Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree: A Nineteen Eighty-Four Timeline
- Thread starter Roberto El Rey
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At least the Fascist powers in Europe are going down sooner than OTL's, though given the context of TTL, that's not much of an improvement.
Canada goes insane later than the rest of the world. That’s why McGraw Hill moves there from New York
SuperZtar64
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fuggg
Also, Premier Trotsky. It's been so long since I've read this that i forgot he was in power in the USSR...
Also also, @Roberto El Rey i'm also rolling d20 on the US Presidential Election 1940. If the number is above zero Thomas wins, k?
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AeroTheZealousOne
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Well, [expletive deleted]. Maybe later.
Always take the good with the bad, no? But your point still stands.
Time to flee to Canada, then! But where next...?
Also also, @Roberto El Rey i'm also rolling d20 on the US Presidential Election 1940. If the number is above zero Thomas wins, k?
Your d20 has been printed with both positive and negative numbers in it, and therefore:
Roberto El Rey will have eventually said:
SuperZtar64
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Nah, actually it's impossible for Thomas not to win because if he lost this timeline would be a dystopia far too early.
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I don't quite think that's the intended message of Nineteen Eighty-Four, but hey, if that's your mantra, more power to you.
Some people would love idea, especially with tensions rising between Ukraine and Russia lately but that's a whole other story.
Of course it isn’t Orwell’s message. Since our story sets up Oceania I was making an ironic joke to stave off totalitarianism before it’s ready.
So, "Obliteration of the self" on Eastasia would be coming from good ol' Mao? Can't wait
It'll be a cocktail: Mao, Kim, Ishii, and a whole bunch of others.
AeroTheZealousOne
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This warrants the same reaction to Hamilton finding out Burr's love interest is married to a British Officer:
Alexander Hamilton in a certain OTL musical said:
I mean, you have got one of the worst human beings out of Unit 731, and then you have two authoritarian communists as well. I fear what shall come of this, but the conclusion is very much foregone.