Tord

Tord is a Council member from Albania, known for being the most active server member in the beginning of 2020 in his newly founded Proletaria, the shared biggest commune for a short while. Now he is largely inactive, and has founded the much less ambitious Albanian commune.

## **Pre-reset:**

After joining in August 2019, Tord walked 5000 blocks to find some random guy. Tord thought they needed to celebrate this, but how do you celebrate? By eating cake of course. However the gathering of cake ingredients was not easy, in particular since the hens bugged out and refused to lay any eggs. Commemorating this great struggle, the commune was named Cake, and all Tord's subsequent builds were cakes, including a Maojing embassy where anyone could make cake, and a giant nether death castle with a massive cake.

## **Post-reset:**

Tord founded Engelston on the now Yananite southern fields together with e.g. his friend and former Cake neighbour Jidah, and some others. But Tord had another vision, a vision of mountains meeting coral reefs, and quickly founded Proletaria instead in the end of 2019. Much more details are available in the Proletarian article.

*Part of Proletarian harbor with UFO, Che mural, lighthouse, and naval vessel*

Proletaria was founded as post-leftist/apolitical. This was done in response to the heavy sectarian pre-reset environment. In the absence of that post-reset, Proletaria was radicalized to become the #1 Soviet fetishism commune.

Proletaria quickly grew through ~~raw imperialism and recruitment~~ Tord's dedicated work and by the spring of 2020 it was the most active commune together with BSFR and Yan'an. Proletaria and BSFR were the 2 big Soviet communes during the first half of 2020, but while BSFR made 5 year plans, Proletaria was mostly into Soviet fetishism and built giant hamsics.

*Proletarian building inspired by Georgian constructivism*

After this, Proletaria was hard hit by a tankie exodus which hit neighbouring BSFR hard and left Proletaria scarred and deformed. First Admiral James assumed the mantle of Proletarian leader as Tord was brutally kidnapped by Albania where he is now ~~a dirty revisionist~~ slave labor. Tord decided to step down as Soviet at this point, but just like Stalin, he was not allowed to do this, which secretly made him super happy.

## **Ideology:**

Peering below very deep layers of irony and sarcasm, Tord has always believed in the concept of Fatalism and Determinism, and the concept that everything around us is simply a reaction of the physical. Your brain works no differently than a ball being kicked, the main difference is that it's only almost impossible to accurately predict it. Tord sees humanity as a virus on the earth in an eternal struggle to reproduce and eat, and is the only mod with true sympathies of any Anprim, Malthusianism, Luddite, or anti-civ related ideals. Tord believes we must limit our reliance on the means of production, and consider the bigger picture for humanity and the universe. A mental revolution before we can have a physical, and before we go to space and do our typical colonialism there, it would be good if we can ensure that at least capitalism is not part of that trip. Tord is thankful to anyone helping to bring down that shit. It's Gramsci time, time to win the cultural war for people's minds.

Maoism is nice, but all the above considered, Hoxhaism and Albania is likely the best ideology for Tord. The focus on the collective, the belief in the incorruptible teachings of Marx and Lenin, the glorification of Stalin, the downplaying of individualism, the lack of advanced tech, the slow and steady pace towards improvement, the opposition to imperialism, building of beautiful bunkers, the post-leftistesque criticism of themselves and others in the concept of revisionism, are all very noble and desirable in Tord's eyes. Also the Albanian memes are top class.