Why drop the A-bomb on a strategically worthless target though? Why not drop it on a rebel held city?Gotta say, I did not expect a random village in Egypt to get the dubious honor of being the first place to get nuked, but such is Madness!
Why drop the A-bomb on a strategically worthless target though? Why not drop it on a rebel held city?Gotta say, I did not expect a random village in Egypt to get the dubious honor of being the first place to get nuked, but such is Madness!
Off the top of my head, I’d say it’s more about being a demonstration then pure proper tactical use. Dropping it on a town probably means less clean up, don’t lose all the riches a city mighy have, less to rebuild (if you even choose to), easier to suppress news of if something goes wrong. Said village also might have been a staging ground for an assault on a Cairo, so by destroying somewhere relatively minor you’re probably saving a much more valuable cityWhy drop the A-bomb on a strategically worthless target though? Why not drop it on a rebel held city?
I wouldn't say it is anger. Napoleon V clearly considered all of its options before approving the nuclear strike. The fact he dropped only one nuke and on a small village rather than a major city seems to indicate his decision was far more calculated than simply angerI was not expecting the Europans to be the first to use nukes in anger.
Johnny Gamble is a gift we don't deserve. I would love nothing more than for him to remain this timeline's Buck Turgidson."A great leap forward, not only for the Reich, but for New Cackalack and the League of Nations as a whole. The Bonapartes in Paris pretend to care for the jungle-dwelling savages all while committing untold atrocities in their own lands. At least the Southron man has the piss and vinegar to recognize that some 'peoples' are mere stumbling blocks in the way of progress. His Imperial Highness professes to love Mother Nature in spite of what she did to his nose. That aforementioned vulture's beak seeks out the 'crimes' of its rivals and caws, 'criminal! inhumane!' while it is the very same nose that let thirty million Hindoos die in the past thirty years. The Bonapartes always ride their high horse, which is mighty funny, as I've never seen a jackass ride a horse unless he was trying to stick his pecker somewhere it didn't belong."
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Well, no one has any reason to adopt anyone else's standards, so "tabulatrics" across the different factions may be different at its very roots. And I mean the absolute roots-- binary digital computing isn't the only option, the Soviets developed a ternary computer OTL and although this line wasn't continued it was at least workable, and its advantages would include fitting more information in the same space (since each space can be a 0/1/2, not just a 0/1). After this comes every other level of computing: processor architecture and basic machine instructions, programming languages of higher levels, operating systems. And then after all that comes network protocols, and by this point a Europan machine and an RU machine may be so fundamentally different that they would not be able to talk with each other even if the respective governments wished for such a thing.What's the internet like in the Madness!verse?
Huh. So is that a new idea, that even the Pinnacle men are not wholly Pinnacle? What, does that mean they're admitting to be part Inferior? This might actually help Oswald's "sin all you like, Jev will forgive you" policy, and gives Billy Graham something else to "save" people from.Chuck smiled and replied, "We all have our ailments. Sadly, the bloodline of the ancient Pinnacles has not been passed down in totality, and sickness is but another burden we must all bear in our lives. I would dare say a bit more rest would do you right better. Perhaps a hunting trip to the Poconos!"
Honestly, this is good parenting considering the brutality of RU life. It's weirdly wholesome and it totally makes sense Manasseh would be devoted enough to his mother to "cause his own downfall" (which could itself be blamed on the RU allowing no other outlet for the hysteria it cultivates).Manasseh Wende (b. 1910), her son by Nicodemus, struggled with learning disabilities, a speech impediment, and social awkwardness from an early age. He was frequently getting into fights with other boys who mocked his prominent nose and referred to him as the "Flying Dutchman" for his tendency to run away from fights and for his pacifist heritage. Manasseh resented his Amish blood and thought of himself, secretly for the longest time, as genuinely Inferior. Despite her addiction to alcohol to block out memories of her time during the Trail of Beards, Wendi told her son to never let anyone take him for a ride, beat him up, or call him an Inferior. Despite the ability to enroll him in a private school, she instead told him to stand his ground in public school. By the age of 16, Manasseh could only be described as a mountain of a boy, standing six foot two and weighing 190 pounds. In any other family he would have been either fodder for a military career or a back alley thug. He would brutally beat other boys who mocked him. While he still suffered from a stutter, listening to the great speeches of American history on recordings over and over enabled him to communicate clearly and manage the impediment. His peers began to say the name "Flying Dutchman" with fear and respect, not mockery, and he embraced it.
It's been a part of the doctrine from the beginning that the modern Pinnacle bloodlines were diluted (explicitly not polluted) versions of the ancient Adamic Pinnacle Race. That's part of my rationale for legalization of interracial relations between Betters under the Sexual Marxism of the upcoming Oswald Reforms, since all these Better strains could by definition reconstitute the bloodline through careful intermixing.Huh. So is that a new idea, that even the Pinnacle men are not wholly Pinnacle? What, does that mean they're admitting to be part Inferior?
I actually expanded on that in one of my Expanded Universe posts. Recreating the "Master Race", in this case referring to the human master specimen that all the Pinnacle people's are derived from, would be an actual government goal in the future.It's been a part of the doctrine from the beginning that the modern Pinnacle bloodlines were diluted (explicitly not polluted) versions of the ancient Adamic Pinnacle Race. That's part of my rationale for legalization of interracial relations between Betters under the Sexual Marxism of the upcoming Oswald Reforms, since all these Better strains could by definition reconstitute the bloodline through careful intermixing.
Iirc, it's been part of the Pinnacle theory since the begginning. It's not that they are part Inferior, AFAIK, but that their Pinnacle fluids are just not strong enough as they were in the golden ages of the past. The wonders and conquests of ancient Pinnacle societies such as the roman empire are hold to be as examples of the sheer power and strenght of their Pinnacle fluids, and men like Caesar and Alexander the Great were supposedly the best of the best. But even then, they weren't as supreme as the very original Pinnacle Race of Adam.Huh. So is that a new idea, that even the Pinnacle men are not wholly Pinnacle? What, does that mean they're admitting to be part Inferior?
It's a testament to how well this TL constructs a wholly unique strain of racialist nonsense that it's taken so seriously in universe (and its development makes logical sense given the course of the TL's modern history) but comes off as too ridiculous IRL to be meant as anything other than irony.Note 2 electric boogaloo: you know, it's kind of amusing that if we were discussing rl racial theories with such seriousness and interest people might suspect we're nazis.
Thanks to WMIT, I now fear the day when someone discovers my browser history.It's a testament to how well this TL constructs a wholly unique strain of racialist nonsense that it's taken so seriously in universe (and its development makes logical sense given the course of the TL's modern history) but comes off as too ridiculous IRL to be meant as anything other than irony.
I don’t remember, was the specific thing for groups like Modern Italians and Greeks that the supposed ancient Pinnacle Romans and Greeks had been corrupted by miscegenation with Inferiors to produce their modern inferior descendants well Better groups like the Anglo-Saxons were there last descendants or that they had been replaced wholesale and their descendants were modern betters? If it was the former I could see it being used as a justification of Americanizing SOME Latin Americans (primarily kidnapped children) who are “clearly of better descent” or “showing racially desirable traits” when they need extra population in the colonies at times where they have trouble getting people to move down there, much like the Nazis did with many children in Eastern Europe for the Lebensborn program. Basically saying that such people are the only descendants of those who managed to preserve some of their Pinnacle Bloodline, or of Better Groups like the Ancient Visigoths and Ostragoths or the Lombards who ruled over the territory of modern inferior nations like Spain and Italy before Charlemagne and the Arab conquests but were clearly of better stock.Iirc, it's been part of the Pinnacle theory since the begginning. It's not that they are part Inferior, AFAIK, but that their Pinnacle fluids are just not strong enough as they were in the golden ages of the past. The wonders and conquests of ancient Pinnacle societies such as the roman empire are hold to be as examples of the sheer power and strenght of their Pinnacle fluids, and men like Caesar and Alexander the Great were supposedly the best of the best. But even then, they weren't as supreme as the very original Pinnacle Race of Adam.
The RU seeks to revive such full strength, and just like old Caesar and Alexander, the RU's leaders are the most pinnacle of all. It's only a matter of time before someone, most probably good old chuckerfucker, gets the idea he's the Ultimate Complete Pinnacle Man.
Note: ninja'd by @Born in the USSA and @Scrivener.
Note 2 electric boogaloo: you know, it's kind of amusing that if we were discussing rl racial theories with such seriousness and interest people might suspect we're nazis.
According to Physical Marxism:I don’t remember, was the specific thing for groups like Modern Italians and Greeks that the supposed ancient Pinnacle Romans and Greeks had been corrupted by miscegenation with Inferiors to produce their modern inferior descendants well Better groups like the Anglo-Saxons were there last descendants or that they had been replaced wholesale and their descendants were modern betters? If it was the former I could see it being used as a justification of Americanizing SOME Latin Americans (primarily kidnapped children) who are “clearly of better descent” or “showing racially desirable traits” when they need extra population in the colonies at times where they have trouble getting people to move down there, much like the Nazis did with many children in Eastern Europe for the Lebensborn program. Basically saying that such people are the only descendants of those who managed to preserve some of their Pinnacle Bloodline, or of Better Groups like the Ancient Visigoths and Ostragoths or the Lombards who ruled over the territory of modern inferior nations like Spain and Italy before Charlemagne and the Arab conquests but were clearly of better stock.
In terms of Celts I’m pretty sure it was specifically just the Irish who are viewed as Infees, since the Scottish, Welsh, ect. are still viewed as Betters. But yeah I know the Modern Mediterranean Race is seen as Infee, I was more asking if it was ever explained how they view the transition between the Pinnacle classical civilizations and the modern people living in the region who are Infees, and wondering if, in the case that they view it as having been because of Miscegenation with Infees that modern Italians and Greeks are Inferior, if they could justify recruiting South American Collaborators/Lebensborn type Americanization programs which would make digesting South America easier by saying that such people are those few who’s bloodlines haven’t been degenerated by the surrounding Infees (but who still need to be Americanized to destroy their “degenerate” culture and re awaken the Pinnacle bloodline).According to Physical Marxism:
I'm sure there are plenty of Germans/Frenchmen/West Africans that can jump up in the social ladder if they convert without resisting.
- Northern Europeans, West Africans, Jews, the Japanese/Coreans and the classical civilizations are Betters unless Catholic. Germans and the French are Betters if Protestant.
- Celts, the modern Mediterranean race, most Africans, and most Asians are always Inferior regardless of religion.
I assume they severely downplay their Celtic roots. It wouldn't surprise me at all if the Scots try to play themselves as rooted in Vikings or something along those lines.In terms of Celts I’m pretty sure it was specifically just the Irish who are viewed as Infees, since the Scottish, Welsh, ect. are still viewed as Betters.
As long as they can pass as Better physically and they convert anyone of French, German or West African descent could potentially be accepted as a collaborator. Not to mention Jews outside the RU get a really raw deal and would be accepted with open arms.But yeah I know the Modern Mediterranean Race is seen as Infee, I was more asking if it was ever explained how they view the transition between the Pinnacle classical civilizations and the modern people living in the region who are Infees, and wondering if, in the case that they view it as having been because of Miscegenation with Infees that modern Italians and Greeks are Inferior, if they could justify recruiting South American Collaborators/Lebensborn type Americanization programs which would make digesting South America easier by saying that such people are those few who’s bloodlines haven’t been degenerated by the surrounding Infees (but who still need to be Americanized to destroy their “degenerate” culture and re awaken the Pinnacle bloodline).
"The Bonapartes always ride their high horse, which is mighty funny, as I've never seen a jackass ride a horse unless he was trying to stick his pecker somewhere it didn't belong."
In terms of Celts I’m pretty sure it was specifically just the Irish who are viewed as Infees, since the Scottish, Welsh, ect. are still viewed as Betters. But yeah I know the Modern Mediterranean Race is seen as Infee, I was more asking if it was ever explained how they view the transition between the Pinnacle classical civilizations and the modern people living in the region who are Infees, and wondering if, in the case that they view it as having been because of Miscegenation with Infees that modern Italians and Greeks are Inferior, if they could justify recruiting South American Collaborators/Lebensborn type Americanization programs which would make digesting South America easier by saying that such people are those few who’s bloodlines haven’t been degenerated by the surrounding Infees (but who still need to be Americanized to destroy their “degenerate” culture and re awaken the Pinnacle bloodline).