I found this dark/edgy cover of John Lennon's Imagine, highly recommend reading Societist-centered chapters to it:
Look to the West Volume VII: The Eye Against the Prism
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My theory is that the Office of Public Decency of Spain is a Diversitarian institution created to reassemble the country to some kind of pre-Societist state. That's why they have so much power over anything with Spanish language. Public decency in this case is just a fancy way of saying "not-Societism". They follow the Russian model probably
I'm now imagining them going "you there, stop acting like everyone else. You are an individual!"
Imagine them assigning ideologies to people to recreate party politics lmao
"Okay, Ernesto, you're going to be a radical Mentian."
"What, like just for this upcoming riot or--"
"No. I mean... from now on you're a Mentian. We've already registered your party preference."
Does this make Verbeek a Quisling-like figure in Timeline L's people's consciousness?
Guatemala being invaded? Or maybe something to do with the Societists building their own canal?
And nobody thinks of poor little Pernambuco. So far from God, so close to the Global Societist Combine.
This gave me a bit of a chuckle.
My guess is restoration of Spain as well. Maybe in personal union with France again?
You probably shouldn't worry as you were most likely butterflied away.
You probably shouldn't worry as you were most likely butterflied away.
I wish! It'd be my luck to exist only to be nuked and shouting out an annoyed "GAAAAAAWD DAMN IIIIIIIIII-" as it happens.
"No, no, not a Hopi clown-street musician. A Spanish individual. We have a list of approved types here."
Fellas, is it Societist to wear an I'M WITH STUPID novelty shirt? I mean you're literally defining your identity in relation to another individual???
Thande
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It's interesting you say that, because that wasn't my intention. The only real theme I have with England is that it's more "Europeanised" than OTL (gendarmes, etc.) The People's Kingdom as the Wild West is a fair point, but of course OTL Britain loved Wild West fiction as well, especially in the 1950s. Insurers chasing drivers and terrible soap operas are very much things in OTL Britain (so they were meant to be examples of 'some things never change, no matter the timeline') but you're right that it being aimed specifically at teenage drivers is probably more of an American thing. I was more thinking of an old UK insurer who pushed the idea that they were aimed at 'careful drivers' (i.e. it was cheap but you were screwed if you were actually in a crash) and adapted it to a different demographic.
Incidentally, the adverts on the last segment are deliberately meant to evoke a different feel; this is a restricted SSAAX course not available to everyone, and though in theory people from any background can apply, there will be a tilt towards the rich. Hence the adverts focused on rich kids.
For the introduction to LTTW series, I think it might make sense to approach it thematically given how many hundreds of thousands of words have already been spilled on it so far.
Perhaps (inter alia):-
Perhaps (inter alia):-
- Broad outline of geopolitics
- General ideological divergences
- Brief primer on Sanchez
- LTTW terminology.
xsampa
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Also, the fall of the Universal Church is going to lead to New Religious Movements that will create problems for Diversitarians seeking to impose the old religions
Thande
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Both interesting thoughts, thank you.
(And it's over a million, actually
Though Iainbhx's Azure Main is still longer...)
Thande
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Incidentally, another SLP plug:
Now this is actually relevant - no it is, come back! - because I've already had one comment on Twitter from an LTTW reader who wanted to ask if the map & flag images could be put somewhere online where they could be viewed more clearly. I'd appreciate your thoughts in this thread on this as well - a Deviantart perhaps, or on the SLP website?
Now this is actually relevant - no it is, come back! - because I've already had one comment on Twitter from an LTTW reader who wanted to ask if the map & flag images could be put somewhere online where they could be viewed more clearly. I'd appreciate your thoughts in this thread on this as well - a Deviantart perhaps, or on the SLP website?
xsampa
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The Universal Church could wage an insurgency in the Andes after the fall of the Combine although it's highly centralized, state-subordinatef structure makes it unlikely
xsampa
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