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That Time I Became A Dictator Of A Small Asian Communist Nation

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HeroCooky said:
Irish Nationalists, Communists, and all the people willing to carbomb civilians getting thrown together do not make for a sane, or forgiving, cauldron of extremism.
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Well yeah, but I'm trying to figure out what's even happening in Ireland from a neutral perspective and failing. Usually when I get text written from a crazy extremist's perspective in a quest I can sort of work backwards to get a rough idea of what material events in the world the extremist is thinking about, even if their actual thought process is a swirl of homicidal enthusiasm.

I'm not saying it's unrealistic that there's folks in Ireland thinking this way, I just don't know what's actually going on in Ireland, to wit, is it much different from OTL Ireland in the mid 1980s and if so, how?
 
CyberFemme said:
Is that both action and Rep/PO cost?
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Yes.
Simon_Jester said:
I'm not saying it's unrealistic that there's folks in Ireland thinking this way, I just don't know what's actually going on in Ireland, to wit, is it much different from OTL Ireland in the mid 1980s and if so, how?
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The TDLR is: more extremism due to the deals the government made with the EU to escape their current problems, several UK politicians made some very public blunders that enraged the Irish population, the Queen made a comment about that on the side which didn't help anyone, and the IRF rolled very well during this turn.

In other words, everything is just that drop of water worse that threatens to spill it all over.

(I am low-key hoping it continues until 87, 'cause then I get to write a very fun interlude. :3)
 
Simon_Jester said:
Ah. Interesting; have you already expanded on that in a past post, and if not, would you mind going into more detail?
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I haven't, but the gist of it is, and please keep in mind that I am a writer of interesting worlds and stories and not functional politics, is that Ireland has been put into a position that forces them to agree to several semi-exploitative deals regarding mining, fishing, agriculture, trade tariffs and laws, alongside political pressure to enact several policies/laws beneficial for the EU and its goals, with the leasing of a harbor for military purposes to the EDF being a particular point of anger for many extremists.

The ones that defend these deals are the ones that either made them, benefit from them, or see that they do not have an actual choice regarding the matter, as no other supranational organization or nation reached out to help them with their problems.
 
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HeroCooky said:
I haven't, but the gist of it is, and please keep in mind that I am a writer of interesting worlds and stories and not functional politics, is that Ireland has been put into a position that forces them to agree to several semi-exploitative deals regarding mining, fishing, agriculture, trade tariffs and laws, alongside political pressure to enact several policies/laws beneficial for the EU and its goals, with the leasing of a harbor for military purposes to the EDF being a particular point of anger for many extremists.
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Thank you for that concise summary.

Again, I'm not trying to pick you to death on the details here,* just to get enough of a broad-outlines idea of what happened that I can even understand and contextualize things I read.

For instance, what you've said makes it a lot easier to understand the "we want blood in Westminster" snarling anger of the Ireland excerpt in the update as being probably representative of a large group of angry fanatics who have some actual reason to be angry. Whereas it is not the totally unhinged ranting internal monologue of a single isolated madman who's upset about the Eurocommie conspiracy to sap and impurify Ireland's precious bodily fluids, nor is it likely to be fully representative of the sentiments of the average Irishman in the streets who is probably a bit more moderate if by no means pleased with the situation or disinclined to resist it.

Thanks.
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*(the closest I come to that is predicting "this thing Ronald Reagan did was very unlikely to work and will probably end in tears," which isn't so much contradicting you as saying "the US in this timeline is on a profoundly cursed and unlucky path to self-destruction," something you appear to agree with)
 
It was to appease Vietnam and India so they would get on-side and help with the war/not let the first world smuggle in weapons through them to prolong the conflict.
 
Map Differences:

China Balkanized a bit and is now Socialist/Communist.
Turkey suppressed their Communist guerillas
Somalia suppressed their Anti-Communist guerillas
West Yemen (?), Haiti (I think, the picture is tiny), UAE added Communist guerillas.
East Germany added Anti-Communist guerillas (I think? it looks like one pixel of blue)
Guatemala, Uruguay, and Costa Rica fully flipped to Communist.
Central and South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden and Ireland got landgrabbed as NHTO-allies, resisted in Niger and Chad.
Morocco, Japan, and S Korea up to full NHTO members from "allies and associates".

Non aligned countries largely consist of "India and a few others". Non-aligned _movement_ largely dead in a ditch.

Did I miss anything?
 
HeroCooky said:
That is Berlin.
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Wow that is some seriously jank geography OTL used in the 80s. How did I manage to get to be Today Years Old and not realize that West Berlin was full-on super-isolated-within-East-Germany? Like, this is one of the things that my history classes actually took some degree of pride in covering and it still did not register!

That's...really weird, like, "chainsaws were originally invented to assist in childbirth" levels of weird.
 
StarSingerBlue said:
What.
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I'm going to let a science educator with more degrees than I do handle this one, (the 'doctor' in my handle was once upon a time aspirational but now occupies the same sort of 'fairy tale' feeling you usually get with 'once upon a time') but if you're not interested in following the link, the short version is below.

During the "childbirth is mega-dangerous" era in the 1500s, someone came up with the idea of a procedure to cut the cartilage holding the pubic bones together (symphysiotomy) to get a couple extra centimeters of pelvic diamater, which can be useful in a difficult birth if something gets stuck. Trouble is, knives are slow and in crisis medicine response time can be life and death. A hand-cranked 14 inch saw that could, if needed, cut through bone was developed by a couple of doctors in the 1780s to make things faster and more reliable. As an alternative to super-high-mortality C-sections, it was less bad. Around the turn of the previous century, a lot of improvements came through to make C-sections much safer and so this got left behind.

We kept the chainsaws though.
 
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silvershark said:
Looking closer, it looks like the Dominican Republic also has Communist guerillas. Communism is really getting a foothold in the Americas.
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they had them last time iirc. I'm only noting the changes.

1-1 for guerilla suppression, 3-0 communists for new guerrillas, 3-0 communists for regime conversion, 0-8 for NHTO members and allies, 1 nuked balkanized socialism'd China and 0-lots NHTO friends and associates from neutrals.

I'll leave the value changes to people who know better but I figure it helps to tally the score clearly so the people smarter than me don't have to squint at a tiny picture.
 
Can tuna be domesticated as part of aquaculture? Can become like a sled dog to pull boats on the sea or like a cow to be sold at a high price to Japan.

Maybe make an Aquaman ripoff with tuna Calvary and underwater LSEEH bases for the supervillain for marketing
 
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