as well as attempts to accentuate the downsides and downplay the advantages of other possible energy sources, like nuclear, solar, wind, hydroelectric, etc. Never mind that there's only so much oil and coal available on the planet (we're going to run out sooner or later), the severe impacts that burning large amounts of hydrocarbons has on the atmosphere, or how catastrophically oil drilling and coal mining can (and sometimes do) go wrong — like many businesses, the fossil fuel industry seems heck-bent on riding its gravy profit train as hard, long, and far as it can, the overall well-being of humanity (and everything else on the Earth) be darned.

🔵 Renaiagy

• Symbolism: Renewable energy, protection of the environment

• Signature Move: Replenishing Flow

Renaiagy represents renewable energy and environmentally-friendly technology that doesn't rely on finite and/or dirty resources like fossil fuels. Yes, that does mean the concept of renewable energy as a whole; while no Pokémon is allowed to have more than two types, and Renaiagy's typing therefore focuses on hydroelectric power, geothermal power, and tidal power (making it Ground/Water, to hard-counter Koallution's Fire/Electric typing), Renaiagy also encompasses the concepts of solar power, wind power, and biofuels, which gives it access to Fire-, Flying-, and Grass-type moves (and Electric-type moves, since it represents generating electrical power)

🟠 Inceruction

• Symbolism: Warfare, the military-industrial complex, warhawks, warmongers (George W. Bush, Vladimir Putin, etc.), conquest, imperialism, discovery doctrine, destruction, nuclear bomb

• Signature Move: Casus Belli

Inceruction represents warfare, particularly of the aggressive and imperialistic kind that is waged to expand a country's dominion at the expense of others. It also represents aggressive politicians who drag their nations into wars that could have been avoided, as well as the destruction that war causes, which frequently has lingering after-effects even after the bloodshed has run its course — particularly in the modern era, when bombs (particularly of the nuclear variety) can reduce thriving cities to rubble in mere moments.

🔵Vaxxalkin

• Symbolism: Evidence-based medicine, vaccination

Vaxxalkin represents medicine done right, using proper scientific protocols to discover and utilize the best chemicals, procedures, etc. to facilitate and maintain health. Take pithy anecdotes and all that alt-med garbage and throw it in the trash; this is the domain of qualified medical doctors, drugs proven through rigorous testing, skilled surgery, vaccination, and, well… look, there are better articles on this site for a synopsis of the subject, but the long and short of it is that this is real medicine.

🔵Lucharveyton

• Symbolism: Satanism (actual Satanism, not the Satanic panic kind), the Satanic Temple, antitheism/New Atheism, militant atheism

Lucharveyton is the representation of Satanism, more specifically the rationalist and/or anti-religious forms such as LaVeyan Satanism and the Satanic Temple. While it doesn't represent Satan as an icon of pure evil (like how Christians usually see him), it's still the black sheep (or black rhino) of the Progress Pokémon in many ways, due to embodying Satan as an icon of rebellion — even violent rebellion — and the desire for absolute upheaval of the status quo — the complete abolishment of religion, regardless of the positive qualities of religion or the harm that's done in the process. This makes it the one Progress Pokémon that could be said to be genuinely villainous, even if its destructive goals are borne from good intentions

🟠 Buchanincel

• Symbolism: Men Going Their Own Way, incels, pick-up artists, white supremacy, rage and discomfort caused by loss of privilege

• Name Origin: James Buchanan + Incel

Buchanincel represents various movements that have convinced themselves that society is going down the tubes because previously-marginalized demographics are gaining equal rights and previously-dominant demographics are losing their privilege (or, more specifically, the people who care way too much about having privilege and are losing their minds over others having rights). While the most inspiration has been drawn from Men Going Their Own Way, incels, men's rights activists, and other residents of the manosphere (i.e. people who are upset about women gaining rights — especially the right to live their lives on their own terms, without needing to be totally dependent upon and subservient to a man), it also encompasses white supremacists, black supremacists, fundamentalists, and others who — whether they'll openly admit it or not — are pissed at the idea of living in a world where they're not the top dogs who get whatever they want whenever they want it and/or who everybody else (or at least everybody in a certain subgroup or subgroups) has to obey or else, have convinced themselves that their not having privilege is a great injustice, and are willing to resort to all sorts of antisocial nastiness, including murder, propaganda, totalitarianism, and incessant whining, to obtain a position of privilege that their demographic has historically been denied or retain a privileged position that their demographic has historically possessed.

🟠 Malitiasturm

• Symbolism: Blackshirts, edgelords, useful idiots (i.e. Proud Boys and other rank-and-file fascists), Trumpism, gun nuttery, thinly-veiled or openly-expressed threats and desire to commit [gratuitous] violence on bigotry targets and/or ideological opponents (e.g. "frick around and find out", Day of the Rope, etc.)

Malitiasturm represents the rank-and-file grunts of fascist movements — Proud Boys, the SS and Gestapo, etc. — or really anyone dumb, desperate, and/or hate-addled enough to think that fascism is a viable way to run a nation (as opposed to a complete disaster that's not a matter of if, but when it ends in either self-destruction or getting stomped into the dirt once everybody else gets tired of their shit).

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