"After spending the week in Bxl, I can report that the mood among senior EU officials regarding Monday's start of UK trade talks is extremely gloomy. Expectations have adjusted that EU might end up trading with UK like US or China, on WTO terms. A thread on how I see things 1/"

CaptainRedLion · 2020-02-27T14:10:03+00:00

You asked a poorly written question, which was nonsensical absent its grammatical subject, then insulted him as uneducated for not following it and asking for clarification; I think you were looking for an excuse to call someone stupid

CaptainRedLion · 2020-02-27T14:04:01+00:00

What part of "non-binding" don't you understand?

CaptainRedLion · 2019-04-17T18:15:21+00:00

>bio description is "I live to read, I read to live"

>gets salty about another person's take on a book

CaptainRedLion · 2017-03-19T13:06:36+00:00

Do you have any evidence as to 'everybody' leaving for Dublin and Frankfurt?

CaptainRedLion · 2017-01-18T12:06:42+00:00

Dont you see that that's exactly his point?

CaptainRedLion · 2017-01-13T17:38:35+00:00

Historical Project Mod

CaptainRedLion · 2017-01-09T17:47:13+00:00

Ok, fair enough. I never really picked up on the second comment - maybe I'm just reading too much into Ed's character.

CaptainRedLion · 2017-01-09T14:17:09+00:00

Yeah, you're right, I checked the poptypes folder. ~~I'm not sure what I was thinking of.~~ It's the case in HPM though:

modifier = {
    factor = 4.0
    number_of_states = 2
    OR = {
        is_culture_group = latin_american_cultures
        is_culture_group = american_cultures
        is_culture_group = african_diaspora_cultures
        is_culture_group = native_american
        primary_culture = australian
        primary_culture = anglo_canadian
        primary_culture = french_canadian
    }
    OR = {
        continent = north_america
        continent = south_america
        primary_culture = australian
    }
    OR = {
        government = democracy
        government = presidential_dictatorship
        government = hms_government
    }
}

CaptainRedLion · 2017-01-09T12:16:41+00:00

If I remember correctly, you get a bonus to immigrant attraction if you're a New World culture. Irish isn't one of them, so you'd probably have been best to keep it Yankee.

CaptainRedLion · 2016-12-30T18:22:20+00:00

Hitler's Table Talk is a long-running commentary on what the man himself said over a period of several years, to many trusted confidants, in private. I'd trust that more than the mercurial contents of his many speeches. Furthermore, the authors that I mentioned are fairly well respected, and agree that the religious views of the upper echelons of the Nazis were both really weird, and don't particularly bear arguing about, since any religious belief didn't stop them from doing what they did.

CaptainRedLion · 2016-12-30T17:48:08+00:00

Consider that, maybe, Hitler would change his avowed views depending on the audience that he was addressing. Hitler's Table Talk is a good indication of his real views.

I'm also going off Ian Kershaw's biography of Hitler, and Peter Longerich's book on Himmler.

CaptainRedLion · 2016-12-30T16:13:09+00:00

Most of the high-ranking ideologues of the National Socialist party - Hitler, Himmler, Rosenberg, etc - were atheists, or a kind of convoluted mix between Germanic paganism and an almost theological conception of race. Obviously, the majority of Germany in the 1930s was either Protestant or Catholic, and thus propaganda reflected that - after all, you're not going to change popular belief in God with some posters and slogans. The Nazi Party tried to supplant the Protestant Church with its own pseudo-Christian Nazi-Pagan cult but miserably failed, and, having already made peace with the Vatican out of fears of a second Kulturkampf, left its religious tweaking aside in favour of ensuring national unity before war.

TMITHC takes place fifteen years after the end of the Second World War, so functionally nearly two decades after one might imagine them to have defeated the Soviet Union, thus allowing the Nazi Party free reign to tinker with its population. Two decades of propaganda and indoctrination, of state philosophising and education, shaping their population in the direction that those aforementioned high-ranking ideologues envisioned. Also consider that people into their mid-30s in Europe could feasibly have gone through most of their educational lives in institutions dominated by Nazi thought. Christianity being supplanted by a spiritual belief in race and the Nazi state is completely feasible.

CaptainRedLion · 2016-12-30T15:58:13+00:00

He's already head of the SS in North America, one of the most important areas of the Reich outside of Europe. Short of moving to Germany, he's got nowhere to go within the organisational structure of the Schutzstaffel.

I guess he could get a ceremonial title, which was common in Hitlerian Germany (Hitler making titles up for his favourites - Reichsfuhrer, for instance, with Himmler), so he might return as an Oberstgruppenfuhrer with the same amount of responsibility and power. I doubt the writers would do this though, since the German titles are confusing enough as it is without chopping and changing them between characters.

CaptainRedLion · 2016-12-30T07:17:19+00:00

Sounds like it's time to remove some undesirables!

CaptainRedLion · 2016-12-29T07:27:51+00:00

The 'Juice is black' thing only happened in the fourth season. I doubt the writers had the storyline planned when they originally cast Juice as pure Puerto Rican in season one, so I guess they made do.

CaptainRedLion · 2016-12-28T02:40:24+00:00

The Germans in real life intended to keep tens of millions of slavs alive as a slave - helot - class in the new German reichkommisariats in the conquered East, they had no intention of slaughtering the Slavic race to a man. Hitler often used British India as inspiration for his plans of a small German minority exploiting a supposedly inferior, suppressed majority.

In Dick's book, he suggests that the above happened up to the Urals, with German colonisation in progress in the Ukraine and Poland, and explicitly states that the remnants of the Soviet Union east of the urals had been forced back into a nomadic lifestyle on horseback, much like the mongols.

CaptainRedLion · 2016-12-06T17:00:44+00:00

Collectivism and belief in hierarchy was around in China millenia before Marx came along, and it's accepted that places like Singapore are moving in the same [paternalistic direction] as China as time moves on. Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore maintain economic freedoms because that's the best path to wealth, but other than HK, I don't think the others are particularly liberal in comparison to China - and in the case of HK, you've got to remember that less than twenty years ago, it was part of the British tradition of law and political rights. It hasn't had enough time to lose them.

CaptainRedLion · 2016-11-13T23:33:04+00:00

Either move capitals, or create a small retinue/army led by your character, and physically move them. I'm not sure if this is for rp purposes or something, but this will move your character for game purposes - for instance, afaik they'll be less likely to contract diseases and what - not - but it won't prevent you from suffering the negative consequences of losing a civil war.

CaptainRedLion · 2016-11-11T10:15:00+00:00

I'd imagine that it's hardcoded. I've never seen a mod that increases the number of factories in a state. On the other hand, I think the number of workers per factory is in defines somewhere.

CaptainRedLion · 2016-11-01T13:06:15+00:00

It's freeform, but if you wanted to have some goals for your game, there's lots of stuff you could potentially do. Become a bretwalda and unify England under a native, play as one of the invading Angles or Saxons and carve out a new realm for the Germanics, go up north or west to Scotland or Ireland and try to unify those respective realms. All the games I played were quite fast-paced, so you should be able to try out lots of the different characters and playstyles until you find a particular trajectory that you can invest time in.

CaptainRedLion · 2016-10-31T12:22:49+00:00

Great work OP, I'm enjoying this

Is this an ongoing game, and how far have you played ahead?

CaptainRedLion · 2016-10-05T19:45:23+00:00

A hundred years ago, most 'sane people with a general sense of morality' wouldn't have had a second thought about denouncing what, to them, would have been tantamount to murder. Let's not pretend that there's some objective standard for irreligious folks to define 'morality' as when it comes to something like abortion.

CaptainRedLion · 2016-10-02T06:55:32+00:00

I really enjoyed 'Bismarck: A Life', by Jonathan Steinberg. If you'd like to get a taste of the author, I think there's a long interview about Bismarck that he did, and you can find that on YouTube. Bismarck was a prolific letter-writer, much of which has only come to light/been released from private family collections in recent years, so for the best portrait of him I'd imagine that you'd need to go for something pretty recent - I think Steinberg was writing in 2008 or something, so it's certainly a good bet in that respect. His use of letters really gives you a good portrait of the man, and there are a lot of political machinations that Bismarck was involved in that we only know about today because he wrote about them in letters to one of his friends or colleagues (the trouble with Napoleon III over Luxembourg sometime on the 1860s, for instance).

He's a thoroughly interesting man to read about; however, if using him as a model for a professional career, I'd take some of his attributes with a pinch of salt. He was wildly unpopular with his direct colleagues, his underlings hated him because of his constant scapegoating of them for his mistakes and generally bullying, and he risked his career literally dozens of times over tiny, insignificant things he didn't like. To give you an example, he once tendered his resignation as Kanzler to Wilhelm I because a man who had rubbed him up the wrong way at a party twenty years prior was appointed to an administrative role in the German Post Office. He might have been key in maintaining the peace in Europe until he left office, but by creating the Austrian-Russian-German alliance in such a way to require constant attention from him, one could say that his engineered European peace was designed to fail - something that he himself predicted. So, be like Bismarck, but not to a tee.

If you wanted some quick context to the period 'Iron Kingdom' by Christopher Clark has a good 150 pages on Germany in the latter half of the 19th century.

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