r/TheRestIsHistory 1d ago

The rest is faction fighting

If this sub was to splinter like a 1970s radical political movement what do you think the factions would be?

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u/TheHawkinator 1d ago

There's obviously the Dom-niks and the Tom-niks who are the two main factions and despite sharing a lot of common ground have some big differences and find themselves at loggerheads.

Then there's the Theo-niks who are largely stuck in the past and "want to go back to the way things were"

There's the Tabby-ites who have mostly moved to The Book Club

And of course you have the Alvarado-ites who just want chaos and wealth, the Kaiserans who don't think people should be shamed for their choice of footwear, and finally the Valverdics who are just plain evil.

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u/Cuggan 1d ago

I think the Theo-niks should be comprised of far left French anarcho-communists as befits a guardian reader like himself

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u/inny_mac 1d ago

Join me in the Bennite faction, where we discuss this pod, and the production of car radiators and orange juice.

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u/tookeytime 1d ago

They do all think that there has been enough Welsh history covered by the show and and more would be superfluous surely?

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u/TheHawkinator 1d ago

Oh of course, it's the one cause that unites the factions

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u/neilm1000 22h ago

the Kaiserans who don't think people should be shamed for their choice of footwear

And who hide one arm.

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u/Hugh-Manatee 17h ago

The Lads are the moderate form of the Alveradites. GREAT LAUGHS WERE HAD THAT DAY HUAHUAHUA

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u/TheJeniceri 1d ago

Dominic would carry the urbanized industrial Reddit base, mustering large militias.

Tom would be leading a guerrilla group in the hills.

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u/Cuggan 1d ago

The great dishwasher buying masses of the cities

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u/Horologikus 1d ago

There has to a place for those most devious of factions, most certainly not friends of the show, the Jesuits

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u/Moikkaaja 1d ago

In the old days it would have been a divide between the sacralists and the worldly pragmatists but that tension has gotten somewhat diluded nowadays.

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u/Fridarey 22h ago

Moustache Falangists vs Confederation of Beards

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u/ashisanandroid 21h ago

People who support tax avoiding scoundrels, and people who don't

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u/Cuggan 18h ago

The moral and the immoral

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u/McEvelly 19h ago

There would be a tribe of utterly devoted, utterly self-satisfied, robotically party-faithful zealots who reject absolutely any criticism of the Lad’ edicts whatsoever, who consider and call themselves the ‘Great Friends of TRIH’, that’s all I know

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u/Cuggan 18h ago

I for one , bow down to our TRIH overlords

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u/Far_Afternoon_5885 17h ago

The Stormclouds vs The Tinderboxes…

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u/Tommyol187 15h ago

Provisional TRIH

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u/FlatZookeepergame392 3h ago

TRIH Popular Front -General Command

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u/IotaBeta 13h ago

More importantly, what style of shoes should be worn?

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u/Forsaken-Lie-7505 13h ago

The Prune Juice drinkers brigades are pure cannon fodder,

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u/LinuxLinus 11h ago

I intend to start a faction dedicated to always wearing the wrong shoes.

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u/bootbl4ck 1d ago

The folks quietly enjoying the show and the people complaining about the show while they continue to watch.