Quote from: John MorrowYeah, the similarities are stunning.  I was as amazed as anyone when George W. Bush blamed the Democrats for destroying the World Trade Center, banned the Democratic party from taking part in elections, put Republican operatives in charge of all local governments, abolished trade unions, and made the Republican Party the only legal political party in the United States.  That's why the Republicans will control both the House and the Senate with 100% of the seats after the 2006 election.  Given all of those clear similarities, he'll be suspending the Constitution, declaring himself President for Life, and invading Canada any day now, right?

Hey, fuckers.. start your own "what-if setting" thread.  This thread is to talk about a fantasy rise of communist power in latinamerica; go make your own thread about Heroic Limpwristed Inclusive Liberals fighting Evil Dictator George Bush...

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It's such a meat and potatoes improvement, but I think a communist super-revolution would benefit greatly from cheap and abundant energy. So I say we make these Reds cold fusion-powered. After that they start getting cool future tech weaponry. Give em' hover tanks, battlesuits, Hell this could be a great weird science setting. The Reds have their stalwart revolutionaries in their camouflage laserpacking battlesuits facing off the real souless hordes: Evil Capitalist Cyborgs, using the rewired brains of the poor for an AI.

Quote from: JamesVIt's such a meat and potatoes improvement, but I think a communist super-revolution would benefit greatly from cheap and abundant energy. So I say we make these Reds cold fusion-powered. After that they start getting cool future tech weaponry. Give em' hover tanks, battlesuits, Hell this could be a great weird science setting. The Reds have their stalwart revolutionaries in their camouflage laserpacking battlesuits facing off the real souless hordes: Evil Capitalist Cyborgs, using the rewired brains of the poor for an AI.

Disturbingly enough, this is basically the plot for Ken MacLeod's "Fall Revolution" series

Quote from: Hastur T. FannonDisturbingly enough, this is basically the plot for Ken MacLeod's "Fall Revolution" series

Well hell, I should read it some time. Sounds right up my alley.

Quote from: fonkaygarryTo counter his nationalist/leftist power, the deathless Theodore Roosevelt (given immortality through his discovery of the true fountain of youth in Cuba) activates the once hidden geomantic powers of Mount Rushmore to power cowboy-piloted supermechs that ride cloned, gigantic copies of Pecos Bill's own Lightning.

Supermechs? Pfft, what you're looking for is patriotism-powered elementals!

Didn't the Ultimates (the new "mature" Avengers reboot) have this as a storyline?

With the USA being in control (well...) of the worlds most powerful superhero team which they even use in warfare against non-superhumans, the "world" (the communist and islamistic countries) unite to smash the state.

In a GURPS campaign I ran, set in 2100, all of South America and much of Central America had been united under a Brazil-led co-prosperity sphere of Communist nations, the Union of South American States. This was enabled by a limited nuclear war between the US and China that effectively curtailed American world-wide influence (and oblitereated China). Due to the discovery and spread of fusion power (and Mechs - the campaign was a decidedly anime-flavored affair set in the Pacific Coalition), oil was losing its grip on the remainder of the world, but the USAS mainted an oil- and nuclear-based economy. Combined with the destruction of most of the middle east due to perpeutal Wars of Israeli Expansion, the collapse of most of Africa under the heel of a resurgent South Africa, and the slow but stead remilitarization of the European Union, it made for interesting times.

I like the ideas of either the cold fusion or the nanotechnology pushing the power of the new socialist power in Latin America.  The cold fusion has the tinge of the more real - cheap free energy, if they were to get it, would be a big push towards power in a realistic way, whereas the nanotech could allow for a number of interesing and flashy superscience miracles.  

(It reminds me of the technosocialism in Transhuman Space, where a number of countries worked together to share plans for various technologies which could then be printed/replicated via nanites.)

There's also a possibility of a new cold war/espionage campaign, where the big prize is trying to smuggle technical secrets out of Latin America and back to the home country.

Quote from: jcfialaThere's also a possibility of a new cold war/espionage campaign, where the big prize is trying to smuggle technical secrets out of Latin America and back to the home country.

Can't help but think of this picture (although it's been done before)



Elite squads of spyhunters protecting valuable homeland tech secrets ....

Regards,
David R