Context: In HOI4 Kaiserreich, the Combined Syndicates of America (socialist faction in the American Civil War) has three routes: Market "Socialism", Wholesome Anarcho-Syndicalism and the tankie, redfash Totalists because of course.

Kaiser Cat (a fan merchandise group) has the Totalists, led by Earl Browder no less, naturally win out in the CSA power struggle in their "Divided States" series and check off every box for Black Book-tier stupidity. This drives the main character to decry the false song of Communism Syndicalism and defect to the Defenders of Democracy™ (remnants of the Federal government in the West Coast whose incompetence caused the Civil War in the first place). The plot follows her trying to get a German nuclear scientist to the Federal government in California so they can win the war (how they will be able to produce enough nuclear weapons with their limited resources in time is anyone's guess). Now we're at this point where the team has dropped all pretenses of "nuance" and are posting "ironic" memes like this. To add, even the American Union State, which takes inspiration from the Spanish Nationalists (in the team's own words), are given more nuance and character than the big bad Syndies.

It's all funny when you consider how some of the original devs for KR back in the Hearts of Iron 2 days were actual Syndicalists.

  • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]
    hexagon
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    3 years ago

    Wang is actually based in this TL. He literally just sails from the KMT base in France to China with a fully-modernized division once the Left KMT uprising starts in earnest :gigachad-hd:

    It helps that Cash My-Cheque got killed off earlier in the timeline, so the KMT merges with the CPC and goes left as opposed to becoming the "cringe side" of the Chinese Civil War like in OTL.