The Great Crusade (Reds! Part 3)
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The Latin word for king, rex, gets conjugated with a -g in its other declensions, like regis in the genitive case. Genitive case is used to express possession or origin. In this case, a usurpation. It's literally the king's usurpation of power. Or Regisurp
It's Homestuck, not Homestruck.
Alternatives were "Operation Return of the King", "Operation Restoration" and "Operation Coronation".
Redshank Galloglass
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If I recall, American Officers are known as commanders correct? What's the rank system of the UASR?
I'll probably do a more thorough write up as part of revisions.
The simple answer is that it changes a lot in the first decade. During the Civil War, the Spartacus League, Red Army and Red Guards used different rank systems. The SL used Soviet inspired positional ranks for officers, though most NCO ranks were broadly similar. The Red Army, the radicalized regular army and army reserve units such as those under Patton, Chaffee etc., used a similar system of functional titles as brevet ranks, with old style ranks in abeyance. Red Guards just used the old US Army rank system.
With the creation of the WFRA, those ranks were standardized, and now positional ranks were the norm. An OF-5 would officially be a "Battalion Commander," shortened as ComBat, the equivalent of an old Lt. Colonel.
The Navy was more resistant to this, retaining old style ranks. And the new ranks were not popular within the professional echelons of the military establishment. By 1935, a new unified rank system is promulgated that unifies Army and Navy ranks into a coherent system. Notably, the traditional style ranks are simply approved styles of address; the positional ranks remain the legal rank.
Redshank Galloglass
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But at least that's somewhat understandable.
Jesus, the beuracracy in reds is irritating to all hell.
So's the language, honestly.
Redshank Galloglass
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So when should we expect another update?
Also, should we expect an American SAS style unit to come out of the war? A variant of the OSS possibly? Marine Raiders?
Also, should we expect an American SAS style unit to come out of the war? A variant of the OSS possibly? Marine Raiders?
It's been a while since I posted in both Great Crusade and Reds fanfic threads. I just got too busy in my work when I started working again back in March and I also have some Internet connectivity issues that may persist in the near-future. It sucks to be in a country where the communications duopoly made our country's Internet services suck.
I've got a rather controversial issue to bring up in relation to the great socialist experiment of Soviet America and the wider Comintern.
It's about poverty in the Comintern.
How do material and financial poverty manifests in the UASR or in the Comintern? Does it even exist by the time that the UASR started fully mobilizing in the 1940s and create a full employment society?
Is it possible to see that there's no poverty in the Comintern by the 21st century or even earlier? That we are seeing an almost completely "middle class society"? I like to think that this is the case.
I wonder how the progressive bourgeoisie can continue to live a life of certain luxury given that it's hinted that most of their personal property and wealth was preserved for their decision to side with the right side of history. How tolerable it was and if there are certain limits to this imposed by the wider community?
I also noticed based on the Archie Comics piece in the fanfic thread that there seems to be an entrenched long-term of office for top personnel of Archie Comics, like the chairman Bob Montana.
What happened to the principles of workers' self-management in practice and how deformed it became by the time that state socialism became well-entrenched?
I've got a rather controversial issue to bring up in relation to the great socialist experiment of Soviet America and the wider Comintern.
It's about poverty in the Comintern.
How do material and financial poverty manifests in the UASR or in the Comintern? Does it even exist by the time that the UASR started fully mobilizing in the 1940s and create a full employment society?
Is it possible to see that there's no poverty in the Comintern by the 21st century or even earlier? That we are seeing an almost completely "middle class society"? I like to think that this is the case.
I wonder how the progressive bourgeoisie can continue to live a life of certain luxury given that it's hinted that most of their personal property and wealth was preserved for their decision to side with the right side of history. How tolerable it was and if there are certain limits to this imposed by the wider community?
I also noticed based on the Archie Comics piece in the fanfic thread that there seems to be an entrenched long-term of office for top personnel of Archie Comics, like the chairman Bob Montana.
What happened to the principles of workers' self-management in practice and how deformed it became by the time that state socialism became well-entrenched?
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Redshank Galloglass
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Are we going to see the FBU develop a TTL version of AirLand Battle? If so, how will the Comintern react to this? AirLand battle really changed the game in the 80's.
I don't remember the details of these arrangements. But even if they got to keep all their money and cool houses, they won't be able to maintain influence for long (more than a couple of decades) if they can't continue to exploit the workers for $$$.
It's in the fanfic thread recently when Jello made a comment about Batman ITTL and Bruce Wayne's characterization representing the "progressive bourgeois". It appears though that you may be right and the Second Cultural Revolution will considerably change things and further dilute the influence of the previous old society to the UASR's way of life.