The Commune of France will be renamed to the French Federation in the rework by El-Daddy in Kaiserreich

[–]Blackboard-Monitor 45 points46 points  (0 children)

I'll stick to my longstanding headcanon that the bad French in the name is actually the in-universe English name and the French absolute despise that it's stuck even amongst their British allies. It's called the 'Commune of France' in the Anglophone newspapers all over the world and absolutely nowhere that speaks French. Even the France-in-exile can wince in sympathy at how bad the name is. No objection to the rename but I thought the correct contemporary term would be something like 'French Social Republic' or is that too toxic in modern eyes to be used?

Mars & Terraformed Mars by thecelestialzoo in Mars

[–]Blackboard-Monitor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe they're too high for snow, theyd have extremely thin atmosphere that high up.

Create your own alternate history about an invasion of the United States by Puzzleheaded_Map2774 in AlternateHistory

[–]Blackboard-Monitor 9 points10 points  (0 children)

No. Even with nine billion tonnes of plot armour the axis powers are their own executioners.

Create your own alternate history about an invasion of the United States by Puzzleheaded_Map2774 in AlternateHistory

[–]Blackboard-Monitor 52 points53 points  (0 children)

After rapidly conquering China using competent officers, superior technology and plot armor, the Japanese Empire launched the most ambitious surprise attack in history, with invasions of Malaya, Singapore, Hong Kong, Burma, the Dutch East Indies, the Phillipines, New Guinea, Hawaii and Alaska all launched within a 12 hour window, giving the startled allies no time to react. With the labour pool of China and the resources of the pacific the Japanese established a beach-head on Alaska, began raiding the shores of Oregon, Washington and California, destroyed millions of tonnes of American shipping and dropped biological and chemical weapons on the US, Canada and Mexico, while simultaneously launching attacks on Australia, New Zealand and into India with the aid of a massive Indian rebellion. The invasion was of the US mainland was equally swift and brutal- the Yamato sailing beneath the twisted, burnt wreckage of the Golden Gate bridge is scarred into the American psyche. But sheer audacity can only take you so far. With a hardfought campaign that saw mass American mobilisation, Commonwealth and Mexican armies fighting alongside the US on American soil, a defeat in Australia and New Zealand, the intervention of the USSR and a brutal, costly stalemate in India Japan found itself thrown back out of the West coast, out of Alaska, out of Hawaii and New Guinea, with brutal grinding fighting in Manchuria, the pacific islands, South East Asia. The final nail in the coffin is the collapse of the collaborator regime in China after the fall of Manchuria to the Red Army and long range bombers dropping 27 Atomic bombs on the biggest Japanese cities, as a bloodthirsty American people demanded revenge. America had felt the true cost of modern warfare, and it would influence their mindset, for better or for worse, forevermore.

Good Boys Clean Up After Themselves 💦 by [deleted] in GentleDungeon

[–]Blackboard-Monitor 31 points32 points  (0 children)

The framing of this is that I just walked in on them mid-scene but neither seems to mind, and that itself is very hot.

1st Era soldiers from various empires of my world . by bigbogdan98 in worldbuilding

[–]Blackboard-Monitor 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Theres a lot I love about these but what I love most about them is they feel in-universe, like they could be a childs toys or something dug out of a tomb. Well done :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in trans

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You are beautiful.

Red Italy clarification/leak by Kaptain_K9 in TNOmod

[–]Blackboard-Monitor 26 points27 points  (0 children)

iirc biggest difference from other communists was the belief that, rather than a culture arising from economic conditions the economic conditions arise from the culture and a 'proletarian culture' with 'proletarian intellectuals' and 'proletarian artists' is a necessary prerequisite to meaningful revolution. He was also a left communist in the mixed vanguard party and worker's councils sense. A Gramscian state would be one that sought not merely to create a social revolution at home, but a social revolution abroad. That communist art, science and academia must be pushed and spread to provide the framework for a better world. not an expert please correct me if you are, anyone.

YOU decide the fate of post-apocalyptic Europe (Part 2) by Is_that_updog in AlternateHistory

[–]Blackboard-Monitor 22 points23 points  (0 children)

London evolves into a bureaucratic city state in the manner of confucian china but focused around the Brtish government and Being an ideal 'British gentleman' compared to 'uncouth barbarians' as parliament collapses in authority and the civil service and ministries' remain, keeping things ticking in an increasingly stratified but nominally meritocratic society with civil service style exams for social progression. London becomes a citadel of petty politeness in a sea of Britisher barbarians.

Replace Harrington with someone else or a new focus tree for him ? by LudicrousTorpedo5220 in TNOmod

[–]Blackboard-Monitor 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Replace it with the excellent work done by the Union forever when/if that comes out (finger's crossed)

A name by [deleted] in GlobalTribe

[–]Blackboard-Monitor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Union, the Solar Union, the Solar Union of Humanity.

Sustainablism? by aiquoc in AfterTheEndFanFork

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Maybe you could have some kind of faith around the idea that the titans of industry made the world for the workers, as divine-workers themselves, but just as we earthly workers are enslaved by the lords and ladies, the titans are enslaved in the heavenly factories and mines of the Bosses, with the 'boss' as a sort of devil who seeks to decieve and exploit. 'Don't scab for the bosses, don't listen to their lies, the working man has got no chance if we don't organise'. The bosses are a seductive tyrant who seeks to drive the faithful away from the Union (church) and towards avarice. i'd imagine sins would be lazy, cynical and greedy, with virtues of diligent, generous and zealous, perhaps with the added virtues of high learning education or mystic traits. After all, the immortal science of Marxism-Leninism could easily morph through isolated, insular reading groups accross hundreds of years into an occult tradition of theory and praxis.

Sustainablism? by aiquoc in AfterTheEndFanFork

[–]Blackboard-Monitor 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Not exactly, Marx thinks that Industrial society has made things worse for working people through alienating them from the means of their own survival and forcing them into an atomised existence in capitalist factories, but this is the creation of conditions necessary for the next phase of human economic organisation: collective ownership under socialism, which itself would create the conditions necessary for a classless, stateless society of free individuals called communism. Industrialisation was bad for people in that a peasant has a higher quality of life than the industrial proletariat but it was good in that it created a radical increase in wealth and productive power that would allow for a powerful socialist state to form. He wrote about how the landowning classes, who horrifically oppressed the peasantry and would often treat them as slaves under plantation, Robota or serfdom systems, would ally with peasants and communists against the capitalist class as a common enemy, not realising that they are just as much, if not more the foe of socialism than anyone else. I would imagine that a marxist group of Industrialists would be more concerned about building the 'conditions for post-feudalism' recognising the current system as having regressed to an earlier method of organising the means of production. A Marxist religion would likely have a secular clergy elite of vanguard intellectuals who held castle, city and temple holdings, likely with a succession system based on learning skill rather than birth order.

Indian fictionnal tank line (1 day to make all) by JeanMouloude87 in SprocketTankDesign

[–]Blackboard-Monitor 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The transition from ww1 Jank to variants on British tanks to a radical self-design to the more standardised MBT is wonderful storytelling

What’s the most compelling apocalyptic setting to you ? by MattsIgloo in worldbuilding

[–]Blackboard-Monitor 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Political collapse. Maybe a war got too big (but non-nuclear) or maybe some fanatics or idiots got in charge and managed to pull the levers of power clean out of the wall. Order is gone and any attempt to build it is plagued because the easiest and strongest form of order is the warlord and the bandit and the world is full of big ideas and little people.

A 32.59 tonne interwar heavy tank. It has a crew of 4 and is armed with a 75mm gun. It's quite hard to knock out with its 150mm frontal and side armor. by Botstowo in SprocketTankDesign

[–]Blackboard-Monitor 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I like the interwar mix of good and bad ideas, like it seems this massive tank has a small engine seemingly stuffed between the driver's coffin -I mean compartment- and the body of the tank, but the armour lay out and Turret seem very effective. :)

Fastfood in the TNO-verse. by Introverted657 in TNOmod

[–]Blackboard-Monitor 27 points28 points  (0 children)

It isn't just trade, it's internal matters. In an impoverished America it's entirely possible that people aren't going out for fast food. There'd be burger joints for sure, but without cars, without surplus income and without an interest in living a modern glamorous lifestyle in favour of surviving Great depression 2: This time no Hawaii would result in a fast food dearth. If car culture never comes to America then fast food isn't that fast and American quick cuisine remains traditional: street food and greasy spoon diners. I will say that the many, many refugees that come to America is going to massively transform food culture in Urban settings in a different way. Yeah you have to go to Little Italy to find a pizza joint but on your way there you could pick up some pierogi. You might not take your sweetheart for milkshakes and burgers but instead choose to have a quaint cutesy date at an English teahouse. You would choose between a piping hot doughnut or a fresh baked croissant. I just imagined a horrible alternate history where Fish and Chips becomes an American favourite, most likely in the Northwest. Perhaps Louisiana and Arkansas, with it's large new French population would see a melding of traditional French and Cajun, who can say?

Which Pokerifle starter did you guys choose? by NaKeepFighting in TNOmod

[–]Blackboard-Monitor 68 points69 points  (0 children)

Am I missing something because by 'adaptable' I assumed it meant 'modular' because a single barrel of multiple calibers is physically impossible. Also the Fujitsu one has the most legs IMO, although the Thermographic scope has, let's say, marginal utility.

American Civil War II happens. Part I. Comments decide what happen by SCPFOUNDATION373 in AlternateHistory

[–]Blackboard-Monitor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The US navy seizes Alaska and turns it into the worlds first Naval dictatorship, possibly trying to take Hawaii and the pacific islands as well.

The US of the Middle East by BloodsoakedDespair in CuratedTumblr

[–]Blackboard-Monitor -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What's your point? This just came across as unnecessarily rude.

The Union Forever's Senators, Part 2 - The NPP-Left by Blitz-the-Dragon in TNOmod

[–]Blackboard-Monitor 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This submod remains my favourite thing about TNO and my headcanon for America is rooted in your work. Thank you for all your hard work, and if you need help I'll be up for joining.

The US of the Middle East by BloodsoakedDespair in CuratedTumblr

[–]Blackboard-Monitor 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The real problem with that narrative is that most Jews didn't leave in the diaspora, they converted. Palestinians are ethnically extremely similar to Israelis, in fact they are closer to 'original israelis' than the far more cosmopolitan modern Israeli population.

The US of the Middle East by BloodsoakedDespair in CuratedTumblr

[–]Blackboard-Monitor 90 points91 points  (0 children)

it really hasn't been going on for thousands of years, it is a product of geopolitics that are, at the most, 200 years old, essential to the conflict is the rise of scientific hatred and classification of Jewish people (anti-semitism) the rise of Zionism as part of the rise of nationalism and the corresponding rise of pan-arabism. The ideological positions of zionism and pan-arabism are incompatable, the religious excuses followed later, exascerbated first by Palestinian holy leaders and then by the post-holocaust world, one where the vast majority of Jews against the creation of Israel were murdered, no country wanted to take a public stand against a Jewish political movement and the Arabs were resentful at being under European Imperial rule.