AH Fixations of Yours

Mine tend to be fairly simplistic and wankish. I have fixations on making very specific countries and politicians absurdly successful. I almost never post my AH stuff so these will be news for pretty much all of you, and a lot of it is ASB since I usually just make AH maps and scenarios for fun.

Map Fixations
  • Mega Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, basically any Caucasus nation. This region really fascinates me, so I love to turn Caucasus nations into big implausible blobs.
  • Severely divided modern Indonesia, usually divided into at least half a dozen independent states.
  • Poland and/or Lithuania (@Augenis) as the dominant Eastern European power instead of Russia (Russia usually still exists in some form, but obviously not as a major power)
  • Germany keeps Prussia
  • Independent and usually fairly big Frisia.
  • Fractured modern Germany, usually with no Austria and Bavaria and Prussia as the dominant German states.
  • Greek owned Constantinople and parts of Anatolia in the modern day.
  • Albania is always independent, and can always go into Kosovo.
  • Extra big ass Finland, which always owns OTL St. Petersburg and Karelia, and sometimes Nenets lands.
  • Sometimes independent Nenets.
  • No Belgium, usually split between the Netherlands and France.
  • Completely different colonial powers, with completely different colonies.
  • Independent Iroquois.
  • Slovakia is a conspiracy, perpetuated by radicals who refuse to into Poland.
Politicians
  • Any Kennedy who isn't Jack. Yes even that one.
  • Ed Clark.
  • Clint Bolick (Dat name).
  • Bill Clinton always loses.
  • Rexford Tugwell.
  • SF mayors as U.S. Presidents.
  • Clay always wins.
  • Tyler reelection in 1844.
  • Ted Wilson.
  • Job Harriman.
  • George Takei, oh my.
  • William "Also Randolph" Hearst.
  • Lane Kirkland.
  • Populist Party replacing the Dems.
  • Liberal Republicans.
 
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I think everyone knows my silly fixations by now.
 
Small moments. The little things that wouldn't make it into the history books and are important as to why people do the things that result in the big moments.
 
* The Soviet Union's sudden unraveling and collapse in the late 1980s. This one is fascinating to me, and feels kind-of like we are living in the ASB timeline. Don't get me wrong - I think communism is a terrible economic system that has led to a horrendous loss of human life and economic stagnation, and the Soviet Union was bound to lose the Cold War arms race once its economy practically stopped growing after the 1970s - But the way the Soviet Union collapsed was so sudden and unexpected, even for the late 1980s observers. Dictatorial regimes in much more dire straits (such as famine-striken North Korea in the 1990s) managed to survive, so the sudden collapse of one of the world's two superpowers is an impressive event. There are several ways it could have gone differently - Probably involving Soviet retrenchment from the arms race, less control over its satellites and world affairs - But such sudden collapse of the state was not a certainty, and neither was the way it happened.

* WW1 and WW2 in general. These were two critical junctures in world history and the smallest changes can have some of the largest repercussions in how our world would look like today.

* The Napoleonic Wars - The Congress of Vienna was the largest geopolitical arrangement in world history until the World Wars, so it is obviously a very interesting period as well. Entire nations were born out of the territorial and political changes agreed in Vienna.

* In general, I am very fond of small changes that amplify through history and end up having wide repercussions - Those are the best alternate history timelines in my view.
 
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Does my unsettling obsession with a certain Civil War AH Trilogy count as a Fixation ...

... or is it just a neurosis I should be seeking specialist help about?
 

kernals12

Banned
Land reform is mine. It is widely considered to have served as a bedrock for economic growth and democracy in Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. I think the world would be a better place if more countries had done it.
 
John C Calhoun lives until 1865 just to see the confederacy and slavery destroyed. Granted, he would be 83, but, could you imagine it.

An idea I had was that somehow Jackson and Calhound don't have such a bad falling out and Calhoun becomes the Chief Justice ala Roger Taney.

In April 1865 IOTL William Lloyd Garrison
was invited to visit Charleston to see the Union flag raised again over Fort Sumter.
While in the city he visited Calhoun's grave.
There MUST have been more than a few
rumbles as John C turned over in his grave
not once, but a hundred times.....
 
In 1820, Congress came within six votes of passing an Amendment which would have mandated that Presidential Electors be chosen in single-member Congressional districts (the other two in each state still being chosen as the legislature decided). That gives the Republicans (or any purely sectional party) a higher mountain to climb in the 1850s.


Another thought on this matter.

If this change were made, would it lead to a larger HoR? After all, if it is considered more desirable for Electors to be chosen locally rather than statewide, then presumably the more local the better, so that smaller districts might seem preferable to large ones. Could the US House now have 600+ members, like the British House of Commons? And who if anyone would be likely to benefit? Thoughts?
 

Redcoat

Banned
Another thought on this matter.

If this change were made, would it lead to a larger HoR? After all, if it is considered more desirable for Electors to be chosen locally rather than statewide, then presumably the more local the better, so that smaller districts might seem preferable to large ones. Could the US House now have 600+ members, like the British House of Commons? And who if anyone would be likely to benefit? Thoughts?
No clue
 
Others of mine are Can Am racing and its analogues in Australia and Japan, the Tasman series and the Repco racing V8.

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