La Patrie ou La Mort, Nous Vaincrons
Another one?
Yeah, I'm doing another timeline in a day.
You said your last one would take a week. It's been six months.
We're on an alternate history forum. Let's just say time is mutable. Also, I have a job. Tough to find time and all. This shouldn't take longer than a couple weeks.
A couple weeks?! Why even call it a TLIAD?
It's going to be about the length of an average TLIAD, despite taking a bit longer.
Also, give me time. A revolution doesn't happen overnight.
Yeah, speaking of that, what's with you and revolutions? What are you, some kind of commie?
Well, yeah, sort of.
As to why I'm interested, I'm not entirely sure. There is so much potential for good and evil bottled up in humanity. When revolutionary times come, and the boundaries of politics are lifted, we get to see humanity's true face in many ways. As you can tell from history, it's usually not very pretty, but there are moments and incidents of true triumph.
Is this one of them?
Yes, and no. Great Men can do great and terrible things. This man, killed before his time, was one of them.
In Africa?
Yes. Africa's Cuba, to be particular. In our timeline, it was a dramatic political tragedy worthy of Shakespeare. In this timeline, it might be more worthy of one of the Russians, or perhaps Žižek. "First as Tragedy, Then as Farce"...
Now you're getting into pseudo-philosophical bullshit.
Yeah, fair enough. Good a time as any to stop talking then, and let an alternate history take its course.