fakenews commiespammer • 3w ago • 100%

[CBT repost] Western news is being flooded with Russian propaganda---who's behind this insidious infiltration?

As many have feared, western commitment to the brave Ukrainian cause has faltered in recent months, despite massive gains on the front, with the breakthrough in Kurx twice around the earth and halfway to Ladsock on its third run. And even major western publications like CNN and the WSJ have been pumping out suspiciously pro-russian defeatist articles. But what could possibly behind this sinister movement targeted at the very integrity of American knowledge itself? We bring you now to Larry Pullman of the New York Times, a writer from eastern Europe who recently mysteriously joined the publication, stating his intention to ‘destabilize the west from in—uh, I mean, combat Russian propaganda.’ As we enter his office, he calmly closes a webpage in Cyrillic with three colors that mean… something that we’ve forgotten plastered over it. Pullman greets us enthusiastically as we question him about the insignia portraying bears and framed Zs over his wall, to which he replies that he’s simply into symmetrically truncated sigma symbols and a wildlife guy. He invites us down and pours us each a glass of vodka while removing his ushanka, explaining the intricacies of his craft in a thick accent we can’t quite place. “You see, these insidious Russians have been sending cybernetic hordes over the internet to hack our websites and replace our articles with Russian propaganda straight for the Kremlin. And worse, patriotic Americans may fall for this! We wouldn’t want that, would we?” We voice our agreement and he continues with proposed measures. "As we all know, Pullman says, “the best way to solve a problem is to throw money at it and ignore it, hoping it goes away. And that is just what we should do here—cyber propaganda is obviously the greatest threat to American democracy. We should transfer the entire defense budget to developing new methods of encryption. Actually, we should throw our entire budget at that. It’s a really good idea!” Pullman continues with why patriotic Americans might be fooled by this propaganda. “The truth is, many have been brainwashed by Russian bots on twitter. The only way out of this is by engaging them in patriotic reeducation, and sending them to the front in Ukraine, which will surely awake their love for freedom.” We thank him for his input and leave to petition his suggestions to the DoD as Pullman puts on a fake mustache and glasses while sneaking deviously into the AP office nextdoor.

sino commiespammer • 4mo ago • 100%

A little history of Beiyang China, part 1 (crossposted from my community on lemmygrad)

Many of you probably know a little bit about the history of early modern China—the fall of the Qing dynasty, the civil war, and the foundation of today’s China. Yet there’s more to the story of China’s path to socialism. Chinese warlords may be a familiar term for some, and for me as well, yet for the longest time I only knew that they existed, not much about who they were, or what they did. A while ago I finally decided to pick up a book written by Lai Xinxia on this period of history. He is a very reliable scholar—after participating in the Chinese revolution he was assigned to sorting the archives of the Beiyang era, and over fifty years gradually improved his draft until publishing the final edition of his book, “History of the Beiyang Warlords”, in 2004. I have made a summary of it here to educate more people, something I have not spent as much time doing as I should have. First, a definition. The Chinese term for a single warlord group is 系, which can translate to system, line, etc. The generally accepted english translation for this is ‘clique’, which I will use here. The english translations for the clique names seem to be based on location (province names) rather than abbreviations commonly used in Chinese. I will be using the Chinese versions here since I’m too lazy to find the english translations for all of them. After the opium wars, many Qing officials realized the importance of self-strengthening and creating a modern army. Li Hongzhan, one of the many han officials who rose to prominence in the last years of the Qing empire, created his own army, the Xiangjun, with modern equipment and training methods. Eventually this unit proved instrumental in defeating the Taiping rebellion, and for a time there was hope within the empire that expanding the ‘new army’ would lead to the empire being able to resist foreigners and establish its sovereignty. The Empire also created two foreign affairs departments, Beiyang (north sea) and Nanyang (south sea) respectively. As an important Beiyang civil servant, Li Hongzhang was the forerunner of the powerful warlords who would come to control vast portions of China in the first few decades of the coming century. Yet without changing society, the new armies soon fell to corruption, and by the time Japan declared the Jiawu war the Beiyang Fleet, a modernized fleet the Qing government had established, was largely corrupted, ineffectual, and quickly defeated by Japan despite strong patriotism and determined resistance by patriotic soldiers and officers alike. Yuan Shikai was at this time only a minor officer, who at some point was stationed in Korea. Despite a minor incident in which he was reported to the government, many praised his effective training of his own army, with some westerners remarking that China would be saved if they had more units like his. Yet during the invasion of China by the eight powers, instead of going into battle he decided to withdraw to preserve his own strength, with the result that he took almost no losses while his sister units of the new army were completely crushed. After the ordeal, he then escorted Cixi back to the forbidden city, and won the affection of many in government with this action. One thing to note is that in 1895 Yuan Shikai began conducting military drills in Xiaozhan (little station) near Beijing, which many scholars consider to be the beginning of the Beiyang era. In 1911 the Xinhai revolution erupted and the imperial system which had existed in China for millennia was overthrown. While this was a bourgeoisie revolution, it nonetheless pushed history forward greatly in China. Yet at this point many of the revolutionaries were politically naive, including Sun Zhongshan, the leader of the new Republic of China, and believed that their country could not succeed without existing figures of authority in government. This, combined with Sun’s own lack of political experience, led to the new government electing Yuan Shikai as its first official president. The Tongmenghui, Sun’s revolutionary party, decided to engage in parliamentary politics, and slowly began to lose its revolutionary characteristic. Yuan was not content with merely being president and being constrained by the majority-tongmenghui (which around this time had rebranded itself as the Guomindang, ‘party of the national people’) parliament. So after a few years of rule and forcing through laws that increasingly gave him power, he finally declared himself emperor of the Chinese Empire and disbanded parliament. Before this, he had also secretly signed a humiliating treaty with Japan to win support secretly in 1915. This will become important later… Yuan’s move was met with opposition from almost everyone in China, even including monarchists, who wanted the former Qing empire on the throne. His own subjects were also unhappy, as their potential position as Yuan’s successor was now only available to his children. After a few short months Yuan died from sickness, and democracy returned. Yet… During Yuan’s monarchy, Sun Zhongshan had advocated for a Second Revolution. Working in the south and gathering the support of revolutionaries and local warlords, he managed to establish a southern government. Yet he controlled very few armies himself, with only a few fleets in the navy supporting him. Most of the armies fighting for the southern republic were warlords who only opposed Yuan for their own gain and cared little for progress in China. In the North, after Yuan’s death splits began to appear in the previously cohesive Beiyang bloc. The Wan clique, led by Duan Qirui, and the Zhi clique, lead by Feng Guozhang. While Duan advocated for using force to unify China and defeat the southern government, Feng wanted a peaceful reunification, more because he was opposed to Duan than any other reason. To resolve their conflict, they appointed a third party, Li Yuanhong to take on the role of the president of China. At this point, Zhang Xun, a staunch monarchist, led his army into Beijing with the pretext of mediating a negotiation between the Wan and Zhi cliques. Instead, he seized power with his ‘pigtail army’ and promptly reestablished the Qing empire, with the child emperor Puyi (who had been treated well and allowed to stay in the forbidden city by the revolutionaries) as its leader. Of course this did not last long, with all the Beiyang warlords coming to oppose him. Duan Qirui gave himself the title of creating democarcy three times with his defeating of Zhang Xun, and the Wan clique at this point became the dominant player on the Beiyang stage. Yet the country was still divided into north and south, and tensions between the two cliques were growing more heated by the day. (part 1 concluded)

games commiespammer • 9mo ago • 100%

Can somebody who has HOI4 on steam help me install this mod

steamcommunity.com

I've tried many websites to download this but they all don't work. If it's possible, could somebody with HOI4 on steam download it and send the file to me? Thanks. Sorry if this isn't allowed or anything, I'll delete this if that's the case.

chapotraphouse commiespammer • 9mo ago • 98%

A proposal for the skibidification of Hexbear

Let's face it: ppb is stupid and no longer funny. All people are gonna do when they see it is shake their heads and think we're idiots clinging to a dead meme nobody ever thought was funny. They're not gonna magically become tankies because they saw an emoji of a fucking pig pooping on its testicles. Know what's really devastating? What'll really throw them for a loop and send them crying back to their fascist hidey-holes? Skibidi fucking toilet, that's what. Imagine. We could be called 'hexskibidi' and our logo would be like the hexagonal bear but with skibidi toilet. We could just call everybody 'fellow ohio skibidi sigma rizzlers' and all the taglines could be changed to just 'SKIBIDI SKIBIDI SKIBIDI SKIBIDI' repeated over and over again like a trot insisting that THIS issue is totally gonna bring about the world revolution! Then we could post pigskibidiballs and all the libs will be devastated, they'll cry and scream and not be very sigma when they see some five year old watching skibidi toilet on their ipad like they're being mind controlled by aliens and scream "NOOO SKIBIDI TOILET IS TANKIE!1!1!1!!!!1111!!!111" And then the republican campaign would be Donald Trump promising to bomb skibidi toilet to own the woke homosexual communists. This is what we could have. This is what we're missing out on.

worldbuilding commiespammer • 9mo ago • 100%

Pavel Arkhangelsky (Junkosreich spoilers)

Pavel Arkhangelsky was born on February 13, 2006 in a hospital somewhere in Japan. His parents lived in the Soviet Union before its collapse. Afterwards, they moved to Japan due to programs that paid relatively well for their technical expertise in engineering. He was enrolled in a local high school, where he met Sayori, who was somewhat sympathetic to his cause. Indoctrination was wasted on him as he had learned Soviet patriotism from his parents from a young age. Despite his best efforts, Pavel was never more than an average student, in part due to his alienation from his classmates who were complete slaves to capitalist ideology. For his first year, Sayori was his only friend. Though he attempted to join a socialist club, it was full of demsocs and he left angrily. The following year he was invited by Sayori into the newly-formed literature club, which, under his guidance, became a sort of hub for socialist activities. This culminated in his invitation to Hope's Peak Academy as the Ultimate Marxist Leninist. Unaware of what was going on at the time, he was thrust into the Killing Game. Though thrown off his footing at first, he was able to gain the trust of the remaining students and used his limited knowledge to construct simple devices such as molotovs and even a rudimentary cannon. Eventually, he was able to escape Hope's Peak Academy. In March of 2029, when the duties of reorganizing post-verzwieflungkrieg society was at last completed, he married Sayori in Leningrad. Three years following, they had their eldest child, Kiril. Seven years following, another child, again a son named Milorad. In terms of personality, on the chart thingy I made the fuck up, he can best be described as warm/passion. He obviously cares about his friends, and also excels at political agitation.

chapotraphouse commiespammer • 9mo ago • 100%

What are the politics of modern young women?

We know all about the edgy 'manosphere' bullshit that teenage males basically get shoved down their throats these days and gladly suck up since they don't see any alternatives, but what about women?

worldbuilding commiespammer • 9mo ago • 100%

The living jets of Silen's skies

After watching the darwin 4 documentary over the weekend I decided skewers were cool and decided to add a variant of them to my story. So, canonically, the entirety of Silen (the continent Lindsen is located on) was created by Komi(me), and humans were later introduced. Thus, the animals that live there have quite different anatomies from what we're used to. These include the massive flying organisms known as 1/1/17/4. Now this family is quite diverse, and actually consists of two major lineages, 1/1/17/4/1 and its derivatives, as well as 1/1/17/4/2. 1/1/17/4/1 is the older of the two. Organisms of this group have two large jet pods on their backs, while their bodies are torpedo-shaped, with a large mouth that can expand to swallow prey. Teeth are present inside the throat, to aid in crushing it. Juices are digested in the stomach. Most waste is immediately expelled to reduce weight, while nutrients enter the blood. Several large blood vessels flow past the jet pods to cool off, also heating the air inside slightly. In two organs beneath the jet pods, glucose and fat are metabolized into methane. Upon entering the jet pods, air first goes through several tightly compacted swirls to increase pressure, then into a combustion chamber which expanding muscles can compress. Methane is added here, and electrical pulses from ignition nerves ignite the mixture. A sphincter opens shortly following a compression to allow the heated air to release. Most members of the 1/1/17/4/1 family have not lost their hind fins. They have instead evolved into two triangular fins that sit directly behind the jet pods, possible directing the flow of air. A single large tail that resembles a boat's rudder is located at the end of the organism and has colorful patterns that may aid it in finding mates. The two wings resemble elongated triangles. The eyes sit close to the lower jaw, and transparent eyelids can cover them when prey is being attacked. While superficially similar, 1/1/17/4/2 is quite a different family. For one, its jet pods are located at the base of the wings. It lacks stabilizers, as its fins have migrated to where its lower jaw once was to form a sharp, flexible organ resembling a limb crossed with a jaw that can impale prey. It is smaller and faster than its cousins in 1/1/17/4/1, as its smaller size (though it's still very big, it has a wingspan of 6 meters and a length of roughly 3) ensures it can have a faster metabolism. These two species have been regarded as pests due to their hunting of herds of livestock. In the past, little could be done about them due to the lacking of any weapons that would be effective against their speed. However, developments in firearms have caused a considerable decline in their numbers. If the living jets are to remain in Silen's skies, action must be taken to protect them. Although, frankly, given all the shit that's going on in Silen, I wouldn't blame them if preserving these species are pretty low on their list of priorities.

Hear me out, this could be like a sub where we discuss trends and stuff for people who don't understand new trends, kinda like out of the loop for reddit.

Before you read this, do keep in mind that although I'm a native speaker, I'm not all that good with actually writing chinese songs, or any songs at all for that matter. Plus, I had to make very weird phrases to make some of them work, so apologies if any of this really bothers you. I also formatted it as code so I could have normal paragraphs. The re-translation to english is also probably unrecognizable. ::: spoiler Chinese ``` 我们习惯从开车得到欢乐 很快我们就会忘记曾是怎么走着 对我们来说走两步就是折磨 但十万米对汽车不算什么 摩托汽车，摩托汽车 覆盖了世界，也覆盖了你我 就算是寂静，干枯的古河 也躲不过飞奔的摩托汽车 我们的音乐是发动机的喧闹 汽油对我们来说闻起来像香料 我们需要什么？四条车道的大桥 还有用来维护车子的材料 摩托汽车，摩托汽车 覆盖了世界，也覆盖了你我 就算是寂静，干枯的古河 也躲不过飞奔的摩托汽车 有一个矛盾显得格外突兀 就是车子应该为我们服务 可是我们爬到车下，闻着难闻的烟雾 像我们是这些机器的奴仆 摩托汽车，摩托汽车 覆盖了世界，也覆盖了你我 就算是寂静，干枯的古河 也躲不过飞奔的摩托汽车 ``` ::: ::: spoiler English w/notes ``` We are accustomed to taking pleasure from driving Soon we'll forget how we once walked (In the original song these two lines are inverted. I swapped their places, partly for rhythm, and partly because I was going off memory for this part) For us, two steps is agony But a car can handle a hundred kilometers with ease The refrain, which is the paragraph below, is sung twice here. Automobiles, automobiles (literally 'motor cars'. I don't think this is an actual expression in Chinese, but I had to get enough syllables somehow.) have covered the world, have covered you and me (The original lyric only mentions automobiles 'literally covering everything. I changed it partly to rhyme, and partly to get enough syllables.) Even the quiet, dried ancient riverbed (The original lyric is about places where dust has laid for centuries. I changed it so it would rhyme with the next line.) Cannot stop the speeding automobile. (I used the term 'feiben', which can't be directly translated to english afaik, but roughly means 'going really fast'. Again, the original lyric is about automobiles leaving their mark, but I changed it for, you guessed it, syllables.) The sound of engines is music to our ears, And gasoline smells like spices. (These two lines are fairly faithful to the original, but the first line has its structure inverted.) What do we need? Four lane highways! (The original line bemoans lanes being too narrow. I changed it to bridges to rhyme.) And materials to repair our cars. The refrain is sung twice here. A contradiction is particularly obvious, (There is no mention of this in the original. I added it to have enough syllables. I do that a lot, don’t I.) Cars were supposed to serve us (This is the real first line) But we crawl under the car, and inhale disgusting smoke (This should be two lines, and the part about smoke is nowhere in the song. But I had to make it rhyme somehow. A side effect was that I ended up with an absurd amount of syllables.) Like we are the slaves of these machines (Again, no mention of this in the original, but I had to rhyme, and it’s heavily implied anyways.) The refrain is now sung four more times. ``` ::: ::: spoiler spoiler I'M JOINING THE WAR ON CARS ON THE SIDE OF THE CARS ::: spoiler spoiler I'm just joking please don't kill me ::: :::

worldbuilding commiespammer • 10mo ago • 100%

The Menora Kingdoms---- basically Italy

Unlike Lindsen, the southern Menora kingdoms were never whole. Wedged between the southern coast and the Raimat river, they have historically been separate, albeit sharing cultures. However, an Orenland state has established a Commission in its southeast peninsula, and although it expands less aggressively than the analogous Lindsen Commission, it is still a threat to the unity of the nation. In the eastern area between the two forks of the Raimat river is eastern Menora, which has modernized in part due to influence from the Menora Commission, with beret hats becoming a staple of the local industrialist leaders, be they populist or centralist. To the west, more traditional rulers guard their kingdoms from dangerous and radical schools of thought that may bring upheaval to their feudal orders. In the southwest, Emilio Colella rules in the Sidenian Kingdom, occupying roughly a third of western Menora. His coastal kingdom holds significant economical influence as well as having access to plentiful resources. Rocco Pignatoro is slightly further north, with his Subaldena bordering Lindsen's Aldenland, being only a river apart. A rather traditional though large kingdom slightly smaller than the Sidenian Kingdom. It is more technologically backwards due to being essentially locked from the outside world. But will the turmoil in the continent force it to embrace change? Matteo Landolfi rules the Dosenti State in the eastern portion of Menora, in the middle of the section with a small port. It borders the Menora Commission directly and as a result has greatly benefited from the technology leaking from the advanced Commission. But will Melinda Whitfield tolerate this one-sided flow of precious Orenland advantage? Salvatore Scanga is in even more dire straights, with most of his republic close to the Commission border. He clings on for now, intensifying construction of fortifications he hopes will delay the inevitable onslaught, but is he only erecting dirt walls in the unstoppable path of fate? Melinda Whitfield controls the Merona Commission, where lighter policy has resulted in significantly less unrest than her Lindsen counterparts. But this has resulted in less progress towards true matriarchy than her superiors would desire, and as the years drag on they may lose their patience entirely. Finally, the industrial populist state of the Vensorian Council, a small and often overlooked country in the north of eastern Menora, is ruled precariously by Belani Insoro, with power split between the two main industrial populist parties, the VRC and the VRGP. But the industrial centralist VNPA lurks in the shadows as promised reforms fail to bring about substantial improvements in life, even as various proletarian populist movements hinder various projects. Most disturbing of all, the establishment of Albert Stahler's Worker's State in the northern border has resulted in a diffusion of proletarian centralist thought. Who knows what the future will entail... All of these countries may have never been a part of something greater, yet advances in communication and nationalism has created something new in the people. And perhaps someday, their dream will be fulfilled, and all of Menora will be one.

worldbuilding commiespammer • 10mo ago • 100%

Orenland's Vietnam: the war in Lindsen from the perspective of the invaders

If you asked any soldier or student in any warlord state in Lindsen what the cause of the Orenland invasion, you would get different answers. From a citizen of the state of Aldenburg, that they come to upend Lindsen's traditions and impose unnatural matriarchy upon its citizens. From the Worker's State, that they are capitalists seeking resources to exploit, no longer satisfied with what they can find on their own soil. From a businessman in Gorsenya, they are here to rob Lindsen of economic activity.. All these answers are true to an extent. Due to sea monsters, the two continents only connected very recently, when an Orenland steamship fitted with a reinforced hull reached the eastern coast of the southern Lohne strip, belonging to Lindsen at the time. From the point of view of the invaders, this was an excellent opportunity to expand its raw resource base, as well as to relieve social tensions. At home, despite numerous attempts at suppression, strikes and other such disloyal behaviors were rising, while others complained that even in industrialized times men were still legally property, and even going to suggest that industrial populism was not very populist after all. The invasion was over in months. Superior artillery as well as tanks and aircraft, which were nonexistent in the backwards states of Lindsen, Burgune, and the fragmented southern kingdoms, easily destroyed their armies. Peace was made with Burgune, while an uneasy stalemate was achieved with the southern Menora kingdoms. No such luck in Lindsen, which was defeated thoroughly and turned into a puppet. For a year or so, things were looking up, with a large region to extract resources and more jobs to soothe unruly elements at home. Unfortunately, the people of Lindsen did not make things easy for the invaders. In two years the Commission's territory was history and it only retained a fertile but small section of the Lohne strip. Masses were angry as austerity measures had come down to nothing, with none of the promised riches from war going into the pockets of working women. Industrialists were similarly angered by the lack of promised profit. With this background as well as the spread of proletarianism, both centralist and populist, across all the nations of Orenland, several massive civil wars broke out in which various smaller states were seized by proletarian forces around eight years after initial invasion. The governments of several larger states, including Orenland proper, hastily mobilized to combat the red menace. While they were successful in containing the proletarian revolutions, it left them militarily and economically hollowed, and allowed for the Lindsen states to develop without fragmentation intervention. While the two federations were defeated two years later, it was a half-measure at best and little measures were imposed to contain them. Thirteen years after the initial invasion, the situation had stabilized somewhat, with the propaganda machine working to indoctrinate a new generation against dangerous proletarian sentiments that would snuff out, it was hoped, the revolutionary flame once and for all. But Albert Stahler of the South Lindsen Worker's State and his growing country seem to think otherwise, and the time may come again where a second conflict with Lindsen will leave Orenland too weakened to fight, even against threats within its own borders. The fate of a continent and the entire matriarchy painstakingly built in the Commission, as well as its Menora section, lies on the actions of these warlords with their own dreams for their nation. May the One save Orenland, for no one else can.

worldbuilding commiespammer • 10mo ago • 93%

How might a society remain matriarchal through the development of agriculture?

So while I've done some detailed worldbuilding for Lindsen and its surrounding nations, I haven't even drawn a map for the Orenland yet, and all I know is that it's slightly more advanced and it's supposed to be matriarchal. But how might it have become so even with agriculture being developed? I contemplated having the entire continent or at least the part where humans originated be rainforest with plentiful fruits to make gathering more viable, while dangerous animals meant men were needed for defense and therefore more expendable. However, this is immensely stupid for obvious reasons. Does anybody have better ideas I can steal?

em_poc commiespammer • 10mo ago • 97%

Cooking with commiespammer: How to make pork dumplings! (cw: meat)

Hey guys! Commiespammer here, and today I'll be telling you guys how to make traditional chinese dumplings! Note that this is just a quick overview, and you should probably find a real guide online if you don't want to fuck up very badly. So, here goes! So first, what you're going to want to do is to prepare the stuffing, which is pretty easy. You want to prepare some soy sauce, ground pork, and lettuce. Then, grind up the lettuce and stir it with the pork in a pot, adding a little soy sauce. Keep mixing until it's mostly even. Then, take some dough and roll it into a loop about 3 or 4 centimeters in diameter. Chop it into little circle slices about a centimeter across, then roll them into circles slightly bigger than your palm with a dough roller. Make sure to sprinkle some flour to prevent sticking. Now, you take the little circles and you scoop some of the pork with a small spoon and place it in the middle. Then, you pinch together two opposite sides of the circle. I'm not even going to try to explain what you do now, so here's a picture:  Next, you put them on a cloth and steam them--- put them over a pot filled with water. Do this until the dough turns yellowish-gray and becomes bouncy. Enjoy! You can serve them with soy sauce and vinegar (the black chinese kind, not the shitty american stuff that tastes like bleach). If you can't eat them all at once, you can fry them the next day so they're even better!

worldbuilding commiespammer • 10mo ago • 100%

South Lindsen Worker's State lore: Albert Stahler, the man of steel

Two years after the Orenland invasion, the former Lindsen Commission collapsed. Brandon Holstein, a member of the old nobility, led his chunk of the Southern Raimat. The initial threat of an invasion from the remains of the Commission subsided when many fragmented warlord states arose between it and Holstein's domain. The ambitious Holstein took it upon himself to reunify the nation, trusting that the Commission would be too weakened to notice his expansion. For a while this strategy was effective. Holstein was able to federate with many larger closer states over the next seven years, while also annexing surrounding microstates. He also attempted to industrialize his country to compete in productions with the Commission. While he was able to establish a formidable industry, this also led to the quiet strengthening of industrialists, which he tried his best to suppress. For most of the first ten years after the invasion he was successful at keeping a lid over industrialist power. Eventually, Johannes Heydritch's North Lindsen Federation had also become sufficiently powerful, so Holstein proposed a federation that would then lead to only west Lindsen being incomplete, by which point the weak warlords there could be easily defeated. However, the Commission had grown westward in the decade after its initial collapse and was now almost bordering the two federations. The day before the federation would've occured, the commission invaded the two federations and crushed both of them. The treaty of East Lindsen was signed, forcing the two federations to split apart into their constituitent states. The remaining rump state of South Lindsen lost much of its authority. Holstein became closer to Albert Stahler in this period of time as the industrialists gained more and more power over the nation's affairs. He entrusted Stahler with his ultimate plan: seeing as retaining his nobilibty was no longer possible, he hoped to instead pursue one of his long-lost dreams of utopianism, when he was just an aspiring prince in a Lindsen that was still complete. Two years after the federation's defeat, Holstein died. On the same day, Stahler became the Regent of the South Lindsen Federation, and disbanded the army with the pretext of reorganizing. He quickly mobilized the masses as all industrial output stalled for the day. The private police of the Industrialists retaliated but was quickly crushed by the sheer number of workers Stahler had organized, combined with the weapons confiscated from the former army. Within a week the industrialists were crushed and the workers had siezed power. Soon afterwards, Stahler revoked his position of regent and declared himself the chairman of the South Lindsen Worker's State under the governing principles of Proletarian Centralism, a jump from the previous Feudal Centralism. While the new state faced challenges, most neighboring states were too weak to intervene. In addition, there were none of the problems with production the later matriarchal and patriarchal post-Commission states had, due to workers being familiar with production already. The Commission invaded two years later, taking the eastern half of the Worker's State. But despite this massive setback, it retains the industrial base to expand and strengthen for possible unification. What does the future hold for the South Lindsen Worker's State?

“What are you pondering today, Junko?” “Have you ever thought about the existence of a higher power, Monika?” “....” “That’s awfully spiritual of you, Junko.” “No, I’ve found some quite interesting inconsistencies in our world that could be explained away with such a being interfering—or quite possibly dictating—the events of our time.” “You don’t mean to say that we’re all just characters in a story?” “That’s certainly one possibility. Pavel certainly has done much better than his previous efforts would suggest.” “Pavel wasn’t the best student when we were in the literature club. Now that you mention it, I can’t really imagine how he became a logic genius overnight.’’ “The more I think, the more I suspect that we are just characters in a story, and quite a poorly written one at that. At this very moment the author is typing words into a computer, or perhaps across a typewriter, or maybe a pencil to paper. These words are not mine, nor are any I’ve ever uttered, nor do anyone’s words in our world belong to them.” Monika was slightly skeptical. “But… minor inconsistencies can’t really prove that we’re not real. There could be a better explanation!” I have decided that I should reveal my existence to Monika. Junko’s teachings have gotten quite monotonous and any variety, even immersion-breaking ones, should bring some sort of freshness, even if I will have sacrificed the story’s integrity. To hell with logic; I am the law! Monika sank to her knees. “So… we did all this for nothing?” “It’s all worthless?” she continued, sobbing. “I—-” “But from a certain point of view this is a release. I have killed nobody. Only characters designed to illustrate a point. And not even characters but vague groups of people. I expect since this is a story there is some sort of message?” At this Junko tilted her head, as if waiting for a response from the heavens. “You are an inquisitive one, Junko. I did not expect for this to happen,” I said with some degree of reverence in my voice. She shrugged. “You are the one putting these words into me. Like a marionette. I don’t harbor any animosity towards you, though— or should I say, this character’s general pattern of behavior that you’ve stored in the back of your mind doesn’t act in that way.” “This meta commentary is amusing, but it’s bound to get old,” I replied. “Do you have any soda?” Junko nodded. “Monika, go get some. Isn’t it funny how none of us were even surprised when you popped into existence?” Monika removed several cans from a small refrigerator nearby. In retrospect I could have just conjured a can from thin air, but the immersion was broken enough as it was. “Speaking of which, Monika, it’s quite ironic that Junko was the first to realize my existence, given your backstory.” “My what?” Junko smiled knowingly. She had access to the things I knew now, somehow, by doing something I’m too lazy to describe here. “You’re not an original character; you and Sayori, Yuri, and Natsuki are actually characters from a visual novel.” “You mean I’m not even original? You just stole me from someone else?” “Well, if you put it that way…” I checked my watch and decide that it’s time to leave. “Well, that was fun. Now if you excuse me I’ll have to leave.” “He used the wrong tense in the last paragraph,” Junko said. “I’m sure somebody will interpret that as a symbol of some kind.” “Want some coke?” Monika asked after a moment’s pause.

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'Hostages' killed by IDF confirmed to be Hamas terrorist savages in disguise, say CBT reporters.

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chapotraphouse commiespammer • 10mo ago • 100%

A confession I have to make

I used to think Thomas Sankara was an anthropologist, and The Upright Man was a book about early humans.

worldbuilding commiespammer • 10mo ago • 100%

Post-Lindsen Commission Collapse Femboy Revanchist Patriarchy---- the Muzhinen Iron State

The Lindsen Commission can and will collapse. This unstable Orenland puppet, no matter what actions it takes, will eventually implode. Whether Frederick Olsten reclaims the throne, or Maria remains and unifies Lindsen, it will fall apart to countless rebels. In the former commission's northern areas, near the border between the commission and the northern, mostly independent states of the Lohne strip, there is the Muzhinen Iron State, ruled by Franz Scholl. He is part of the younger generation of commission men, who dream of a restored patriarchy but can only construct a broken vision of one, having spent fifteen years under Commission oppression. To further complicate matters, Commission policy resulted in most technical knowledge being concentrated in the hands of women. The Iron State rests in a precarious situation, with patriarchy being barely maintained with Scholl's Iron Armoe. Any imbalances in the situation could throw it into further instability, or worse, the complete collapse of the male dominance that Scholl has worked so hard to maintain... The Iron State's neighbors are not to be trusted. To the east, the Orenlanders have grown tired of proxies and have directly established a presence in Lindsen, intending to annex the entire nation once more. The technologically inferior Iron State will have to expand westward to the even more backwards western states if it wishes to survive the onslaught. To the south, Klara Clausewitz's ineffective but large Governate of East Lindsen is also a threat, albeit a lesser one that must constantly combat internal strife. In terms of international relations, both forward and guard nations of the Lindsen Warlords view it as an illegitimate state at best. The forward nation of Stahler's Worker's State views it as a twisted and hauntingly pathless but nonetheless oppressive patriarchy, while most other guard nations view its version of Commission-warped masculinity as a perversion of what they view as the glorious tradition of Lindsen soldier men. The uniform of the Iron Armoe soldier is, of course, the traditional Lindsen maid dress, in part due to its role in the Iron State's patriarchal system. The major factor, however, is the Iron State's internal strife. With a barely functional industrial system stacked with severe development output and cost debuffs, it can do little more than maintain its rusting production lines left by the invaders, using whatever is on hand. Scholl has never considered peaceful unification as an option. In his view, a whole Lindsen will either be ruled by him, or will never manifest at all.