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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · Nov 17

So what is (DVTL) Double Victory?

It is my world-building and alternative history project, intended to culminate in a series of full-length novels!

TLDR: The Final Countdown with zoomers, crank to 11, and mix in heaping doses of Matterhorn, Red Storm Rising, and the Death of Stalin.

What is Double Victory

Welcome to an Alternative Future and a Changed Past

www.victoryvignettes.com

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 7h

Honestly the German Bundesrat is kinda a pain in the ass about what they actually get a substantive veto, the Austrian one (or the French senate) is closer to the vibe

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 7h

Actually pretty much the Austrian bundesrat

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 7h

One part lords, one part Bundesrat

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 7h

And in that case it would make more sense for the senate to be the grand jury and the house to be the petit jury for impeachments

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 7h

A purely suspensive veto bundesrat is basically my ideal upper chamber (for a federal polity), give or take treaty ratification and additional executive oversight powers

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 7h

I'd be happy to trade senate appointment by state legislatures for a suspensive veto and house override. Let the senate be a retirement house for old hands to do executive oversight

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11h

We need a Senator Emeritus role where they still get to go to events and feel important but that gives them a graceful retirement route

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Battle Order @battleorder.org · 2d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Bw... New video on almost everything to know about the Alliance's Marines in Mass Effect. This includes an overview of their missions, vehicles, and known units, and uses it as an opportunity to apply some real-world doctrinal terms.

Mass Effect’s Marines: Mission, Vehicles & Doctrine

YouTube video by Battle Order

www.youtube.com

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Krasnovian Commando @krasnoviancommando.bsky.social · 7h

Who was president in 2020? Remains the defining question of our era.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 8h

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 7h

Also need *motivated* unbrain melted leaders capable of the job, cus it's a lot of work. But we're a big country so there's gotta be those people somewhere, finding them and plugging them into the system is the hard part ofc

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah just thinking about where you draw unbrain melted staff who are capable of running large organizations from

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 7h

Inter agency cooperation in civilian law enforcement isn't the same thing as the military and im just being descriptive here, not saying you're wrong lol

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 7h

Like we basically have to deprogram our immigration agencies of the notion that they're actually Jack Bauer

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah agree, but getting the horses back into the barn is tricky because so many of the people who are used to running the farm are used to the bad status quo

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 7h

Well we are seeing that! But why it's not the default is because no one wants to retask their people to do it (because it sucks/isn't glamorous/now toxic/they have other jobs)

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 7h

Like the majority of immigration work is more or less clerk and/or humanitarian work, deeply bizarre that we decided it was pseudo CT not-but-also-not-not gendarmerie work (and that's downstream of 9/11 and DHS being a cluster from the get)

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 7h

You're right, but the conflating variable here I think is gun ownership and how that pushes these kind of operations towards armed enforcement

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 7h

Yup

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 7h

Big issue is the work sucks for both so most qualified people stay clear and it attracts the equivalent to the "I joined the military to kill people" types but for nativism when the work is usually like giving food and water to scared trafficked people and shit

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 8h

Ditto with BP largely because like we're always trying to hire a billion new agents lol

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 8h

I'm thinking about how German memory of WW2 and Nazism actually functioned historically and politically, and how it took until the youth movements of the 60s to really get the ball rolling to what we're familiar with today

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 8h

I do think ICE agents are gonna be the American stasi in popular culture and I don't think ERO guys realize their kids are probably gonna hate them

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 8h

the agency itselt should be bureaucratically re-arranged in a way that allows us to effectively abolish it in its current form without explicitly doing it in a way that makes us politically vulnerable. call it the “homeland protection enhancement” bill or something

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah I think people here have unrealistic expectations for like jailing all ICE agents and that’s just almost certainly not going to happen even in extremely cool zone scenarios. But they should 100% have to lie for the rest of their lives about their employment history in conversation with everyone

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 8h

When I was applying for PoliSci PhDs this is what I wanted to focus on, but lol lmao got in nowhere

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 8h

The intersection of the culmination of Redemption, the rise of Home Rule, the 17th Amendment, and the Parliament Act of 1911 is a fascinating nexus that idk if really been studied much

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 8h

The intersection of the culmination of Redemption, the rise of Home Rule, the 17th Amendment, and the Parliament Act of 1911 is a fascinating nexus that idk if really been studied much

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 8h

Like pre 17th senatorial elections were sorta equivalent to PV elections with massive error bars, but still

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 8h

One thing that's fascinating about UK/US legislative political history is we reached opposite conclusions of what to do about our legislatures upper houses at about the same time

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