Let's dive more into the madness of this book by military and strategic """analyst""" William Lind. Some highlights:
>William S. Lind (born July 9, 1947) is an American monarchist, paleoconservative, columnist, Christian, and a light rail enthusiast.
>light rail enthusiast
Preface
>the state upheld its unpleasant responsibility of setting torch to faggots, was what marked this as an act of Recovery
Chapter 5
> Boyd was the greatest American military theorist of the 20th century
Chapter 12
>“Because Don and the rest of the gays have me by the balls, that’s why,” Hokem said. “Well, not that way, but you know what I mean.”
Chapter 16
>Bill Kraft had the answer – a perfect Retroculture answer. “There won’t be any electronic records,” he said. “Remember, we had banks long before we had computers. We just go back to [banking] manually, with passbooks and account ledgers and the like.
Chapter 21
>>“T-34s are exactly the right tanks for us,” I replied. “They are crude, simple, and reliable. They always start and they always run. If they do break, any machine shop can fix ’em. We don’t want tanks to fight other tanks. That’s what anti-tank weapons are for. The best way to stop an M-1 is with a mine that blows a tread off. We want tanks for real armored warfare, which means to get deep in the enemy’s rear and overrun his soft stuff, his artillery and logistics trains and headquarters, so his whole force panics and comes apart.”
Chapter 22
>“Black people have been the only warriors in history. White men can’t fight. It’s because their noses are too small. Courage comes from the nose, not the heart, as the African spiritual healers you call witch doctors have long understood. That’s why black people eat their snot. What do you white folk do with your snot? You wrap it up in a little white surrender flag and put it in your pocket. So you don’t have no courage.”
Once again I actually agree with some of the stuff he's written, such as the US's inability to win wars because of its inability or unwillingness to bond with those it "liberates"
Chapter 23
>felt like a broken-glass suppository wrapped in sandpaper
>What an apt way to describe this entire "book"
Chapter 25
>no matter how good the comm (and ours was good, thanks to using Radio Shack gear and not the garbage the old U.S. forces had bought through their Soviet-model procurement system).
Chapter 26
>We're using spar torpedoes
Chapter 27
>Anyway, it was clear that Gunny Matthews, the director of the Council Of Responsible Negroes, or CORN, had a tough row to hoe.
Chapter 28
>A computer wizard in Providence came up with a terminal that gave the user hard copy as he typed, thus guaranteeing he would never again lose days of work because the system crashed. He called his device a “printwriter,” and it sold like, well, typewriters.
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>>30477496
Last thread has some good writefaggotry attempting to (and in my opinion succeeding) improve on this """novel"""
The first 35 chapters of this book can be found here:
https://www.traditionalright.com/victoria/
I am about to start on Chapter 31
I thought it was the bad guys burning that Bishop
I didn't realize it was supposed to be what the good guys were doing because women apparently can't be Bishops
>>30511889
He's not exactly unique in that regard. Furthermore, I found his 4GW framework to be contradictory and based on incorrect historiography. When it comes to military systems, he's a massive Luddite that seems to forget the actual lessons of Desert Storm.
Some writefaggotry I'd like to highlight:
The NCO's who remembered the Battle of Lake Champlain lead the march through the small towns of Maine along the I-91 corridor. The men who remembered the 42nd as the disposable unit it began life as, who had used their combat experience to forge gang bangers and outcasts into a fighting unit began the singing in deep Black baritones.
"Mine eyes have the glory.." They'd lead upon entering a Victorian town. Without missing a step, with shining weapons on shoulders the troopers of the 42nd would take up the song.
"Of the coming Lord!" They would chant. And in towns brought once again under Federal control, the people would spill out to porches and tavern fronts to hear their supposed enemies sing of His truth marching on; the same thing their insane masters in Augusta rallied on about. Whole companies would explode in jubilant song at the mention of the Terrible Swift Sword, the words imprinted in their Division Colors flying alongside the 50 Starred Banner at the head of our columns.
From my position on horseback I watched my men rattle the windows with their deep choruses of "Glory, Glory". I had seen them in combat enough to know they were more than capable of being the Terrible Swift Sword we had promised them. And soon we would advance on Augusta, and raise the Stars and Stripes over the town house. What had started off as a joke from Big Army was now a reality. The Numero Uno Division was on the march.
- Brig. Gen. Arnold Byrant, CO, 42nd Div.
>>30511950
Shit, I got write fagging I said I'd do. Keep on truckin', OP. I'll be lurking
holy shit this is bad
you can't start the very first chapter with ham fisted politicking, be the madman does anyway
Chapter 31: American """Intellectuals"""
>By the 21st century, America had become a country of many universities and little education.
I would argue that a good chunk of this situation results from how colleges have almost become glorified trade schools.
>Her colleges were mostly diploma mills crossed with asylums for the politically insane: howling Bluestockings, inventors of “Afrocentric history,” mewling “advocates” for the blind, the botched, and the bewildered. Frequently, these defectives pooled their neuroses and formed a coalition that took over the campus, turning it into a small, ivy covered North Korea. Any student who dared dispute their ideology of cultural Marxism swiftly felt the hand of “revolutionary justice.”
I can sympathize as someone with right-wing political leanings, but the answer isn't thought control.
>Students still arrived, despite appalling tuition bills, because they needed the sheepskin. America had come to value credentials over performance, so anyone without a college degree remained a bottom-feeder for life.
imo, his is partially a result of how much more technological the market it; and (inb4 /pol/) may have something to do with immigration legal and illegal depressing the bottom end of the job market. I'm no economist, so feel free to correct my assertions.
>Universities were a classic socialist set-up: a monopoly that produced crap at high prices.
Cheap shot desu
>The professors were still paid, but in money worth so little a month’s paycheck couldn’t cover lunch. It got so bad some of them had to go out and get jobs.
This pretty much the adjunct life already
>Young people had real work to do, and no state government had spare cash to fund phony “education.”
So how are you R&Ding your carbon fiber dirigibles and designer plagues? With bright farmboys that just wing it?
>So it was something of a surprise, in early September, 2029, to see students once again matriculating.
Can't let that happen.
>>30512252
>Sometime in March, an organization based in Zurich called the Foundation for Higher Learning had approached the former presidents of Yale, Harvard, and Dartmouth and asked whether they could start their schools going again if funding were provided. They said they could, and immediately found themselves with a hundred million Swiss francs each – an enormous sum in our poverty-stricken economy.
It was the g*d damn mountain Jews!
>Lured by huge salaries, their professors regathered. Students were offered full scholarships, plus stipends that amounted to enough money to feed a whole family. People without much cash realized their college-age son or daughter could be their main wage-earner, and applications poured in.
Maybe this can return America to the technological and research powerhouse it was once; the people that were thirty years ahead of everyone else with VLO aircraft.
>Three hundred million Swiss francs was an economic Godsend, because it enabled us to increase our money supply. It was many times what we were earning in foreign exchange from all our exports put together.
Nice. Surely, nothing bad can come of this
>I was wrong. Quickly, all the old games started up again. The course catalogs were filled with crap like “Women in Judeo-Christian Societies: Three Thousand Years of Phallic Oppression and The Symbolism of the Bagel,” “The African Origins of Chaos Theory” (a course which was quickly denounced as “insensitive” and withdrawn), and “Salons in the Camp: Lesbian Contributions to Line and Column Tactics in 18th Century European Warfare.”
That last one sounds like a visionary of 5th Generation Warfare
>An informal contest developed among the three colleges to see which could be the most PC.
Kay
>The Harvard faculty collectively led a “love-in” that “introduced students to the richness of man-boy relationships.”
I hate NAMBLA as much as the next person, but I think Lind is a little obsessed
>>30512376
>Yale countered with an “auto-da-fe” in which every heterosexual male student had to choose a “sin” from a PC list – “sexism,” “homophobia,” “good table manners,” etc. – and parade around campus wearing a signboard bearing their “confession.”
I didn't know leftists had a pathological hatred of table manners.
>Dartmouth erected a Temple of Artemis in the center of the green and forced all male students to prostrate themselves before the goddess, on pain of expulsion it they refused.
Now this is just plain silly.
>Seeking to establish itself as the best of the worst, Dartmouth called a “faculty workshop” for October 12, Columbus Day, “to discover means for reversing Eurocentrism and white male domination over the North American continent.” Faculty leaders from Yale and Harvard were invited to attend.
I guess we'll just have to burn them at the stake.
>On October 2, I received a note from Governor Kraft asking me to meet with him the next day and to bring along Ron Danielov, head of our Special Operations forces. We gathered in his small office that afternoon.
Pretty KGB here
>“That’s a front,” Bill replied. “Some friends in Europe did a little sniffing around for me. The real source of the money is the UN, specifically UNESCO, the UN’s ‘cultural branch.’ It’s been a den of vipers for as long as anyone can remember. Now, with UN money, it hopes to poison us the same way it’s poisoned so many other places. Only that’s not going to happen.”
Never mind, it's not mountain Jews, it's just the UN. Of course.
>“Here’s my plan, and here’s where you come in, sergeant. About mid-morning, I will crash their meeting. I’m simply going to barge in, march up to the front and grab the mic. There, I’ll explain what “political correctness” really is and why we will not tolerate it, or its advocates, in the Northern Confederation.”
So they're going to crash it. I wonder how.
>>30512450
with no survivors?
>>30512450
>“Sergeant, I need two things from you. First, I need snipers concealed in 105 Dartmouth where they can cover the stage. If any of the freaks, phonies, or faggots try to rush me or shout me down, I want them shot. They are going to hear this speech whether they want to or not.”
Honestly, I think I would rather get shot.
>“Be my guest,” Bill answered. “But you still need to be able to run the second part of the operation. Once I’ve said my piece and left the stage, I want a massacre. I don’t want a single one of those idiotlogues to leave that room alive.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTUSkI-v2LU
inb4 >Sabaton, but I find it appropriate
>“Press will be there, so you can’t just blow the building up,” the governor continued. “I want to kill the people who’ve earned death, but no one else. And I want the media, including television, to record and report the whole thing, in every detail.”
Somehow, the internet will not work against them. Because propaganda is a one-way street or something
>I was taken aback by Kraft’s sudden bloodlust. In the past, we had generally been careful to minimize casualties, especially among people who were at least nominally our countrymen.
Wow. Even the MC thinks this is a bit nuts.
>“First, the Deep Greeners were deluded, but they were not deluders. They had swallowed the poison of ideology, but they did not know it as such. They thought what they were doing was good. And a proper concern for the environment is good. We Christians call it ‘stewardship.’ They had simply gone too far, in both their goals and their choice of means.
This is Kraft's explanation for why this is a-okay. Talk about a Day of the Rope.
>You know Von Seekt’s saying, captain: Das wesentlilche ist die Tat. The important thing is the deed.”
Gratuitous German Quotes: 21
Sip your Sam Adams.
>>30512595
So they're literally killing people who disagree with them because they are so wrong it must be intentional treason. And they even assume most of them are just brainwashed kids trying to feed their families.
>>30512595
>the comments on that Sabaton video
Every day, I find I lose faith in humanity I didn't even know I still had.
>>30512633
Bascially, yes. But mass murder is a-okay because they have Jesus and GOD ALMIGHTY on their side. Or something like that.
I think even /pol/ would laugh at this book.
>>30512595
>some people disagree with me
>lets kill them all in cold blood, with no option of escape or surrender
fuck man
just
fuck
>>30512633
Also how tanked is their economy that a UN after the fall of the U.S. economy (and presumably without the help of China or Russia (since communists and fascists are the good guys now)) is able to support thousands of families for the sole purpose of brainwashing them all.
>>30512595
Oh fuck, I misquoted Kraft. His reasoning is that political correctness is the work of Satan. So they need to kill them all.
>“These women despise anyone who looks upon them as women,” Kraft responded. “They spit on the word ‘lady.’ If a man opens a door for them, they kick him in the shins. They demand to be treated equally. Let it be unto them according to their wish.”
Ayy
>Precisely because I still wasn’t comfortable with the idea of a massacre, I felt a need to be in Hanover on October 12th. I needed to show myself that I could do what I was ordered even when I was uncomfortable with it.
Fucking hell. Was Rumford supposed to be an antihero the entire time?
Anyway, Rumford heads back to his hometown to eat some icecream and make a moral decision.
>The PC congress at Dartmouth was well known to folks, since the papers had been talking about the affair at some length. When I got to the store around 9:30, a good crowd had gathered, and they had hard words for the goings-on. Time had not dimmed their memories of what was worst about the old USA, and this political correctness crap was at the top of the list. More than one neighbor said we ought to take the lot of ‘em out and shoot ’em. I took that as a good sign, but still wasn’t sure how people would react when we actually did it.
So it's okay or something.
>From the back of 105 Dartmouth, the camera panned to Governor Kraft marching in the side door, to gasps, then boos, hisses, and shouts of anger from the gutter worshipers. Bill’s 300-pound bulk tossed those in his path aside like bumboats around a battleship as he climbed toward the stage.
Mao was a fatass while his people starved. I like the parallels.
>Grabbing the mic from some stingy-haired bitch reading a poem about making love with her Labrador, the governor bellowed, “Sit down and shut up!”
This is a little funny. But pretty much confirms that this book is some sort of revenge fantasy porn.
The real face of Bill Kraft. Unstable, violent, childish, and fat - it fits
>>30512750
Why does he get fatter in every picture of him?
>>30512768
he's eating all that humanitarian aid the UN sends Best Korea
>>30512736
So here our protagonist learns that massacres are a-ok if they make you morally uneasy but seem to be fine with the locals.
>>30512777
Trips of truth
>>30512768
He eats every relative/potential political rival he has executed.
>>30512736
I'll leave Kraft's speech as intact as possible.
>“Fellow revolutionaries,” were Kraft’s next words. Recovering quickly from their initial shock, a few of the snakes hissed at them.
>“You doubt that I am a revolutionary?” he replied to the hisses. “Oh, how very wrong you are. Very wrong indeed, as you will shortly learn,
>“Now ‘fellow,’ I confess, is merely a bit of polite rhetoric. After all, I cannot address you as ‘ladies and gentlemen.’ You would be ‘offended,’ about which I care not a fig. But it would be untrue. You are neither ladies nor gentlemen. Considering how long you have coupled with demons, I’m not sure there is any humanity left in you at all.”
>“You see, I am not one of the beguiled,” Governor Kraft continued. “I know whence you come. I have studied your history. You are not descendants of the hippies, despite your bedraggled appearance. You are not the offspring of Quakers and Anabaptists, for when you say ‘peace,’ you mean ‘war.’ You did not grow from the Suffragettes, nor the civil rights movement, nor apostles of tolerance such as Roger Williams.”
>“For your father in Hell, no less yours than Lenin’s and Stalin’s and Mao’s, is none other than Karl Marx himself. Your poison, the poison of political correctness which you have striven these many years to inject into the Western bloodstream, is nothing less than Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms.”
>At this, one aged crone on the Dartmouth faculty, Professorette Mary Ucistah, realized the danger. The governor was about to unveil PC’s ultimate secret: where it came from and what it really was. She jumped to her feet and cried, “Come on, people, let’s shout this pig down. You know the chant: Two, Four, Six, Eight, We Know Who the People Hate. . .”
>>30512821
>Their eyes fixed on the professor, few television viewers noticed Bill look up slightly toward the rafters and raise his eyebrows. Ron read the signal correctly. 105 Dartmouth rang with one shot from a sniper rifle, and “Ms.” Ucistah’s brains splattered across the backs of her colleagues. The room froze.
>“Thank you for the courtesy of your attention,” Bill said quietly.
>“As I was saying, the sewage which you have poured for decades into the once-sweet grove of academe is Marxism, nothing less. The derivation is obvious. Like classical, economic Marxism, cultural Marxism is a totalitarian ideology. From Marxist philosophy, it derives its vision of a “classless society” – a society not of equal opportunity, but equal condition. Since that vision contradicts human nature, society will not accord with it, unless forced. So forced it will be. Thank God, you never got control of the power of the state, not in full. But on campuses like this one, where you did gain power, you made your totalitarian nature clear. Cultural Marxism was forced on everyone, and no dissent was allowed. Freedom of speech, of the press, even of thought were all eliminated. Anyone who challenged you, student or faculty or administer, was driven out.”
>“Like economic Marxism, your cultural Marxism said that all history was determined by a single factor. Classical Marxism argued that factor was ownership of the means of production. You said that it was which groups – defined by sex, race, and sexual normality or abnormality – had power over which other groups.”
>“Classical Marxism defined the working class as virtuous and the bourgeoisie as evil – without regard to what members of either class did. You defined blacks, Hispanics, feminist women, and homosexuals as good, and white men as evil – all, again, with no attention to anyone’s behavior.”
>>30512841
>“Classical Marxists, where they obtained power, expropriated the bourgeoisie and gave their property to the state, as the ‘representative of the workers and peasants.’ Where you obtained power, you expropriated the rights of white men and gave special privileges to feminists, blacks, gays, and the like – Marcuse’s revolutionary class.”
>“Classical Marxists justified their actions through a warped economics. You justified your actions through a deliberate warping of the language: deconstruction. Deconstruction ‘proved’ that any text, past or present, illustrated white male oppression of everyone else, just as economic Marxist analysis ‘proved’ the exploitation of the working class. Deconstruction was in fact merely political scrabble. Compared with it, classical Marxist economics was at least intellectually challenging. But then, most of you never had minds.”
>“But that is not all I know about you,” the Governor continued. “I have visited, through history, the fetid holes where your cultural Marxism grew. I have read Gramsci, the Italian Communist who pioneered the translation of Marxism from economics into culture as early as the 1920s. I know Adorno, and his Frankfurt School that in the 1930s crossed Marx with Freud. I have studied ‘Critical Theory,’ the product of that school that carried the bacillus into American universities. I know the whole, sordid story of your sorry ancestry among the exiled refuse of European Marxism, the story of how failed intellectuals worked for what is now almost a century to stab our culture in the back.”
>>30512853
>“But as I said at the outset, I too am a revolutionary. My revolution – our revolution, here in the Northern Confederation – is against you. Marxist revolutionaries of every yellow stripe, wherever they obtained power, brought ‘revolutionary justice.’ Anyone or anything that furthered their revolution was just, anyone or anything that opposed it was unjust. And the unjust were liquidated, by the millions.”
>“Now, by your own standard let you be judged. You have opposed our revolution, so you stand condemned.”
>“You are condemned, let me hasten to add, not by me alone, nor merely by those who live today in our Confederation. Your jury is every man and woman who for three thousand years has labored and fought and died for Western culture, the culture you sought to sacrifice to your own pathetic egos.”
>“And that jury’s sentence is death.”
>At those words, the doorways to 105 Dartmouth filled with our men. Each wore a white surplice with the red Crusader cross emblazoned on a shield over the heart. Each held a Roman gladius, the short, sharp stabbing sword of the Roman legionary, in his right hand. Through the doorway closest to the stage, a choir of monks filed in. Mounting the stage, they began chanting the Dies Irae. At that signal, the soldiers set to their work.
>The hall held 162 politically correct luminaries – 163 if you count “Ms.” Ucistah’s corpse. The work of slaughter went quickly. In less than five minutes of screams, shrieks and howls, it was all over. The floor ran deep with the bowels of cultural Marxism, and at least in the Northern Confederation, it was dead.
>>30512894
monks and roman swords and crusader crosses
this guy is a fucking hack
>>30512894
>At those words, the doorways to 105 Dartmouth filled with our men. Each wore a white surplice with the red Crusader cross emblazoned on a shield over the heart. Each held a Roman gladius, the short, sharp stabbing sword of the Roman legionary, in his right hand. Through the doorway closest to the stage, a choir of monks filed in. Mounting the stage, they began chanting the Dies Irae. At that signal, the soldiers set to their work.
The shark has officially been jumped.
>>30512894
>At those words, the doorways to 105 Dartmouth filled with our men. Each wore a white surplice with the red Crusader cross emblazoned on a shield over the heart. Each held a Roman gladius, the short, sharp stabbing sword of the Roman legionary, in his right hand. Through the doorway closest to the stage, a choir of monks filed in. Mounting the stage, they began chanting the Dies Irae. At that signal, the soldiers set to their work.
I can't even. This is like something we'd have written as parody. The irony of Roman legion crusaders is also just too much.
>>30512894
>literal autism, the story
What the fuck? God I'm glad Lind is more or less unimportant, he sounds like the kind of guy who ought to be shot if he ever holds political office.
>>30512894
>so hey, the UN is funding these guys. So let's murder every single one of them.
>what could possibly go wrong?
>>30512939
nah, it jumped in chapter 6 with the jewish marine policeman who was proud to be a christian marine
>>30512894
>Then, Governor Kraft, who had stood like some human Matterhorn overlooking the carnage, moving and unmoved, turned and walked slowly, as if in solemn procession, toward the door. As he did so, the choir broke again into song, now in a major key, strong and soaring: the Non Nobis. “Not to us, Oh Lord, but to Thee be given the glory.”
I can't even a crack a Deus Vult joke at this.
>State o’Mainers are born with poker faces and stuck tongues, so at first it was hard to judge. But as the massacre proceeded, I began to notice a few thin smiles, the sign a Yankee likes what he’s seeing.
>After Kraft left the stage in 105 Dartmouth, Farmer Corman reached up and turned off the set. “Waal,” he said, “I don’t know about the rest of you, but I thinks that deserves a toast. Here’s a jug of my best cider, which I brought in to sell, and I see some glasses theah on the shelf.” The glasses and the jug quickly went round.
>“Heah’s to our Governor, the State of Maine, and our own Johnny Rumford, who’ve had the courage to do what we should have done a long time ago.” As the glasses were raised, a kid in back shouted “Hip, hip, hurray!” Three cheers rang out, and I bowed my thanks for good neighbors and a people who deserved their liberty.
I guess this makes it a-okay.
>Bill Kraft had gambled and won.
Fucking how?
>“Reginald would approve, I’m sure,” he purred. Bill’s ecstasies, like his rages, were something of an art form.
Creepy desu
>“A real university. You know what that is. It’s a place where people study Latin and Greek, read Aristotle and Cicero and Thomas Aquinas, learn Logic and Rhetoric, and come to appreciate the classics of our English language – Jane Austin and Chesterton and Tolkien and, perhaps, even our friend Saki.”
So, after purging themselves of American ""intellectuals"" they decide to make a university of their own. They decide to hold a referendum to see if the people want it. Which they do.
>>30512974
A UN who has shown they can throw away more resources on a stupid plan like this than the entire federation has altogether.
Of course the UN can't attack militarily because Russia and China would stop them or something. And they only have sub-humans for soldiers. And logistics are entirely unimportant to a military campaign.
It actually just occurred to me that Lind's method of warfare is essentially the same as the plains Indians. Disorganized groups attack the enemy at random and just use capture equipment and supplies. No extensive campaigns and every engagement is full out. What would otherwise be political decisions are made by war chiefs on the fly.
I know
>Sabaton
But I think we have a theme song for post-2068 writefaggotry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOJ-dXWC3TI
Chapter 7
>Somewhere, somehow, the cry was started, “Let’s go see the judge.” Everyone took it up. The mob started to move toward the Federal Courthouse. It was a couple miles, and as the march continued the crowd grew. Along the way they found a road crew working and took their tar truck. The crowd took up the chant, “Pillows! Pillows!”, and from every window along the route pillows came flying down. Enough had feathers in them to do the job.
>They found Judge Frylass in his chambers, having tea. He made a fine sight, tarred and feathered, riding on a streetcar rail for a short journey down to Boston harbor, where he went for a swim. The harbor police fished him out, somewhat the worse for wear.
let's not do any research at all on tarring and feathering, in fact, let's do so little that we assume that road tar can be used
the judge would have died
tar used in tarring and feathering was pine tar which was the correct consistency at room temperature
road tar would cause 2nd and 3rd degree burns
>>30513013
Let me guess.
83% of the vote.
Also, for what it's worth, having only crunchy classes is really stupid. Sometimes, you need to let your nose off the grindstone and do a "History of Breasts" or some shit.
>>30513056
You're implying any of this has any historical research at all.
Lind don't need to research history or tactics or sociology or logic.
Lind just KNOWS.
>>30513039
Who the fuck are these Sabaton guys, anyways?
>>30513072
Damn straight.
>>30512974
I'm sure there'll be a scene of the families of the murdered applauding the massacre because "it had to be done" or something.
>>30513090
Sabaton is a Swedish power metal band
they mostly do songs inspired by historical warfare
>>30513090
Power Metal band from Sweden.
They like singing about war.
A lot.
They wrote a song about Audie Murphey, even named pieces of stage equipment after him.
One of their album covers features a Nazi getting punched in the face.
>>30513125
>>30513129
That's kinda neat in a way. Too bad the music I've heard from them in this thread is kinda generic sounding.
>>30513013
>The other governors agreed the people should decide, and the vote was held on December 24th, 2029. The citizens of the Northern Confederation decided to give the future a Christmas present. The measure passed with 63% of the vote.
I'm genuinely surprised that it was not 83%. Bravo, Lind.
>Besides, we wanted a college devoted to teaching undergraduates, not a “research university.”
Kay.
>From every corner of the Confederation, real scholars emerged from hiding, hiding they’d been driven into by cultural Marxism, and offered to teach, even though the salary was small. Many had no PhD; their work was their credentials. Most proved dedicated and effective teachers.
This sure is convenient
>Autumn, 2030, once again saw students matriculating. The number was small – no stipends this time – but they were earnest. They came for knowledge and understanding, not a sheepskin. Small farms and factories cared little about degrees. At least in the N.C., civilization was returning.
And this ends Chapter 31. I'll leave you with what Lind's readership thought of this chapter. I'm a little irritated at the guy comparing the CS Lewis's Space Trilogy (one of my all time favorites) to this piece of shit.
>>30513013
>Tolkien
Tolkien would've hated these fucks, even if they agreed with his general philosophy, particularly about the industrial revolution.
>>30513013
>>“A real university. You know what that is. It’s a place where people study Latin and Greek, read Aristotle and Cicero and Thomas Aquinas, learn Logic and Rhetoric, and come to appreciate the classics of our English language – Jane Austin and Chesterton and Tolkien and, perhaps, even our friend Saki.”
What the fuck is a subsistence farmer society of blimp riders going to do with Latin and Greek?
>>30513039
Sabaton is perfect squat music.
>tfw blasting Screaming Eagles to a max effort set
>>30513150
People go "wow, so epic, upboats" or "how come music like Miley Cyrus is possible when this isn't"
It's a little cringeworthy, which is why they get greentexted
>>30513161
>a little irritated at the guy comparing the CS Lewis's Space Trilogy to this piece of shit
That really is a travesty. Lewis was the sort of intellectual this guy only wishes he was.
>>30513181
Produce genetically engineered super-plagues, duh
>Appropriately, it was drunk in Sam Adams beer.
Only good line in ch8
>>30513161
>mfw these comments
>>30513013
>Jane Austen
literally an 18th century rom com. I mean its entertaining and quaint and British but it's not exactly intellectual heavyweight material. I don't get Lind.
>>30513234
He's a pseudointellectual
>>30512894
That was beautiful
Fuck all these liberal/feminism/marxist faggots defending the very same people that are destroying our country
>>30513209
I notice he left out any study that would prove immediately useful. Because in Lind world the only reason people aren't just doing that shit in the garage is because the government exists.
>>30513200
I'm sure Lind thinks he's pretty close to Lewis intellectually.
>>30513245
>/k/
>liberal
>feminist
>marxist
Back to your containment board
>>30513245
>falling for the identity politics vice
it is possible to oppose something without taking any additional position
I take the position that this book is drivel, but that does not make me liberal, feminist, or marxist
Starting Chapter 32 in a little bit
My cursory search for a pdf has proven fruitless. I suppose I'll have to give Lind $10 so we can enjoy another 30 chapters or so together. I feel like I'm in too deep
>I expressed my hope that my unexpected arrival for dinner was not a problem.
>“Not at all,” replied Mrs. Kraft. “I always prepare enough so that if Mr. Kraft brings someone, we have plenty. That is, after all, one of the duties of my sphere.”
oh wow this is bad
Anyone remember the name of guy from the 2nd MarDiv who defected way from like thread 2?
Also, is the writefag google doc still up?
>>30513350
when you buy it, could you post a link to it here?
>>30513362
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bEboZ7n11vZiBFBzpl73vgNp7ccao6CdXTyQ_mhllmY/edit?usp=sharing
>>30513350
I spent an hour of my Sunday researching Prussian naval theory so I could sarcastically write greentext. I'm amazed the shotgun in my closet didn't turn into a g98. But we in it together
>>30513377
That OC made me kek
>>30512894
>At those words, the doorways to 105 Dartmouth filled with our men. Each wore a white surplice with the red Crusader cross emblazoned on a shield over the heart. Each held a Roman gladius, the short, sharp stabbing sword of the Roman legionary, in his right hand. Through the doorway closest to the stage, a choir of monks filed in. Mounting the stage, they began chanting the Dies Irae. At that signal, the soldiers set to their work.
Chapter 32: "est ist mir nicht" starts playing
>Following the Dartmouth massacre, life became pretty quiet in the Northern Confederation.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me
>We still has some disaffected folks at home, Deep Greeners, cultural Marxists, animal rightsers and the like, but they kept a low profile. We’d made it clear what would happen to them if they didn’t. Besides, like everyone else, they were busy trying to eat, stay warm, and maybe make a little money.
And they aren't dealing with partisans why? Fuck, a Reichstag fire would be interesting
>Our poverty continued to cleanse us of our sins, as the Dark Ages had cleansed Europe of the sins of the late Roman Empire. Consumerism, materialism, careerism, and the “me first” attitude of early 21st century America faded before the demands and rewards of real life. People began to see our “Shaker economy” as something good. Plain living strengthened old virtues and revived honest pleasures, like the smell of a fresh-mowed field of hay and a cow’s kiss on a frosty morn.
But this doesn't negatively effect our warmaking capacity because logistics is for chumps.
>Summer and winter, one thing grew stronger: Christian faith. We had some Jews, too, of course, and they were welcome. And each place still had its town atheist and village idiot... This was real Christianity, too, not social gospel or social club Christianity. It was Christianity that changed the way people thought and lived. No longer was this world the most important.
CS Lewis and Tolkien would be appalled at how this was effected.
>It was clear we would never turn back to the vulgar carnival that was late 20th and early 21st century life. But being human, we did hope for a somewhat easier time of it, for hot water and frequent trains and the power to run machines that made things we could sell.
But carbon fiber dirigibles, designer plagues, and printwriters can just be made in someone's garage
>>30513566
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocW3fBqPQkU
>>30513013
Lind knows that traditionally universities were not really places where you learned how to do anything right? You basically sent your noble children there to learn manners, philosophy and enough extras to function in the upper class.
>>30513640
Shush anon, don't let reality get in the way of this supposed plausible alt-history
>>30513670
Damn your right, my cultural marxist degree is filling my mind with piss.
>>30513601
>With plentiful, cheap, clean energy, we could be prosperous despite our lack of most other resources, so long as we worked hard and maintained our morals. Switzerland isn’t poor.
Because, reasons
>When in the Spring of 2031 the former Canadian provinces east of Quebec asked to join the Northern Confederation, our people voted yes. The Brunswickers, Labradorans, PEIers, and Newfies shared our faith and morals, language and culture, and would be assets despite their current poverty. Our economies would be integrated by the electrical grid anyway, so we felt we might as well make it official.
>The reception of the former Canadians on July 4th, 2031 completed the Northern Confederation. We had reached what Mr. MacKinder would have called our “natural limits.” Unlike in the 19th century, those limits were now marked not by great rivers or towering ranges of mountains or uncrossable deserts, but by chaos.
The NC (it's not Victoria yet) is Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, New York (not NYC), Brunswick, Labrador Island, Newfoundland, and Prince Edward Island at this point, right?
>>30513640
As a monarchist he should. All his main characters seem to have studied this stuff but he doesn't really care if the plebs do.
As an aside I noticed he keeps talking about how the other freedom loving folks adopt his ill-defined "Maine Idea" but none of them come up with any good ideas on their own that Maine adopts.
I assume since the South provided what must have been the bulk of the troops that ousted the Feds they must be doing pretty good.
>>30513640
In that case shouldn't he be super stoked about Dartmouth building a shrine to Artemis? I'd go to a school where my professors lived in barrels and grades were based on who got the sickest burns on their rivals.
>>30513707
Lind is just mad some homeless barrel dweller demanded him to get out of his fucking light.
>>30513700
>The sweep of our OMG through Pittsburg had left the white ethnic communities in control of that city
>operational maneuver group
That's often associated with the Soviets, I guess he isn't a total Wehraboo
>Already by the late 20th century, much of Philadelphia resembled some former colonial entrepot on the West African coast. The remnants of civilization, buildings, paved streets, electric wires, even that summa of urbanity the streetcar, still filled the view of the passer-by. But of civilized people there was small sign. Instead, mile upon square mile was crammed with jobless, skilless, feckless blacks. Beneath the human decay, every other kind of decay spread.
I guess we should concentrate them for some sort of final solution to the negro problem.
>Camden, Trenton, New Brunswick, Newark ran the line of the new Underground Railroad, moving drugs, guns, whores, and gang members up and down, back and forth in an endless journey to nowhere. Newark’s fame as the Aframerican Florence had proven brief. Within a couple years, the corruption and incompetence of black leaders had brought it back to where it started.
In case you forgot, Newark temporarily turned into Zurich under Calvin.
>Pennsylvania tried to stop it with the Guard, but around Philadelphia the Guard shattered on ethnic lines. Many blacks went over, with their equipment. Whites fled west into the countryside, but the raiding parties followed them. Pennsylvania’s rural areas had been depopulating for generations, and the few people remaining were mostly old. They were easy pickings. By 2030, all the territory up to the laurel highlands was Indian country.
This Mad Max world seems like an interesting setting
>>30513700
So when is the revolution to kick the Chinese and Russians out? Since together they practically own the NC
>>30513768
It would be pretty cool if the NC were using Type 97s instead of AKs, RPKs, and PKMs.
They're probably too poor for them, though; but it would be cool
>>30513763
I want to remind every one that the reason the forced relocation of blacks to farm land succeed was Mennonite and Amish, tutors who are apparently now dead, having been murdered by roving gangs of Eagle's fans.
>>30513829
>Roving gangs of Eagles fans.
As a person residing in Jew Jersey, I could believe that. Also, does NC interact with other countries in North America so I could hear some of their stories?
>>30513763
>It had given birth to its own culturally black lower class, “whiggers,” its own children. The poisonous culture of drugs, sex, and degraded “entertainment” that overwhelmed the urban blacks proved no respecter of color lines.
So, Stitches?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjW2dtrZR1w
Here's a sample of his work for those who aren't acquainted
>Soon, whigger gangs were turning Pittsburgh into another Philadelphia, and the country folk west of the Alleghenies were living in fear of white savages with painted faces and Mohawk haircuts. It turned out the dark mills where their grandfathers had labored were less Satanic than crystal meth and punk rock.
Sounds a e s t h i c
>A few folks in the N.C. argued we should intervene. But when they put the proposition on the ballot,
Guess the result. I'd like to propose an addition to the drinking game: take a sip any time a poll is won by 83%.
> 83% of the voters said “No.”
83% Count: 1
You can go back and get an actual count, but I'm going to start counting from here.
>The only answer was depopulation, and that was happening. People died in the fighting, the massacres, the raids, and the sieges. They died of hunger and cold, especially in the cities in Midwestern winters. Mostly, they died of diseases, diseases created in labs as weapons of war. Lacking any but the most local political organization or security, they could not protect themselves from the new weapon of mass destruction , the genetically engineered epidemic. By 2038, the population of the industrial Midwest was one-tenth what it had been in 2000. The great cities lay deserted and in ruins. Happy the womb that was barren.
A much cooler story than these nutjobs
>Behind our sealed borders, we survived. As things stood, we could hope for little more. Survival itself was tough enough in the New World Disorder of the 21st–formerly the 14th–century.
I assume he's talking about the Black Death
>>30513939
>Because we knew what we owed to our Christian culture, deep in our hearts we wished we could do more for it, more than keep it alive in our northern redoubt
I think what will happen is the following:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R8viSgLTVM
>We recognized the limitations on our power, and the primacy of our one absolute interest, staying alive – no Trotskyites, we.
This is a dig at Neoconservatives, who are considered by their critics to be right-wing Trotskyites. One of Trotsky's big ideas was about exporting communism; this parallels neoconservative ideas about exporting democracy.
>On a frigid, early December day in 2032, St. Nicholas’ Day to be exact, Bill Kraft asked me to stop by his place in the evening. Bill wasn’t very social, even with Marines, and an evening invitation meant he had something on his mind. He needed to ruminate, and was inviting me to serve as his cud.
I'd be a little worried about getting eaten by a hungry Fedora Man myself
>The pinholes of my candle lantern sent a wild display shooting along the silent surface of the snow. Shaker pleasures, I thought to myself, smiling.
I like the outdoors and innawoods well enough myself, but I'm not going to fetishize the 18th century life.
>“My model in matters of state is Prince Bismarck,” Bill went on. “He knew when to make war, and more unusually, he knew when not to make it. I have no intention of dragging the Confederation into more war for the benefit of peoples elsewhere, even those who believe as we do. It wouldn’t benefit them in any case, and I know how our citizens voted when that proposition was made to them. I voted against it myself. Still, I think there may be another way.”
Can't wait to see Lind butcher Bismarckian realpolitik. The politics here are anything but realistic.
>>30513939
>Roving Mad Max gangs ravaging a midwest decimated by plague while blasting "White Crosses" in leather jackets and neon mohawks
Stop giving us better stories than the one you're writing, Lind. This is like the third time.
>>30513939
is there any significance to 83%, or does he just overuse it?
>>30513998
>“What we did here, in the creation of our island of sanity amidst the chaos, we did with few resources, no fancy weaponry, not even any real soldiers beyond John Ross’s Marines. We succeeded because we had some people who understood war.
You also had the grace of Lind -I mean God! Not Lind! I LOOOOOOVE YOU JESUS CHRIIIIST! - behind them
>They had educated their minds to think militarily. They understood von Seekt’s rule, das Wesentliche ist die Tat: in war, only actions count. They could put thought and action together.”
Gratuitous German Quotes: 22
Sip it.
Kraft's plan is to send military advisors to aide whatever order is left. He wants a reluctant Rumford to be his Qasem Soleimani.
>“History shows a way, I think,” Bill suggested. “Remember Liman von Sanders?”
>General Liman von Sanders, I knew, had headed the German military advisory mission in Turkey during World War I. He turned the creaky Ottoman armies into far more effective opponents than the Allies had expected. One whole British army was compelled to surrender to them outside Baghdad, the first time that had happened since Yorktown. And there was Gallipoli.
I sometimes need to be reminded that Lind sucks the dicks of Imperial Germany more than the Wehrmacht.
>Ouch. There was the patented Kraft suppository. I shot Bill a resentful glance, but I couldn’t fairly reply. Even though I was Chief of the General Staff, he was better educated in the art of war and we both knew it. So I stood up, clicked my heels (as much as they’d click in heavy wool socks, having left my wet boots on the landing), and replied, “Zum Befehl, Herr Generalfeldmarschall!” Bill got the sarcasm.
Gratuitous German Quotes: 22
>>30513862
I still want the post USA fiction where the people band together based on sports and the northern midwest turns into a Balkans style purge
>>30514098
>The proposition was put to the people on January 15, 2034, in this form: “Shall the Northern Confederation, within the limits of its resources and without engaging its armed forces, offer military advice to those people in the former United States who are fighting for traditional Western, Christian civilization?”
"it ain't me" by the fortunate sons starts playing
>It passed, though narrowly: it got just 53% of the vote. But my door had been opened.
Wait, something is actually unpopular? You've got to be kidding me
>The world I was to find beyond was stranger than any beheld by Alice.
Maybe we'll actually get that more interesting story
>>30514161
>Maybe we'll actually get that more interesting story
Somehow I doubt that.
>>30514029
More like the 13th
>>30514070
88-3?
>>30513862
The new Confederate States of America
>>30514070
He just overuses it
>>30514104
Might be cool
>>30514175
I'm having fun so far.
>>30513246
>Lind thinks he's pretty close to Lewis intellectually
>>30513601
>as the Dark Ages had cleansed Europe of the sins of the late Roman Empire
Man, fuck this dude.
>>30514206
Is this an edit?
>>30514175
maybe the other half of the book is the MC turning into New Vegas Caesar and making the Mad Max punk tribes into his legions for further conquest of the Old New World
>>30514161
For history buff his people are pretty fucking stupid. Voting to "just send advisors to fight lefts, we promise?" Have none of them ever heard of Vietnam? Fucking shits.
>>30514224
*leftists
>>30514224
"Est Ist Mir Nicht" is, according to google translate, "It Ain't Me"
I thought it appropriate
>>30514221
Yes, and a poor one, I admit.
>>30514191
>More like the 13tH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrNSjItTfes
The roving punk gangs theme song
>>30514243
Although in Lind's world the last wars fought where WWI and WWII and the Germans won both times.
>>30514070
I have a theory it corresponds to some demographic he thinks is important and would of course always agree with him.
>>30514243
that's not a good translation. It translates more to to
"It's not like that for me"
"Das bin ich nicht" would be the German way to say "It ain't me" -- depending on your locality (Germans are super-bad on having a unified way of saying things from city to city)
>>30514285
Percentage of the American public who shouldn't be allowed to vote.
Thanks for writefags in the google doc. Glad you're having fun. I might contribute myself.
>>30514293
Thanks senpaitachi
>We hit slim resistance, chubby old men in old gray uniforms with hunting rifles. On the initial contact, per company orders, I destroyed the church steeple with a 40mm round. With out fail, we later found a pair of binos and a walkie talkie shaped like a pro-wrestler in the wreckage.
>With out fail, we later found a pair of binos and a walkie talkie shaped like a pro-wrestler in the wreckage.
Top kek
>>30514334
Can you tell I'm still not over "Radio shack gears btfo military comms" yet?
I'm going to take a break for dinner where we meet the new CSA.
>>30514104
>I still want the post USA fiction where the people band together based on sports
pic related?
Chapter 33: Land of Cotton
>One of the rules of America’s second Civil War seemed to be that those who started off best, ended up worst. In that respect it was like the first Civil War. The South’s star had shone most brilliantly at the beginning at Bull Run on the peninsula with Lee and in the Shenandoah Valley with Jackson. After those brief shining moments, the industrial and financial sinews of the North put forth their strength and the South withered. Plus, the Union found two generals who could competently command armies, and the South had only one.
I can't believe Lind actually acknowledged logistics
>When the union broke up a second time, the Confederacy resurrected itself smoothly, almost as if it had been there all along.
t. Yankee writing fanfiction
>Old Senator Sam Yancey of Georgia was elected Mr. Davis’s successor and installed in the Confederate White House (on Monument Avenue, the trivializing statue of tennis player Arthur Ashe was replaced by a heroic cast of the black Confederate soldier).
This is still better than CORN
>Southern officers and men of the former U.S. Army turned in their Yankee blue uniforms for Confederate gray.
This sounds like a conspiracy story; however, it's about as interesting as that of the Christian Marine Corps
>The Confederate economy took some shocks from the usual loss of markets and suppliers, but the South was big enough and prosperous enough to recover quickly.
I love the South, but you have to acknowledge that it's gears are greased by the Federal gravy train.
>inb4 orcs
I'm not convinced that cutting it off would have any positive results.
>Beyond the low-level guerrilla war between blacks and Hispanics that had been going on in south Florida since the 1980s, there was little internal disorder. All in all, for most Southerners, not much seemed to change.
I think that resurrecting the CSA would kickstart the race war
>>30514942
>I think that resurrecting the CSA would kickstart the race war
Maybe, maybe not.
>>30514942
>The southern wing of the old American Establishment held on to power. The politicians were the same people, the university presidents and newspaper editors and television commentators were the same types, and the leading businessmen played up to those in power, interested only in maintaining their status as members of the club.
You heard it here. What kills the new CSA is political correctness.
>These people all belonged to the “New South.” A product of post-World War II Southern prosperity, the New South abjured the old Southern ways and culture. It embraced the rules of political correctness, found the Stars and Bars “offensive,” and lived the hedonist modern lifestyle. It favored Bauhaus architecture, not neoclassical columned porticoes. It listened to rock and rap, not Stephen Foster, and read Günter Grass, not Walker Percy, much less Sidney Lanier. It shuddered at the Southern Agrarians and sought its heroes among the carpet-baggers.
With things like this, you have to wonder if Lind sexually identifies as a Southerner.
>Because the New South ruled the new Confederacy, the recovery of Southern independence did not bring with it any recovery of will. After a brief revival incident on proclamation of the Southern Republic, the old slide continued. Crime resumed its racial cast and upward trend, with the same old judges letting off the same old criminals. The schools – “attendance centers,” as they were already called in Mississippi by the 2000s – continued to turn out illiterates who had learned only that their own feelings were the most important thing in the universe. Television and other video entertainment (the South had plenty of electricity, thanks to coal and TVA) still sucked out brains like an ape sucking an egg. Ted Turner became Secretary of Education in Mr. Yancey’s second cabinet.
This is almost as dumb as that one leftard cyberpunk tabletop RPG which mentions has a 20 year reign of a Limbaugh/Gingrich regime.`il
>>30515004
>It resided among the country people – black as well as white – and the old folks and the Independent Baptists, and also among a genuine southern intelligentsia who did read Walker Percy and knew the Southern Agrarians and realized the whole civil rights business was just a second Reconstruction.
>Unlike the New South, the Old South had will. It didn’t have to recover it. It had never lost its will, the will to preserve and restore the old Cavalier Southern culture.
The Old South, everyone.
>That year in Mississippi, an initiative put a referendum on the ballot to open each school day with a Christian prayer. When it passed by 78%, the Supreme Court in Richmond struck it down. A few months later, the Commanding General of the Confederate States Army asked the Senate Military Affairs Committee to end the recruitment of women as “incompatible with Southern chivalry.” The Committee responded by demanding the general’s dismissal. In the truck stops and the garden clubs, heads shook and tongues clucked.
I wasn't kidding when I said that the downfall of the CSA in this was political correctness
>>30515004
>The schools – “attendance centers,” as they were already called in Mississippi by the 2000s – continued to turn out illiterates who had learned only that their own feelings were the most important thing in the universe.
All right, that's it, consider me fucking triggered.
Has this mongoloid ever once stepped foot in the South? Because I can attest that it is the least liberal and PC place in the US.
>>30515042
>The cities of the New South were a different story. There, a black underclass had formed by the late 20th century. Nurtured on phony resentments and imagined “injustices,” that underclass generated its own little Africa of crime, drugs, noise, and dirt. The government in Richmond proved as vulnerable to mau-mauing as its Washington progenitor, and with no will to contain it, black terror soon spread its bloody hand into an ever-widening circle of the white community.
I'm not sure if he's talking about crime or an actual terrorist organization.
>In the Old South, eyeholes were cut in sheets. But the courts and police remained mostly in New South hands, so the Klan stayed in the hollows, where it wasn’t needed. Alienation between people and government grew like kudzu in a wet July.
I'm not sure what he's trying to say about the Klan either.
>By 2032, the guerrilla war in south Florida could no longer be mislabeled a crime problem. In Dade county, the body count from battles between blacks and Hispanics was upward of a hundred a week. Gangs and militias ran a network of feudal fiefdoms. If anyone, including grandmas pushing prams, ventured off their turf they were dead meat. Raiding parties of blacks were working steadily north, while Cuba threatened to send troops to protect the Hispanics.
metal as fuck
>>30515093
>while Cuba threatened to send troops to protect the Hispanics
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAJAHAHAHAHAJAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>30515093
>The Confederate Congress, being New South, had no stomach for anything of the sort. Instead, it laid a set of rules of engagement on the forces it sent to Florida that made them first impotent, then laughingstocks, and finally targets. All crew-served weapons were forbidden, and individual weapons could be used only to return fire, not initiate it. Fleeing felons could not be shot. “De facto local authorities” were to be respected and negotiated with, not rounded up and hanged – and the Army had to negotiate in Spanish if the locals demanded it. Habeas corpus remained in force. Black and Hispanic ombudsmen were to accompany the troops to investigate any charges of “racism” or “insensitivity,” with Confederate soldiers subject to courts-martial on either charge.
At first it was funny with the 42nd Numero Uno division, but this crap has overstayed its welcome
>It was the same old cultural Marxist crap as used to flow out of Washington, for the simple reason that the same people were sitting in Richmond who had sat in Washington. Just as when the Soviet Union fell apart in the 1990s, the nomenklatura simply transferred its allegiance to the new system, kept the same jobs, and got richer.
This could be interesting if were told by some means other than just a chapter of exposition.
>Ominously, blacks and Hispanics began concluding local nonaggression pacts so they could cooperate in raiding into white areas up north. On October 2, a column of over three hundred vehicles and almost 5000 gang-bangers hit Tallahassee, sacked the city for three days and made it back to Dade with a train of loot that stretched for seven miles along the highway. The Confederate Army threw up a roadblock, but the raiders, wise to their enemy’s weaknesses, literally pushed their way through it without firing a shot. Not having been fired upon, the Southern soldiers couldn’t use their weapons.
It goes from Mad Max to Angry Joe in the span of one paragraph
>>30511808
Has anyone been archiving or screen capped these?
>pic mfw this book is real and people look up to the writer
>>30515171
Bullhit, as a Southerner, this is how the roadblock would go
>Be soldier
>man, fuck these ROE
>motherfucking Night Train approaching
>Goddammit, what do.
>Shitty Chrysler backfires a mile away
>"Fuck that, that was a gunshot, OPEN FIRE"
And then watermelon was removed.
>>30515171
>New Orleans had long been a strange Southern amalgam.
If you recall my rant on the last time he mentioned NOLA, consider me pre-triggered. Ree, gentlemen, ree.
> Run since the 1970s by the usual corrupt and inept black city government, the city had long been a hell-hole of violent crime and sexual perversion.
The City of New Orleans has mostly been run by white men like Mitch Landrieu. Fucking retard.
>The scenes in the French Quarter on a Friday or Saturday night would have given pause to a citizen of Sodom.
I feel like all he knows about the French Quarter comes from watching Girls Gone Wild.
>The city depended on tourism, but the breakup of the union put an end to most of that.
It sure helps, but South Louisiana has enormous agricultural and fishing potential to be self-sufficient. There's also petroleum in the Gulf and a few other burgeoning sectors. New Orleans isn't just Orleans Parish.
>Under the Confederacy, there were some half-hearted efforts to sweep the French Quarter’s dirt under the rug, but the lowest class grew steadily more worthless and more violent. From events in Florida, it drew the lesson that it could get away with anything. On the prematurely stifling evening of May 17, 2033, it erupted.
I would love to see New Orleans turn into Somalia. It could be a really interesting, dramatic, and downright tragic story. Somehow, Lind will kill any possible pathos.
>At first, there was some organization, as much as gangs could manage. Columns headed out into the suburbs and surrounding countryside to loot and kidnap. But Louisiana wasn’t Florida, and the local refinery workers, shrimpers, and good old boys had long ago put together the Coon-ass Militia, as they called it. The black raiding columns were met not with roadblocks, but ambushes. The Coon-asses knew how to hunt, and the raiders who left New Orleans did not return.
COONASS PRIDE WORLD WIDE!
>>30515263
>The state government in Baton Rouge was corrupt but white, and it swiftly mobilized the official State Militia and marched on New Orleans. Mississippi sent reinforcements, and from Richmond President Yancey ordered CSA units to assist – this time with heavy weapons. Within ten days, New Orleans was sealed and under siege.
Will political correctness stop these Confederate soldiers?
>The blacks responded by letting loose the red cock. It wasn’t merely random mob action, which usually concentrates on liquor stores and leaves civic monuments alone. It was systematic self-destruction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzehOzhhBto
>The mayor of New Orleans, Mr. Tsombe “Big Daddy” Toussaint L’Overture Othello Jones, climbed up on a Mardi Gras float (a vast statue of Aunt Jemima pouring syrup into a pool where high yellow beauties wrestled with “White Planters”) and harangued the crowd in Jackson Square. “The white folk like things pretty. The white folk love this beautiful city. Well, I’m here to tell da white folk that this here city ain’t gonna be beautiful no more. Blow it up! Tear it down! Burn it to the ground! That’s the word we have for da white folk of Dixie – burn, baby, burn!”
I fill like this is supposed to be some satire of Baby Doc, but that's Haiti, dumbass.
>The little cafe across from it by the river, famous for its beignets and cafe au lait, was bulldozed with city equipment
Not Cafe Du Mond! The bastards!
>Audubon Place, which 20th century writer George Will said contained “America’s noblest collection of stately homes,” was first burned by the city fire department, then razed.
It is worth visiting if you are ever in town.
>>30515362
>red cock
Is that slang for something.
Please tell me it is.
>>30515362
In all seriousness if anyone fucked with Cafe du Monde I'd be pretty upset
>>30515258
It's hilarious that in Lind's mind New England is anti-PC and institutes segregation while the South becomes a parody of a leftist utopia.
>>30515362
>The stately, ancient Perley Thomas streetcars of the St. Charles Avenue line were stacked in a pile, doused with gasoline and set on fire. A mob then ripped up the tracks, heated the rails over bonfires and twisted them around trees, just as Sherman had done to southern railroads during the first Civil War. By the tenth of June, everything that had made New Orleans what it was lay in smoking ruins. Like Dresden in 1945, the city was no more than a bend in the river, covered in ash.
Genius
>The Confederate Army, state, and militia forces around the city were strong enough to have intervened, but they did not. The orders to do so never came. No one believed the blacks would really destroy one of the South’s most historic places, until they did it. When it happened, the authorities in Baton Rouge and in Richmond were too stunned to react.
Even they think it's really dumb
>In Atlanta, the New South Congress did react. Blaming the death of New Orleans on “racism and intolerance that tried the patience of loyal African Americans beyond endurance,” they called for a series of “reforms to eliminate the symbols and substance of the South’s racist heritage.
I'm as irritated about Ole Miss taking down the MS state flag as Lind probably is, but this is still a retarded conflation of post-colonial academics and gangsters.
>The first reform was to abolish both the Confederate national flag and the battle flag as the nation’s emblems. In their place, they raised over the Congress’s temporary quarters, the Atlanta Convention Center, a new flag that showed a rainbow on a U.N.-blue background. Beneath the rainbow was a black-and-white dove, behind and beneath which floated a sprinkling of silver stars, one for each Confederate state. The banner was immediately nicknamed “the Pooping Pigeon.”
This was actually pretty funny
It also sparks a secession of numerous counties from across the South.
>>30515397
It's slang for burning things down. "Let the red cock crow" implies tongues of fire spilling from the roof of a building
>>30515471
Why even call themselves the CSA if they're going to...remove everything that the CSA is known for?
>>30515471
Is Lind that clueless about Southern politics? Politicians called the whitewashing (pun intended) of the South Carolina capital a Stalinist purge. We had the flag fiasco in Georgia and adopted the actual Confederate flag with the state seal thrown in.
>>30515532
>Is Lind that clueless
Yes. Doesn't matter the subject, he is.
Like a reverse Renaissance man
>>30514098
>>Ouch. There was the patented Kraft suppository.
bit homoerotic there, Lind
>>30511808
Chapter 22
>“Black people have been the only warriors in history. White men can’t fight. It’s because their noses are too small. Courage comes from the nose, not the heart, as the African spiritual healers you call witch doctors have long understood. That’s why black people eat their snot. What do you white folk do with your snot? You wrap it up in a little white surrender flag and put it in your pocket. So you don’t have no courage.”
Holy shit my sides
>>30515621
>Like a reverse Rennaisance man
I'll have to steal that one
>>30515471
>By the winter of 2033, two states existed on one territory. There was no geographic separation, beyond urban and rural. One city owed allegiance to one government, one to another. So far, there was no shooting, but it was obvious the situation was too unstable to endure. In the New South cities, militias were being organized (largely by combining black gangs) and weapons smuggled in. In Richmond, President Yancey was desperate for peace, but the Confederate Army was thinking about the war it knew was coming.
This is the army that had, three years ago, rekt what was left of the Federals. Oh how the mighty have fallen.
>“John, I received a letter this morning via our embassy in Richmond from the Commanding General of the Confederate States Army. He is of course aware of the vote up here to provide military advice to people elsewhere in the former United States who share our beliefs. The True Confederates meet that standard, without a doubt. Are you ready to do some traveling?”
So, Rumford is going down to help what I assume is the Old South.
>“Well, it should be an interesting war,” I said. “When do you want me to leave?”
>“Tomorrow.”
And this ends Chapter 33. Two more chapters until I have to buy this pile of crap.
>A choice comment on this chapter.
>(1/2)
That scene of New Orleans being raped and destroyed is haunting. It's just all too easy to imagine it really happening. What more could they do but blast the levees and submerge the ruins? Brings to mind what might have happened if Hitler had had his way with Paris at the end of the war.
Interesting to see Cuba going internationalist again. Wonder if Kraft might have his opposite number from Havana advising the New Southern Roundheads.
Out further west must be a Reconquista. A new Mexican Empire restoring Catholicism to California, if they're lucky. A web of feudal narco kingdoms if they're not.
Liberal California might hold together for a little while. But one rampaging army destroys the irrigation system and they are toast, they are Fertile Crescent Sumer turned into Iraq. And there will be millions upon millions of them fanning out all over the west looking for refuge. But who'd take them? The Mormons, maybe? But how long before the West Coast liberals' demands and ingratitude wear out both the resources and the patience of their hosts?
A Mormon kingdom in the mountains, there's another bastion of stability and the first real barrier to Mexico's northward advance that side of Texas. Strange and off-putting in some ways, but earnest, hardworking people with a real solidarity and a natural fortress of a homeland.
Who are the other outside powers who might seek to regain a foothold in North America? The Islamics have been repulsed and are for the moment stricken with plague and their own internal conflicts.
The Chinese and Japanese would be sure contenders for the West Coast, but that they have each other to deal with first.
The Russian Empire, most likely, would have both the organization and the will to re-establish the chain of bases they once had from Alaska to California. No need to try ruling the whole mess; better to grab the key ports for trade and go no further inland than the naval guns' range.
And what became of the nuclear arsenal? How much of it has been sold off, and to whom?
Who's looking to buy?
If there is a Mexican general who's sick of the ruling compact between the state and cartels, this and an army of loyal soldiers and honest peasants is the tool with which he makes himself dictator or Emperor and eradicates the old order.
Or any narco-lord who wishes to become the master of the existing order could also be in the business for the Bomb.
The Castros surely wouldn't mind getting their hands on a few either now that they're back in business spreading Revolution but not looking to be supported by Tsarist Russia. Venezuela, too, but it's likely being burned down right now by war between the Chavistas and their opposition.
Other agents from farther afield coming to make nuclear acquisitions...the Qods Force...Japan and South Korea, now that they they have to stand on their own...any European power past their prime but still looking to be a power: Spain, Italy, Holland...or the non-nuclear powers planning to contest Eastern Europe with the Bear or merely hold their ground on their own: Germany, Poland, Turkey, Finland, Scandinavia...
Going to be a big rush on the nuclear market from abroad, never mind who's looking to get their hands on them at home.
>>30515850
Given that Lind's heroes had a pretty easy time with the Federals I assumed they must have been getting their shit totally rek'd by the South, preventing any real offensive.
I found this looking for a pdf
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3229910/posts
>>30516079
The human race is fucking doomed.
>>30516079
>that page formatting
>>30516161
I know, it's like something straight outta 2004.
Wait a minute.....
>>30515894
If I was the President, in whatever government continuity redoubt the Secret Service whisked him off to in the last days of the functioning Federal government, I would have ordered the Air Force and Navy to destroy their nuclear weapons to prevent precisely that, and sent Seals or Army SF to ensure the order was carried out. Kind of like the mission that SF captain in the first Crossed arc was on.
Speaking of, anyone else get the Crossed vibe here? The perverse, blood soaked world beyond logic, inhabited by vile degenerates where you probably died at their hands because you weren't 'one of them'?
>>30512376
Some of those course names made me giggle a little. I love how he keeps shoehorning NAMBLA into the plot.
>>30512450
Isn't bursting onto a stage, grabbing the mic and yelling at a crowd literally what Black Lives Matters does?
Just, you know, ironic.
>>30516375
It's clearly a subject he's very interested in.
I'm going to stop riffing for tonight. Maybe drop some writefaggotry of my own.
Trying to think of the best way to permanently archive threads. I have html files saved, and I could convert them to a pdf. Perhaps blogspot or tumblr?
I'm not familiar with those platforms
>>30515758
No no no, theres no way a person can be that blatantly stupid.
really, given the last 30 some chapters, he should of just written a blog that said something like "fuck niggers, fuck sandpeople, fuck liberals, fuck transistors, fuck education, and fuck the constitution. Kikes are okay though."
That would have expressed his opinion in a shorter form
>>30517111
Seeing how he's 78, I wonder if he's just closet butthurt over the civil rights movement (despite giving them a positive shoutout).
>>30517230
I think he's actually more upset about the 90's.
>>30514222
>mfw the think tank and ursitaurus(ulysses) have more integrity than this hack
>>30517277
I think that anon who noted a couple threads ago that this reads like something he started in the 90's, then updated more recently was right. This is the kind of shit one gets from being on the rising trend of pic related, then never noticing it started dropping sharply around 1995 and still falling, so he had to find other things to blame.
As a /tg/ guy, I'm surprised there's worldbuilding out there that's actually dumber than Shadowrun, but man this is it. Shadowrun requires some stupid fucking moves, but it all heads toward some cool cyberpunk future and has some cool scenes used to get there. This shit isn't just dumb, it's fractally dumb. It's dumb at every conceiveable resolution. It's fascinating to watch these threads for the same reason watching a snake swallow a pig is fascinating.
>>30515263
>street fighting in what's basically a drained mangrove forrest with decayed french colonial mansions
Stop, stop, my dick can only handle so much.
>>30516493
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>>30512450
>I’ll explain what “political correctness” really is
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There once was a dream that was America. I can only imagine what it once was like. It was like a dream they say, of freedom and justice for all. America survived as long as the dream was alive. It was a fragile dream; alive as long as it lived in the hearts of Americans. The dream was betrayed by forces of corruption within who wasted the gift passed down to them. The dream was shattered by those who wanted it destroyed.
My parents told me the stories their parents told them of the old America. The dream is not dead. Victoria will fall.
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>>30512595
>explain their plot and motives before killing them
Just got to the part where he sleeps through a briefing discussing things like logistics, weather, force dispositions, etc
As long as you give mission-type orders, that shit will sort itself out
>>30517497
Have you played Left 4 Dead 2? A couple campaigns are basically that.
>slog through swamp
>fight through remote cajun villages
>find historical slave quarters
>overgrown abandoned plantation manor
>nearby boat dock only escape
>ETA 5 minutes
>M2HB on the balcony
>*inhuman howls*
>>30512736
> If a man opens a door for them, they kick him in the shins
I hear jokes about this all the time but I have literally never ever seen this happen, and I habitually hold doors open for people.
>>30517497
Even though I missed the worst of it and it was a terrible event, I wish I had firmer memories of Katrina to serve as inspiration for that story.
>>30512736
>More than one neighbor said we ought to take the lot of ‘em out and shoot ’em
>I told the Christian Marines to kill ideological dissenters and they actually did it the absolute madmen haha!
>>30512821
>You did not grow from the Suffragettes, nor the civil rights movement, nor apostles of tolerance such as Roger Williams
>not considering suffragettes and civil rights as themselves satanic cultural Marxism
Well that's surprisingly even-handed.
>>30517721
They just can't hold political office and the negroes have to work the fields
>>30517576
I'm from the bayou. That stuff is probably as close as you'd get to accuracy in that setting outside of the lack of aluminum boats and overalls.
>>30517597
I drove from Texas to Florida through NOLA a day or two before Rita made landfall. The city looked dead, like humanity had abandoned it and the sea was starting to reclaim it. It was pretty shocking to witness.
>>30517534
Do it, OP.
Reposting my favorite thing from the last thread:
Cpl. Lesean T. Jackson, Silver Star for Gallantry in Action against an Enemy of The United States.
While serving as a squad leader, 1st set, 22nd Street Bangers Co., 215th Battalion, during the second day of the Battle of Lake Champlain, Cpl. Jackson's position was the brunt of a ferocious Victorian assault. Low on ammunition and the platoon leadership dead or wounded, Cpl. Jackson rallied the men and ordered a retreat. His rifle broken in repelling a previous wave and wounded in the leg, Cpl. Jackson elected to cover his men's retreat, drawing a personal 'hi-point' sidearm and engaging the Victorian forces. Through out the night, Cpl. Jackson's taunts and intermittent pistol fire sounded from the position. The last heard from Cpl. Jackson was a spirited cry of "215 nigga! We don't run from shit! Come on, you crackas, when I'm done with you I'm comin' for ya's women! 50 States 4 lyf!" When friendly forces retook the position the following day, they found Cpl. Jackson surrounded by no less than ten fallen foes. Cpl. Jackson himself was shoot no less than five times, and had died clutching his platoon's Flag of The United States to his breast, so the Victorians might not defile it. Cpl. Jackson was a soldier's soldier, disciplined twice for the use of PCP in combat but beloved by his men. His final hours show he truly lived up to the highest standards of the United States Army.
>>30512821
>Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms
Going into /pol/ territory here, but Marxism is defined by a particular notion of economic class struggle and historical materialism. The idea of class struggle easily precedes Marxism, for instance, the basic notion of "those fuckers, our shit" is as old as civilization itself.
"Marxism but with blacks/women instead of workers" only really shares commonality through the basic oppressor/oppressed dynamic, and again, anyone who thinks that's uniquely Marxist cannot see history past 150 years or so ago, or even see that span very clearly for that matter.
There are Marxist feminists and black separatists, of course, but they actually subscribe to Marxism and think their particular social pet issues descend from material-economic conditions, very much in line with the orthodox Marxist doctrine that culture is a projection of economics.
>>30517466
Shadowrun at least has literal fucking magic to fall back on as an explanation.
>>30515362
>The mayor of New Orleans, Mr. Tsombe “Big Daddy” Toussaint L’Overture Othello Jones, climbed up on a Mardi Gras float (a vast statue of Aunt Jemima pouring syrup into a pool where high yellow beauties wrestled with “White Planters”
FUCK. I spent like 10 minutes looking for a >pic related
For this but I don't think there is one. Every time I think I have hold on Lind and got an idea how this book will play out he does some shit like this or slaughters a bunch of professors with gladii.
>>30517865
Critical Theory in the social sciences isn't a meme, tho
>>30512821
>The governor was about to unveil PC’s ultimate secret: where it came from and what it really was
I shitposted it before, and it appears I must shitpost it again:
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Also treating political correctness as an ideology unto itself is like considering assholes an ethnicity; it's taking an insult and presuming it a neutral descriptor of a category. Anytime someone calls themselves politically correct it's to tweak the nose of those who use it as an insult (hell, political correctness started as an insult lefties used against other lefties). All those other things Kraft Cheese is saying are distinct from political correctness are different popular, vaguely left-wing ideologies that are given the same insults. PC is, in fact, those things, much as buttrock is 80's hair metal and late 90's-mid 2000's numetal.
>>30517940
It's part of why I wanted to share this book. It's the gift that keeps on giving
>>30517956
What, exactly, is critical theory anyway? What I can gleam is that it's basically deeply looking at how shit might be oppressive or reinforce power structures.
[Victoria refugee interview log 1-83-53]
"So why did you stay in Victoria for as long as you did?"
"It wasnt Victoria yet, just the N.C, and it wasn't like we had a choice. With how things were back then you could barely afford to keep enough gas in a car to get to work and back, much less stock up for a cross-country trip. To be fair though, part of the reason why we dragged our feet so long on getting out was because apparently I'm a fucking idiot."
"We? Who else was with you"
"My wife, daughter, and my wife's dad."
"What was life like immediately after the takeover?"
"Pretty chaotic. No one really knew what to make of these guys when suddenly it seemed like they were on every street corner with their mismatched camo and their guns. I mean yeah a lot of people werent happy with how things were going but I dont think the regular guy on the street thought we were at the point where an armed take over was possible."
"How did you feel about the, uh, Christian Marines?"
"Well, you have to understand, this was way before everything REALLY went to shit, you understand? At the start they felt like they were just a bunch of guys trying to do good for their families and their neighbors, and I had heard a lot of them were state cops, so I remember thinking to myself, 'how bad could these guys be?'. Yeah that only lasted about one week, Jesus Christ."
>>30518005
Start reading academic papers, because the person that edits the wikipedia page is a communist with an agenda
>>30512841
>>30512853
>You said that it was which groups – defined by sex, race, and sexual normality or abnormality – had power over which other groups
>You justified your actions through a deliberate warping of the language: deconstruction
Even running with the particular justifications within academia being dubious, one does not need to stretch very far to justify the essence of those doctrines, especially in the presence of a bona-fide right-wing death squad.
I do not necessarily share the particular doctrines espoused in universities, but the basic idea of "law and society favored certain races/sexes" isn't really wrong no matter how much you cry Frankfurt; why else would there need to be a 19th amendment in the first place? Or a 14th and 15th?
Apologies if I'm sounding Tumblrey, but this sort of thing justifies Tumblr.
>>30517865
This guy is actually patient zero on this bullshit. Not the Frankfurt Institute (Which /pol/ blames for everything under the sun because jews)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homi_K._Bhabha
>>30513161
>seditious and treasonous subversion
If done solely through speech and press, those things are as much a part of the free exchange of ideas as anything else. What is "subversion," in this context, other than "saying things I don't agree with?"
>>30518159
you camp everything in conditionals as if you fear criticism
and so you do
because any small admission of correctness on the part of SJWs or cultural marxists or whatever is seen as paramount to wanting the death of western civilization, at least round these parts
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>>30518222
No offense to anyone, and I appreciate the discussion. It's just that this has veered into /pol/ territory and srs business in previous threads. I want this thread to be more about laughing at retards, not srs business. I know that I'm guilty of putting my politics into my riffing, hopefully not in a grating fashion. I just want to keep these threads relatively lighthearted.
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>>30512894
>lind literally believes that idiot college students deserve to be stabbed to death in a (literal) roman catholic death orgy by the hundreds
This man is fucking insane.
>>30513350
You know what, if you haven't already taken the plunge, I might actually buy it, so the show may go on. Supposedly it's DRM-free so I could just stick it on Mega.
It will have to be tomorrow, though, I already stayed up too late.
>>30518257
Remind me a little bit of Vampire Knight Requiem
idk why right wingers are so triggered wasn't by the Frankfurt school. Adorno, was basically a turncoat Marxist who used Critical Theory to call for a return to Enlightenment principles, not for a 'revolution'. The man even called the cops on the actual socialists demonstrating on the streets in 1968. He would be entirely bemused to see him brig accused of creating a worldwide conspiracy to spread communism.
>>30518244
Did you forget how a woman gave a toast to Iwo Jima once? Free speech sounds fine, but we in the fourth generation know what it can lead to and cold steel is our only protecting grace.
>>30511808
>“Black people have been the only warriors in history. White men can’t fight. It’s because their noses are too small. Courage comes from the nose, not the heart, as the African spiritual healers you call witch doctors have long understood. That’s why black people eat their snot. What do you white folk do with your snot? You wrap it up in a little white surrender flag and put it in your pocket. So you don’t have no courage.”
>>30518005
Guy who took PoliSci 101 here:
In PoliSci, the name of the game is to figure out why things happened in history in an effort to figure out how current political systems work. The core assumption is that things have rules, and if you understand the rules, you can play the game.
The classical theory is the Realist Perspective. Basically no matter what you say or do, there will be a war, and there will be a war eventually because if you're a nation state, you have power, and so do other nation states. Your borders always present a strategic value (weakness or strength) in relation to your fellow nations, and how your country turns out is largely an effect of your war fighting capability. For example, the United States is strong because it has two weak neighbors and borders both major oceans on the planet, and after the build up from being on the winning side of World War Two, it was going to get into a fight with the other major power basically sitting on both oceans: the Russians.
Second is the Liberal Perspective. This one's all about remembering that we've generally had more peace than war, so we should figure out how _peace_ works. It's mostly about building bonds, and wars break out because sometimes those bonds suck. Stuff like NATO and the UN is preferred from this perspective because of the international cooperation involved.
>>30518040
"Frank knew what was up on day fucking one, and I should've listened."
"Frank?"
"My wife's dad, army vet who toured in Afghanistan, so he would know fucking lunatics with guns when he saw them."
"When did you have your change of heart them?"
"Oh, I'd have to say it was around the time they started fucking HANGING PEOPLE. I had heard some weird shit through the grapevine but really, you need to see it to really believe it"
"You're talking about the public executions?"
"Yes. We lived away from the center of town, and they started that shit on the Sunday just after their coup, so I didn't see it until Monday morning on my way into work, poor fuckers who didnt like the idea of breaking off from the rest of the states and made the mistake of talking about it publicly so those N.C assholes just hung them right there from the trees on the common in front of the church, thats an image that keeps you up a night, fucking believe me. Made up my mind right then that we needed to get the fuck out of there."
"Where were you planning on going?"
"I had family in Ohio, so originally the plan was to go there, I had HOPED that we could just drive down there, but of course because I waited they were watching the roads. So for awhile I just kept my head down while I waited for any kind of opening to get my family out of there.
"How bad were the reprisals in your town?"
"Well that first round of hanging wasnt the last, and more than a few people got shot when they wouldn't go quietly. The worst thing I think though, were the ones who signed the fuck up for whatever those guys were selling, like they had been waiting for an excuse to be a tough guy with authority and jumped at the chance. More than a few guys who I had thought I had known."
>>30518287
There's also the Identity Perspective. This tries to explain the world in relation to the national stories we tell ourselves. Western Civilization and Democracy won the Cold War because the Americans, British, French, et al. were descendants of the Enlightenment, and we all understood each other and band together. The Russians act the way they do because their national myths include their peculiar destiny to lead the world and such. They've thought this way since the Tsars, and the words have changed since that Third Rome stuff that one monk said back in the day, but they always acted like was true.
And then there's Critical Theory. While the other ones try to offer a helpful insight, Critical Theory is about bitching about stupid shit that really didn't affect anything, but makes you feel bad. If you tried to answer the question "Why did World War Two happen?", with the others you'd get something like "Germany thought it was surrounded by aggressive people and World War One didn't solve anything" or "The Germans needed to reclaim their national honor after being humiliated" or "The League of Nations failed to avert the crisis". These are all parts of the answer, but they're at least trying.
Critical Theory will say something like "DID YOU KNOW THAT WOMEN WERE BEING TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF BY THE PATRIARCHY? AND THAT'S WHY THE WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITED."
My instructor had a habit of mumbling about how this was in the textbook, then breezed past it because it always led to shit arguments for how the world works. That's Critical Theory.
>>30518252
I concede that, I'm used to being the "to be fair" guy on /pol/.
>>30518276
The right hates Adorno and cultural Marxism because they believe them to be assailants against western high culture and tradition. This very same reason was why he hated capitalism. They would both look at modern society and cry degeneracy, they just disagree as to the cause.
>>30518287
Ah, thanks, I'm taking international relations as a gen ed this fall so hopefully I can fill in a little of the (especially) weak spot of my political understanding.
>>30518353
>I concede that, I'm used to being the "to be fair" guy on /pol/.
Not that I can stop anyone, but that's why I'm a little leery of serious political discussion vis a vis having fun laughing at Lind.
>>30518353
I thoroughly enjoyed my International Relations class. It's one of the few classes I still have the book for. But goddamn man, Critical Theory is the most useless bullshit ever. It's literally "being Critical of the other theories".
this isn't written by Lind
they co-opted his name and expounded his op-ed into a "novel"
whoever this Thomas Hobbes person is wrote it, not Lind
>>30513056
Probably Pine Tar, which would burn like a son of a bitch, but not fatally, especially after being thrown in the ocean.
Still a pretty shitty thing to do to a guy.
>>30518425
>not Lind
How come the linked reviews from its publisher's website say that Lind wrote it?
>>30518480
read more carefully and they don't say that
they say that he wrote the op-ed
it's worded ambiguously on purpose
or look on Amazon
writer is listed as Thomas Hobbes, not WIlliam Lind
>>30518321
"So when did you try to get out?"
"When the Government started to make a big push to take the fight to the fuckers, the plan was we'd head north over the border when N.C guys from all over were getting pulled away to congregate down south and fight back. Less guys to watch for people trying to get out, and distracted by keeping an eye on the sky for bombers on top of that. We had wanted to leave before but there never was the chance until then. If it was bad when it started, it was getting worse all the time."
"How so?"
"They'd started burning books at the school in town. My wife taught science there, and if she had been there that day they might've shot her. That's when I knew it had to be soon, because more than a few times you'd get these militia guys who'd get drunk and then take out some frustration on whoever they felt like, and a science teacher who got lucky was probably a tempting target."
"So, the plan was to flee to Canada?"
"Yeah, left one day too late though, N.C militia jerk offs showed up as we were jamming as much stuff as we could fit into my truck, dunno what their specific reasoning was for this visit, but they had us dead to rights."
"What happened then?"
"Frank happened."
>>30512841
He just had an old woman shot. For interrupting his speech to a bunch of people he's going to kill anyway.
And then he has the unmitigated gall to bring up Freedom of Speech.
>>30518533
Yo homeboy. This is the article where William Lind says he wrote the damned book:
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/2009/06/17/washingtons-legitimacy-crisis/
>>30518569
If you have issue with that..
>>30518581
>saving the thumbnail
>>30518574
well I'll be
>>30518628
>In the mid-1990s, I wrote a novel, Victoria, about an American Fourth Generation civil war and its aftermath. It never found a publisher, perhaps because the idea seemed so outlandish, more likely because it is a face shot at Political Correctness.
I like how he thinks that's the problem with this fucking book.
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Growing up, there was always a sense of loss around us. Buildings that stretched far taller than anything we could build now; the old Americans must have been gods. My family tended their flocks of sheep in the ruins of houses and buildings whose purpose had been made obsolete by plague and war. I didn’t think too much of it as we sometimes even played soccer with skulls; kids really are morbid sometimes. Around the hearth of a mansion in row after row of mansions, which we shared with three other families, they told stories past down about the American dream.
That all changed when I was on the cusp of manhood. I had earned a respite from the work and wandered the city. Much of it had been picked over, or burned, or washed away; however, I found the corpse of a child with a dull blue backpack huddled in a corner. I admired the stitching, better than anything a seamstress could do. The magic of the gods. Inside it, I found a book of pictures; its pages brittle and delicate. At that time, I did not read well, but this story into whose middle I had plunged engrossed me. There was one picture and words that spoke to me of the American Dream, and I understood.
>>30518565
"See I was inside getting some last minute shit and trying to get my daughter to get a move on with her own packing. Frank was outside by the truck trying to get everything to fit. I didnt see what happened, I only heard it, but my wife did since she was in the living room and saw the whole thing. These two militia types with their white armbands with the stupid pine tree on em walk right up Frank and apparently start asking pointed questions. About what I dont know, but I dont think it mattered given what happened next. See Frank's a huge dude, easily a head taller than me, and although you'd never know it from looking at him, he never let himself go soft after his time in the army, so when these traffic cop rejects decided to get physical after they didn't like how Frank wasn't scared of their shit they didn't know what they were getting into. Apparently Frank laid the one in front of him flat with a fucking headbutt, and when the second guy tried to pull his gun he hit him with his elbow and then just started to just, beat the living shit out of the this guy in the driveway! I ran out when I heard the yelling, and it was already over when I got there. We didnt bother trying to get more stuff in the truck, we just left those asshole unconscious on the asphalt, slashed their tires, and made out break for it."
"Did you run into anymore trouble on your way into Canada?"
"Mostly from the elements, had to hoof it the last few miles once we got to the border and had to ditch the truck, but we made it. Glad we got out when we did, apparently things are even worse in there now, I heard a rumor that they burnt someone at the stake, but I dont want to believe that. That cant happen here, this is America, not some third world pit."
"Well, until they're taken care of all we can do is learn what we can until we can go in and see for ourselves, thank you for your time"
>>30518743
I like where this is going
>>30518743
You have just perfectly encapsulated the mindset of the Germanics who replaced the Western Roman Empire.
As an example, Rome in the Low Medieval Period went from a population of 1 million to a population of 15,000. A 98.5% population loss. During the times of the Ostrogothic and Lombard kingdoms, there were forests and estates INSIDE the crumbling Roman walls.
Seriously, if I had the power, I would go to Rome in AD 700 or so just so that I could walk around and see what an empty, broken world looks like.
And Lind considers this state of affairs an improvement. Ree, my friend. Fucking Ree.
>>30518842
Reminds me of the mound builders. Visited one as a kid and it blew my mind that I was standing in a thousand year old massive earth work and the people who had made it were just gone now. We don't even know their names, we just call them " The Mound Builders"
>>30518743
Freedom was as novel a concept then as it is now and forever will be. In those days, Freedom was a green lady bearing a torch to whom we made burnt offerings so that we might be blessed with many goods or a good harvest for tribute to warlords. They were frightful, faces pale with war paint and their hair spiked upwards and brightly colored. The studs of their leather clothing twinkled like a thousand spearpoints or daggers. They carried guns the likes of which we could not reproduce, Ei-Arrs and Ei-Kays. Compared to our muskets (whose possession could still get one ripped apart between two of the god-chariots they called ‘kars’), these were on a completely different level. I still marvel at the fury it must have been like in the battles of the old days, where I am told these are the least implements of Lord Ei, master of war.
I was at that time betrothed when the brigands arrived for tribute. That day, they decided that my beautiful fiance would make a good concubine for the Bandit King. I was afraid for my life and almost gave in to cowardice. I then remembered the ways of the American Dream. This was not right, and they were the ones who should move. I ran to back to the house as fast as my legs could carry me, for the brigands had many tributes to collect, and retrieved a pair of hatchets. My lungs burned when I returned. The leader, whose head was shaved on the sides and whose hair had been stiffened into a line of yellow spikes, was yelling from a megaphone about how the tribute was insufficient and they would return on the next full moon expecting the same quantity as that day.
“WE THE PEOPLE!” I yelled, and I hurled a hatchet that split his face in two.
>I'm a little self-conscious about this and I hope that it's enjoyable
>>30512894
When I thought he couldn't get any crazier
>>30511950
man i must be tired because i read that as "Taylor Swift Sword"
>>30519042
aw yiss
>>30519042
Shit's good. Mad Max reading Captain America is something I want to hear more about.
>Ripped in half by Kars
You did that on purpose.
>>30519225
Actually, that was unintentional. I was trying to convey how shitty things have gotten that you can have someone whose best guess on how to spell "car" is phonetic.
>>30519042
>>30512450
>UNESCO
>>30515004
> This is almost as dumb as that one leftard cyberpunk tabletop RPG which mentions has a 20 year reign of a Limbaugh/Gingrich regime.`il
which one?
Anyone else getting the feeling that this book was written by antman himself or at least would likely be from antman if he did wrote a book
Considering the fact that antman was a hyper religious lunatic that death threaten literally anything that moves if it so dared to call him crazy
Soy un estudiante de El Liceo de Moravia, Costa Rica. El lunes 18 de Julio voy a tirotear el colegio.
>>30519697
a nadie le importa
>>30512714
>I think even /pol/ would laugh at this book.
the ones that weren't masturbating to it.
>>30518279
What would have happened if it was a Japanese-American man toasting Iwo Jima?
>None of them of them fought in that battle, his relatives probably killed Americans that day, how dare the PC police allow such disrespect REEEEEE!
>>30520145
Depends on who. /pol/ still has a very large libertarian/constitutionalist movement that's been a bit quite since the alt-right set up shop there. Even then, only the most of the hard core alt-right/supremacists that have been there for YEARS would consider that book to be alright.
Whatever happened to that writefag? Is that still going on because it was really neat.
>>30521438
Which one? There are several
>>30517466
>As a /tg/ guy
Nice try fa/tg/uy, you're not getting away from your nickname that easy.
>>30519598
Underground!
>>30520457
>Proceed immediately to 6th generational warfare against the insidious orientals
>Do not pass go
>Do not collect 200 gold backed Pine Dollars
>>30515004
>tabletop RPG
1d4chan's article on rahowa is also pretty lulzy. It's got shitty gameplay, worse story and is just as offensive as this book.
It also stole the cover art from the original The Hills Have Eyes.
It's truly impressive that Lind managed to offend /k/ so much we started writing pro-federalist fanfics about heroic gangbangers fighting radical christian militias
>>30522701
I'm personally subscribed to what one writefag said about this entire thing being the journal of a madman who served on the cabinet of an insanely oppressive regime and was so delusional he kept pretending that they never lost any battles and did all this profound shit when in reality they were so small nobody gave a shit about them until Washington finally steamrolled them with surgical airstrikes and combined arms assault in several days. This insane account was found in the rubble and is now used as a study on extreme narcissism, paranoid schizophrenia (no record of a Bill Kraft existing can be found, nor any sort of Prussian influence outside of the authors apparent obsession with the long defunct nation) and delusions of grandeur on a scale not seen since Adolf Hitler.
That's my personal explanation for it anyway.
>>30522817
personally I want to writefag about a loyalist Vermont group led by a Slavaboo who cosplays Zhukov and won't shut up about Deep Battle
>>30522832
DO IT FAGGOT
>>30522817
My interpretation was that most of the events occurred, but were viewed through a twisted psyche like Fight Club (that's another can of worms altogether). Most of the lynchings might look like frontier justice to our protagonist, but another account includes the Appian Way-tier wall of bodies along I-95 or the Khmer Rouge-ish mass graves in Lancaster County.
I loved the gangbanger turned redeemed citizen turned Minuteman concept with the 42nd. It represents the American ideal more than this Prussian hack state ever could
Chapter 34
>As ordered, on March 5, 2034, I left for Richmond. I thought about who to take with me, and decided in the end I didn’t want anyone but our Spec Ops chief, Sergeant Danielov. A sergeant would help get me out of trouble, other officers might get me into it. Besides, if I screwed up, Ron wouldn’t tell anyone.
This sets the situation of this chapter.
>From Augusta, I took the steam train to Portland. I had to admit I enjoyed bucketing along through the Maine countryside at a stirring 40 miles per hour, the smells of summer mingling with the wood smoke from the engine, the rail joints and the locomotive exhaust playing their leisurely, syncopated song. Old pleasures rediscovered are better than new, because you can muse on your grandparents and great-grandparents enjoying the same things.
I know that this passage is pretty fedora, but in terms of description, this is Lind's best prose so far in this book. I have to give credit where it is due.
>Ours was a Maine vessel, sail with auxiliary diesel, the Silas Lapham out of Castine with a cargo of used cars, newsprint, and live lobsters. I noticed .50 cals mounted on either side of the quarterdeck. Pirates were operating out of Philadelphia.
Neat.
> In our Germanic way of war, “help” didn’t mean fiddle and diddle at the margins. Help meant “win,” win decisively, completely, finally, in such a way that the victory could never be reversed. Icy cold and lightning fast, as somebody used to say.
Dude, just issue some mission type orders, lmao
>I’d known a few Marine generals from the old Southern aristocracy.
I have a fondness for the aesthetics of the antebellum South, but a lot of that is gone
>They were fine, upright, honorable men, solid as old Stonewall himself on matters of morals and character. But they seemed to have the notion that it wasn’t quite gentlemanly to make a decision.
Who characterizes the South as indecisive? Lind probably thinks "Bless your heart" is a compliment
>>30523979
>War, as von Moltke said, is a matter of expedients. You need to know what result you want.
Optional sip
>But as to how I’d get there, that would have to depend on what I found, and who. In war, the power of personality is immense. You get a Napoleon, you conquer Europe. You get a Napoleon III, you end up in a chamber pot at Sedan.
I chuckled.
>Once Ron got his sea legs, we liberated some lobsters from the tank in the hold and dined in style each night on the quarterdeck. Good sergeant that he was, Dano had a couple bottles of Piesporter Spatlese, the companion God intended for lobster. As we drained the last on the evening of the 12th, I remembered the old Marine rule: don’t whistle while packing for deployment. Detached duty had long been good to captains.
Again, these little scenes are actually pleasant. I'm genuinely surprised at how enjoyable this chapter is so far.
>Captain Ravenal splendid in his high-collared gray uniform and mirror-shined cavalry boots with silver spurs. In the simple, forest green hunting jacket that was the uniform of the Northern Confederation, I looked like Grant opposite Lee. Captain Ravenal’s darkey driver bowed us into a Mercedes limo with the CSA crest on the doors and Confederate battle flags on the front fenders, and we were soon speeding up the Interstate toward Richmond. Dixie was indeed rich.
That's the thing. Passages like this can capture the imagination; it's like a completely different wrote this compared to other portions.
>>30523979
Somethings gonna run on whale oil in this fucking dreck.
>>30524013
>“I am truly sorry, sir, if I have in any way offended,” Captain Ravenal replied. “We are all deeply grateful for your time and trouble in coming here. But to be entirely honest, sir, there is a small matter that gives us some difficulty in our protocol.”
>“Sir, we are all aware that you are Chief of the General Staff of the Northern Confederation,” Captain Ravenal answered. “You will be accorded every honor due to your position. Our difficulty, sir, is that formally your rank is that of captain. That required that you be met by someone of similar rank, which is why I am your escort. Again, I assure you no offense was intended.”
Expect some quip about the best-dressed side losing at some point
>“Is the NCO mess good?” Dano asked.
“The specialty is Tennessee barbecue,” Ravenal answered.
>“Is the NCO mess good?” Dano asked.
>“The specialty is Tennessee barbecue,” Ravenal answered.
It's these human, enjoyable exchanges -so different from the stilted conversations of other parts- that confound me. Did he just stick all the shitty parts in the free sections and put the better prose behind a paywall?
At this point, the South wants to give him a ceremonial rank so that he can take a more active role in generals' meetings.
>This was too delicious an opportunity to pass up. I could play a joke on the South and on Bill Kraft at the same time. “How about Field Marshal?” I suggested.
They agree to it.
>For a solid week I was toured about in the daytime and feted and admired at balls and cotillions in the evenings. Not a lick of work was done. It was just like Richmond in 1863.
I can't decide whether cartoonish things like this are charming or moronic.
>>30522817
>In 2029 when Kraft invaded upstate New York, they prepared for everything. Everything but a band of angst highschoolers who went innawoods with their sks's.
I think I'll call it, "Green Dawn". They fight against both NC and the UN, trying to bring back the constitution. I forgot when Kraft led his army into NY, so please correct my dates. I'll start;
It was a slow day at school. Of course the powers been cut, and for the past few days we've been running whatever needed power off of handcrank generators, such as projectors, some light, and refrigeration. I wasn't paying attention to my histor teacher go on about when Washington pushed the red coats out of New York on his final battle, but instead I did notice what happened out on our football field. Out of nowhere trucks with recoiless rifles smashed through our fence. My black teacher was stunned when this happened, and went outside to ask what was happening. Only then, this 300lb man came out of the truck brandishing a percussion cap pistol in his black leather gloved hand, under his weird ass hat. "FUCKING MULTI CULTURAL NIGGER INDOCTORATE" He shot him right in the head. My class shuddered, and we all immediately rushed out of the door when the fat man ordered the 90mm gun to unload in our classroom. Anyone trying to get out was gunned down, and yelled at for how were impeding apon their 1st amendment by means of PC culture.
I can't really write much more, but that's a starter. Keep in mind, they are also enemies of the UN. They fight for the constituion.
>>30523964
That's kind of what I was suggesting, will Kraft being Tyler Durden in this case.
I like the notion too that it was a penal legion/joke sort of deal and they were literally just sent up there to die, but instead survived and became hardcore motherfuckers, ditching the "Numbero Uno" moniker and going back to their official designation of the 42nd. I could see a pretty neat story with them retreating into the countryside and waging a guerilla war on N.C. forces (as a native North Carolinian btw that fucking triggers me most of all) under the guidance of some old crotchety GWOT veteran who got thrown into the unit for whatever reason (drug dealer, kingpin type/crazy violent homeless type who regains his sanity because he's back at war) and teaches these young warriors how to fight Al Queada and Taliban style.
Could even develop an extreme cult of personality or idealism based of Ol Glory to truly make them fanatical and feared in battle.
Hell, now I might have to sit down and do some writing. Goddamn it Lind, we shouldn't have to do your fucking job for you.
>>30524064
>The CSA headquarters wasn’t a building. It was three whole city blocks in downtown Richmond, mostly highrises, filled to overflowing with staff officers. To take me there, instead of the usual Mercedes, I was met at my door on the 25th by an elegant barouche with a cavalry escort. Another honor guard was waiting on arrival (I found out later there was a brigade-worth of ceremonial troops in and around Richmond). General Laclede received me in a gorgeous uniform, complete with that nice Latin American touch, a sash, amongst a vast entourage of other generals and colonels.
This is straight out of the 19th Century, which is where he thinks the South is. Or thinks that it's what the South hides under the surface
>Great material for a couple of mine clearing battalions, I thought.
Lind hates pomp and ceremony in case you forgot
>After coffee in his mahogany-paneled office, furnished with Second Empire antiques and decorated largely with pictures of himself, General Laclede escorted me to the briefing room.
This almost reminds me of Wemmick's house in Great Expectations.
>It was nothing less than a thousand-seat auditorium, and every seat was taken. On the stage, three huge screens were set up for the Power Point slides.
I know the DoD makes bad powerpoints, but come on.
>I was right. For three hours we sat in wonderfully comfortable chairs as one staff officer after the other delivered a scripted, meaningless patter. The maps did indicate which areas were held by the New South and which by the Old, but the newspapers had published the same maps long ago. Beyond that, we heard about the weather in each area, the roads, the telecommunications; the general locations of units; endless equipment rosters and readiness reports (most of which I knew were bullshit); and I can’t remember what else.
Lind hates intelligence and logistics, in case you forgot
>>30524173
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bEboZ7n11vZiBFBzpl73vgNp7ccao6CdXTyQ_mhllmY/edit?usp=sharing
Join the fun, friend
>>30524178
>The reason I can’t remember is that I offered the most appropriate comment on the whole affair. I went to sleep.
What an asshole
>Das Wesentliche ist die Tat. I thought of quoting von Seekt, but realized that if any of these buffoons spoke a second language, it was Spanish, not German.
Gratuitous German Quotes: 23
>“A most important question, Field Marshal Rumford,” Laclede replied. “It is one which we have under study. Fourteen Colonels in my G-3 section have been working on it for most of the summer. Those are all full colonels, I might add, not lieutenant colonels. We have more than fifty contractors and consultants supporting them. Confidentially – this is the first my own staff has heard of this, and I apologize for surprising them – President Yancey is thinking about appointing a Blue Ribbon Commission of retired senior officers to investigate the matter and give us the benefit of their recommendations. I can assure you, we are considering every possible aspect of the situation in the most thorough manner.”
Dude, just mission order, lmao. Seek decisive battle. Yamato damashii.
>We adjourned to a splendid lunch, including a concert by the CSA band and chorus. If these guys ever did win a war, they’d put on one fine victory parade. But in this case, someone else would have to win the war for them. I now understood why New Orleans had gone as it did. Nobody could decide anything.
I chuckled, but Lind's hatred of logistics and the less-glamorous aspects of military intelligence is pretty grating.
>“Well, to be honest, Captain, I’m not quite satisfied with the way my uniform is being ironed,” I replied. “It takes a Northern man to know how to do it just right.”
>“I understand, sir,” Ravenal responded, reassured and comfortable again. “I’ll have your sergeant sent over right away.”
But somehow, I find things like this actually pleasant. Have I been reading this piece of shit so long that my taste is gone?
>>30524167
Also, this should be more of a standalone story with the WWZ style book where parts of the story are peppered in chronologicaly between survivors accounts.
>>30524244
>Have I been reading this piece of shit so long that my taste is gone?
Nah, this is just pleasant compared to the constant pogroms. It's like purposeful pacing to make us rage. Just when you're used to the jabs at military efficiency Lind will drop the ISS on a black neighborhood because he believes in medieval ideas of celestial spheres
>>30524244
No, this is miles above his normal writing, even in style. It's more passive aggressive with the judgements, and much more descriptive than the rest the book has been. It's also in a point of view, instead of some omnipresent news feed broken up by the occasional patronizing conversation.
It's seriously like a different person wrote this bit.
>>30518533
Hobbes was lind's pen name. Hobbes is not a real person.
Well, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes was a real person, but he's been dead for several hundred years at this point.
>>30524415
I wouldn't be surprised if he wrote the preceding chapters many years before he wrote the Confederacy ones
>>30524244
>True to form, the Confederates had made sure my house had a first-rate cook, an old black mammy who could have stood in for Aunt Jemima and whose biscuits and cornbread would have made Escoffier swoon. After stuffing down a third piece of her ambrosial peach pie, I waddled upstairs, leaving her beaming. I’d put on a pound for each day I’d been in Dixie, and enjoyed every bite of it
It's a little bit of a dying stereotype, but some of the best meals you'll find are from small, family-owned shacks run by a plump black matron. It might be part of why we're fat, but it is something special and worth cherishing.
>Someone was trying to get me up. Crap, it’s o’dark thirty and I want to sleep. Tell the SPC to go play with himself. I’m too full for a company run. I’ll puke up all that wonderful chow, and it never tastes as good the second time around.
lel
>I was awake. Someone was rapping at my second floor window. The clock said 9:15. If it was Poe’s raven, I’d eaten my last piece of peach pie. It wasn’t. It was Danielov, and he had somebody with him.
It's like a completely different author.
>"I came this way because I wanted you to meet someone. This is Captain Walt Armbruster, 3rd Texas Rangers.”
>Dano answered before the captain could. “No need, sir. I know what you’ve found here, and I know it through Captain Armbruster. You’ve found the worst of the old U.S. military: bloated staffs, meaningless briefings, commanders who can’t make decisions, process without content.”
>“All covered in syrup,” Captain Armbruster added. “That’s the Southern touch.”
Little things like this, while passive-aggressive, are actually enjoyable to read. Maybe the POV of previous chapters was because he wanted to go from 2016 to the 2030s, but it doesn't excuse some of the offensively poorly-written segments.
Basically these Texas rangers and some other elements of the Old South want to stop it from turning into a banana republic.
>>30524338
I think it's because, in portraying the Confederates as effete antebellum stereotypes, Lind has accidentally surrounded his protagonist with relatively pleasant characters rather than absurd wehraboo mass murderers.
>>30524519
Would explain why he thought radio-shacks would still cover the NE in 202x
>>30524064
>>30524013
as a North Carolinian I am actually pretty offended by this fucking Gone With the Wind shit
>>30524538
Yeah. The well-meaning, but bewildered Captain puts a smile on my face. Even the head Southern General, with his absurd office dedicated to himself, is actually enjoyable unlike Lind
>>30524610
Compared to fanatical mass murderers like Kraft? It's a breath of fresh air
>>30524534
>The next morning, when Captain Ravenal came to pick me up for another visit to another useless headquarters, I told him I had a special favor to request.
>“President Yancey has personally directed that we assist you in every way, sir,” he replied. “If it can be done, we will do it.”
>“I want a Pullman berth on tonight’s train for Atlanta,” I said.
>The captain stiffened. “Sir, I cannot advise that. It would be extremely dangerous.”
What follows is a brief scene where young Captain has a moment where he ultimately decides to assist Rumford. And a snarky comment about how this shows actual decision-making skills
>That night, at 8 PM, at Richmond’s Broad Street station I boarded the Southern Railway’s crack express for Atlanta, Birmingham, and Mobile, the John Wilkes Booth.
End Chapter 34
>>30524628
I mean, if I was a New Englander I'd be even more offended by the implication that we would toast the televised massacre of unarmed intellectuals, but I'm also angry that he thinks good ol' southron gentlemen would be on board with that kind of regime
>>30524610
I'm right there with you my dude, the fact that he refers to his gestapo state as NC has been triggering me for like a week now.
I'm also the Engineer from the previous thread, the one who was reeing at the "Creek" being an impassable object. That's still top of the list, but this is getting close, if only because it's absurdly close to how Yankees think we behave. If I hear one more time that some hipster fuck thinks it's hard to understand my accent in my home state, I might actually murder someone. Maybe I can blame Lind for triggering my suppressed PTSD...
