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It's suggested that a good number of people in the UASR (mainly the Marxists) are well aware of the point that they're still at least somewhat capitalist, in fact just how not-capitalist things are is a point of conflict: Maybe a lot of them are smug because they're always constantly sure...

To me, the thought that a society which actively challenges and bends and overflows (traditional) gender roles, which is actively much more sexual (and thus people are much more open and educated on sex), and which has been combating sexism and all its related violence, would be one to have...

It takes place in New York City, right? The one problem I can see with it is that it takes place in October 1933, about eight months since the failed coup, and we know that New York (and most northeast cities) were very quickly secured for the revolution right after the coup. Like, from what...

The descriptions of the coins and banknotes have really vivid imagery, it was easy to conjure up what they look like in my mind. Very nice! The fact that the Congress of Soviets building is the mural on the reverse of the $100 note seems to imply that they CoS meets in a special-purpose new...

Well, there is this... It doesn't seem like too much of a leap to think that, if called up to the Armed Forces, conscientious objectors would get a similar deal

Well, from the revisions thread, this seems to be the state of things in the years after the revolution but before the Second World War: Emphasis mine I don't imagine this arrangement is the one current in the UASR in the modern day, but it might give an idea of how things could be, until we...

@Bookmark1995 this is the kind of stuff I like to see here! (actually, most of your contributions are the kinds of things I like to see here) Stuff that makes sense as a plausible outgrowth of the timeline as we know it and strikes us as a bit strange/alien to think about, and that isn't just a...

I don't know, I don't interpret this to imply that the CLP is marginalised or unpopular. Especially not if they're "joined at the hip" with the DFLP. Several older posts along the way (how canon they remain is disputable though) imply that they've formed the government (as a minority or in...

Where'd you get the impression that the CLP were "incompetent"/"unpopular"?

There were differences in the use of "leader" vs. "officer", like the leaders are all referred to as "leaders", but at the same time there are abbreviations like "CO", "NCO" and "OCS". Is this still because the term is coming into more official adoption, and/or reflecting a political...

I know that not everyone has to be into polyamory/free love etc. just because it's a common-ish thing; I'm saying that to my eyes something that's given such prominence in UASR culture seems oddly lacking in our characters (but maybe it's just a prominent minor thing that stands out but isn't...

A problem I have with all of our self-inserts and author avatars is that they feel too self-inserty. Like everyone's making themselves and their friends in the Reds!-verse but the changes are all only cosmetic and it feels like we're just projecting our current values onto TTL people with only...

And probably like OTL's CPUSA by this point; thoroughly riddled with statesec agents and informers I think we get people's posts like these every so often. I imagine that it's because we exist in a world where capitalism dominates and is thus the default and center around which competing...

Well, if people are eating out more, doesn't that offer more opportunities for good chefs to spread their cooking to more people? And maybe it'll make good cooks who would otherwise just stay home and cook for themselves/their family instead go and work/open a cafe or restaurant. Or if you...

New York is still New York, but the place it's in has changed names. The region is Metropolis, but New York is still New York; if I remember correctly. So it'd be "New York City, Metropolis [ASR?]"