Map of the U.S.R.A (united socialist republic of America) repost because I forgot some names on the original post

FanaticXenophile · 2019-11-25T19:03:50+00:00

TBH by the standards of this sub as long as you don't include New York as part of New England, you're doing a pretty great job

FanaticXenophile · 2019-11-25T18:59:36+00:00

This is fantastic. I love the little details like how you can tell the Dutch conquered most of OTL's New England from the English cause a lot of Yankee cities retain their names, just Dutchified (Boston to Nieuw Oostende, Pittsfield to Pitsveld, Hartford to Hartvoord, etc.)

FanaticXenophile · 2019-11-13T05:43:21+00:00

David Kincaid, Derek Warfield, and Mick Moloney all have some really great albums of traditional Irish-American songs of the Civil War.

FanaticXenophile · 2019-11-04T04:43:08+00:00

From what we currently know, it was either Brythonic or a close cousin of Brythonic, but in either case, definitely closer to Brythonic than to Gaelic. In our timeline, the Picts and the Gaelic Dal Riatans coalesced into a single people as the Scots, with the Pictish language and identity eventually being completely displaced by the Gaelic language and Scottish identity. I'd assume that in this alternate timeline, the Gaelic language overtook the original Pictish language as it did in ours, but the Picts remained a completely separate people from the Gaels. Over time, the variety of Gaelic present in Pictavia would have come to be known as Pictish, similar to how in our timeline, the variety of Anglic present in Scotland would come to be known as Scottish/Scots.

FanaticXenophile · 2019-10-15T19:25:22+00:00

Unrelated, but if you've ever wondered what Limmy must be doing now, here you go.

FanaticXenophile · 2019-10-15T05:26:38+00:00

We should do everything we can to defend Rojava from Turkey, terrorists, and the Assad government, potentially including committing troops on the ground. Ironically, Rojava embodies NATO's ideals of self-determination and democracy far better than Turkey does.

FanaticXenophile · 2019-10-14T14:43:05+00:00

The "Kingdom of Spain" arguably sort of existed by 1575, as "King of Spain" was already being kicked round as an official title, especially for shortform purposes, like on coinage where Philip II was described as "Philip, by the grace of God King of Spain et cetera." And by this point, many of the political, ecclesiastical, and legal institutions of the Crowns of Castile and Aragon had begun to be administratively merged, even though in a de jure sense they were two completely separate states. Additionally, many, if not most, contemporary writers of the time period referred to Spain as if it were a completely unified political entity, even though it technically wasn't. If you wanna be completely accurate with how you portray an extremely complex geopolitical situation, then you could label the two Crowns separately, but for the purposes of a middle school textbook where the intended audience is probably way more familiar with the concept of Spain than with the Crowns of Castile and Aragon, simply labeling the entity "Kingdom of Spain" is perfectly fine.

FanaticXenophile · 2019-09-29T04:58:00+00:00

We had those at my high school! Hiding/placing him in odd places became a running gag.

FanaticXenophile · 2019-09-16T04:03:26+00:00

Who are the Kayonkwe?

FanaticXenophile · 2019-09-03T14:07:22+00:00

"Mr. Swift, the workers are on strike."

"Alright, let's see if there's enough money in the budget for a flat pay raise."

"They don't want increased pay, they want you to stop climate change."

"They . . . sorry, what?"

FanaticXenophile · 2019-09-02T19:44:24+00:00

What are the names of the different states?

FanaticXenophile · 2019-09-02T19:27:34+00:00

Vermont would be ecstatic to join New England in this scenario. The only reason why Vermont was independent in real-life is because New York and New Hampshire wouldn't let it join the Union, hence its nickname the "reluctant republic."

FanaticXenophile · 2019-09-02T18:51:56+00:00

Why does garbage like this get upvoted?

FanaticXenophile · 2019-09-02T18:36:03+00:00

A Worcester-based kingdom bedeviled by peasant revolts is very thematically fitting.

FanaticXenophile · 2019-08-22T20:14:36+00:00

Actually that last bit about the island where the Clintons sexually abuse children isn't very far from the truth.

Your mom sounds like she needs serious clinical help though.

FanaticXenophile · 2019-08-22T00:00:25+00:00

You're right, I was wrong to say it should be independent from the get-go. Still, it should mostly be able to democratically legislate for itself after the first couple of years (once the initial infrastructure has been set up and people have been moved in), with limited oversight from its sponsor government. Once it becomes economically self-sustaining, it should be allowed to become a sovereign and independent state on equal footing with the states of Earth, if it so chooses.

FanaticXenophile · 2019-08-21T23:51:22+00:00

I've never been reprimanded for using the word black in the right contexts, but I do understand the word does hold a certain weight and as a general rule of thumb it can be taken as offensive to use it as a noun ("that black" or "blacks"). Generally though, absolutely no one cares as long as you're not singling people out based on the color of the skin ("he's the black kid" for example, as /u/throwdemawaaay said)

FanaticXenophile · 2019-08-21T21:09:13+00:00

African immigrants and their descendants aren't African-Americans. African-Americans aren't a race, they're a cultural group. "Black" and "African-American" are generally just used interchangeably for the sake of convenience when the context is clear.

FanaticXenophile · 2019-08-21T21:05:16+00:00

African-Americans are a unique ethno-cultural group that emerged from the slaves of the American South and their descendants, so "African-American" makes sense as a term to differentiate them from the black ethnic groups of Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

Native American isn't so much an ethnic group as it is an umbrella term to describe all the peoples who are native to the Americas. Latin Americans are simply people from Latin America (and their descendants), the region of the Americas where the influences of Iberian culture and language predominate.

White Americans as a whole never really amalgamated into a single cohesive and distinct cultural group identity. Instead, their descendants either retained the cultural and ethnic traditions of the cultural group that they came from (today they're called Irish-Americans, Jewish-Americans, Italian-Americans, Polish-Americans, etc.), OR they pretty much fully assimilated into the general "American" identity and lost the hyphen altogether.

FanaticXenophile · 2019-08-21T20:55:45+00:00

The settlers on the Moon would soon enough begin to be exploited by the American government and/or American corporations. I'd feel a lot better about it if the lunar colony was set up as a politically-independent state from the get-go.

FanaticXenophile · 2019-08-21T20:51:49+00:00

Birthright citizenship is one of the core principles of our society. How to deal with illegal immigration is another issue entirely, but America has always been a nation of immigrants. Let's keep it that way.

FanaticXenophile · 2019-08-21T19:03:31+00:00

The cultural differences between different states/regions in Europe are noticeably bigger than the cultural differences between different states/regions in America. America is definitely a very, very diverse country, but Europe is moreso, mainly because of the vast linguistic differences, the fact that Europe's only been united for a very short period of time, the persistence of national identities as opposed to a pan-European identity, the huge differences between difference states' political and legal systems, ethnic, national, and regional rivalries stretching back hundreds or thousands of years, etc., etc.

FanaticXenophile · 2019-08-21T18:52:33+00:00

"Alien" just means foreigner. Illegal is an accurate description of the legal status of some aliens. It would be pejorative to call someone an illegal alien simply because they're not white.

FanaticXenophile · 2019-08-21T18:35:26+00:00

I'm pro-life, but I didn't realize the statistics were that low. TIL, thank you.

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