Why was Civil Rights in the US punctuated equilibrium? (Short stretches of massive change separated by large stretches of few changes?)
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I have no scholarship to support my thoughts, but there you are:
1. The struggle to get issues identified and raised to a legislative level have been exhausting exercises in commitment, organizing, fund-raising(its necessary), and frequently flat-out danger. Once you've had even a modest level of legislative success, there was a period of mental exhaustion for many of the foot-soldiers of the movements.
2. Legislators, even those committed to civil rights often burned up their political capital getting legislation passed - even modest levels. That took/takes recovery time.
3. There's a collective dusting off of hands - "Job done" Even though the job's not done.
4. Those opposed to civil rights advancements need time to sort out strategies to negate the gains made.
5. See step 1......
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There is some political science research on this phenomenon.
Plug in environmentalism, or military reform, or infrastructure or judicial reform or fill-in-the-blank and steps 1-5 seem identifiable, and not just in the American case.
Could wideapread Bazooka Planes had been effective against tanks in WW2 ?
@Byzantion As we've mentioned to you previously in other threads (for example here, here, here and here), there's no need to quote the first post when asking your question - it just clutters up the thread. Thank you.
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I'll throw in a disclaimer. If the prior post being referenced is a few notches earlier in a thread, I appreciate having the context for the response.
In a world were Max Gaines Kept All-American Comics and continued to support Siegel & Shuster's trail against DC over ownership of Superman, do you think if Siegel & Shuster own that Max Gaines would make an offer to them for the rights to Superman?
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Just an interesting video of a substantial repair job on the US Coast Guard ship USS Healy. One of the very few US polar icebreakers
What if famed producer, writer, and editor Irving Thalberg had remained at Universal Studios?
Either way, what if he had lived to his sixties?
Either way, what if he had lived to his sixties?
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I'm not much of a movie business historian, but if Thalberg remains at Universal, doesn't that suck some wind out of MGM? And if that's so, does MGM even become the home of big-budget musicals, or even top line dramas?
A couple of big speculative questions: how might he handle movies in the war years, and then again with the shift in public sentiments in the years following the war?
Has this been done before?
Corporatist America ? (Not modern US, and not the same as The Glowing Dream on the pre-1900 thread)
Corporatist America ? (Not modern US, and not the same as The Glowing Dream on the pre-1900 thread)
How much better off would the world be economically in the decades after a late May/early June 1918 Central Powers surrender and similar peace terms? The major European powers would obviously still be heavily in debt and badly wounded by the loss of so many people and the spending of so much money, but would they be in a significantly better position economically in the coming decades compared to OTL?
Plausibility:
Instead of making Irish a mandatory subject in state-funded schools across Ireland, what if the government of the Irish Free State back in 1922 decided that their official policy would be language immersion across the country, most specifically outside the Gaeltacht, particularly the establishment of a network of earlier version of the Gaelscoileanna(Irish-language medium school) with the collaboration of Conradh na Gaeilge (Gaelic League)?
Instead of making Irish a mandatory subject in state-funded schools across Ireland, what if the government of the Irish Free State back in 1922 decided that their official policy would be language immersion across the country, most specifically outside the Gaeltacht, particularly the establishment of a network of earlier version of the Gaelscoileanna(Irish-language medium school) with the collaboration of Conradh na Gaeilge (Gaelic League)?
Not sure you can have similar peace terms. OTL those were more or less negotiated without CP input, and then offered as sign or die. If there is an earlier surrender I'd assume CP do get to attend negotiations, with the ever present threat of going back to war. OTL terms likely won't be considered acceptable.
Economically I'd assume the situation would stay similar. With less leverage, reparation payments will be less, but then again, those will still be eaten up by loan repayments from France and the UK (even if those are lesser as well).
Germany might be slightly better off, but just by degrees, not overall.
The wildcard is A-H. With half a year less of warfare to drive it apart (though the movements are significant and not to be ignored) and possibly an incentive to the Entente to keep them together (so that they can pay reparations just as Germany, unlike OTL where the successors couldn't) and the US/Wilson having less say (so less self-determination of peoples) it could become a chaotic heart of central Europe.