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What do you think collaborationist Gorbachev Russia should be called? It's currently called the "Free Republic of Russia", but before that it was called the "Federative Republic of Russia".
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In addition, tweaked Gorbachev's flag.
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Mango said quite a while back that since America was a white supremacist and fascist state Yockey serves no purpose because Nixon is just as bad. So he already has done that, at least in his own TDS-ridden mind.
This is very gay but it is at least internally consistent with the lore since america is already corporatist and segregation is still widespread at game start. Honestly it would make more sense to have a fascist candidate run through one of the parties rather than having an independent party since the democrats offer the same programs as the fascists but are just liberal nationalists instead of reactionary ones.

Mangos definition of fascist is a lot more broad than the traditional one but it still makes sense. Fascism according to mango is an authoritarian, corporatist state that justifies itself via nationalism regardless of what type. Since america is already corporatist, any president who centralizes power on himself becomes a fascist by default. Mangos fascism does not need totalitarianism or a one party state, It simply needs corporatism, authoritarianism, and some vague form of nationalism to justify it
 
This is very gay but it is at least internally consistent with the lore since america is already corporatist and segregation is still widespread at game start. Honestly it would make more sense to have a fascist candidate run through one of the parties rather than having an independent party since the democrats offer the same programs as the fascists but are just liberal nationalists instead of reactionary ones.

Mangos definition of fascist is a lot more broad than the traditional one but it still makes sense. Fascism according to mango is an authoritarian, corporatist state that justifies itself via nationalism regardless of what type. Since america is already corporatist, any president who centralizes power on himself becomes a fascist by default. Mangos fascism does not need totalitarianism or a one party state, It simply needs corporatism, authoritarianism, and some vague form of nationalism to justify it
Say what we will about Panzer as while Panzer as while Panzer's TNO basically ends up our world: Germany is defeated but ends up joining the OFN as Russia is now a super power by 1990, likewise in Asia China defeats Japan but China becomes a growing super power in the pacific with hints that a new three way cold war that's basically the modern three way cold war between China, Russia, America we have now. Panzer at least admitted America is only the bad guy in that situation in his mind. He went to great lengths to state he does admit and feel like obviously American imperialism is still better than Nazism since no shit. Old TNO has two events that even reference this.

One is Goering I think can send a letter to Castro calling him a big and tough Latinx and that he should embrace national syndicalism again and Germany will welcome him with open arms. Castro responds back that while he has his problems with America he would rather be with them than with genocidal loons and morons. Or even how Goldwater had a cool moment IMO where the various presidents had possible meetings with Bormann that ranged from Lemay getting into a shouting match with him and one of them taking him to Disneyland, Goldwater does not entertain the idea of inviting Bormann or having detente. The button for the event reads something like "America does not negotiate with monsters" and that stuff I love since it showed the personality of different presidents.

The issue with Mango's writing is if everyone is fascist no one is. Basically all presidents may as well be Richard Nixon even the progressive ones. Mango is also not subtle at all and even the TNO fanbase was calling him retarded. That was a year ago though so who knows if Mango has banned all people calling his vision retarded. TNO is not just boring slop, its horribly written boring slot. The fact they even thought of gutting Guangdong which is 90% just fanfiction and story is very telling that an ever nu-wer form of nu-TNO is on the rise.
 
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Seeing how Mango has become a topic of discussion here lately, I’d highly recommend that you play Things That Never Were on Campaign Trail Showcase (or read the TV Tropes page). It features a lot of characters that will appear in Yippie! – Nixon (I find their portrayal disagreeable but alas), RFK, Reagan, Goldwater, Rockefeller, Yorty to name a few – and it provides a lot of insight into how he actually views/presents a lot of these figures. The team that made TTNW is also working on the Yippie update, I recognise a few of the names from the design doc (Obummer,
QuoProQuid etc).

I should also mention that Mango and friends are currently working on another TCT mod called Project 2024, which is yet to release, I imagine the Yippie release will come after they are done with this.
 
The issue with Mango's writing is if everyone is fascist no one is. Basically all presidents may as well be Richard Nixon even the progressive ones.
If I remember correctly, The reason america is psudeo fascist in tno is due to the new deal being far more radical in the post war period. This radical new deal basically gives the state the powers of a fascist dictatorship but it’s far more dispersed in the institutions themselves rather than an outright dictatorship.

It’s not as though this isn’t an interesting premise, Because it is, The problem is mangos partisanship. People like barry goldwater and more constitutionally minded conservatives should be the staunchest anti fascist warriors domestically, Seeking to repeal basically every new deal legislation until america is a real democracy again. They might do that Idk but I doubt it. The excuse mango might give is that the constitutionally minded presidents won’t undo the long range planning act because it’s simply too good to pass up and thus no matter how hard they try, the corporatist state will still endure.

The premise of a psudeo fascist new deal america is an interesting one and i’ll give yippie a try when it comes out but I don’t expect mango will be able to stick the landing. Chrisholm is probably the greatest indication that he won’t be able to make it

Also the guandong thing is a bit wonky, Basically they rewrote the lore so instead of an independent country, Guandong is a special economic zone for the promotion of economic development and pan asian values. De jure it’s under the authority of nanjing albeit autonomous, De facto it’s an independent entity like the north china political council
 
Mangos fascism does not need totalitarianism or a one party state, It simply needs corporatism, authoritarianism, and some vague form of nationalism to justify it
Allow me to rephrase this so it isn't ideobabble: Mango's fascism does not need any of the actual tenets of fascism, it simply needs to have things liberals find icky or mean.
 
Allow me to rephrase this so it isn't ideobabble: Mango's fascism does not need any of the actual tenets of fascism, it simply needs to have things liberals find icky or mean.
aren’t corporatism, authoritarianism, and nationalism pretty core tenants of fascism? Either way you have to be an ultranationalist in order to be a fascist, ordinary nationalism is not fascist. Authoritarianism isn’t inherently fascist either . Corporatism is interesting as although most varieties of corporatism are similar, Fascist corporatism must have all classes directly integrated into state bodies rather than having the state be an arbitrator in class disputes so New deal corporatism isn’t the same as fascist corporatism
 
aren’t corporatism, authoritarianism, and nationalism pretty core tenants of fascism? Either way you have to be an ultranationalist in order to be a fascist, ordinary nationalism is not fascist. Authoritarianism isn’t inherently fascist either . Corporatism is interesting as although most varieties of corporatism are similar, Fascist corporatism must have all classes directly integrated into state bodies rather than having the state be an arbitrator in class disputes so New deal corporatism isn’t the same as fascist corporatism
I think you may be overthinking the philosophy and motives of the guy that's adding a thinly veiled version of Kamala beating a Trump stand-in as the only good ending in an Axis victory timeline.
 
I think you may be overthinking the philosophy and motives of the guy that's adding a thinly veiled version of Kamala beating a Trump stand-in as the only good ending in an Axis victory timeline.
Yeah I didn’t know much about mango other than him being a libtard but simply reading that TCT mod he’s working on has sold me on his retardation. It’s a real shame because he had some really good ingredients in that dish that could have been interesting, But all it ends up as is a gay libshit fanfic

What a shame when Yippie comes out some chad here should rewrite everything. either that or get a bipartisan team instead of a libshit hack

Edit: It might actually be a bit of fun to have a team of all republicans and all democrats write candidates for the opposite party then have the other group tear down their writing until a consensus is reached. Would be really fun nerdy bloodsports
 
Should it take a long time to download with zip?
Real men use .tar.gz Not that long unless you have Ugandan internet
This is very gay but it is at least internally consistent with the lore since america is already corporatist and segregation is still widespread at game start. Honestly it would make more sense to have a fascist candidate run through one of the parties rather than having an independent party since the democrats offer the same programs as the fascists but are just liberal nationalists instead of reactionary ones.

Mangos definition of fascist is a lot more broad than the traditional one but it still makes sense. Fascism according to mango is an authoritarian, corporatist state that justifies itself via nationalism regardless of what type. Since america is already corporatist, any president who centralizes power on himself becomes a fascist by default. Mangos fascism does not need totalitarianism or a one party state, It simply needs corporatism, authoritarianism, and some vague form of nationalism to justify it
Very good bait. You must be a master baiter.
 
Allow me to rephrase this so it isn't ideobabble: Mango's fascism does not need any of the actual tenets of fascism, it simply needs to have things liberals find icky or mean.
Well that much is obvious. I feel that Mike is thinking too hard on Mango's ideology but he or someone else made a good point is you usually see new deal hate from the right wing especially Amerishart right wing as Amerishart right wing at least sometimes pretends to to be lolbert. Most right wingers in other nations love the government or support a monarch. Regardless I think them seeing the new deal = fascism is not what they are going for since gibs me dats is good to them as seen in the nigger Shirley path which is the good one. Its more so they drank the kool-aid that white supremacy is baked in American culture which in my thesis if that is even the right word is that Mango is a retard for doing that. Since the issue is you can do that in a normie cold war mod vs the USSR. Its boring and done all the time and commies call the U.S fascist already but its doable. It becomes harder to bullshit in this timeline especially since in more based lore the U.S was actually and funny enough the last saving grace of the Soviets and the commies (With some old TNO lore implying there was a lot of a reverse operation paper clip where Soviet exiles went to America). That actually is interesting but it cannot happen in the mind of Mango since if America is white supremacist why would they fight the Nazis or even oppose them? That is why you get stuff like their shit in DV where in their own words its German and America fighting to be the bigger chud. They literally see no difference between Germany doing TND vs. America being total nigger life but wanting the niggers to at least be pro-west and let them have resources.
 
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(R)Ed(d)it: Been having fun with making flags, these won't be used so I'm gonna exhibit them here.
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This one is Gorbachev's current flag, I tweaked the version I posted earlier and used darker colors.
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And these two're a little something I've made for the Russian collapse if they lose against Germany. You'll understand if you speak Russian. @MAAAD Thoughts on this?
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Well that much is obvious. I feel that Mike is thinking too hard on Mango's ideology but he or someone else made a good point is you usually see new deal hate from the right wing especially Amerishart right wing as Amerishart right wing at least sometimes pretends to to be lolbert. Most right wingers in other nations love the government or support a monarch. Regardless I think them seeing the new deal = fascism is not what they are going for since gibs me dats is good to them as seen in the nigger Shirley path which is the good one. Its more so they drank the kool-aid that white supremacy is baked in American culture which in my thesis if that is even the right word is that Mango is a retard for doing that. Since the issue is you can do that in a normie cold war mod vs the USSR. Its boring and done all the time and commies call the U.S fascist already but its doable. It becomes harder to bullshit in this timeline especially since in more based lore the U.S was actually and funny enough the last saving grace of the Soviets and the commies (With some old TNO lore implying there was a lot of a reverse operation paper clip where Soviet exiles went to America). That actually is interesting but it cannot happen in the mind of Mango since if America is white supremacist why would they fight the Nazis or even oppose them? That is why you get stuff like their shit in DV where in their own words its German and America fighting to be the bigger chud. They literally see no difference between Germany doing TND vs. America being total nigger life but wanting the niggers to at least be pro-west and let them have resources.
I was one of the guys pointing out that new deal hate is traditionally right wing in the usa, and I agree with your assessment that mango thinks white supremacy is baked in and america is inherently fascist due to its racism instead of the new deal.

Also operation paperclip still happens in yippie, Basically half the cia and fbi are former NKVD operatives. I’m not joking btw it’s in the yippie dev diary, So I guess glowies glow red instead of green in the tno tomeline
 
It might actually be a bit of fun to have a team of all republicans and all democrats write candidates for the opposite party then have the other group tear down their writing until a consensus is reached. Would be really fun nerdy bloodsports
I agree that it could be fun, my main concern is if any consensus can be reached at all, considering how vast the gulf is. Any arrangement similar to this would be incredibly volatile and could crumble apart at any moment, especially when you consider that any participant in this could simply screenshot some of the things they say about each other and spread the chaos to the wider community. There may be intense harassment campaigns and people quitting en-masse.
 
I agree that it could be fun, my main concern is if any consensus can be reached at all, considering how vast the gulf is. Any arrangement similar to this would be incredibly volatile and could crumble apart at any moment, especially when you consider that any participant in this could simply screenshot some of the things they say about each other and spread the chaos to the wider community. There may be intense harassment campaigns and people quitting en-masse.
I was thinking development could be live-streamed so the players could have some input. The arrangement I suggested is basically impossible to actually work with but it would make TNO entertaining again

Honestly, I really don’t care for US development. You could never write an unbiased interpretation for us politics in an axis victory timeline because that interpretation would always tainted by the political opinions of the author. I mostly care for europe and sphere development, Partially because those countries are interesting, but mostly because I hate international liberalism and really want to give the americans a kick in the teeth for promoting that trash

If it wasn’t already obvious, Yes I support fascism over liberalism. Because as bad as fascism can be, No fascist ever tried to genocide their own nations out of existence in the name of a universal humanity. If there is a world out there where I would be poorer but the foreigners never came, I would take it without a second thought. Wealth can never buy you the belonging and happiness that having a real country can give you
 
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