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  1. AHC: A third side to the Cold War?

    Mussolini is probably a good pick. I suspect he could potentially pick up South Africa and Rhodesia as well. Possibly some right-wing Latin American countries if the US ever sours on them for whatever reason. I suspect such a bloc would be less cohesive than the Western or communist blocs...

  2. Could the Western Bloc have gone authoritarian during the Cold War?

    I suppose there was Portugal and Spain but they were like that before the Cold War started. And both democratised during it.

  3. AHC: Make polyamory more popular

    Is as far as I am concerned because this was about what might make it possible. One could just write "well everyone decides they want to do it everywhere, it's not impossible, strictly speaking, for that to happen, just a bit unlikely" and this entire issue would have been resolved on page 1...

  4. AHC: Make polyamory more popular

    Absence of large scale polyamory is probably to do with sexual jealousy and paternal investment. Sure some people don't care but so what, some people are sociopaths or paedophiles or autistic, you get statistically unlikely personalities in every population. You should be looking at the...

  5. What if there was no communist or socialist rule or parties during the 19th and 20th centuries?

    Some people really should take this to PolChat lol, people can't help themselves. With regards to the topic at hand, you could get some kind of Christian socialist party but it wouldn't be called that per the conditions of the timeline e.g "redistribute wealth because Jesus says so" (which...

  6. AHC: Cold War between a "good" Fascist state and an "evil" Democratic one

    I think this is effectively impossible without making the fascist state fascist in name only. However I don't think this is because of fascism being defined as evil (which I don't think makes much sense because most political regimes aren't defined by a moral standard but a descriptive...

  7. Hypothetical names for East Asian California(s)

    Fair enough but why doesn't it sound like a Japanese/Chinese toponym? Is it grammatically incorrect?

  8. Hypothetical names for East Asian California(s)

    One suggestion someone else came up with was "Dawn Lands" for North America (since while Japan is the land of the rising sun, the Americas are observably further East). In Japanese I guess it would be Yoakenotochi

  9. What motivated the average Confederate soldier/official?

    Slavery ideology + their society - these were heavily intertwined, since Southern society was a slave society. As slavery was a central pillar of Southern social organisation, defending slavery and defending your society were one and the same. Slavery was important because it guaranteed social...

  10. Flag Thread V

    Flag of Taiwan, with a blue disk and the star in the middle. Low effort of mine. The centre should probably be a bit bigger, maybe 1/3 to a half (think the Taiwanese presidential standard with the star enlarged to be closer to the edges of the blue disk and no yellow border).

  11. The truth about the white man.

    lul wut

  12. Map Thread XX

    My first map posting on the site. It is actually a "through a mirror" type map from @B_Munro excellent and imaginative East is West (itself based a on short story by Olaf Stapledon), positing a mirror world in which Britain and Japan (and by extension Europe and China) switched roles. I've been...

  13. Map Thread XX

    Advice from the thread. If a country's borders follow a river, should I mark the border with the traditional border colour (black in my case) or just use the river as the marker? Which would you say looks better?

  14. Flag Thread V

    Finland's 1917 flag with the flowers removed.

  15. Flag Thread V

    Low effort Fatherland Front without the green arrow I made.

  16. Flag Thread V

    Made this while bored one day. Low Effort Monochrome French Royalism.

  17. How early could something like fascism develop?

    Fascism requires totalitarianism and a party state (this is why Franco's Spain isn't fascist, the party was subordinate to the military (and thus Franco) and it lakced the same guiding ideology that Nazi Germany required). Fascism is essentially impossible without the modern state and its...

  18. TL-191: Featherston's Finest - Uniforms, Weapons, and Vehicles of the CSA and Freedom Party

    Had an idea for the CSA to use licence-built Panhard 179s as recon vehicles, they could use the Zouave name - someone suggested that would be good for something adopted from France. For 12.7mm MG cartridges, the South could always use the Vickers .50 (12.7x81mm) cartridge, adopted for whatever...

  19. TL-191: Featherston's Finest - Uniforms, Weapons, and Vehicles of the CSA and Freedom Party

    Fair does, still not sure about the ammunition development and production though. Though the Union will really struggle in infantry combat if it's bolt-action rifles against assault rifles. Obviously a single weapon does not win a war but it depends on what else they had - in OTL, the Garand...

  20. TL-191: Featherston's Finest - Uniforms, Weapons, and Vehicles of the CSA and Freedom Party

    Nice work Soundwave, always liked your stuff.
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