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  1. Social Democracy: An Alternate History by Autumn Chen (game)

    Get one of the Labour wing in the Central Committee, then wheb the Depression hits use them to get the WTB public works program.

  2. What if a mad king claimed to be Satan or the Antichrist?

    I mean, I don't think it would be too different than how the era treated other mad kings. Probably one of his adult children is made regent, and the King sent away to be imprisoned in some austere monastery, far, far from the public eye.

  3. What If: No Irish Potato Famine

    I wonder how a Catholic Church in the Anglosphere that isn't institutionally affected by the Famine would look like. Certainly in places like America, OTL the Irish Catholicism exported there could often be highly nationalistic, parochial in the worst sense of the word (which alienated many...

  4. Cities that wouldn't exist if borders were different.

    Amsterdam would not be as prominent in a scenario where they lost the 80 Years War.

  5. AHC: Christian EU?

    Wasn't the EU generally seen originally a a project of the Christian Democratic parties? I guess if you want to extend that ethod for longer, you'd have to butterfly the Protests of 1968, and I think that's really hard to do qithout butterflying at least the Second World War in Europe.

  6. Miscellaneous >1900 (Alternate) History Thread

    It's common in America. It's seen as a way to avoid bureaucratic or elite cliques surrounded around the Governor's or other local powerbroker's patronage.

  7. AHC - Make the US into a Multi-party system in place of a Two-party system

    There are FPTP systems with viable third parties. Britain, for example, in the Mother of Parliaments. What you need is a political force distinct enough in a particular region that isn't served well by the major parties. The classic example is the South, due to its long and troubled history (or...

  8. WI: Iraq partitioned

    -Turkey would rain down all hellfire short of leaving NATO at the existence of an independent Kurdistan -the problem is some of the major cities. Baghdad, Kirkuk and Mosul are notoriously religiously and ethnically mixed. The last two also have the trait of being near to lots of that oil IIRC.

  9. Would HIV/AIDS still have existed if Jimmy Carter won a second term?

    I think it's because people look at the much better response in Britain, Australia and Spain (starting with the Don't Die of Ignorance campaign). Of course, that was in 1986-87, Britain wasn't in the middle of a religious revival, and even that was rather late in the game after their authorities...

  10. Would HIV/AIDS still have existed if Jimmy Carter won a second term?

    I highly doubt that a Carter Presidency would make too much difference from OTL. Yes, he's pro-gay rights NOW. But in 1980, 1981? As has been pointed out, he was the first modern Evangelical President. Someone talked about the Moral Majority - to some extent he was part of the Moral Majority...

  11. Would HIV/AIDS still have existed if Jimmy Carter won a second term?

    I think that's largely ASB here. The simple fact is that HIV spread from, its former customary hosts (mostly railway workers and the like in Zaïre) by a combination of recruitment of aid workers from Haiti in the 60s, and the increasing ease of air travel, and some other factors. To arrest the...

  12. Alternate locations for a US Sin City?

    Like I said above, the best candidate for alt-Las Vegas is Reno. Serviced by railroads to points east as well as San Francisco, already considered somewhat morally suspect by outsiders (at least until CA legalizes no-fault in the 1960s, by which time intertia might keep it a Sin City), and...

  13. Alternate locations for a US Sin City?

    I could see Reno Nevada, in addition to being the divorce capital for so long (which actually spurred a lot of the tourist trade and legal professions - the fact that it took 6 weeks to establish sufficient residency to seek a divorce in Nevada meant you needed a lot of family lawyers to get the...

  14. South Vietnam wins

    ASB. Not even Diem was in favor of a Northern Offensive. Now you can keep the stalemate ongoing, but that requires a lot of cash to prop up, cash that, as seen OTL, is not always politically popular to hand out.

  15. AHC: A king declares war on himself and loses

    You forget Grenada. Where the forces of Elizabeth II, Queen of Jamaica, for example, were hostile to those of Elizabeth II, Queen of Grenada.

  16. AHC: A king declares war on himself and loses

    OTL the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. Also the invasion of Grenada.

  17. WI: Hillary Clinton Stays a Republican

    The problem here is that Hillary circa 64 was a Goldwaterite.

  18. Ford wins in 1976. What Democrat wins in 1980?

    Carey as President would be an interwsting choice, especially as he started this period militantly pro-choice and (assuming he wins a second term) militantly the other way by the end of it. Also, his personal life after his first wife died was a trainwreck (it's probably one of the few cases...

  19. Israeli Peace with Jordan and Lebanon

    Historically, some of the most militant of the Palestinians have been Christians.

  20. What did Japan plan to do if it won?

    Basically it seems the mentality of the top brass and related bureaucrats was, to the extent cogerent planning existed, was "let's treat East Asia as one big Africa."
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