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  1. Emperor Norton I

    A "90s Feverdream" TL

    I am not knowledgeable enough to comment. I know the issues with the Eisner era that did not need to happen, but I can't say what another person would have done things.
  2. Emperor Norton I

    Would the Cold War still have existed if China didn’t fall to the CCP

    To hone my inner Nixon, "let me just say this...". And to hone my inner self, please bear with my run on sentences. I cannot summarize the ideas any more densely. I've come to feel that the narrative of the Cold War focused on the United States, Europe, the Soviets, and China, where the regions...
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    Would the Cold War still have existed if China didn’t fall to the CCP

    The Cold War would still happen. The Soviets are already keeping their temporary occupations in place, installing Communist dictatorships and creating satellite states. The Soviets do not trust the West, and the West does not trust the Soviets. Berlin is already a flashpoint. Without Korea or...
  4. Emperor Norton I

    What if "CalBear" Never Existed?

    Resentment and spite are the scourge of the individual person in this existence: taking poison daily to kill another and convincing others to do the same. Fighting ghosts that you created within you and hating the ghost while also making that ghost and feeding it to keep it alive. Crafting a...
  5. Emperor Norton I

    Dark Skies in Camelot

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman
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    When Did JFK's Infidelities Become Public Knowledge?

    It may not even be in the (early draft of the) book so much as something that came out as part of the fallout and arguments around the book that became a national discussion in itself when the Kennedy family tried to block (parts) of it. Honestly, I cannot remember. To your second point: that's...
  7. Emperor Norton I

    If Rockefeller doesn’t get divorced and wins 1964 Republican nomination, then both R’s and D’s generally accept Civil Rights as a fait accompli? ?

    You could have Goldwater in 1968 but you would also very likely simply still get Nixon but with Goldwater taking the Reagan role in that year. That affects Reagan's career arc. That's more a wind up Butterfly than an immediate Butterfly.
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    When Did JFK's Infidelities Become Public Knowledge?

    Thank you. It's not a matter of depression as accurate. Pragmatism is accurate. Depression accepts the bad, makes it dominant and exclusive and sees it as terminal and lets it be a monster of dread and anxiety without bonds of context. I do not mean to demean the seriousness of depression by...
  9. Emperor Norton I

    WI Hitlerian Marxism was an actual ideology

    I'll throw my hat onto the heap here on the comment that everyone is quoting and responding to. 'Socialism' to the Nazis was not Marxism, Christian Socialism or anything relatable. To Strasser perhaps, but not to Hitler. They saw Marxism as a perversion of it. 'Socialism' to them was a word...
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    WI JFK did not add combat "advisors" in 61-62 Vnam?

    https://www.commentary.org/articles/hans-morgenthau/vietnam-another-korea/ I share this because Morgentau is worth sharing. This is from 1962. It is prescient of the future, stunning in its predictions and a show that these concerns were present in certain circles. There was not ignorance...
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    WI JFK did not add combat "advisors" in 61-62 Vnam?

    I would recommend making a new thread. Even low-post necro is not going to be well received by the judgement that falls from the powers that be. I don't have as much to say on this era as compared to the eve of war or the (Americanized) war itself. I feel not providing aid in this period would...
  12. Emperor Norton I

    What Makes Pessimistic Timelines Interesting?

    There is the matter of the Jungian Shadow: you have evil inside you as much as good, and you are capable of very evil things. You are an angel and a monster. It is worse when you reject that evil part of yourself or ignore it because it lashes out at bad intervals and can even take over. It can...
  13. Emperor Norton I

    Political Effects in the United States if Saigon Falls in 1965

    It depends what kind of game we are playing at here. If the administration makes Vietnam an issue to the public, and especially if it hangs it's hat in the survival of South Vietnam as a major issue, then a collapse is going to be traumatic. If the administration does everything to distract...
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    When Did JFK's Infidelities Become Public Knowledge?

    I agree. The Baker scandal could be killed short of getting Johnson and left to be forgotten by the public. In regards to the Evelyn Lincoln comment: one of the good and frustrating things I have come to understand in my years of being one of this site's JFK wunderkinds is that history is not...
  15. Emperor Norton I

    When Did JFK's Infidelities Become Public Knowledge?

    If memory serves, the first hint of extramarital affairs was in the book "The Death of a President" in 1967. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_a_President I must couch this in a context. I say the following as absolutely no excuse for his behavior, but as a comment on the social...
  16. Emperor Norton I

    Can a Cansdian company dominate the NAm comics industry?

    You could kill the American comic industry by letting it drift in its natural course after WW2 while then preventing or screwing up the reassessments and changes. Amp up Post-War apathy to comic books. Amp up the "Seduction of the Innocent" witch-hunt. That already hurt the industry, and...
  17. Emperor Norton I

    A "90s Feverdream" TL

    Stop Eisner at the right time. He both created that age, because of competing with Bluth, how he ran the company and his slights with Katzenburg leading to DreamWorks, and almost killed the company. His need to compete with everyone and ego lead Disney into markets and mediums it had no right...
  18. Emperor Norton I

    The Enola Gay crashes on the tarmac and Little Boy detonates, destroying the worlds largest airfield.

    I remember a discussion about infomercials (at least the black and white "has this happened to you") actually being a horror anomaly in the universe where suddenly normal humans forgot for a brief period how to do common tasks until it passed over them.
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    Would the US have entered the Vietnam war directly if Ngo Dinh Diem had remained in power?

    The former is a comment on Diem's lack of understanding of his own situation. The South Vietnamese could not survive the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese without some form of American support. I must emphasize, his opposing US involvement is not for any reason that the modern Westerner would...
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    Would the US have entered the Vietnam war directly if Ngo Dinh Diem had remained in power?

    I tried to see if Johnson would have still committed with Diem. My gut instinct is that he would have if he could have. What I found was this which I'll link below. I don't know if Johnson may have supported a coup later, but he may not have supported one in the near future. The other question...
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