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  1. DB AHC: A disabled President of the United States of America

    A war veteran with a major injury is probably your best bet. Making thinly-veiled insinuations about the fitness of a disabled person for the office would be a lot harder to do against a veteran. Maybe Joe Kennedy survives the mission that killed him OTL with a missing limb or two and later runs...

  2. AHC: Third Superpower emerges before the Collapse of the USSR

    A Nationalist China that stays non-aligned in the Cold War is a good bet. It would be far more open to Western investment than OTL China, and it'll be able to avoid the worst of Mao's excesses like the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. It'll still be a corrupt, brutal dictatorship...

  3. Look to the West: Thread III, Volume IV (Tottenham Nil)!

    Mo Quedling seems to have very accurately predicted the outcome of the OTL Civil War.

  4. WI: George R.R. Martin doesn't get conscientious objector status?

    Honestly, I don't think his books would change that much. It's hard to imagine someone like GRRM going into Vietnam and coming out with a more positive view of war. ASOIAF already has a lot of brutal depictions of the dark side of war; this might be more emphasized, but it shouldn't change much.

  5. DBWI: Standards of beauty different

    Standards of beauty tend to follow class lines. Anything that makes you look wealthier or higher-class ends up as beautiful. That's how you get things like foot-binding in China; anyone who has that done clearly has never done hard labor in their life, and thus is wealthy enough to not have to...

  6. Fear Not the Revolution, Habibi: A Middle East Timeline

    That's a better long-term peace deal than any in OTL, impressive.

  7. Malê Rising

    I guess the general breaking down of the Westphalian system means that international organizations face fewer barriers, and sports benefited from that. I'd be interested if there was some kind of merger of American and Canadian football.

  8. WI: The USFL minus Donald Trump

    Moving a team to Baltimore after 1984 would be a good move. The CFL team that was established in 1993 managed to do very well, drawing crowds upwards of 30,000.

  9. Why Didn't China Surrender in WWII?

    The Chinese, especially the Nationalists, saw the war against Japan as a continuation of constant Japanese attempts to conquer China going back fifty years. In addition, they had substantial support from the US, even before Pearl Harbor. With the promise of US aid to defeat Japan, all they had...

  10. Es Geloybte Aretz - a Germanwank

    I think Belarusians were seen as Russians in the period. The area had a distinct history and dialect, but the people thought of themselves as Russians. I could definitely see the Germans or Poles or both try to promote a separate "White Russian" identity to divide them from the Russians.

  11. DBWI: Worst draft picks and moves

    Oh come on, you mention that entire defense and not a single mention of Sexy Rexy Grossman? He's the best Ravens QB of all time (not that that's saying much, granted). The Lions passing on Calvin Johnson and Adrian Peterson in favor of Jamarcus Russel was hilarious in hindsight. Some of the...

  12. Es Geloybte Aretz - a Germanwank

    There is going to be a huge depression as soon as the shooting stops. Maybe this is what brings the right to power in Germany?

  13. Cato's Cavalry

    Looks like Stilicho's marching into a trap. Do the Gauls have large bodies of stirrup-equipped cavalry?

  14. A Glorious Union or America: the New Sparta

    The Freedman's Bureau? Interesting.

  15. A Glorious Union or America: the New Sparta

    Excellent update, great to see this back. I tend to agree with Stevens that this kind of power is just begging to be abused by the government. I'm looking forward to seeing what Kearny does in Europe. Based on his pro-French tendencies and Bismarck's statement, he's going to do something for...

  16. Melungeon Majority

    Prevent the Trail of Tears, and have some sort of free State of Franklin, composed of eastern Tennessee and Appalachia? That would give you more Native Americans in the region, along with allowing more opportunity for interracial mixing by removing slavery. I'm still not sure you can get them to...

  17. Crusader Kings II - Paradox Entertainement (02/12)

    That's what ignore lists were made for.

  18. Latest American Defeat

    A war against a European power in the 1850s wouldn't end well for the US.

  19. Agent Lavender: The Flight of Harold Wilson

    Thanks for the clarification.

  20. Agent Lavender: The Flight of Harold Wilson

    Would it be roughly analogous to a town-hall meeting in the US? They certainly sound similar in tone.
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