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Nope. Totalitarianism does not have to involve brutal oppression, and that is actually a very bad way to run a totalitarian state in general. Do you think the average Russian under Stalin was brutalized like someone in the gulag, or one of the kulaks? One of the most effective propaganda...

Basically alter the long history of humankind, or at least the parts where Christianity (among other religions) condemned prostitution. Prostitution was condemned and then criminalized for reasons which should be apparent to anyone who has paid attention for the past hundreds of years. The...

I would argue the opposite - American (and Western society in general) is totalitarian without being overtly authoritarian. It is very easy to point at superficial markers in other societies, such as the veneration of a Great Leader, and say that because America doesn't buy into the Great...

Orwell was writing about the world he lived in, not a speculative history. The origins of "English Socialism" was not really explained in the book, or even in The Book Within The Book. My guess is that IngSoc was based on the premise that postwar Americans would not turn to capitalism or...

When one set of institutions has a monopoly on being the uppermost echelons of the academic hierarchy, they tend not to like the idea of competitors. For a lot of reasons, only one such organization can exist in the US, so the only way a rival forms is if the original is considered no longer...

Our Time Line.

The Heaven's Gate cult might have had some crazy ideas but its' adherents were as far as I know law-abiding and mostly benign. These groups usually stay small because they generally don't proselytize beyond posting their manifesto and finding someone lonely and disenchanted with their life...

The two are not congruent... Hitler himself was a hardcore non-smoker, but most Germans and most Nazis just laughed and lit up whenever the Fuhrer couldn't bitch about it. Most I think were aware that smoking anything was bad for your health; the only issue was just how much it damages lungs...

motherland gives no shits about solar radiation!

The Simpsons was supposed to end, at the latest, at the end of season 11. The final episode of that season was all but explicitly an ending to the series, and everything after that I haven't even paid attention to. Now the series is a sad caricature of itself, but how much of that can be...

Most people, whether they are aware of it or not, are sympathetic to fascist ideology, and most white people who believe themselves to be eugenically fit are sympathetic to eugenics. I believe fascism is the natural tendency of people, because people are stupid fools. A Mussolini was likely...

USA vs. USSR eventually becomes the second world war, as a bloodier version of the Cold War. Whether people would call it that is anyone's guess.

Countries with a nuclear arsenal don't get meddled with, therefore there wouldn't be the conditions to cause a revolution.

Hitler openly despised America. There was no way he would appease Americans and backstab one of the few nations that remained on favorable terms with Germany.

Paganism isn't even a religion so much as a disorganized set of superstitions copy-pasted. Nor did it have a coherent creed that was disseminated to the believers, like Christianity and later Islam. Well before Christianity was the state religion of the Roman Empire, traditional paganism was...

I don't think Nazi Germany would find modern American culture so alien, and that the modern world resembles fascism more than it likes to acknowledge. I would second the estimate of 40 years, 60 tops depending on just how radical the change in perception must be. That would inculcate two or...

Mold accidentially leads to a revolution in medicine.

The only way Nazism wins is by spreading Nazi values and ideology to states, to the point where the rest of the world cheers on the wave of Nazi domination. As soon as Germany had to fight a real war that involved an alliance of major powers instead of immediate capitulation, they were done.

What are the odds of a Marxist-inspired revolution occuring in America some time in the late 19th century?

There is no way the US is not going to finish what they started in Iraq, no matter who is president. The only question might be how the occupation is handled.