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If this is a modern list, then what union represents workers that manufacture plastic products? Or is this a hint that by the modern day, manufacturing of plastic goods (besides textiles and electronics) isn't really a significant sector of American manufacturing? Eg, maybe a syndicalist...

Glad to see this continue! Sounds like it isn't lasers, but just extremely concentrated sunlight.

I gotta say, I love this phrase. It exemplifies one of the things I love in this TL - the utter degeneration of the confederate state, as a takedown of the idea of the sustainability of the system. Can't wait to see them march headlong to their destruction! I wonder if, in a best case scenario...

Just finished reading, this is a brilliant TL! I'm really impressed by your clear depth of research, and how you've managed to weave so many political ideas and political thinkers from OTL into your tale, and how everything subtly changes in the context of a new political system. It's all very...

To me, it seems more like the opportunists seeing "a nation in need of a savior" are more of the proto-fascist kind, demagogues ready to speak to the fears of an uncertain middle class.

Just came across this solar desalinator article from last year: https://news.mit.edu/2020/passive-solar-powered-water-desalination-0207 And the paper: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/ee/c9ee04122b#!divAbstract A design with multiple stages, to get useful work out of the heat...

How large or early of a PoD would you need, to have a successful Filipino independence movement with substantial Japanese backing? And would such a scenario be possible in a world where Japan has an opportunity to occupy Indochina as OTL, whether it be from WWII in Europe as OTL, or alternative...

Nice TL! With this retcon, I'm not sure how France could have been ground down hard enough, in only one year of trench warfare, that the soldiers would mutiny like in late spring 1917 OTL, when OTL they withstood almost 3 years of trench warfare, and were ordered to make several bloody...

Yeah, after all he was a bit of a dark horse as Pyro's written it, and he could just have the support of some players who are fine with him but rivals with each other. If he manages to gain the presidency, then I can see his administration being full of figures that can't stand each other, and...

And so we come to the prologue, and to a future unfettered by preordained events. We already know that this martyrdom is a unifying force, but as a self-proclaimed anarchist, an anarchist of the deed, as it were, I suspect Lufkin has furthered the divide between socialists and anarchists, common...

Salvador, I gotta say that this is one of the nicest send-offs I've seen for a TL :) Might Italy become a key player in maintaining the security of the oil trade from the Persian Gulf to Europe? I don't recall what the political ties you alluded to, here, are, but their OTL interest in East...

Why do I have the feeling that Associate Justice Chase might die slightly ahead of schedule, giving Johnson the opportunity to try to ram through a pliant nominee?

Great update, I love the format experimentation with the section from a televised debate/discussion, it gives some great future context. It's great to see that the unions are by and large managing to maintain cross-racial and cross-nationality unity in the face of attempts at chauvinistic...

@moopli does too, as of last week ;)

He was one of the Republican senators to cross the floor in support of the new deal, in his case until FDR threatened to pack the supreme court. He was also isolationist, but I'm not sure if that's still the case ITTL. He supposedly opposed anti-immigrant legislation in his early years in...