This Mighty Scourge of War: A Reconstruction-Era Quest
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Theaxofwar
Definitely not a Bunny Cat in disguise.
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[X]Demobilize the Union Army piecemeal.
[X] Demobilize the Union Army immediately.
Tabascoheath
Unkempt, Evil-eyed Charlatan, and Pseudo-Mystic
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[X]Demobilize the Union Army piecemeal.
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[X] Demobilize the Union Army immediately
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[x] Demobilize the Union Army immediately.
nachtingale
20. On that "honk, mimimi" type beat everyday.
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- Malaysia
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[X] Demobilize the Union Army immediately
wave the bloody shirt for our brave boys in blue!
wave the bloody shirt for our brave boys in blue!
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- Most likely California
[X]Demobilize the Union Army piecemeal.
Guys don't demoralize immediately it will bring back the white supremacy again do it gradually so it doesn't come back and also this allows our military to keep watch if the citizens if they do trouble
TsarinaGrogIV
Self-Proclaimed Crazy Bitch
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[X] Demobilize the Union Army immediately
Time to bring the boys (and their radical anti-slavery attitudes) home and give more power to the militias
Time to bring the boys (and their radical anti-slavery attitudes) home and give more power to the militias
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- USA
The army isn't leaving entirely in either case. A garrison will be left behind to shoot Klansmen. What this vote is fundamentally about is whether DC or local loyalist leaders should set the agenda of the next phase of Reconstruction.
This is something I DON'T want to happen but apparently some don't even think (or care) about...
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- USA
I mean, I think an increase in general militancy is good? Being militant about Reconstruction is Good, Actually.
The only problem is if you think the local leaders in the South that have been empowered by Reconstruction so far will immediately slip back into sharecropping or whatever and I don't think that's a reasonable fear? IRL Reconstruction saw a number of black politicians getting elected while troops were present; I don't think a Reconstruction that is being pushed forward in the long term by way of shattering organized white supremacy will permit something like that to form.
The only problem is if you think the local leaders in the South that have been empowered by Reconstruction so far will immediately slip back into sharecropping or whatever and I don't think that's a reasonable fear? IRL Reconstruction saw a number of black politicians getting elected while troops were present; I don't think a Reconstruction that is being pushed forward in the long term by way of shattering organized white supremacy will permit something like that to form.
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- an unseen void
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Militancy helps Reconstruction not get watered down into compromises with white supremacy and revanchist southerners and all the stuff that wrecked its legacy in OTL. It's not all good but it's far from bad.
The gradual approach is also explicitly worse for the economics of Reconstruction, which is flagged in our statblock as a current major problem for it.
The gradual approach is also explicitly worse for the economics of Reconstruction, which is flagged in our statblock as a current major problem for it.
@TheArcanist & @Potato Anarchy: True, we'll just have to wait until what he'll post on it...
[X] Demobilize the Union Army piecemeal.
Militancy for Reconstruction is good but that's not the language of the text, it just says "increase general militancy". That could mean a wide variety things that we don't have control over, and it's likely the a decent portion of these soldiers are less interested in Reconstruction and more interested in punishing the South. We also just took the Mass Treason trial option which "generally increase radicalism for good and for ill", so I don't think lack of militancy is a problem now. But we know explicity that the status of Reconstruction is "hampered by economic devastation", and so I think the main question here is whether the gradual or faster approach is better, and I do not see how the gradual approach is explicitly worse.
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- USA
I mean, if we're talking the specific texts of the vote:
Emphasis mine. Demobilizing the army more quickly will free up resources and make it easier to even start the process of an economic recovery.
LuxemburgLover69
There are more things between Heaven and Earth...
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[X]Demobilize the Union Army immediately
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- an unseen void
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This is the explicit tradeoff presented by the vote: the piecemeal approach makes the recovery slower but gives us more control, the rapid approach means a faster recovery but less control, with accompanying different implications for militancy.