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While I do appreciate your honesty and openness a great deal, it's the latter attitude that grates me due to my bad experiences with Atheists putting me down for my beliefs in things that aren't of the material world. The way you spoke made me on edge since I've gotten a lot of unfriendly and...

I never really make a point of my demeanor. It's just something passed down to me from my faith's lessons on the importance of being gentle to better appreciate the gods. I gave up swearing at the recommendation of the temple leader to feel more at peace with my deities. I make no pretension...

Former Yugoslavia is a tragedy. One of the success stories of Europe in turning around a region known for being plagued by war and strife collapses into the poorest place on the continent and its most war torn area in recent times.

Yammering on about how you find things typically thought of as icons of horror or symbols of majesty to be funny is fairly classic ITG behaviour and also just kind of contrarian in general. I don't really mean anything malicious in poking fun at it though.

It's a pretty common internet meme that the people who try hardest to look tough and fearless on the web are really just the biggest dorks of all.

I find Chef's "hardcore" demeanor to be kind of dorky and irresistible to deflate. The usual "trying so hard to be cool you just look really lame" thing. No offense intended, but it is all kind of try hard.

A six meter long great white shark has just bitten your leg and you can't feel it anymore. Do you laugh or scream?

Is a shark with its teeth sunk into your legs funny because it has tiny fins instead of hands?

Okay mister "laughs in the face of danger" hardbutt mcgee.

I presume they didn't want two of the same animal (note that Germany is a Vulture rather than an Eagle)

It's the victorian era, what did you expect?

If dinosaurs are wrong then being right is an act of evil.

It's inspired by this

You're thinking a bit too much like an our timeliner. As for symbology; Dogs are fine. Wolves are largely tainted by Nazism. As I said, it's a result of a cartoonist making an image that ended up sticking. "Two parties arguing over Germany's carcass", with a cut in half corpse of a...

America was the centre of paleontology for the longest time and I am planning a piece on the UASR's heavy promotion of paleontology as part of an anti-creationism campaign that may explain my choices soon. Dinosaur mania starts rather earlier TTL as a result of it and the reignition of the...

My current (may change later) ideas for the "symbolic creatures" of the parties are as follows: Liberation Communist Party: Tyrannosaurus Rex (The king of American dinosaurs) Communist Labor Party: Triceratops Social Ecology Union: Tree Frog (due to its usage as a frequent stand in for the...

That's already the case; the Democratic-Republican party explicitly adopts Abraham Lincoln as its mascot and spiritual father under Knox.

"John Brown and Nat Turner did nothing wrong, slave owners deserved worse" basically sums up the American attitude towards Southern slave owners TTL. The reconstruction era will be looked at as a disgraceful capitulation to reactionaryism in particular, treating the former slavers with too much...

In the second world war? They serve basically wherever they're needed. More in Europe than in Africa/West Asia or in Southern Asia/the Pacific or South America for reasons of acclimation. But you can find canadians on just about every front the Allies partake in. They mobilize a very large...

Well, Churchill OTL thought the war was won in the western front and thought that the British and Americans did the heavy lifting. I'm sure some people can craft a narrative where the entry of Britain into the war was the real turning point and they were the ones who truly won the war. TTL...