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  1. You know someone's from an alternate world when: (by SHWI)

    Source: https://web.archive.org/web/19990218184502/http://pilot.msu.edu/user/blakeley/altlist.htm

  2. Basic Image Questions 101 Thread

    For a level of truly super-simple questions. I exported my entire Imgur account and I realized I've been using too many PNGs, inefficiently. I'm mostly just embedding images in-line, none of them maps or flags but mostly images of people, sometimes stills from movies or video. For instance the...

  3. Revived Byzantine Empire in 1920s

    Okay, obviously this is taking the romantic pipe dreams of Greek nationalists at their word to create an AH wargaming scenario, but how much of this could have happened had the king not died of a monkey's bite? The Monkey Bite That Changed History Obviously, the Byzantine part can just be...

  4. Ole Miss Riot of 1962 turns into full-scale insurrection

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Miss_riot_of_1962 This all sounds absolutely bonkers. Well, what if the Mississippi state troopers really had launched an assault and massacred the federal marshals?

  5. A bunch of pretentious old men playing at running the world: George H.W. Bush and John Major win

    If one was to gloss over the (end of the) End of History, the years following the Cold War saw the ostensibly left-liberal parties of Anglo-America win under the mantle of telegenic, triangulating, almost post-ideological charismatic young leaders who sought to continue the neoliberal consensus...

  6. Social Democracy: An Alternate History by Autumn Chen (game)

    New government simulation browser game dropped. Checkit.

  7. Potential nations created at the Congress of Vienna

    Inspired by the Norway creation thread, what countries were potentially in the running to be created at Congress? Mostly interested in ones that don’t actually exist today. In the past I’ve asked if they could’ve balkanized France but it sounds like the Great Powers didn’t actually want that.

  8. What if Dune popularized role-playing games?

    Dungeons and Dragons, of course, was heavily based on Tolkien's work (though the magic system is Vancian...), as well as "the works of Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, A. Merritt, H. P. Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, L. Sprague de Camp, Fletcher Pratt, Roger Zelazny, and Michael Moorcock." But...

  9. Alternate History PODs that go hard

    https://www.reddit.com/r/AlternateHistory/s/WOWIv9NcC2

  10. What if motorized transportation was severely restricted?

    What if governments severely restricted the use of motorized transport, perhaps to keep a state monopoly on them for use in military purposes? Could it even be enacted? I’m just wondering not even from the environmental angle, but from the sheer ability to allow individuals- rather than groups-...

  11. Conflict between English and Afrikaners in Republic of South Africa

    While I know that racial relations in South Africa more or less united the white minorities, and that going to the U.K. + the rest of the Commonwealth was always been an option, what if there were empire loyalists who politically, even militarily, resisted the republic cutting ties with the...

  12. What if the Eastern Pact was real?

    This was an old Wikipedia hoax I came across in 2005. I mistook it (and the corresponding Vientiane Treaty) as real, and mentioned it in my Why never a three-sided Cold War? thread: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eastern_Pact&oldid=573928725 Sadly the editors caught on at the end...

  13. What are the implications of Soviet communism collapsing during or immediately after WWII?

    The ongoing thread in Could the Western Bloc have gone authoritarian during the Cold War? made me think how the NATO states, especially America, were incredibly paranoid towards communism to the extent of keeping pet fascists in their pocket in case the reds ever got too far electorally...

  14. Low-level insurgencies in the first world

    The Chechnya War. Zapatistas in Mexico. Naxalites in India. Kurdish groups in Turkey. Aceh (previously) in Indonesia. The South Thailand insurgency. Cartel wars in Mexico. Favela wars in Brazil (guess Modern Warfare 2 was onto something.) Jamaica??? It seems like many nations of the world have...

  15. Surviving Indonesian aristocratic states

    In reading about the Indonesian National Revolution, it's interesting to hear that there were all sorts of local sultans, rajas, chiefs, uleëbalangs, and other aristocrats who had collaborated with and benefited from Dutch rule (and then the Japanese occupation). They were largely swept away and...

  16. Could the British have fought themselves over Indian independence?

    Or other decolonial struggles? In this other thread about how could the Western Bloc have gone authoritarian in the Cold War, it seems like a chief cause is usually over polarization and political in-fighting caused by how to handle decolonization. (Or maybe deimperialization. Is that a word? It...

  17. Harki state for French loyalists in Algeria?

    There's no shortage of threads about the possibility of a rump pied noir state in Algeria, usually based in Algiers or Oranais. But what about a state for the loyalist harkis? Where might it be located, what organizations or individuals might rule it, what would its relations be with France...

  18. War Front: Turning Point

    Yeah, I could've made a generic "AH Video Games" or a "AH Strategy games" or even "Obscure AH RTS games from the 2000s" but this video has it all. It needs to be seen to be believed.

  19. More countries occupied by Allies after WWII

    What if Italy was occupied by the Allies after WWII? Or any more Axis powers for that matter? What would the zones of occupation, and how would that affect their postwar development?

  20. Anime is sort of underrated for how much alternate history it contains

    No, I'm not talking about alternate WWII's where commanders or battleships or strike witches are magical little girls. Or, by the same token, historical settings where magic or aliens or another fantastical element appears and changes everything. I'm also not talking about near-future (for the...
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