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  1. DBWI: Ronald Reagan and James Dean swapped fates?

    Huh... I imagine Reagan would likely be a stronger anti communist than Dean was; different age gap making that more likely since he has 20 years on Dean. He'd also likely emphasize different things if he was in office; he did do a lot of roles playing veterans and respected them quite a bit...

  2. DBAC: Kill the Lunar Base Missions

    William Proxmire as a Presidential candidate... I don't think people ever did him in a timeline yet, and he does have some good chops, killing NASA aside. Nice catch on killing the Direct Plan, later than some of the other ideas I heard, but a good one. They would've guaranteed that the crude...

  3. DBWI What do you think of Generalissimo MacArthur?

    You say that, but the college bubble hitting several other nations would like to differ. Also there's shortages in the same countries for essential work that is often seen as "beneath" them. Admittedly the death tolls there are a lot lower, but eh, the economy in general looks like it's going...

  4. DBWI What do you think of Generalissimo MacArthur?

    To be fair, I think he's just one of those guys. And yes, MacArther partially gutted the school system entirely because he thought that colleges were... well, he thought that if everyone had a college degree, then the degree would be worthless. He made them more unreachable and replaced them...

  5. DBAC: Kill the Lunar Base Missions

    Amusing, and a pretty good case for it given the relative lack of accidents that were released to the public at the time. I mean, we do eventually know that the US had to resolve some hab module problems when they tested one and it went up like a match box due to atmo composition. We also now...

  6. DBAC: Kill the Lunar Base Missions

    We've had a few too many positive "better space program" timelines recently, and I want to channel my inner Yippie just this once, so I decided to posit a challenge to you guys: what would kill off establishing the several bases we have on the moon? Bonus points if you also kill off the sky hook...

  7. DBWI What do you think of Generalissimo MacArthur?

    Hard to say really. His two and a half terms basically shaped the last half century, and for each horrible decision I can think of (isolating the hell out of our country's former allies for a good 2 decades, actually using multiple nukes in an offensive), I can name a good one (the destruction...

  8. DBWI: British Automobile Industry Collapses

    Possibly, though I don't know how splitting a country, especially since the south was basically a dictatorship in its short lifespan would've helped all that much beyond just having a less insane financial policy. Taiwan didn't take off all that well, and mainly only looks so good compared to...

  9. DBWI: British Automobile Industry Collapses

    Eh, each company has a clunker or a line that rightfully gets dogged on. The Cheville for example from Chevy is a notorious flop; a known fireball of a car since the first three years didn't have a proper firewall to fit the body; a consequence of trying to keep engine speed and performance due...

  10. DBWI: British Automobile Industry Collapses

    Ah, the thread definitely exploded while I was gone. My dad's first car actually was my gramp's Donkey; fought in the War and tended to the Kubels that were being used to supplement the lack of support vehicles for the invasion. Brought one of the '53 models home and took my grandma on it for...

  11. DBWI: British Automobile Industry Collapses

    So on my way home, I had the joy of being behind a small convoy of tractor trailers. A bit annoying due to the lights, but it got me thinking when I noticed they mostly had the Leyland crests: what if the British car and truck industry went the way of several European countries' automotive...

  12. DBWI: Explain this map of France

    True, the Franchise Expansion helped more with sucking the oxygen out of the room in the long run, since it loosened the definition of Frenchness and gave out more rights to the native Berber and Arab peoples. If you spoke French with good fluency, you were French. It's why serious efforts to...

  13. DBWI: Explain this map of France

    If I had to guess the reason, maybe the UK was more reconcilliatory and that's why it wasn't occupied? I don't know why that would be the case, but it's the only thing I could think of. The only other option is somehow another major like the US or Brazil steps in, but I can't see that. The US...

  14. DBWI: Explain this map of France

    OOC: I really can't see this part make any sense given that this requires everything to happen exactly as OTL despite the very obvious crippling preventing something like this from feasibly happening. IC: Uh... are you sure you're not thinking of the Deluge? Because the main instigator of the...

  15. DBWI: Explain this map of France

    Them not having Rhenanie as a department is easily doable, since that wasn't confirmed until 1953 and a Second War to have it official, and even then you had Volkisch terrorists until the 1980s. Also required a lot of population movements that are controversial to this day. Until the War, it was...

  16. Det som går ned må komme opp-An Alternate Royal Norwegian Navy TL

    I just don't see how they can be supplied by worse transport planes on just one airfield for long tbh. Especially if their numbers are increasing.

  17. America Invicta: A TL

    I'd even understand it too, though I imagine the insurgency would get lower intensity without as easy a route to send supplies. And yeah, I think Mobutu died rather than Lumumba. I think, since who knows, maybe the soviets did kill their proxy to get a more marxist one; lord knows they've done...

  18. DBWI: Irrigated Central Asia

    If I had to guess, it depends on how the soviets handled the two biggest challenges with geoengineering: evaporation and salination of the water due to the evaporation revealing and releasing minerals from the soil that the water then dissolves into it. These problems are compounded when the...

  19. ...Those Marvelous Tin Fish: The Great Torpedo Scandal Avoided

    Is there a story only thread or a remake with proper threadmarks then? I legit get lost trying to figure out what isn't just technical details and what is story to be honest, and I've skimmed through about 10 pages worth to try and find it. I honestly thought this thread just became a slugging...

  20. ...Those Marvelous Tin Fish: The Great Torpedo Scandal Avoided

    Color me lost, but... what is this thread about now at this point? Is the story still updating under a new person and because of that is unlabeled, or is it all just minutiae and arguments on tiny details at this point? Not trying to be a jerk, but I've been lost for around 20 or so pages...
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