Tabascoheath
Unkempt, Evil-eyed Charlatan, and Pseudo-Mystic
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Fine, I'll take the militia training action.
The American Experiment (Riot Quest)
- Thread starter Physici
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Gardener of Human Happiness
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- Behind You
[X][TFAM] Plan Political Power Grows Out Of The Barrel Of A Gun
-[X] DEFENSE GROUP: Train militia. 18 cadres.
-[X] Make a standardized bureaucracy for the organization to maintain cohesion in it and all its branches. Gives +1 action, 30 funds, -5 funds per turn (cost scales with size).
-[X] Set up an organizing group to have members in secret actively travel to sharecropping plantations and invite the workers there to the group. 10 funds, -5 per turn.
-[X] Lobby against the anti-vigilante law in Louisiana. 15 funds.
-[X] Draft a set of proposals for reorganizing leadership structure.
-[X] Hire militia to work part time rather than on a volunteer basis. 21 cadres, -1 fund per turn per cadre (recommend training first/concurrently)
-[X] Establish a set of procedures for formally training militia to be able to do so faster. 5 funds, -2 per turn.
-[X] Form a committee for discussing strategy and training militia leadership in it. -2 funds per turn.
-[X][UF] Merge the UF credit unions into one nationwide one. Write-in name.
-[X][UF] Participate in Congress so that they may guide it to their benefit.
--[X] Write-In: Refuse to sit in the Senate, pursuant to the party programme and in protest of the refusal of Illinois's upper house to return a Socialist senator, which demonstrates that the existence of the upper house representing states (and the millionaires who can buy state legislators), and of upper houses generally, are contrary to democracy.
-[X][UF] Vote against a tariff to keep prices low.
-[X][UF] Vote against the Anti-Trust Act
-[X] DEFENSE GROUP: Train militia. 18 cadres.
-[X] Make a standardized bureaucracy for the organization to maintain cohesion in it and all its branches. Gives +1 action, 30 funds, -5 funds per turn (cost scales with size).
-[X] Set up an organizing group to have members in secret actively travel to sharecropping plantations and invite the workers there to the group. 10 funds, -5 per turn.
-[X] Lobby against the anti-vigilante law in Louisiana. 15 funds.
-[X] Draft a set of proposals for reorganizing leadership structure.
-[X] Hire militia to work part time rather than on a volunteer basis. 21 cadres, -1 fund per turn per cadre (recommend training first/concurrently)
-[X] Establish a set of procedures for formally training militia to be able to do so faster. 5 funds, -2 per turn.
-[X] Form a committee for discussing strategy and training militia leadership in it. -2 funds per turn.
-[X][UF] Merge the UF credit unions into one nationwide one. Write-in name.
-[X][UF] Participate in Congress so that they may guide it to their benefit.
--[X] Write-In: Refuse to sit in the Senate, pursuant to the party programme and in protest of the refusal of Illinois's upper house to return a Socialist senator, which demonstrates that the existence of the upper house representing states (and the millionaires who can buy state legislators), and of upper houses generally, are contrary to democracy.
-[X][UF] Vote against a tariff to keep prices low.
-[X][UF] Vote against the Anti-Trust Act
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- Lake Wobegon
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- He/Him/His
ACUA and UF planners, for your consideration and discussion:
[x][ACUA] Plan You've Gotta Go Down and Join the Union By Yourself*
(7/7 actions) ((110+10)/110 funds)
-[x] Support Pennsylvania coal mine workers in the United Mine Workers by providing funds and organization assistance for their planned strike. 10 funds (from strike fund; 12 => 2 funds).
--[x] Send extra funds for Illinois, Ohio, and West Virginia branches of the UMW to sympathy strike. 20 funds.
-[x] Go to the black belt cities and help workers unionize. 12 funds. 78/?
--[x] Write-in: focus in particular on Birmingham, as the southern hub of the steel industry which is otherwise receiving organizing attention this year.
-[x] Go to the steel belt and begin unionizing factory workers there. 30 funds. 0/?
-[x] With Seattle's population boom, organize among the new workers to create ACUA aligned unions. 12 funds. 0/100
-[x] Form an inter-union mutual aid organization committee which will help forward mutual aid requests to nearby ACUA union members. 10 funds, -5 per turn.
-[x] Form a dedicated part of the organization for creating legislation to pass onto SLP representatives and to act as party whip. 10 funds, -10 per turn, +1 policy action
-[x] Run a candidate for New York's mayor. 16 funds.
-[x][UF] Merge the UF credit unions into one nationwide one. Amalgamated Credit Union.
-[x][UF] Participate in Congress so that they may guide it to their benefit.
--[x] Write-In: Refuse to sit in the Senate, pursuant to the party programme and in protest of the refusal of Illinois's upper house to return a Socialist senator, which demonstrates that the existence of the upper house representing states (and the millionaires who can buy state legislators), and of upper houses generally, are contrary to democracy.
-[x][UF] Vote against a tariff to keep prices low.
-[x][UF] Vote against the Anti-Trust Act.
[x][UF] Budget Gulf Stream
-[x] Campaign in the New York mayoral election. 26 funds.
Assisting the UMW, and organizing Chicago factories (on a cross-gender basis – SUS's similar action is exclusive to women workers), black belt cities (on a cross-racial basis – FAM's similar action is exclusive to Black workers), the steel belt, and Seattle, are as far as I can tell ACUA-exclusive actions and as such ACUA bears responsibility to the rest of the United Front of making sure they get done. At 1d20-1 per fund, we can probably organize Seattle with 10 funds. Chicago, the Black Belt, and the Steel Belt are all imponderable as far as how much we need to invest, but taking the UMW campaign as about indicative of what would be necessary argues for about 30 funds each. This is beyond ACUA's current capacity, so Chicago and the Black Belt are deprioritized somewhat to divert funds to the ACUA-exclusive Steel Belt and UMW campaigns (the latter of which gets 10 funds from the strike fund to bring it up to 30—this is exactly the sort of thing the strike fund is for), and to assisting in the UF effort in the New York mayoral election (see below). The Black Belt moreso than Chicago because of the progress already made.
That leaves two actions available, the major ones of which are the campaign against the AFofL (which starts a turf war with Gompers), union mutual aid (which if RFAA's and SUS's experience is anything to go by provides a standing boost to recruitment in exchange for funds), the dues committee (which straight-up injects funds), the political action committee (which provides another "policy" action examples of which can be found under the United Front heading), and helping out in the New York and Chicago mayoral elections.
The anti-AFofL campaign is right out until we take the option to action to encourage or mandate industrial unionism. And while generally I'd quite like to fuck the AFofL as quickly as possible, I don't want to take the industrial unionism policy until after we've buttered up the UMW by helping out in their strike, since it would necessarily entail merging the UMW with the WFM if the former joins ACUA, and both probably need time to get used to the idea. The general order of operations here should be: 1. help the UMW; 2. integrate the UMW; 3. mandate industrial unionism (merging UMW and WFM); 4. campaign against the AFofL. The plan already takes Step 1, so that's good (EDIT: Step 2 may happen automatically if the UMW's strike goes well).
Mutual aid can hold off for a turn, since ACUA got a bunch of one-time percentage-based recruitment bonuses last turn—(many thanks for the votes to make the most of it! And note that if the UMW strike goes well, it has a chance of joining ACUA this turn, so if you can spare votes for us this supporters gather phase so we can benefit from another percentage-based boost, we'd appreciate it).It would also seem to require more funds, so the order of operations should probably be: 1. dues committee and/or Colorado credit unions; 2. mutual aid. ACUA has enough actions to take both the dues committee and Colorado credit unions this turn. And this is tempting, as more funds are always welcome (EDIT: the promise of financial and other assistance has led to revision of this plan, and mutual aid will now be taken this turn, in exchange for delaying Chicago factory organization for a turn. The five funds' difference are split between Seattle organization to put its average over 100, Black Belt organization, and New York electioneering). But…
Actions are better. As demonstrated, ACUA doesn't have the actions to spare to promote policies at the moment, and getting a dedicated policy die would allow for that, and the attendant benefits (primarily showing members and supporters that they gain materially by their membership and support). Further, parliamentarians require a firm hand. It is ACUA's special responsibility to ensure the Coloradoans do not stray, because they joined the SLP at our prompting, were not originally socialists and have less regard for the central executive committee than other branches, and fall within our geographic bailiwick. So the political action committee gets priority this turn (EDIT: it appears that ACUA gets to back the full geographic gamut of policies in the UF section, so the policy die only becomes more necessary to get, to help other UF orgs with policies that will support them). On the theme of political action, mayoral elections. Based on past results and other factors I think RFAA's gonna have a harder time in New York than SUS will in Chicago (where it can probably carry the election itself). And if RFAA's gonna be campaigning at all, contrary to its political instincts, one good turn deserves another. Alas we only have 10 funds to spend on this campaign after the spending on union organizing, so RFAA and the UF are going to have to carry the rest.
For the United Front, ACUA doesn't have many credit unions to its name and the scope for expansion is relatively limited (Colorado is not terribly populous), so generally gains by amalgamation. The SLP House caucus is large enough to act as popular tribunes not easily ignored, and would be abdicating its responsibility if it did not call the nation's attention to, for instance, the threat to New Orleans's self-government posed by the Redeemer government in Baton Rouge. On the other hand, Colorado's Senate delegation won't be missed, and they owe it to their putative colleague from Illinois to not take their seats in protest. To say nothing of opposition to upper houses on principle, as set forth in the party program (for a Colorado policy action, I'd quite like to abolish theirs, but that's something for after the PAC is set up given the dearth of actions). Policy-wise the anti-Tariff and anti-Sherman positions are, on the one hand, a balance of interests (we support being able to keep prices low for agricultural workers' and farmers' costs of living, but on the other hand we oppose attacks on industrial workers' unions as "combinations in restraint of trade" and we also see that large, non-competitive firms might be able to afford higher wages than smaller firms compelled by competition to cut overhead), but on the other hand form a dialectic unity of opposition to the programme of the backlashing McKinley government. Not a man, not a penny for this agenda.
UF budgetsplits attention between (EDIT: goes all in on) supporting Hillquit in the Greater New York mayoral race, and building up electoral capacity in California (EDIT: will happen next year, since apparently electoral apparatuses work just as well the year they're built). Reaching out to the AFofL rank and file last turn didn't work, and as set forth above building the campaign against it will take time, so since the AFofL prefers to wheel and deal with the bourgeois parties, defending our turf in the west is going to require building a labor party for political action.
[x][ACUA] Plan You've Gotta Go Down and Join the Union By Yourself*
(7/7 actions) ((110+10)/110 funds)
-[x] Support Pennsylvania coal mine workers in the United Mine Workers by providing funds and organization assistance for their planned strike. 10 funds (from strike fund; 12 => 2 funds).
--[x] Send extra funds for Illinois, Ohio, and West Virginia branches of the UMW to sympathy strike. 20 funds.
-[x] Go to the black belt cities and help workers unionize. 12 funds. 78/?
--[x] Write-in: focus in particular on Birmingham, as the southern hub of the steel industry which is otherwise receiving organizing attention this year.
-[x] Go to the steel belt and begin unionizing factory workers there. 30 funds. 0/?
-[x] With Seattle's population boom, organize among the new workers to create ACUA aligned unions. 12 funds. 0/100
-[x] Form an inter-union mutual aid organization committee which will help forward mutual aid requests to nearby ACUA union members. 10 funds, -5 per turn.
-[x] Form a dedicated part of the organization for creating legislation to pass onto SLP representatives and to act as party whip. 10 funds, -10 per turn, +1 policy action
-[x] Run a candidate for New York's mayor. 16 funds.
-[x][UF] Merge the UF credit unions into one nationwide one. Amalgamated Credit Union.
-[x][UF] Participate in Congress so that they may guide it to their benefit.
--[x] Write-In: Refuse to sit in the Senate, pursuant to the party programme and in protest of the refusal of Illinois's upper house to return a Socialist senator, which demonstrates that the existence of the upper house representing states (and the millionaires who can buy state legislators), and of upper houses generally, are contrary to democracy.
-[x][UF] Vote against a tariff to keep prices low.
-[x][UF] Vote against the Anti-Trust Act.
[x][UF] Budget Gulf Stream
-[x] Campaign in the New York mayoral election. 26 funds.
Assisting the UMW, and organizing Chicago factories (on a cross-gender basis – SUS's similar action is exclusive to women workers), black belt cities (on a cross-racial basis – FAM's similar action is exclusive to Black workers), the steel belt, and Seattle, are as far as I can tell ACUA-exclusive actions and as such ACUA bears responsibility to the rest of the United Front of making sure they get done. At 1d20-1 per fund, we can probably organize Seattle with 10 funds. Chicago, the Black Belt, and the Steel Belt are all imponderable as far as how much we need to invest, but taking the UMW campaign as about indicative of what would be necessary argues for about 30 funds each. This is beyond ACUA's current capacity, so Chicago and the Black Belt are deprioritized somewhat to divert funds to the ACUA-exclusive Steel Belt and UMW campaigns (the latter of which gets 10 funds from the strike fund to bring it up to 30—this is exactly the sort of thing the strike fund is for), and to assisting in the UF effort in the New York mayoral election (see below). The Black Belt moreso than Chicago because of the progress already made.
That leaves two actions available, the major ones of which are the campaign against the AFofL (which starts a turf war with Gompers), union mutual aid (which if RFAA's and SUS's experience is anything to go by provides a standing boost to recruitment in exchange for funds), the dues committee (which straight-up injects funds), the political action committee (which provides another "policy" action examples of which can be found under the United Front heading), and helping out in the New York and Chicago mayoral elections.
The anti-AFofL campaign is right out until we take the option to action to encourage or mandate industrial unionism. And while generally I'd quite like to fuck the AFofL as quickly as possible, I don't want to take the industrial unionism policy until after we've buttered up the UMW by helping out in their strike, since it would necessarily entail merging the UMW with the WFM if the former joins ACUA, and both probably need time to get used to the idea. The general order of operations here should be: 1. help the UMW; 2. integrate the UMW; 3. mandate industrial unionism (merging UMW and WFM); 4. campaign against the AFofL. The plan already takes Step 1, so that's good (EDIT: Step 2 may happen automatically if the UMW's strike goes well).
Mutual aid can hold off for a turn, since ACUA got a bunch of one-time percentage-based recruitment bonuses last turn—(many thanks for the votes to make the most of it! And note that if the UMW strike goes well, it has a chance of joining ACUA this turn, so if you can spare votes for us this supporters gather phase so we can benefit from another percentage-based boost, we'd appreciate it).
Actions are better. As demonstrated, ACUA doesn't have the actions to spare to promote policies at the moment, and getting a dedicated policy die would allow for that, and the attendant benefits (primarily showing members and supporters that they gain materially by their membership and support). Further, parliamentarians require a firm hand. It is ACUA's special responsibility to ensure the Coloradoans do not stray, because they joined the SLP at our prompting, were not originally socialists and have less regard for the central executive committee than other branches, and fall within our geographic bailiwick. So the political action committee gets priority this turn (EDIT: it appears that ACUA gets to back the full geographic gamut of policies in the UF section, so the policy die only becomes more necessary to get, to help other UF orgs with policies that will support them). On the theme of political action, mayoral elections. Based on past results and other factors I think RFAA's gonna have a harder time in New York than SUS will in Chicago (where it can probably carry the election itself). And if RFAA's gonna be campaigning at all, contrary to its political instincts, one good turn deserves another. Alas we only have 10 funds to spend on this campaign after the spending on union organizing, so RFAA and the UF are going to have to carry the rest.
For the United Front, ACUA doesn't have many credit unions to its name and the scope for expansion is relatively limited (Colorado is not terribly populous), so generally gains by amalgamation. The SLP House caucus is large enough to act as popular tribunes not easily ignored, and would be abdicating its responsibility if it did not call the nation's attention to, for instance, the threat to New Orleans's self-government posed by the Redeemer government in Baton Rouge. On the other hand, Colorado's Senate delegation won't be missed, and they owe it to their putative colleague from Illinois to not take their seats in protest. To say nothing of opposition to upper houses on principle, as set forth in the party program (for a Colorado policy action, I'd quite like to abolish theirs, but that's something for after the PAC is set up given the dearth of actions). Policy-wise the anti-Tariff and anti-Sherman positions are, on the one hand, a balance of interests (we support being able to keep prices low for agricultural workers' and farmers' costs of living, but on the other hand we oppose attacks on industrial workers' unions as "combinations in restraint of trade" and we also see that large, non-competitive firms might be able to afford higher wages than smaller firms compelled by competition to cut overhead), but on the other hand form a dialectic unity of opposition to the programme of the backlashing McKinley government. Not a man, not a penny for this agenda.
UF budget
Name refers to the alternate lyrics Woody Guthrie wrote for "You've Gotta Walk that Lonesome Valley." IOTL the latter wouldn't be recorded until 1927 by Davey Miller (who'd be about three years old, living in Huntington, WV at this time ITTL) and was not widely known outside Appalachia until then.
Union music at this time was march- and choir-inflected, and did not develop an association with Old-Time/Appalachian stylings until Guthrie and the Almanac Singers popularized the latter in the 1930s. ITTL, with union organizers from all over the country flooding the region at the same time the Appalachian Brotherhood is doing cultural promotion, the association might develop earlier. Perhaps Margaret Dillon (Miller's mother) is just such a propagandist for the AB.
Union music at this time was march- and choir-inflected, and did not develop an association with Old-Time/Appalachian stylings until Guthrie and the Almanac Singers popularized the latter in the 1930s. ITTL, with union organizers from all over the country flooding the region at the same time the Appalachian Brotherhood is doing cultural promotion, the association might develop earlier. Perhaps Margaret Dillon (Miller's mother) is just such a propagandist for the AB.
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- United States
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
No, there's a 5% decay each turn. I might've been doing it at the start of each turn before but I think the end of the turn is more clear because then the amount said here is what you have during the turn itself.
[X][TOD] Plan Mayor Teddy
-[X] Set up branch offices, many permanent meeting halls in towns all across New York , Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. 40 funds, +1 action.
-[X] Support a charity low cost schooling program in Pittsburgh for adult literacy in African Americans, women, and other minorities. 5 funds, -2 funds per turn.
-[X] Establish a Pennsylvania committee for campaigning for women's suffrage in the state. 10 funds, -5 per turn.
-[X] Establish a New York committee for campaigning for women's suffrage in the state. 12 funds, -6 per turn.
-[X] Campaign for Teddy Roosevelt in NYC for mayor as the progressive candidate. 74 funds.
40+5+10+12+74=141 funds
Sadly, the rural Adult-Literacy program will have to wait until next turn, I think. More actions is a very useful thing.
Also, if anyone is planning on running a challenger to Teddy Roosevelt, well...
I suppose if you come up with a really good reason I might change.
-[X] Set up branch offices, many permanent meeting halls in towns all across New York , Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. 40 funds, +1 action.
-[X] Support a charity low cost schooling program in Pittsburgh for adult literacy in African Americans, women, and other minorities. 5 funds, -2 funds per turn.
-[X] Establish a Pennsylvania committee for campaigning for women's suffrage in the state. 10 funds, -5 per turn.
-[X] Establish a New York committee for campaigning for women's suffrage in the state. 12 funds, -6 per turn.
-[X] Campaign for Teddy Roosevelt in NYC for mayor as the progressive candidate. 74 funds.
40+5+10+12+74=141 funds
Sadly, the rural Adult-Literacy program will have to wait until next turn, I think. More actions is a very useful thing.
Also, if anyone is planning on running a challenger to Teddy Roosevelt, well...
I suppose if you come up with a really good reason I might change.
Proposed Solutions for an Old Southern Pest
Chimeraguard
We do deserve to exist.
Since the FAM has a plan out, I might as well send out this omake I made for them while I was waiting. An additional warning for the racism in it, since it's a Dixiecrat paper freaking out over the FAM's success.
At the start of this decade, a vile pestilence was introduced to our land, destroying the livelihoods of all it touched. Though this blight's form is new, its origins in the negro mob, savage and barbaric as always, is tragically familiar to us. This time however, it has mixed and mongrelized with the younger yet equally loathsome scourge of Socialism, creating the so-called "Forty Acres Movement."
Not content with the usual depravity of nigger bandits, the Forty Acres Movements seeks to further ravage the people of Dixie by seizing the land itself, coercing innocent farmers into surrendering their property to black marauders in exchange for paltry sums and their lives, bribing prisons into releasing their inmates to terrorize others again, and even organizing armed bands to kill and destroy as they please, butchering even the brave citizen-militias who first organized to defend their livelihoods and loved ones from this scourge!
It is natural that any right-thinking man of the South will ask what answers are available to see this disease, one that has proven stubbornly resilient thus far, excised from the body of the nation. It will be no easy matter, for a sickness as virulent and extensive as this one must be battled across many fronts at once before it is quelled.
The first field of battle that must be fought is one of economics. The ultimate, stated goal of the Forty Acres Movement is to complete the destruction of the southern people first attempted in the War of Northern Aggression. In the event of their total victory, the Negro will be the sole owner of property and land in all the South, with the white man forced to either flee the lands of his father and grandfather entirely, or be shackled and whipped by his new Nigger master to work and labor for him.
But though the Nigger has no qualms about seizing the land at gun and knifepoint, he first seeks to acquire it through legal means, to provide a fig leaf of legitimacy. This requires, naturally, money. Money which is also used to purchase guns with which to murder southerners, to bribe the corruptible into turning a blind eye on their deeds, and, it is rumored, to sponsor the creation of outright industry, until a tumorous Negro Nation forms itself beneath our very feet!
The first and most obvious countermeasure is for the better-off gentlemen of society to aid those at risk of being bought-out with generous loans. It is, we must admit, a great ask to require such men to open their purse-strings so extensively, but we men of Dixie are united in a common cause to defend our way of life, and all efforts must be mobilized to preserve it!
This will not be enough on its own however. Forty Acres Movement businesses must be boycotted, its members blacklisted from employment and service to exert further economic pressure on the negro rebel, while those who cross the picket line to purchase from them ostracized as the traitors they are. Through such means we may choke the financial ability of the Movement into nothing, no longer able to squeeze farmers off their land, or purchase the guns to intimidate and kill when that fails.
Of course, the savagery of the nigger will not be constrained by mere threats to economic well-being. Even now, the bandit gangs of the Forty Acres Movement stalk across the Black Belt, seizing by bullet what they cannot by bribery. Against this, we must resort to military options.
Brave southerners have already attempted this solution on their own however, and been found wanting. The White League, long the defenders of the South against the ravages of negro invasion, found itself outnumbered and overrun by the Forty Acres Movement's bandit groups, and forced to flee in disgraceful defeat. Mere volunteer groups and southern courage will not be enough to wipe out this scourge, so it seems.
This does not mean such volunteers are unwelcome. Far from it! But our fathers and grandfathers did not simply go to war by grabbing whatever was available and hurling themselves blindly at the Yankees. When they volunteered, they were organized into units, equipped to the best of the state's ability, and organized under the leadership of skilled gentlemen whom they could trust with their lives. Such are the wartime measures that must be made yet again to battle the negro threat, for make no mistake: this is war. War for the very survival of our people.
More than mere volunteers though, we must call upon the formal State Militias of the South to battle this threat, for what were such institutions founded for if not to defend their people from such threats with trained, military force? And though many patriotic Southerners would prefer to deal with this issue ourselves than involve the obstructive and oppressive hand of the Federal Government, perhaps the deployment of the Army of the United States itself is an option to be considered against such a pervasive and widespread threat. And yet, the deployment of many of these military options will require victory in another field: that of the political sphere.
The lack of censure upon the Forty Acres Movement's unprovoked attacks upon innocent citizens have made it clear to the nation what many of us have always known: Ever since the War of Northern Aggression, the white man has become a victim of discrimination within his own country.
Were any band of whites to march into a peaceful assembly of gentlemen, gun down all they could reach, and boast about their kills in the morning papers, the arm of the law would descend upon them with all due haste. And yet, it has been over a year since the first such Negro attacks began, with not so much a word of displeasure from the Federal government. Even a blind man can see the hand of the Republican Party on this, stained with the blood of our valiant dead.
And yet, here the Negro has already sewn the seeds of his own downfall. By aligning his cause with that of Socialism, he has made himself a mutual enemy of Republicans and Democrats alike. Those spawns of foreigners, that plague of immorality and un-American values taints all it touches in the eyes of the good and just. With enough effort, even the Yankees can be brought to finally recognize the nigger for the villain that he is, and the Forty Acres Movement declared a criminal, a terrorist band that the full might of the army can be unleashed upon, so that shot and shell may drive the nigger bandit to justice, and every member of this so-called "Movement" can be brought, at last, to his proper place upon the noose.
And the elections of 1896 have shown the importance of such actions! Fair Louisiana, the jewel of the South, is sinking into chaos, with fraudulent negros and race traitors within New Orleans have schemed and cheated their way into the legislature! Every moment counts, and every second that anarchists and niggers rule New Orleans is another moment where our beloved land drowns in misery. Whether by ballot or bullet, the city will be liberated!
For a bonus @Physici, I'd like it to be a bonus to any action the FAM desires, with a leaning towards those specifically opposing the actions of White Supremacists.
Proposed Solutions for an Old Southern Pest
At the start of this decade, a vile pestilence was introduced to our land, destroying the livelihoods of all it touched. Though this blight's form is new, its origins in the negro mob, savage and barbaric as always, is tragically familiar to us. This time however, it has mixed and mongrelized with the younger yet equally loathsome scourge of Socialism, creating the so-called "Forty Acres Movement."
Not content with the usual depravity of nigger bandits, the Forty Acres Movements seeks to further ravage the people of Dixie by seizing the land itself, coercing innocent farmers into surrendering their property to black marauders in exchange for paltry sums and their lives, bribing prisons into releasing their inmates to terrorize others again, and even organizing armed bands to kill and destroy as they please, butchering even the brave citizen-militias who first organized to defend their livelihoods and loved ones from this scourge!
It is natural that any right-thinking man of the South will ask what answers are available to see this disease, one that has proven stubbornly resilient thus far, excised from the body of the nation. It will be no easy matter, for a sickness as virulent and extensive as this one must be battled across many fronts at once before it is quelled.
The first field of battle that must be fought is one of economics. The ultimate, stated goal of the Forty Acres Movement is to complete the destruction of the southern people first attempted in the War of Northern Aggression. In the event of their total victory, the Negro will be the sole owner of property and land in all the South, with the white man forced to either flee the lands of his father and grandfather entirely, or be shackled and whipped by his new Nigger master to work and labor for him.
But though the Nigger has no qualms about seizing the land at gun and knifepoint, he first seeks to acquire it through legal means, to provide a fig leaf of legitimacy. This requires, naturally, money. Money which is also used to purchase guns with which to murder southerners, to bribe the corruptible into turning a blind eye on their deeds, and, it is rumored, to sponsor the creation of outright industry, until a tumorous Negro Nation forms itself beneath our very feet!
The first and most obvious countermeasure is for the better-off gentlemen of society to aid those at risk of being bought-out with generous loans. It is, we must admit, a great ask to require such men to open their purse-strings so extensively, but we men of Dixie are united in a common cause to defend our way of life, and all efforts must be mobilized to preserve it!
This will not be enough on its own however. Forty Acres Movement businesses must be boycotted, its members blacklisted from employment and service to exert further economic pressure on the negro rebel, while those who cross the picket line to purchase from them ostracized as the traitors they are. Through such means we may choke the financial ability of the Movement into nothing, no longer able to squeeze farmers off their land, or purchase the guns to intimidate and kill when that fails.
Of course, the savagery of the nigger will not be constrained by mere threats to economic well-being. Even now, the bandit gangs of the Forty Acres Movement stalk across the Black Belt, seizing by bullet what they cannot by bribery. Against this, we must resort to military options.
Brave southerners have already attempted this solution on their own however, and been found wanting. The White League, long the defenders of the South against the ravages of negro invasion, found itself outnumbered and overrun by the Forty Acres Movement's bandit groups, and forced to flee in disgraceful defeat. Mere volunteer groups and southern courage will not be enough to wipe out this scourge, so it seems.
This does not mean such volunteers are unwelcome. Far from it! But our fathers and grandfathers did not simply go to war by grabbing whatever was available and hurling themselves blindly at the Yankees. When they volunteered, they were organized into units, equipped to the best of the state's ability, and organized under the leadership of skilled gentlemen whom they could trust with their lives. Such are the wartime measures that must be made yet again to battle the negro threat, for make no mistake: this is war. War for the very survival of our people.
More than mere volunteers though, we must call upon the formal State Militias of the South to battle this threat, for what were such institutions founded for if not to defend their people from such threats with trained, military force? And though many patriotic Southerners would prefer to deal with this issue ourselves than involve the obstructive and oppressive hand of the Federal Government, perhaps the deployment of the Army of the United States itself is an option to be considered against such a pervasive and widespread threat. And yet, the deployment of many of these military options will require victory in another field: that of the political sphere.
The lack of censure upon the Forty Acres Movement's unprovoked attacks upon innocent citizens have made it clear to the nation what many of us have always known: Ever since the War of Northern Aggression, the white man has become a victim of discrimination within his own country.
Were any band of whites to march into a peaceful assembly of gentlemen, gun down all they could reach, and boast about their kills in the morning papers, the arm of the law would descend upon them with all due haste. And yet, it has been over a year since the first such Negro attacks began, with not so much a word of displeasure from the Federal government. Even a blind man can see the hand of the Republican Party on this, stained with the blood of our valiant dead.
And yet, here the Negro has already sewn the seeds of his own downfall. By aligning his cause with that of Socialism, he has made himself a mutual enemy of Republicans and Democrats alike. Those spawns of foreigners, that plague of immorality and un-American values taints all it touches in the eyes of the good and just. With enough effort, even the Yankees can be brought to finally recognize the nigger for the villain that he is, and the Forty Acres Movement declared a criminal, a terrorist band that the full might of the army can be unleashed upon, so that shot and shell may drive the nigger bandit to justice, and every member of this so-called "Movement" can be brought, at last, to his proper place upon the noose.
And the elections of 1896 have shown the importance of such actions! Fair Louisiana, the jewel of the South, is sinking into chaos, with fraudulent negros and race traitors within New Orleans have schemed and cheated their way into the legislature! Every moment counts, and every second that anarchists and niggers rule New Orleans is another moment where our beloved land drowns in misery. Whether by ballot or bullet, the city will be liberated!
For a bonus @Physici, I'd like it to be a bonus to any action the FAM desires, with a leaning towards those specifically opposing the actions of White Supremacists.
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- Location
- Not the asylum anymore
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X][TFAM] Plan Political Power Grows Out Of The Barrel Of A Gun
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
Omake canon, it's quite realistically vile.
Chimeraguard
We do deserve to exist.
Hmm. IIRC, US courts ruled that labor unions count as Trusts and are therefore banned under the IRL Sherman Anti-Trust Act, and almost got cooperatives banned under similar premises.
That's probably gonna happen even more with TTL's even less helpful Anti-Trust Act, isn't it?
That's probably gonna happen even more with TTL's even less helpful Anti-Trust Act, isn't it?
- Location
- Lake Wobegon
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Assuming it passes. It might not!
Chimeraguard
We do deserve to exist.
I'm assuming it will because it can appeal to both Republicans and Democrats. Republicans because it's vague enough to not fuck over the actual Trusts but can be used against the less wealthy unions and coops that cause trouble for big business, and Democrats because it fucks over black people via the FAM, and Dixiecrats tend to put other issues secondary to "fucking over black people."
Still, nothing to be lost by fighting hard against it and hoping for the best.
- Location
- Lake Wobegon
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Historically it passed unanimously in the House and nearly so in the Senate, but it's also six years late (it passed in 1890 historically) so there must be some real opposition out there outside the United Front.
DracoDracul
Transbian Communist
- Location
- Austin
- Pronouns
- She/They
[X][RFAA]Money to Burn, a Future to Build
-[X] Send organizers to help dock-workers in the North-East form unions. 50 funds, 49/1000
-[X] Send organizers to set up mutual aid networks and soup kitchens in a region.
--[X] Vermont Cities, 6 funds, -3 per turn
--[X] New Hampshire cities, 6 funds, -3 per turn
--[X] Pittsburgh, 10 funds, -5 per turn
-[X] Merge the Philadelphia mutual aid network with SFAF's, running it together.
-[X] Set up a system between farmer coop shops and RFAA industry and any other wholesaler they can to help reduce prices for farmers. 10 funds, -3 per turn.
-[X] Set up a system between farmer coops and the cities where RFAA members will buy directly from the farmers to distribute to city anarchists, bypassing retailers to reduce prices for the city workers. 10 funds, -3 per turn.
-[X] Modify your textile factories to work with hemp as well as cotton. 10 funds.
-[X] Expand the communal housing buying houses, apartment buildings, etc.
--[X] New York City, 45 funds, -4 per turn.
--[X] New Jersey, 20 funds, -2 per turn.
-[X] Send organizers and monetary aid to the Argentine anarchists. 20 funds.
RAFA has a lot of funding so to me it makes sense to put those funds to use to expand the network and shore up our core support base in New York.
-[X] Send organizers to help dock-workers in the North-East form unions. 50 funds, 49/1000
-[X] Send organizers to set up mutual aid networks and soup kitchens in a region.
--[X] Vermont Cities, 6 funds, -3 per turn
--[X] New Hampshire cities, 6 funds, -3 per turn
--[X] Pittsburgh, 10 funds, -5 per turn
-[X] Merge the Philadelphia mutual aid network with SFAF's, running it together.
-[X] Set up a system between farmer coop shops and RFAA industry and any other wholesaler they can to help reduce prices for farmers. 10 funds, -3 per turn.
-[X] Set up a system between farmer coops and the cities where RFAA members will buy directly from the farmers to distribute to city anarchists, bypassing retailers to reduce prices for the city workers. 10 funds, -3 per turn.
-[X] Modify your textile factories to work with hemp as well as cotton. 10 funds.
-[X] Expand the communal housing buying houses, apartment buildings, etc.
--[X] New York City, 45 funds, -4 per turn.
--[X] New Jersey, 20 funds, -2 per turn.
-[X] Send organizers and monetary aid to the Argentine anarchists. 20 funds.
RAFA has a lot of funding so to me it makes sense to put those funds to use to expand the network and shore up our core support base in New York.
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KnightDisciple
Brotherhood. Unity. Peace.
- Location
- Midwest, USA
BULLY! Also, Teddy loves competition, bring on the fair challengers!
[X][TOD] Plan Mayor Teddy
And yeah, as much as I'd love to have the Adult Literacy programs as well, the actions plus trying to get Teddy locked in are immediate priority. We should also focus lobbying in New York next year as well, since we have more of a foothold in that city/state.
- Location
- Lake Wobegon
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Kudos on the stealth propaganda for the Sherman Act ("fair competition") embedded in the electioneering. Unfortunately, fair competition is a mirage and moreover drives down wages. The Trusts ought to be nationalized and placed under the control of the people's representatives.
Chimeraguard
We do deserve to exist.
Actually, come to think of it, I guess we (probably) know what the plan was for already-unionized places if the Sherman Anti-Trust Act is vague enough to be used against unions as well as/instead of actual Trusts.
KnightDisciple
Brotherhood. Unity. Peace.
- Location
- Midwest, USA
Oh my god I can't even meme for 3 seconds without getting put to sleep by a Commie lecture.
- Location
- Lake Wobegon
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
What if commie lecture, but also meme?Oh my god I can't even meme for 3 seconds without getting put to sleep by a Commie lecture.
For the Minutemen, I am split between two plans.
Aid Cuba, or prepare to vigilante justice against a dixicrat coup.
The Minutemen:
24,322 supporters
4 actions, 15 funds
[][MIN]Plan Cuba Assistance
-[] Stockpile guns. 5 funds.
-[] Train militia. 5 cadres.
-[] Try to smuggle members to be volunteers fighting alongside the Cuban revolutionaries. 5 funds, 1 per 100. (Works best with trained militia)
[][MIN]Plan Constitutional Justice
-[] Stockpile guns. 5 funds.
-[] Train militia. 5 cadres.
-[]Send out some members to keep an eye on the dixiecrats and organizations that support the Jim Crow laws. They re finding themselves pushed back by the 40 acres movement, and may decide to do a repeat of the Election Massacre of 1874, or do an even more blatant coup to 'fix' the results. 5 funds
Aid Cuba, or prepare to vigilante justice against a dixicrat coup.
The Minutemen:
24,322 supporters
4 actions, 15 funds
[][MIN]Plan Cuba Assistance
-[] Stockpile guns. 5 funds.
-[] Train militia. 5 cadres.
-[] Try to smuggle members to be volunteers fighting alongside the Cuban revolutionaries. 5 funds, 1 per 100. (Works best with trained militia)
[][MIN]Plan Constitutional Justice
-[] Stockpile guns. 5 funds.
-[] Train militia. 5 cadres.
-[]Send out some members to keep an eye on the dixiecrats and organizations that support the Jim Crow laws. They re finding themselves pushed back by the 40 acres movement, and may decide to do a repeat of the Election Massacre of 1874, or do an even more blatant coup to 'fix' the results. 5 funds
- Location
- Lake Wobegon
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Reject assisting McKinley in his imperialist conquests. Embrace alliance with all the progressive elements of Southern society against the shroud of reaction that has fallen over it.
Honestly, the whole point of Cuba was more trying to speedrun it so that it would be over before the Army actually mobilizes, shutting it down by removing the excuse.
[X][MIN]Plan Constitutional Justice
-[X] Stockpile guns. 5 funds.
-[X] Train militia. 5 cadres.
-[X]Send out some members to keep an eye on the dixiecrats and organizations that support the Jim Crow laws. They are finding themselves pushed back by the 40 acres movement, and may decide to do a repeat of the Election Massacre of 1874, or do an even more blatant coup to 'fix' the results. 5 funds
But yeah, it's both a gamble, and the powder keg is about to blow. And the Minutemen takes a poor view at the idea one could take up arms and replace elected officials with favorable ones simply cause they believed the voters voted wrong...
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Godwinson
"Well, I've got nothing."
If you're looking for the Minutemen to get some experience with small unit tactics, supporting the FAM, the SPA, and the AB certainly are a good way to work toward that.
Well. I was honestly thinking this turn would IC be more of a mobilizing and preparing to take action beyond the original goal of being a think-tank. And while the idea of freeing cuba is popular enough I could see the idea of sneaking support being bounced around, the political situation at home takes precedence, considering the likely federal apathy to the almost certainly incoming coup down south. So basically crash building a militia, sending people down south to keep an eye on things, and overall being prepared to defend democracy, consequences be blipped.
Chimeraguard
We do deserve to exist.
"Please send help the White Supremacists have Gatling Guns and all I've got is Granddad's musket from the Civil War." - Some poor SPA Militiaman.