• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    Thatcher but leading a communist party and fully devoted to its ideology would be seriously successful so I take Joyce. She also has fucking loads of money.

    Klaasje, Cuno and the Deserter as my others.

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    Measurehead for his boldness and muscle.

    Sunday friend because we will be Blanquists and need his connections.

    Klaasje because we will be Blanquists and need her connections.

    Deserter because we will be Blanquists and he’s a good shot.

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    me desperately trying to fit in despite only playing Disco Elysium for less than 10 hours and not recognizing half of the characters

    I would pick Evrart and Joyce because Evrart has a union behind him and Joyce has money.

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    1/10: Deserter is an automatic first pick, insane value. Never know when you might need a day-of-the-jackal type mad pervert for hard targets at INSURCOM. The party disavows of course.

    4/10: Soona for cryptography/comms and being on the Politburo making plans. Ambitious techies have motion and we’re gonna need that to take down those airships.

    9/10: This is a big expense but the party needs foot soldiers. After a lot of thought I am picking Titus Hardie as Marshal of the Revacholian Red Army. Homegrown hero who brings along the militant union members who will make up the mass foundation of our national liberation struggle.

    10/10: Last point I am using to pick up Cuno. After attending a party literary program he will learn civic pride and can serve as an inspiration for the other local urchins, who can help deliver messages, dig tunnels, and operate crewed weaponry for the people’s army instead of dealing drugs and stabbing eachother.

    Honorable Mentions:

    While I would battle corporate mercenaries to the death for Comrade Evart I am worried about his syndicalist and developmentalist tendencies. He is a bureaucrat who lacks the dedication for the people’s protracted war against the coalition of nations. Better to recruit from within the Union through Titus.

    I really wanted to pick Lieutenant Double-Yefreitor Kras Mazov because I am one of those sentimentalists who believe the RCM can be made to defect to the people, but that plan and the man are the very definition of “unreliable” even if it would be brilliant to see.

    Gary barf for a national united front against imperialism but its too cringe and the Revacholian right wing are a bunch of weak losers anyway. We don’t need em, Hard no.

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      I think you could get better value for money if you picked measurehead instead of Titus. I also think you’re sleeping on Evrart. He has his tendencies as he is now, but given the prompt he would not have those tendencies, since hed have yours instead.
      My biggest issue with him is how he does urban planning, everything else seems like him just using the tools available to him. He’s only a syndicalist because the unions are one of the few organisations still standing. The bureaucrat part of him I dont really see. Hes as much a bureaucrat as Joyce or the Sunday Friend, Papers are just one of the tools he uses. Its pretty clear he does so much more and is the core of planning for Titus and the rest of the Union.

      Titus on the other hand seems kind of unreliable to me. Much more invested in being a big authority macho guy than the actual ideology of it all. He’s a good enough guy, but not someone id rely on for anything more than being a brute. I think measurehead would be better, since he seems to dedicate himself entirely to his ideology.

      I did not think about soona though. I’d forgotten her. She could be cool.

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          I completely disagree. Evrart seems pretty committed already and given the prompt he and I would agree on what would need to happen. He’s a competent leader who understands his own strengths and weaknesses. I dont see any need for conflict.

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                He isnt trying to step on their turf because he put them on that turf. Call Me Mañana is carrying out (Well, he’s not. But that’s more of a laziness thing) the orders of Evrart. Titus likewise directly takes order from Evrart.

                If my manager asks me to do a thing and then I do it, she isn’t refraining from stepping on my turf.

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    Wtf no light bending guy?

    Fine, Joyce for the money, Measurehead for his charisma and muscle, egghead for the music -the best form of propaganda, and the deserter for training the guerilla army

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    Take the bottom row except the cryptofascist and the ultra liberal from top row.

    • Cuno: natural street agitator and extremely committed once onboarded.
    • Shop worker: honestly don’t remember much about her but she speaks to people constantly and hits a particular age demo.
    • Egg head music guy: brings the revolutionary beats to the action and will lead chants.
    • Old head: will enforce communist discipline.
    • Ultra liberal: when you strip away the ultra liberalism and replace it with communism you get someone rich and connected. Use that to fund your organization and give it a face in certain circles. She will also patiently explain communism to everyone same as she explains liberalism from a materialist angle.
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        I mean if we take it at face value that Joyce is committed to communism, I’d argue that she wouldn’t just create bourgeois parties since that would be counterproductive. But we’re talking about some made up thing so yeah you have a good point.

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        I mean the premise here is that whoever you goose becomes your political ideology, so Joyce becomes a commie. Gotta be more than an insufferable political science appealer to be a commie.

        Her value isn’t in her (abandoned) liberalism, instead her patience (personality trait) and connections , especially funneling cash to us.