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So much for Christianity... I guess the question assumes that Christianity took off as it did, eventually being adopted as the Roman state religion and making a go at being the Universal Church.

The ugly answer - too few Jews, too few people to found the new Zion. Those who remain would be too scattered and lack the money to consider Zionism anything other than a pipe dream.

Environmental issues are not a really big vote-getter. You'd need a broad base of support for serious environmental law reform, which is simply not going to happen any time in the 20th century. Environmentalists got rolled into the Democrat camp, given a few bones, which the Republicans for...

You're telling me organized crime still isn't big? Anyway ditto the guy who said prohibition was passed due to special interests and gerrymandering. There was no way it could work as it was designed, not fully.

There is no way the South is going to accept coexistence with the North. The goal was always for the South to impose its will on the North, and re-unite the country under the CSA.

It (chattel slavery along racial lines) could have persisted until the present day. It wouldn't be popular or practical, but it could be done. The CSA was ideologically tied to slavery, Nazi Germany would openly endorse slavery, so either surviving makes slavery almost guaranteed in some form.

None of the other European powers were going to tolerate anything less than France returning to the pre-revolutionary status quo. Only option he had was to win.

Hey, I liked Speed Racer for what it was... I am quite culturally illiterate about these things but I looked at wikipedia's list of box office bombs... 1 Mars Needs Moms $150,000,000 $38,992,758 $130,503,621 2011 Kind of surprised that this was the top-ranked bomb, since the movie...

Wait about 10-20 years, and most everyone under 60 would be familiar with video gaming. Right now plenty of adults play video games recreationally. The limitations of the medium itself favor the "cheap entertainment" aspect - that is, games geared towards lots of violence and the accompanying...

Probably not as much effect... GTA was far from the first open-world game, nor the first game that resorted to a gangster motif or ultraviolence. The first two GTA games were not that significant IIRC. The mainstream gaming scene might be dominated more by more established genres and...

Translating Sonic's gameplay to a 3D plane is a lot harder than an exploration-focused game like Mario or Zelda, at least until the Dreamcast. Anything less than 60 fps is going to be very problematic, so the game would have to take a huge visual hit to be playable on older consoles. A...

The racist elements in the country would have a field day, though Kennedy's Catholicism makes it hard for those types to like him. A few wingnuts will try to make the claim that no negro ought to be in possession of a gun and cite the assassination as a cause. IF you do buy into the belief...

I think "A New Hope", "Attack of the Empire", and "Revenge of the Jedi" all proved that the original trilogy was a lot more vacuous than we remember it being as children. Chew Chew Bakka and kid!Luke were just blatant cash-ins and inexcusable, and they tried hard to ape the original characters...

CD addons or hybrid cart/cd consoles were a dismal marketplace failure for a reason... and not just because of Johnny Turbo.

Do nothing.

After 1939, not going to happen any which way barring a string of total disasters for the Allies. Everything the Nazis wanted to accomplish through war was contingent on the belief that anti-war sentiment to their west was strong enough that no one wanted to fight another Great War, and that...

To be fair the same could have been said in the 1960s. Someone has to take the first step, and until ST few would do that, though admittedly the mid 60's was more amenable than the late 40's or the 50's. To assuage reactionaries, the producers of the show could just say that in the future...

Need a clearer definition of "major war", and do civil wars like Korea and Vietnam count as such? What about wars in Africa, do they count as major even though they don't extend outside of the continent? Assuming nothing changes up until 1918 and the end of the first world war, it is...

LRH manages to snatch part of the 60's drug culture, or scientologists ingratiate themselves in the drug/counterculture? Borderline impossible given Scientology's stance on drugs being well-known, and the nature of the counterculture basically assured that it would always remain a...

The war on drugs, like prohibition, was never about stopping the trade of illegal drugs. It was a scheme to justify a rise in police expenditure, target groups of poor people, and placate groups who, for various reasons, genuinely wanted to curb the drug trade or alcohol trade for moral...