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This definitely seems like a fantasy - in addition to the Beatles, Coca-Cola doesn’t exist and no one in 2019 knows what a cigarette is, but there are no broader effects on society. Ironically it seems to undermine the Beatles while deifying them: People are awestruck at a few chords of...

"Germans!" "Magyars!" "Poles!" "Croats!" "Bosnians!" "Serbians!" "Italians!" "Czechs!" "Jews!" "Ruthenes!" "Slovenes!" "Slovaks!" "Romanians!" GOOOOOOOOOOO AUSTRIA!!! "By your powers combined I am... Captain Austria!" ♫♪♬ Captain Austria, he's our hero, Gonna take other empires down to zero...

What are you talking about? Do you actually think the list of names I posted are Civil War-era partisans?

Emmett Till. Addie Mae Collins. Cynthia Wesley. Carole Robertson. Carol Denise McNair. Huie Conorly. John Taylor. Ernest Green. Charlie Lang. Andrew Clark. Major Clark. Alma and Maggie House (both pregnant). Samuel Smith. William Shorter. Fred Rochelle. Henry Smith. Jesse Washington. Mary...

Is it reasonable? If you're going to throw out the claim 'Austria didn't industrialize as successfully as it could have because Franz Joseph had incest-related mental impairments' you might want to back it up. The idea is kind of central to your argument, the Confederates are somehow just...

There's a galaxy of difference between: and "They were just really stupid. Because of all the incest." Just so, thus "made up based on stereotypes". That does nothing to prove the (entire???) aristocracy of Russia and Austria was inbred to such an extent they had mental impairments that...

Citation needed. This sounds made up based on stereotypes. Edit: The whole argument seems like it's working backwards from a successful CSA scenario, trying to make facts fit the goal. If the CSA was ruled by brilliant, rational people with deep foresight, if the Union was ruled by blind...

Why? In reality, the exact reverse happened - class solidarity was shattered repeatedly and purposefully along racial lines. There are a lot of mangled and burnt corpses that would argue very much to the contrary, on top of miscegenation laws and blood quantum laws. Nazis also raped their...

I'm extremely biased, but I think Texas has an excellent flag. It ... was not a sure thing. By a law passed shortly after the revolution, this was the first national standard of Texas. I don't think many existed in reality. This was the proposal from the new Republic of Texas's General...

I think the elephant would be a much more durable symbol of Bonapartism. Everyone has an eagle. It's the national equivalent of naming your high school football team the Wildcats. An elephant is unique for Europe, and so more memorable. I'm sure British cartoonists will have a field day with it...

This seems doubtful to me, as TV deregulation was spearheaded by Ronald Reagan and his FCC Chairman Mark Fowler. I don’t believe many Democrats were to Reagan’s right on regulations.

From my old Stars at Night thread, where Robert Rhett serves as President of an earlier, hapless Confederacy.

This subforum would be called “Before 900”

The Nazis did want to breed supermen based on their ideas of genetic science; rather than magic, maybe they could be suckered into believing, or at least investigating, something like the ‘vampires’ dreamed up by Peter Watts. Other than some wasted resources I’m not sure what effect it would...

If you’re looking for a Texas Lula equivalent, how about Jim Hightower?

That makes it worse to me. He wasn't one of those guys who managed to convince himself that slavery was a 'positive good' for a so-called 'inferior race' (not that that is any kind of excuse). Napoleon was rolling around in the time and place of Jean-Baptiste Belley and Thomas-Alexandre Dumas...

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They literally did die to protect slavery.

And ‘white’.