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  1. Prolonging the Futility: A WW2 European TL

    The Italians would have had increased production of the G-55, C-205, and Re-2005 which would have made licensed 190s unnecessary. As with most sophisticated Italian technologies they would have been built in small numbers. It also would have been exciting to hypothetically see what the...
  2. WI: Ronald Reagan Puts Anthrax in US Illegal Drug Supply

    How could it possibly NOT. This isn't shipping weapons to Iran or supporting various dictatorships or any of the other crooked shit Regan got up to, people are going to be dying. AMERICAN CITIZENS. The moment they tell this "Highly screened and Highly Patriotic" group of CIA personnel what they...
  3. Mad Bad Rabbit

    WI: Kennedy choses Al Gore Sr. as his running mate instead of LBJ?

    Have VP Gore Sr. push for funding Paul Baran's idea (published 1960) about a nationwide packet switched data network...
  4. An Age of Miracles Continues: The Empire of Rhomania

    Fantastically written once again! That is an utter decimation (or inverse decimation I suppose) of Baghdad, but it does present an interesting opportunity for Odysseus post-war if it marks the limit of Roman territory - resettling the city with Greeks Post-War and renaming it could essentially...
  5. AHC: State-owned enterprises more widely accepted in USA

    So nationalizing the MIC would mean the problems of inefficiency, procurement problems and stuff would be stopped/prevented?
  6. It's A Long Way To Nagasaki: The Anglo-Japanese War

    well we yanks have only been around for 245 years unlike europeans who have been killing each other since 1200BC (oldest known battle in europe) one of our founding principles was to stay out of foreign entanglements, didn't work out that way and here we are
  7. Asharella

    List of monarchs III

    I didn't think it was fair for me to end two lines in a row and start a new one, so I had Louis III die of a heart attack less than 2 years before the present. :D
  8. TheKennedyMachine.

    WI: Kennedy choses Al Gore Sr. as his running mate instead of LBJ?

    To be honest, I hadn't really been thinking about Clinton when I wrote this.
  9. AHC: Embarrass the Nazis and destroy their legacy

    They'd need to lose unilaterally to the Poles- mostly due to logistical failures.
  10. AHC: State-owned enterprises more widely accepted in USA

    The case was a little more complicated than that. In any case, the government could in principle simply have printed money and bought the outstanding shares of major defense contractors (which were mostly public companies), similar to an LBO but with better interest rates (because the...
  11. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    Of course, being a high functioning alcoholic, he would know something about being galvanized. But I think mainly he was just one of those people whose complexion and eye color didn't photograph well on Daguerreotype. With modern imagery, I think he'd look quite personable. This one wasn't so bad:
  12. Asharella

    List of monarchs III

    ...most democratic she'd been since the failed Republic, even though the Emperor was from the line of the old Kings. Louis III died in 2019 only a few weeks shy of his 69th birthday from a heart attack. *Louis Philippe III Égalité d'Orleans Bourbon, Duke of Orleans was King Louis Philippe I...
  13. AHC: Embarrass the Nazis and destroy their legacy

    In Star Trek: The Original Series, there is an episode where a character from the Federation (i.e. someone with access to super futurisitc education and knowledge) decides to use Nazi Germany as a template for an alien world in chaos as the Nazis were, in his own words, the most efficient model...
  14. Vanguard45

    Why was Hitler so charismatic?

    Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, I'll look tomorrow if you want.
  15. DBWI: Cuba becomes Communist

    There's a TL floating around here that actually has Communist Cuba as a thing, it nearly starts a nuclear war when the Soviets try install nuclear missiles in there. I can't remember the name...
  16. VaultJumper

    Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    yeah if Breckinridge starts to arm blacks to fight or the slave holders even perceive that he would they are going to try to get rid of him
  17. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    Having a total brainlock on that one. Best to stop trying now.
  18. ByzantineCaesar

    WI: No Arab and Transatlantic Slave Trades

    Permanent settlement of Brazil depends on plantations. Plantations were what got political authority to settle and be established and enforced. They provided permanent bases that were production centers and not merely trade posts, allowed for the creation of a local landed aristocracy with...
  19. DBWI: Cuba becomes Communist

    The US, at the height of the Cold War, is not going to allow a Communist nation to form less than 100 miles off the coast of Florida. Expect a prompt invasion, removal of Castro, and installation of someone far more ideologically friendly to America.
  20. Why was Hitler so charismatic?

    A lot of great points have been made in this discussion, but I think one of the major components of it was what Bob in Pittsburgh said. Quite simply, horrible as he was, you could tell that he was completely and totally convicted in what he said and that he'd try to do it once he had power...
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