Question about rule 8

[anarchoMando]

This rule applies to real life current politics. At the time of this rule is written, this means things like Trump, feminism vs men's rights, SJWs, etc.

It does NOT apply to things such as stories featuring past events like WW2, Vietnam, nobility, royalty, etc. If it's something that happened 20+ years ago, it's most likely fair game.

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Question one ,What about terms that have slightly different meaning but can Still be applied to politics? Abstractly


Like in Star wars. If I say "Republican forces" , I normally mean Republic in more in the French revolutionary term. Pro-government without monarchy.


OrIf I say left wing but recontextualize it for the universe
(They were the progressive side of the Republic coalition that was built after the monarchy, It has been a tradition to call the progressive end, The left wing and the reactionary / conservative/ pro monarchy the right... )
This sounds fictional but it is the historic term of the French revolution, but it can still be easily applied today and be called politics.)
Socialist and ideas have been around for centuries at this point and yet they could still be applied to politics today,



Question two

Am I able to make communist and anarchist characters and ideas but ( those I like to modify to fit a fictional setting. But still just as poignant.)

Like these are not neoliberal regular contemporary today American politics.

But it still has a political bent on a technical term.(That could theoretically apply today, like discussions of poverty, historic and contemporary can overlap easily,)


Example I once made a subtle jab in a fanfic about and recontextualizing Blair mountain,(

(After a brutal battle for better wages That was lost),
The wealthy robber baron said something to effect of" I don't care rabble-rousers want better wages. I'd be willing to hire gunman on those organizers again" . And/the wages of the workers that were organizing.. I was bacing this off of Blair, And the coal Wars of the 1920s.


And come to find out, somehow multiple corporations did something like that recently In other(granted third world) countries.

Or I talk about the horrific conditions
And somehow they're still a problem today.

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Is that sort of sociopolitical analogy stuff allowed?

Or is this still just donkeys/elephant? /Whatever the heck the Europeans are doing.

 

[alethiophile]

Discussion of historical political conflicts is broadly allowed. (As a rule of thumb, our cutoff for "historical" is around 20 years before the modern day.) There are some exceptions where a particular topic is significant to a current political dispute, or particularly sensitive. But generally if someone is accidentally going over the line we'll warn them before levying punishments.

The general purpose of Rule 8 is to cut down on flamewars. Thus, enforcement of it is informed by how likely a discussion is to cause a problem. If you're unsure, consider how contentious what you're posting is likely to be and how likely it is to cause a fight.

Additionally, Rule 8 enforcement is significantly relaxed when it comes to story content. Characters in stories are allowed to have political opinions, to be similar to historical political figures, etc. For stories, basically all we ask is that you don't include actual current political figures in the story in a contentious way.

 

[anarchoMando]

Discussion of historical political conflicts is broadly allowed. (As a rule of thumb, our cutoff for "historical" is around 20 years before the modern day.

Additionally, Rule 8 enforcement is significantly relaxed when it comes to story content. Characters in stories are allowed to have political opinions, to be similar to historical political figures, etc. For stories, basically all we ask is that you don't include actual current political figures in the story in a contentious way.

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honestly, I don't write about current or past real life Politicians or figures because they're boring and I dislike writing about real life. Or incredibly infuriating depending the person we're talking about. Plus there is so much research. It's just not useful.


Closest thing I've done to that was make a Transformers fanfic idea that involved. Carter getting a second term instead of Reagan getting elected..
And even then that was just background detail. Set dressing.

 

[AztecCroc]

honestly, I don't write about current or past real life Politicians or figures because they're boring and I dislike writing about real life. Or incredibly infuriating depending the person we're talking about. Plus there is so much research. It's just not useful.


Closest thing I've done to that was make a Transformers fanfic idea that involved. Carter getting a second term instead of Reagan getting elected..
And even then that was just background detail. Set dressing.

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That's probably fine?