I have been lurking here a while and have made this account to add my two cents, both my experiences on the sub, personal feelings about the mod, and how the team is reacting to the large piles of evidence sprouting up over issues of grooming, etc.
The TNO sub like almost every HOI4 sub is at least publicly very leftist, you can browse almost any post there to see it for yourself. They seem to absolutely adore any sort of wholesome 100 event that jerks their LibSoc/SocDem OCs while removing anything potentially interesting. A good example of this was mentioned earlier with RFK using COINTELPRO and the FBI to hunt down dirty right wingers and black mail them. Rather than take this as a bad precedent as say what if Yockey comes to power, that only legitimizes Yockey using it for the same thing. And yes you HAVE to take this route as RFK to pass Civil Rights integration and the only reason it happens is so they can arbitrarily get a potential Strom Thurmond presidency (After he blackmails people higher in succession) and get their evil FR-NPP Boogeyman (Because there is no normal conservative wing of the NPP, they just shoved everyone into a Far Right wing while centrists are all these wholesome SocDems who want a Welfare state).
The sub will gush over people like RFK for doing something so obviously an abuse of power however treat it as a nightmare if that happens in a right wing state. I am not saying RFK makes a police state, however he sets the groundwork for what could have had potential as a going too far in one direction. Similarly, Gus Hall USED to be one of two failstates for the US, the other being Yockey. I say used too because it seems they are adding a secret LibSoc route (Presumably Hall gets impeached/assassinated or simply doesn't go full communism and just becomes yet another LibSoc wank). The sub seems to have been saner before as Panzer had to tell people to stop celebrating people like Meinhoff and Kovner (Who both ultimately want to genocide the Germans) as heros, which should give you an idea of how autistic the sub is.
Furthermore, looking at all these leaks on how dysfunctional the mod team was, with only a handful of devs being the face of the mod and likely doing little work beyond reviewing underlings work, it is no surprise that there have been quite a few leaks from disgruntled team members being forced to do crunch time for a FREE mod. There is significant gaps in quality between teams and some teams rarely communicate, see the Japan and GEACPS teams lack of communication for example. This doesn't lend itself well to the mod when I last played it probably around August last year. In England there is a possible military coup if the loyalists win the civil war, in which Montgomery takes over. The issue is Monty had no content, so it basically broke England from doing anything. This wouldn't be an issue but somehow they couldn't figure to lock or disable that coup until they cold implement content yet could do an entire event chain with two branching paths focusing on two lesbians in England who joined HMMLER (In the HMMLER end they get secretly married and live in a flat together, loyalists one dies while other flees to the US). On top of this, said England content was delayed from first release entirely (running only up till the end of the civil war) and a number of paths, most interestingly a MonSoc England path for HMMLER was cut. Instead, final build HMMLER England has le holsum LibSocs which may go cursed Tankies republic path, and le cringe LibDems monarchy which hosts Enoch Powell as a party member. Said Enoch Powell quotes his Rivers of Blood speech despite Britain being in totally different circumstances in TNO compared to real life, being ravaged both by slow rebuilding post-WW2 and a civil war, against immigration and refugees in Britain. It seems they just googled Powell and saw he was anti-immigration to Britain and stopped there rather than check his actual positions.
An addendum to this that may be heresay, a friend told me they added an event where Edward VII is captured by rebels, gives a Nazi salute, then calls two women kissing whores which again removes the nuances of Edward's very mysterious relationship with the Third Reich in real life. He may be wrong about this event being in game however. It was a fanfic story someone posted on the sub though.
I mentioned I stopped playing in around mid-2020, and that is due to me receiving a permaban over stating ableism is a stupid concept.
Furthermore they banned discussion of their stupid canon idea for the 70s era of the US aiding Germany against a vengeful Zhukov and effectively turning Europe into a US puppet state before the OFN collapses (Cause muh US Imperialism). US Imperialism seems to be the new focus of the mod as some have previously stated. A perfect example is going full-OFN Victory in the South African War and turning the African RKs into OFN puppet states to be transitioned into functional democracies that is deliberately designed to show America bad cause you are forced to napalm villages and shit. Again nevermind that some of the RKs were literal Holocaust camps.
The reaction of the mods to the leak doesn't surprise me, especially with the fact they immediately resort to their favorite strawman, Russian fans who are "Nazis" (read don't have the same globohomo politics as the Western mod team) and everyone discussing leaks or Discord screenshots are evil transphobes who need banned immediately because investigating the allegations of grooming is wrong due to the source of screenshots. I don't think it will kill TNO but it will muddy it's reputation especially with the number of people banned and number of leaked discord posts, dev logs, etc.
