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  1. minifidel

    WI: Unitarian Argentina in 1820

    Thanks for the endorsement! As for the WI, here's the rub: 1820 was not the beginning, but the end of the battle over how Argentina would be governed. The result of the Battle of Cepeda was the beginning of the Civil War, sure, but it was also the final and irreversible dissolution of the...
  2. minifidel

    Plausibility Check, AU Latin American Wars of Independence

    Technically two, since my British Uruguay TL touches on a similar premise lol. Thank you for the tag! The (re)orientation of interior Argentina towards Buenos Aires was a gradual process; the political and economic center of gravity in the region was Lima, the Viceroyalty of La Plata had only...
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    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure

    The most frequent exposure to flags for a lot of people is going to be the army or the navy, which already employ red cross patterns aplenty. The Imperial standard is almost certainly purple, but I imagine they're likely the only people allowed to fly the purple itself. The symbolic attachment...
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    Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    ¡Congratulations!
  5. minifidel

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure

    There are OTL flags that would likely be in use ITTL and may become popular enough to become de-facto national flags, such as this one:
  6. minifidel

    Per Ardua Surgimus - Maps and Graphics Timeline

    I love the map, I love the lore of the Brazilian splinters, I love a lot of this... but what is up with that Argentina, that is a lot of things wrong ;o; One minor one: La Plata wouldn't exist if Buenos Aires isn't the nation's capital.
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    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure

    The element of surprise is the only thing make his beleaguered and reduced forces of concrete value to Smyrna's defenders: if Nereas is allowed to reinforce the blocking force, relief will never reach the city.
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    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure

    The Roman invading army was defeated, soundly at that. The Empire could have lost a lot more if Iskandar didn't have a lodge brotherhood with Sarantenos to stay his hand in Syria.
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    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure

    The Constantinople mob are no sans-culottes yet.
  10. minifidel

    The Rule of 2, Prosperity and Peril, A Roman Timeline

    I'm a big fan of "Rome stabilizes" TLs, so I'm looking forward to more!
  11. minifidel

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure

    Institutionally this seems like the last death rattle of a system that is prone to civil wars; that system won't survive this war, for good and for ill.
  12. minifidel

    Jimmy Two: America in Carter's Second Term

    With Bill going down the AG path, I want to bring up the most interesting ripple effect of this with a question: does Hilary Rodham run in Illinois or make a go of it in Arkansas?
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    Jimmy Two: America in Carter's Second Term

    Couldn't help but chuckle at this paragraph, another fantastic chapter! All in all a solid win for Carter, though I don't expect Poli to go quietly into the night after this very public humbling. I'm guessing PATCO gets its pound of flesh in the healthcare talks.
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    Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    White Socialists in the South are probably going to be pretty damn racist. Yes, it's a latin shorthand for "and the rest".
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    Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    The very division in Southern society that the Fusionists and Populists managed to ride to a (somewhat) more democratic South for a time; there's hope for a post-Reconstruction realignment yet.
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    Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    I'm not entirely sure I remember you saying that a Lost Cause myth would develop ITTL, but if one did, this seems like the seed of a far more populist, poor white southerner oriented Lost Cause: "we would have won if not for those dastardly planters and their love of slavery". It won't be any...
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    Argentina WI: Álzaga's mutiny succeeded?

    It requires Saavedra's support to succeed: the single biggest difference between the 1809 mutiny and the 1810 Revolution is that by 1810 even Cornelio Saavedra and his Regimiento de Patricios had swayed towards the idea of forming a Junta. A Junta led by Álzaga and his mutineers has a very...
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    La Guillotine Permanente: A French Revolutionary Timeline

    British propaganda has colored historiography of the French Revolution pretty much from the beginning, and the Great Terror proved to be such a ghoulishly effective cudgel against the revolutionary project that it keeps its staying power even as our understanding of the period improves and those...
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    Mexico becomes independent in 1808?

    Yes, the same regiment that put down the Álzaga mutiny very pointedly told Cisneros they wouldn't do the same in 1810, leading to his resignation. This actually introduces an interesting wrinkle, because it means that the revolutionaries are all ostensibly acting in the name of Ferdinand VII...
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    Mexico becomes independent in 1808?

    Oh absolutely, if New Spain forms a junta in 1808, that's going to reverberate across the continent, like the Quito Uprising in 1809 would IOTL. The big question is what the royalist response is, because if it's snuffed out quickly, its impact will be diluted; if it's still ongoing, then...
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