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  1. WI: President Ralph Nader '72

    McGovern said that at one point, "I went to see Ralph about being my running mate. I wish we'd gone that route." It is not inconceivable that, should George McGovern serve two terms, that Vice President Nader could succeed him in 1980. This scenario is different from the OPs suggestion, however.

  2. What's the GOAT alternate timeline on the AH forums?

    A World Of Laughter, A World Of Tears A TL on the presidency of Walt Disney

  3. Opiates for the masses: government booze and drugs for social control

    Nobusuke Kishi, de facto Economic manager of Japanese-occupied Manchukuo during World War II, was heavily involved the opium trade. His contemporary, Yoshio Kodama, distributed opium to break the resistance of the local population. This could become official Japanese policy. It arguably already was.

  4. TLIAW: Camelot Lost

    You've heard of the Iran-Contra affair, now get ready for the MILF affair. Excellent update as per usual.

  5. WI: Unified, neutral and fully democratic Korea after WWII?

    A unified, neutral, democratic Korea is only possible if the United States and Soviet Union install the right leaders in their respective occupation zones. United States: American occupation leader John R. Hodge originally wanted Kim Kyu-sik and Lyuh Woon-Hyung, both moderate leaders, to be in...

  6. TLIAW: Camelot Lost

    Replace Chinese with Japanese and you have described the political career of Earl Warren.

  7. TLIAW: Camelot Lost

    Only one modern president won reelection while doing worse in the popular vote: Barack Obama. James Madison and Andrew Jackson did as well. Grover Cleveland too if you count his non-consecutive election. Franklin Roosevelt joins the list if you compare his first victory to his narrower third...

  8. Map Thread XXII

    Praise Mani! What was the POD that allowed Manicheism to take over the Byzantine Empire?

  9. The Fire Never Dies, Part II: The Red Colossus

    Agreed on John Monash. Canada might receive falangism poorly too? IOTL the CCF had some electoral success while it was led the pacifist J. S. Woodsworth, who opposed Canadian entry into the Second World War. Might his views be more popular with Falangist Britain in charge of the war ITTL? In...

  10. The Fire Never Dies, Part II: The Red Colossus

    Could Australia make this list? Australian falangists had little electoral support IOTL, but there a few incidents that suggest their strength. In 1932, before Premier Jack Lang was dismissed from office in New South Wales, the Old Guard came within twenty-four hours of ordering its...

  11. The Fire Never Dies, Part II: The Red Colossus

    Daniel DeLeon personally penned several short stories featuring conversations between a SLP supporting Uncle Sam and a naïve worker named Brother Johnathan. The former usually wins the latter over to the socialist stance on the topic-of-the-day. Assuming Commissar DeLeon continued his editorials...

  12. The Fire Never Dies, Part II: The Red Colossus

    Did the Reds and/or Whites try to hold elections in 1918 during the war?

  13. The Fire Never Dies, Part II: The Red Colossus

    Did the ASU keep its paperbacks green? Or is the dollar now a redback? And speaking of people that sometimes appear on money, were Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty retained as national personifications by the ASU? Lady Liberty presumably cannot help being green, but Uncle Sam could opt for a red suit?

  14. Best Roman Emperors that never were?

    Indeed! I have now clarificated the post. Apparently he was offered the crown twice more after that and declined both offers.

  15. Best Roman Emperors that never were?

    My vote is for Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus. A competent man, who rose through merit, and might have been a sixth Good Emperor had he not declined the crown on three separate occasions when it was offered to him. I have mainly been thinking about potential Western Roman Emperors, but throw out...

  16. AHC: A federal ban on slavery (equivalent to 13th amendment) by 1885, without a secession or suppression of secession

    Agreed. Though I think there are at least two plausible paths ITTL. (1) The upper south emancipates. The north, now emboldened, elect a Lincoln. Civil war. 2) The upper south emancipates. The north, now mollified, elect doughfaces indefinitely. No civil war. I am unsure which is more likely...

  17. The Fire Never Dies, Part II: The Red Colossus

    I have an oddball question. Is there a housing rental market in the ASU? I imagine many apartments and tenements were turned into collectively owned housing during the revolution. However, post-revolution, is it possible for a worker to earn enough money to buy two homes and then choose to rent...

  18. AHC: A federal ban on slavery (equivalent to 13th amendment) by 1885, without a secession or suppression of secession

    Agreed. But if slavers are unable to make money working their slaves in fields, they will work their slaves in factories instead. Agriculture was becoming unprofitable, not slavery. Working people to death without paying them is always profitable.

  19. AHC: A federal ban on slavery (equivalent to 13th amendment) by 1885, without a secession or suppression of secession

    Lycaon pictus used it in The Dead Skunk, though not as the main POD. It is a great read.

  20. AHC: A federal ban on slavery (equivalent to 13th amendment) by 1885, without a secession or suppression of secession

    I think this is the heart of our disagreement. You argue that if the upper south emancipates (which is plausible), then the deep south will see the writing on the wall and emancipate in exchange for concessions. I disagree. IOTL, the deep south seceded as a bloc well before the upper south did...
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