Recent content by TheInnerMoon

Took me a while to find it, but I believe this is the post you're looking for. It's on Reddit though:

Hey, is there any chance of Against The Grain being continued? It was a very original TLIAW, and I'd love to see it completed!

Lovely update as ever. What I love about this story is how wholesome it is. In contrast to the usual misery people associated with state socialism, you get why the workers of America would want to build this kind of society. More power to them!

While the writing quality is still excellent, the events themselves have left me feeling mixed. It's a shame that despite everything, the neoliberal turn still unfolds on schedule. I guess the social democratic model was bound to run up against certain profitability crises sooner or later. I...

It's a direct reference to the real-life Subcomandante Marcos of the EZLN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subcomandante_Marcos

Interesting pick for a kind of do-nothing president. It's clear the Roosevelt Consensus is here to stay though, given that production quotas and profit sharing are business as usual for the US establishment. Makes me wonder how public transport is doing. These international developments are...

Really liking the trajectory of TTL so far; while I know this isn't supposed to be a utopia, following up Wallace with Winant and Roosevelt is probably the best way to institutionalize the New Deal and keep the Cold War hawks at bay. A conservative swing might happen eventually, but policies...

Glad you liked the piece! The postwar era is definitely underappreciated, and my own cautious outings into this genre do tend to focus on these later periods (even if they start a bit earlier). I think you’d really need to destabilize an anti-communist US before the Left has a shot, but a...

The original timeline was one of my all-time favorites, so I'm very happy to see this back. Wonder how it'll be different!

I'm definitely more in the rehabilitation camp when it comes to Henry Wallace, and this depiction represents him quite fairly. Overall, I don't think Wallace alone could have averted the Cold War. However, if you were going to avert it, Wallace would be the guy you need. Eager to see where the...

That's what I was thinking of as well, although a full parallel to TTL would be a bit too obvious altogether. But it's a fair starting point.

The only way I can see Wallace '68 turning into a utopia is if it generates an even greater backlash than what Nixon got. Something like TTL's New Party could be in charge forever!

These recent updates really add a sociological depth to the China you're sketching out here. Overall, TTL's me might genuinely consider moving to China and joining one commune or another. Speaking of which, what is this China's soft power and international outreach like? Is the party trying to...

A stellar timeline. I liked the TLIAW format, I liked the back-and-forth, I liked how gradual the dystopia was developed. This kind of Christo-populist hellscape is hardly unrealistic, given the overall trajectory of TTL. Would definitely appreciate a utopian spinoff, maybe one where Nixon wins...

For almost any scenario short of literal ASBs (which just doesn't hold my interest), I like to think in possibilities rather than impossibilities. If we stretch this premise a bit, it need not be as implausible as it seems at first glance. Now, obviously, there's no chance of the USSR having...