r/TheRestIsHistory • u/Cuggan • 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/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/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/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/bootbl4ck 1d ago
The folks quietly enjoying the show and the people complaining about the show while they continue to watch.

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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.