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Little Red Bean
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The history of Diego Garcia is long and complex. Or at least that's what the English like to say. In reality, there's nothing complicated about the fact that island nation was home to one of the many acts of ethnic cleansing that occurred throughout the 20th century. The Chagos Islanders, the indigenous people of Diego Garcia and the surrounding archipelago, were forcibly evicted from their homeland by the British government over the course of the 1960s and 1970s to make way for a naval base for their American allies. And despite the rest of the world ignoring their predicament, the Chagos Islanders never gave up their quest for justice.
Even the end of the United Kingdom didn't lead to a Chagos homecoming. The English successor government, eager to cut costs, sold the entirety of the island of Diego Garcia to the government of the United States. But any hope that the American government would be any more amiable to the islanders' request was soon dashed when the Department of Defense announced a massive expansion of Camp Justice and the surrounding facilities to combat the growth of the People's Liberation Army Navy in the Indian Ocean.
Surprisingly, though, the Americans did allow some civilians to reside on Diego Garcia. Not the Diego Garcians of course --- a different set of refugees with a considerably less tan complexion. While most Israeli refugees were settled in the Germany, the United States, and their Canadian satellites following the collapse of the Jewish state, some of the Israelis, deemed too dangerous to bring to North America, were slated to be settled in Diego Garcia. And while lobbyists did their best to prevent the forced resettlement, Washington was firm in its conviction.
Speaking of conviction, among the many colorful war criminals settled on Diego Garcia was Talia Sommer, an infamous mass murderer wanted by both the Palestinian government and Interpol for her actions during the Fourth Intafada. She didn't go to the island willingly, and attempted to escape multiple times, despite the threat of falling into less friendly hands. It was her fourth attempt, allegedly by stowing away in the septic tank of a local cruise ship, that was finally successful. Despite the best attempts of the Palestinian, Russian, Chinese, and French foreign intelligence services to locate her, Sommer fell off the grid for quite some time, before finally resurfacing during a pirate battle in the Gulf of Aden between Indonesian forces and her Somali comrades. While Sommer did not survive the ensuing firefight, her body was recovered by the Indonesians and her identity as an Israeli war criminal confirmed by the DNA test --- much to the shock of the Somalis who she had managed to deceive for nearly three years through the convincing use of blackface makeup.
Sommer's and several other high profile escapes brought Diego Garcia negative attention among the American elites. With the Ordonez Administration looking to maintain fiscal solvency, the militarized island was among the first facilities on the chopping block. The war criminals, now a rapidly aging bunch, were quietly relocated to American Samoa, where the heavy presence of Mormon missionaries is believed to be a contributing factor in the reduction of their collective life expectancy. But when Washington went public and announced its intention to close the base, outraged American nationalists took to the streets, forming an organization known as Patriotic Americans Against the Sale of Diego Garcia, whose purpose was rather spelled out in its name. Fearing a naval gap with China, protesters demanded the cancellation of the sale. But the administration couldn't afford to damage its relationship with its Indian allies. And while the sale is often believed to be a major cause of the Republicans taking back Congress in the 2080s, few Americans today even remember what Diego Garcia was, yet alone its historical role as a Jewish cultural center or in maintaining American naval parity in the Indian Ocean.
The Chagos Islanders, though, never forgot Diego Garcia. The sale of the atoll to the Indian government, who announced its intention to allow the islanders to return home --- albeit more out of an effort to spite their former colonizers than any sort of geopolitical interest --- resulted in jubilant celebrations across the Chagossian diaspora. But few islanders, most of whom were at least four generations separated from their homeland, took the Indians up on their offer. Those who did were dismayed, seeing their island in a state of ecological decimation after over a century of abuse at the hands of the American military. Among those few who chose to stay was Renee Augustin, the last known fluent speaker of Chagossian Creole. Though she soon passed away, her language lives on in the National Archive of Indian Languages along with hundreds of other deceased and moribund tongues.
Aside from the dozen or so remaining ethnic islanders, few Indians choose to live on the noisy and polluted atoll, which remains a heavily-used military facility. Central to the Indian naval buildup, the facility is home to many ships and soldiers from both the subcontinental nation and its regional allies. The latest country to make use of the base is the Islamic Republic of Iraq, with its recently acquired flagship, Ur. And while the carrier may be obsolete in both its design and functional capacity, it's a popular item for Iraqi military otaku to masturbate to as they await their tour of national service in their local Shiite militia.
Even the end of the United Kingdom didn't lead to a Chagos homecoming. The English successor government, eager to cut costs, sold the entirety of the island of Diego Garcia to the government of the United States. But any hope that the American government would be any more amiable to the islanders' request was soon dashed when the Department of Defense announced a massive expansion of Camp Justice and the surrounding facilities to combat the growth of the People's Liberation Army Navy in the Indian Ocean.
Surprisingly, though, the Americans did allow some civilians to reside on Diego Garcia. Not the Diego Garcians of course --- a different set of refugees with a considerably less tan complexion. While most Israeli refugees were settled in the Germany, the United States, and their Canadian satellites following the collapse of the Jewish state, some of the Israelis, deemed too dangerous to bring to North America, were slated to be settled in Diego Garcia. And while lobbyists did their best to prevent the forced resettlement, Washington was firm in its conviction.
Speaking of conviction, among the many colorful war criminals settled on Diego Garcia was Talia Sommer, an infamous mass murderer wanted by both the Palestinian government and Interpol for her actions during the Fourth Intafada. She didn't go to the island willingly, and attempted to escape multiple times, despite the threat of falling into less friendly hands. It was her fourth attempt, allegedly by stowing away in the septic tank of a local cruise ship, that was finally successful. Despite the best attempts of the Palestinian, Russian, Chinese, and French foreign intelligence services to locate her, Sommer fell off the grid for quite some time, before finally resurfacing during a pirate battle in the Gulf of Aden between Indonesian forces and her Somali comrades. While Sommer did not survive the ensuing firefight, her body was recovered by the Indonesians and her identity as an Israeli war criminal confirmed by the DNA test --- much to the shock of the Somalis who she had managed to deceive for nearly three years through the convincing use of blackface makeup.
Sommer's and several other high profile escapes brought Diego Garcia negative attention among the American elites. With the Ordonez Administration looking to maintain fiscal solvency, the militarized island was among the first facilities on the chopping block. The war criminals, now a rapidly aging bunch, were quietly relocated to American Samoa, where the heavy presence of Mormon missionaries is believed to be a contributing factor in the reduction of their collective life expectancy. But when Washington went public and announced its intention to close the base, outraged American nationalists took to the streets, forming an organization known as Patriotic Americans Against the Sale of Diego Garcia, whose purpose was rather spelled out in its name. Fearing a naval gap with China, protesters demanded the cancellation of the sale. But the administration couldn't afford to damage its relationship with its Indian allies. And while the sale is often believed to be a major cause of the Republicans taking back Congress in the 2080s, few Americans today even remember what Diego Garcia was, yet alone its historical role as a Jewish cultural center or in maintaining American naval parity in the Indian Ocean.
The Chagos Islanders, though, never forgot Diego Garcia. The sale of the atoll to the Indian government, who announced its intention to allow the islanders to return home --- albeit more out of an effort to spite their former colonizers than any sort of geopolitical interest --- resulted in jubilant celebrations across the Chagossian diaspora. But few islanders, most of whom were at least four generations separated from their homeland, took the Indians up on their offer. Those who did were dismayed, seeing their island in a state of ecological decimation after over a century of abuse at the hands of the American military. Among those few who chose to stay was Renee Augustin, the last known fluent speaker of Chagossian Creole. Though she soon passed away, her language lives on in the National Archive of Indian Languages along with hundreds of other deceased and moribund tongues.
Aside from the dozen or so remaining ethnic islanders, few Indians choose to live on the noisy and polluted atoll, which remains a heavily-used military facility. Central to the Indian naval buildup, the facility is home to many ships and soldiers from both the subcontinental nation and its regional allies. The latest country to make use of the base is the Islamic Republic of Iraq, with its recently acquired flagship, Ur. And while the carrier may be obsolete in both its design and functional capacity, it's a popular item for Iraqi military otaku to masturbate to as they await their tour of national service in their local Shiite militia.
David Stamm grew up in a conservative, christian household in Lubbock, Texas. Son of a baptist preacher and a engineering consultant, Stamm grew in a sheltered home, attending private Christian schools his entire youth. While Stamm would later describe his childhood as mostly pleasant, he suffered from depression and obesity in his teens, likely exacerbated by being closeted. Stamm recovered somewhat while attending Baylor in pursuit of a law degree, and married his good high school friend, Claire Ratliff, soon after graduating. While Ratliff did indeed admire and was attracted to Stamm, Stamm was unable to effectively reciprocate. Ultimately, the couple soon divorced in 2034, an event that caused a major rift with Stamm's parents when they learned the reasons. On the other hand, Stamm excelled as a lawyer. He came into some local renown as a junior partner in a firm founded by one of his professors, and was hired as an assistant to the Texas State Prosecuting Attorney (SPA) Office in 2035, and became first assistant in 2037. Moving to Austin was a liberating experience for Stamm, giving him a chance to express his sexuality. Working for the SPA, he met his second partner, Nelson Conley, a police officer. The two married in 2038. Stamm also began working with the state branch of the American Moderate Party, proving himself a passionate advocate and surrogate, and began moving up the party ranks.
However, Stamm's life would be flipped upside down in 2039, with the May 31st Rebellion. The revolution would come to Austin, and Conley would die in a shootout with rebel partisans. While fighting in Austin only lasted between August and October, the city and state government were in disarray. While Stamm was relatively safe during the conflict, living and working under guard in the improvised capital compound, other high ranking officials, including the attorney general, were maimed or killed while attempting to flee through the suburbs. When the fires of the rebellion finally faded, the Party needed to fill the vacuum, and turned to Stamm. Stamm, the brilliant young attorney. Stamm, the passionate organized. Stamm, a man that wanted vengeance.
There was no competition. Stamm stood and received the AMP's nomination for Texas Attorney General, running unopposed in a special election. Stamm immediately set to work, filing through interned rebels and finding which ones that the State of Texas could further prosecute. However, the Party underestimated Stamm's bloodlust. Texas's new attorney general filled multiple homicide cases for over two thousand rebels, and sought the death penalty for 547. However, Stamm's zeal would prove his downfall. His office was undermanned and overworked, and many of the cases were botched. While Stamm was able to get the death penalty for 34 rebels, he also accrued 51 mistrials. With pressure from both their local and national backers, the AMP pressured Stamm into not attempting to seek reelection. In 2044, Syed Mcdowell would be the last elected Texas attorney general, who also ran unopposed.
Stamm would spend the better half of the next ten years floating from practice to practice, from adjunct position to adjunct position. Abandoned by his former peers, he became bitter and detached. Over this period, Stamm would have several aborted romances, attempt and fail to write a memoir, and nearly had his law license revoked. However, this would all turn around, when the Water Riots brought a new period of civil unrest to the U.S.A. . Angered by the government's inability to curtail the insurrectionists, and by the eventual reform deal, Stamm joined the rising hardliner movement. Stamm would run to represent Austin and the rest of the 3rd district in 2052, winning the primary and thus the seat. His first term in congress was poorly met, and he became known as a pitiless obstructionist. After being primaried in 2054, Stamm moved back to Waco, where he successful won another house seat in 2056.
Dustin Raya had a rather different upbringing than his eventual friend and rival. Born to an immigrant father and a poor white mother, Dustin had a tough upbringing in San Diego. While he came from poor conditions, Raya's mind was incredibly sharp, with an excellent aptitude for technology and economics. Ultimately, Raya would decide to apply his skills to technology management, and had most of his tuition at Arizona State University paid through their National American University Scholarship. Raya further excelled as a college student, and was selected by the San Francisco robotics company Meconomics for their supervisor graduate program. While his career was disrupted by the May 31st rebellion, he came out of the conflict unscathed. Raya would later leave Meconomics on good terms in 2043 after his marriage to Meghan Hart, a mechanical engineer. Raya started his own firm, Aztecha in 2044, which grew quickly and was sold in 2046. Emboldened by this success, Raya invested in specialized VR equipment, founding Augmented Operations in 2048. Raya held onto AugOps for longer, a decision he somewhat came to regret.
In the summer of 2051, the water riots swept through Santa Clara. Security forces were overwhelmed, and much of the San Francisco metro became the domain of underclass mobs and ruthless paramilitaries. Raya and his family avoided the chaos, having decided to spend the summer at their house in eastern Washington, but AugOps offices were assaulted and vandalized by rioters. Raya was distressed and furious, especially with the news that some of his colleagues and employees were wounded in the attack. While most of the company's value was in digital assets, and insurance covered most of the damages, Raya was no longer content with corporate life. Raya successfully ran for the Santa Clara Assembly in 2054, with his party donations making up for his lack of membership or previous political experience. Raya was hardly an active member of the Assembly. While he tried to be visible, he was mainly focused on using the position as a stepping stone within the party. Raya successfully ran for the House of Representatives in 2056, winning a close primary and easily defeating his Muncipalist opponent.
Stamm and Raya met each other as freshman of the 136th Congress. Overall, the two men contrasted drastically. Raya was thin and wiry, while Stamm was wide and muscled. Raya was cold and quiet, Stamm was fiery and boisterous. One a devout Catholic, and the other an ardent Atheist. However, the two men shared deeply personal losses at the hands of civil unrest, and both shared a vision of a new order for their nation. While neither founded the House Civil Defense Caucus, they both became its rising stars, gaining reputations as firebrands and ruthless backroom dealers. This partnership quickly became a friendship, and the two were virtually inseparable during their time in D.C. Ultimately, Stamm would choose to seek leadership in the House, while Raya decided to move onto the Senate.
While the two still saw each other as valuable partners, they drifted apart, both in their friendship and ideology. While Stamm remained vengeful, Raya began to soften. His rank in the AMP gave him access to information on the AMP's historical activities. Their manipulation of the electoral system, treatment of political prisoners, and the intercine disputes between the various departments. Raya began to see that there was something fundamentally wrong with the government, and that drastic reforms were in order. Raya left the Senate Civil Defense Caucus in 2062, and formed his own Renewal of the Republic Caucus. Raya would go on to raise national interest through his public forgiveness of the men and women that assaulted his company office. Not only did he personally meet and forgive the offenders, he also set up a trust fund to send their children to college. Raya would explain that it was sheer desperation that drove these people, and that it was nesecary to heal the wounds that the nation had endured. And currently, reform was the right path. After all, ten years ago, men and women were looting supermarkets to get their hands on fresh water. After the reform deal and price controls, such crime dropped like a rock.
While they were former friends, Stamm and Raya quickly became bitter rivals. While they initially tried to be polite about their differences, they began to see the worst of the AMP in the other. Raya began to see Stamm as a bitter and brittle man, who's heavy-handed tactics would lead to the end of the party. Stamm began to see Raya as an appeaser, whose opportunism and lack of will would allow their enemies to strangle the AMP in its sleep.
Tensions between the two have now reached a boil. The pair announced their competing candidacies for the President of the United States in April, within a week of each other. While they are not the only candidates for the AMP nomination, they currently lead the polls. Such a clash of personalities has been pure fodder for the mass media, who have repeatedly declared that one of the two will become the next president of the United States.
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Little Red Bean
Banned
David Stamm grew up in a conservative, christian household in Lubbock, Texas. Son of a baptist preacher and a engineering consultant, Stamm grew in a sheltered home, attending private Christian schools his entire youth. While Stamm would later describe his childhood as mostly pleasant, he suffered from depression and obesity in his teens, likely exacerbated by being closeted. Stamm recovered somewhat while attending Baylor in pursuit of a law degree, and married his good high school friend, Claire Ratliff, soon after graduating. While Ratliff did indeed admire and was attracted to Stamm, Stamm was unable to effectively reciprocate. Ultimately, the couple soon divorced in 2034, an event that caused a major rift with Stamm's parents when they learned the reasons. On the other hand, Stamm excelled as a lawyer. He came into some local renown as a junior partner in a firm founded by one of his professors, and was hired as an assistant to the Texas State Prosecuting Attorney (SPA) Office in 2035, and became first assistant in 2037. Moving to Austin was a liberating experience for Stamm, giving him a chance to express his sexuality. Working for the SPA, he met his second partner, Nelson Conley, a police officer. The two married in 2038. Stamm also began working with the state branch of the American Moderate Party, proving himself a passionate advocate and surrogate and moving up the party ranks.
However, Stamm's life would be flipped upside down in 2039, with the May 31st Rebellion. The revolution would come to Austin, and Conley would die in a shootout with rebel partisans. While fighting in Austin only lasted between August and October, the city and state government were in disarray. While Stamm was relatively safe during the conflict, living and working under guard in the improvised capital compound, other high ranking officials, including the attorney general, were maimed or killed while attempting to flee through the suburbs. When the fires of the rebellion finally faded, the Party needed to fill the vacuum, and turned to Stamm. Stamm, the brilliant young attorney. Stamm, the passionate organized. Stamm, a man that wanted vengeance.
There was no competition. Stamm stood and received the AMP's nomination for Texas Attorney General, running unopposed in a special election. Stamm immediately set to work, filing through interned rebels and finding which ones that the State of Texas could further prosecute. However, the Party underestimated Stamm's bloodlust. Texas's new attorney general filled multiple homicide cases for over two thousand rebels, and sought the death penalty for 547. However, Stamm's zeal would probe his downfall. His office was undermanned and overworked, and many of the cases were botched. While Stamm was able to get the death penalty for 34 rebels, he also accrued 51 mistrials. With pressure from both their local and national backers, the AMP pressured Stamm into not attempting to seek reelection. In 2044, Syed Mcdowell would be the last elected Texas attorney general, who also ran unopposed.
Stamm would spend the better half of the next ten years floating from practice to practice, from adjunct position to adjunct position. Abandoned by his former peers, he became bitter and detached. Over this period, Stamm would have several aborted romances, attempt and fail to write a memoir, and nearly had his law license revoked. However, this would all turn around, when the Water Riots brought a new period of civil unrest to the U.S.A. . Angered by the government's inability to curtail the insurrectionists, and by the eventual reform deal, Stamm joined the rising hardliner movement. Stamm would run to represent Austin and the rest of the 3rd district in 2052, winning the primary and thus the seat. His first term in congress was poorly met, and he became known as a pitiless obstructionist. After being primaried in 2054, Stamm moved back to Waco, where he successful won another house seat in 2056.
Dustin Raya had a rather different upbringing than his eventual friend and rival. Born to an immigrant father and a poor white mother, Dustin had a tough upbringing in San Diego. While he came from poor conditions, Raya's mind was incredibly sharp, with an excellent aptitude for technology and economics. Ultimately, Raya would decide to apply his skills to technology management, and had most of his tutition at Arizona State University paid through their National American University Scholarship. Raya further excelled as a college student, and was selected by the San Francisco robotics company Meconomics for their supervisor graduate program. While his career was disrupted by the May 31st rebellion, he came out of the conflict unscathed. Raya would later leave Meconomics on good terms in 2043 after his marriage to Meghan Hart, a mechanical engineer. Raya started his own firm, Aztecha in 2044, which grew quickly and was sold in 2046. Emboldened by this success, Raya invested in specialized VR equipment, founding Augmented Operations in 2048. Raya held onto AugOps for longer, a decision he somewhat came to regret.
In the summer of 2051, the water riots swept through Santa Clara. Security forces were overwhelmed, and much of the San Francisco metro became the domain of underclass mobs and ruthless paramilitaries. Raya and his family avoided the chaos, having decided to spend the summer at their house in eastern Washington, but AugOps offices were assaulted and vandalized by rioters. Raya was distressed and furious, especially with the news that some of his colleagues and employees were wounded in the attack. While most of the company's value was in digital assets, and insurance covered most of the damages, Raya was no longer content with corporate life. Raya successfully ran for the Santa Clara Assembly in 2054, with his party donations making up for his lack of membership or previous political experience. Raya was hardly an active member of the Assembly. While he tried to be visible, he was mainly focused on using the position as a stepping stone within the party. Raya successfully ran for the House of Representatives in 2056, winning a close primary and easily defeating his Muncipalist opponent.
Stamm and Raya met each other as freshman of the 136th Congress. Overall, the two men contrasted drastically. Raya was thin and wiry, while Stamm was wide and muscled. Raya was cold and quiet, Stamm was fiery and boisterous. One a devout Catholic, and the other an ardent Atheist. However, the two men shared deeply personal losses at the hands of civil unrest, and both shared a vision of a new order for their nation. While neither founded the House Civil Defense Caucus, they both became its rising stars, gaining reputations as firebrands and ruthless backroom dealers. This partnership quickly became a friendship, and the two were virtually inseparable during their time in D.C. Ultimately, Stamm would choose to seek leadership in the House, while Raya decided to move onto the Senate.
While the two still saw each other as valuable partners, they drifted apart, both in their friendship and ideology. While Stamm remained vengeful, Raya began to soften. His rank in the AMP gave him access to information on the AMP's historical activities. Their manipulation of the electoral system, treatment of political prisoners, and the intercine disputes between the various departments. Raya began to see that there was something fundamentally wrong with the government, and that drastic reforms were in order. Raya left the Senate Civil Defense Caucus in 2062, and formed his own Renewal of the Republic Caucus. Raya would go on to raise national interest through his public forgiveness of the men and women that assaulted his company office. Not only did he personally meet and forgive the offenders, he also set up a trust fund to send their children to college. Raya would explain that it was sheer desperation that drove these people, and that it was nesecary to heal the wounds that the nation had endured. And currently, reform was the right path. After all, ten years ago, men and women were looting supermarkets to get their hands on fresh water. After the reform deal and price controls, such crime dropped like a rock.
While they were former friends, Stamm and Raya quickly became bitter rivals. While they initially tried to be polite about their differences, they began to see the worst of the AMP in the other. Raya began to see Stamm as a bitter and brittle man, who's heavy-handed tactics would lead to the end of the party. Stamm began to see Raya as an appeaser, whose opportunism and lack of will would allow their enemies to strangle the AMP in its sleep.
Tensions between the two have now reached a boil. The pair announced their competing candidacies for the President of the United States in April, within a week of each other. While they are not the only candidates for the AMP nomination, they currently lead the polls. Such a clash of personalities has been pure fodder for the mass media, who have repeatedly declared that one of the two will become the next president of the United States.
Uh....so what happened to California again?
The State of Santa Clara was carved out in 2035 by the AMP, pressured by silicon valley oligarchs that were tired of paying taxes to Sacramento. While Sacramento, ironically enough, did become part of the new state, it did serve its purpose as a techno-libertarian playground for the corporate class.
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The Fire Last Time
Andy Hruska was the son of respected Athenia jurist Paul Hruska, but his political career began in Stanford, on the other side of the planet. After a brief career in stand-up comedy, Hruska ended up as the spokesperson for Representative J. Porter Barrett - and, after Barrett's appointment as Stanford Ecological Administrator, was tapped to succeed him.
In the House, Hruska was a popular and well-known Representative, known for his support of internationalism and opposition to interventionism, at the same time arguing for the relaxation of species quotas in immigration. His foresight was uncommon - he was criticizing the Solidarity Party, an isolationist, militarist, and openly human-supremacist movement which began to gain prominence in the late 2230s, before anyone else took it seriously. Hruska began advocating a "Grand Coalition" of Republicans and Democrats to stop Solidarity from winning in the 2240s, by which time they had begun to hold the balance of power in the House, and formed the "Better Red Than Dead Caucus" to prop up the Republican plurality after the 2242 election.
That same year, Solidarity nominee and Copper County Sheriff Daniela Perez managed to win the Governorship on 35% of the vote. The next time round, Hruska himself was nominated by both the Democratic and Republican parties and won the election handily. His efforts to hold his coalition together notwithstanding, the two parties proved too different to fully meld, and after a walkout of conservatives from the first convention of the new "Anti-Solidarity Party" Perez won again. Three years later, she had declared martial law and suspended elections.
The Perez regime's atrocities are myriad and diverse. Hruska spent the first decade jailed at Cold Harbor as a "national security risk", during which time his wife was executed on trumped-up charges of "sedition", and the second decade in exile on Luna. Alongside fellow exiles Gabriela Galves, Nora Abdulrashid, and Julian Kim, Hruska established the Stanford government-in-exile at Richardson Base, Tycho.
Hruska returned to Stanford in the closing hours of the June 6th Mutiny, and assumed de facto command of the new government - codified with the adoption of the 2272 Constitution and his appointment (being the most senior government figure neither dead nor a collaborator) as Prime Minister. He served two terms before stepping down in 2280 due to health reasons, and died tragically before his time due to a rare form of antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis some still think to be foul play.
Hruska was, to many, both within and without Stanford, a symbol of democracy - its defeats, its regroupings, and its triumphs. He is also notable as one of the most high-profile humans in interspecies marriages - at the time of his death, he was married to Ëol writer Dallagorrama. Lastly, he is considered the first major figure of Sixth Wave Libertarianism by many commentators, although others state that there is, in fact, no Sixth Wave as of yet.
The Fire Last Time
Andy Hruska was the son of respected Athenia jurist Paul Hruska, but his political career began in Stanford, on the other side of the planet. After a brief career in stand-up comedy, Hruska ended up as the spokesperson for Representative J. Porter Barrett - and, after Barrett's appointment as Stanford Ecological Administrator, was tapped to succeed him.
In the House, Hruska was a popular and well-known Representative, known for his support of internationalism and opposition to interventionism, at the same time arguing for the relaxation of species quotas in immigration. His foresight was uncommon - he was criticizing the Solidarity Party, an isolationist, militarist, and openly human-supremacist movement which began to gain prominence in the late 2230s, before anyone else took it seriously. Hruska began advocating a "Grand Coalition" of Republicans and Democrats to stop Solidarity from winning in the 2240s, by which time they had begun to hold the balance of power in the House, and formed the "Better Red Than Dead Caucus" to prop up the Republican plurality after the 2242 election.
That same year, Solidarity nominee and Copper County Sheriff Daniela Perez managed to win the Governorship on 35% of the vote. The next time round, Hruska himself was nominated by both the Democratic and Republican parties and won the election handily. His efforts to hold his coalition together notwithstanding, the two parties proved too different to fully meld, and after a walkout of conservatives from the first convention of the new "Anti-Solidarity Party" Perez won again. Three years later, she had declared martial law and suspended elections.
The Perez regime's atrocities are myriad and diverse. Hruska spent the first decade jailed at Cold Harbor as a "national security risk", during which time his wife was executed on trumped-up charges of "sedition", and the second decade in exile on Luna. Alongside fellow exiles Gabriela Galves, Nora Abdulrashid, and Julian Kim, Hruska established the Stanford government-in-exile at Richardson Base, Tycho.
Hruska returned to Stanford in the closing hours of the June 6th Mutiny, and assumed de facto command of the new government - codified with the adoption of the 2272 Constitution and his appointment (being the most senior government figure neither dead nor a collaborator) as Prime Minister. He served two terms before stepping down in 2280 due to health reasons, and died tragically before his time due to a rare form of antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis some still think to be foul play.
Hruska was, to many, both within and without Stanford, a symbol of democracy - its defeats, its regroupings, and its triumphs. He is also notable as one of the most high-profile humans in interspecies marriages - at the time of his death, he was married to Ëol writer Dallagorrama. Lastly, he is considered the first major figure of Sixth Wave Libertarianism by many commentators, although others state that there is, in fact, no Sixth Wave as of yet.
The Fire Last Time
Worth debating whether Fiorina could have flipped the Rust Belt. I saw her campaign in the NH primary, and when you combine it with her debate performances, it's crazy to think that she did a better job of campaigning than half the field and yet never caught on - even when Trump (and for a time, Carson) did. Either way, America was electing its first female president on November 8th.
But how does Hillary win Montana?
Worth debating whether Fiorina could have flipped the Rust Belt. I saw her campaign in the NH primary, and when you combine it with her debate performances, it's crazy to think that she did a better job of campaigning than half the field and yet never caught on - even when Trump (and for a time, Carson) did. Either way, America was electing its first female president on November 8th.
This is my favorite wikibox series and is consistently the sharpest satire here on the site.
Deloria
Banned
While all traces of distinct Irish-American culture had largely disappeared by the year 2020, the old Irish identity lived on for decades in the hearts of tens of millions of Americans who increasingly forgot what defined their Irishness. Successive generations of Irish-Americans knew little of their claimed motherland's religion or politics, and few ever gave Ireland much thought at all beyond drunkenly celebrating on St. Patrick's Day. Even this token exceptionalism faded as America's demographic shift in the second half of the 21st century killed the remnants of white ethnic pride and replaced them with even more generic brown American patriotism, reinforced by liberal concepts of racial justice and jingoistic space adventurism which amounted to nothing.
Many anthropologists predicted that Irish-Americans would go extinct by the year 2150, as Scandinavian-Americans and Japanese-Americans had; in the end they were spared that sad fate, entirely due to the concentrated efforts of cultural revivalists in the 2130s seeking to reconstruct what they imagined to be authentic Irish-American lifestyles and ideals. Few of these revivalists were ethnically Irish or even European- though most claimed partial descent from Irish-American ancestors- but their enthusiasm revitalized public interest in a dying culture that had once been shared by a vast section of American society.
Today, Ireland is gone, and America is not even close to what it once was. Yet hundreds of thousands of Americans of all backgrounds wear the label of Irish-American with pride, and are active in building a national community that resembles the ethnic cohesion of pre-exodus humanity. To call oneself Irish-American in present-day America is to say: "I know that it is always possible to return from the brink of disaster, and I am filled with hope for the future." The Irish-American Brotherhood does its best to reflect this sentiment in all its activities.
United States of America
Many anthropologists predicted that Irish-Americans would go extinct by the year 2150, as Scandinavian-Americans and Japanese-Americans had; in the end they were spared that sad fate, entirely due to the concentrated efforts of cultural revivalists in the 2130s seeking to reconstruct what they imagined to be authentic Irish-American lifestyles and ideals. Few of these revivalists were ethnically Irish or even European- though most claimed partial descent from Irish-American ancestors- but their enthusiasm revitalized public interest in a dying culture that had once been shared by a vast section of American society.
Today, Ireland is gone, and America is not even close to what it once was. Yet hundreds of thousands of Americans of all backgrounds wear the label of Irish-American with pride, and are active in building a national community that resembles the ethnic cohesion of pre-exodus humanity. To call oneself Irish-American in present-day America is to say: "I know that it is always possible to return from the brink of disaster, and I am filled with hope for the future." The Irish-American Brotherhood does its best to reflect this sentiment in all its activities.
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"Never made you out to be a Trump man."
"I ain't, believe me. Just a guy who likes to back winners."
"So, not watching the NFL then?"
"NFL?! Those corporate whores?! Listen, I been to every season since Ronnie Reagen was still in the White House, I ain't just about to drop my team jus' so I can see Newton play defense in the fall."
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"The Stars?! Nah, man, they been crap for years. I'm stickin' with the Generals."
"Never made you out to be a Trump man."
"I ain't, believe me. Just a guy who likes to back winners."
"So, not watching the NFL then?"
"NFL?! Those corporate whores?! Listen, I been to every season since Ronnie Reagen was still in the White House, I ain't just about to drop my team jus' so I can see Newton play defense in the fall."
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