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would it really be a cyberpunk universe without a ludicrously overpowered police car for more or less no reason other than "we can"
Wasn't Lex Luthor an archetypal mad scientist back when he had hair?
EDIT: Wait, that was when he was confused with Ultra-Humanite. I do remember that he had started out as a war-profiteering diabolical genius, though.
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Because Tom Hanks with his Walt Disney looks portraying Lex Luthor as the billionaire with a god complex and a desire to be the true savior of Metropolis(and not that damned Alien) is PERFECT casting.
Ultra-Humanite did come first and did kind of set the mold for bald mad scientists. Lex did have hair (bright ginger) when he first appeared in but became his famously bald self for his second appearance onwards. People think that it happened cause the artist mixed up Lex and the Ultra-Humanite and drew the wrong one, giving us our favourite evil baldy.
And lets be honest, the Walt Disney/Howard Hughes/Mr House rich evil dick is such a wonderful look
Would anyone really notice if the two switched?
No real backstory, I just saw an image of pluto over Australia on Reddit and had the idea. Yes, I know Dionysus has nothing to do with the moon but he's the greek god with no planet that came to my mind.
No real backstory, I just saw an image of pluto over Australia on Reddit and had the idea. Yes, I know Dionysus has nothing to do with the moon but he's the greek god with no planet that came to my mind.
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It's the 1940's moustache with that transatlantic accent. Makes you wanna drink a Martini while building a death ray.
The brain went to this place
The 2020 election was marked by extremely low turnout of 34.2%, almost half that of the previous election. The was attributed to the influence of the ongoing pandemic; suspected carriers were advised to self-isolate, while others were warned against attending large events and gatherings. Fear of potential contact with carriers at polling locations spread on social media prior to the election, and numerous voters stated they would rather stay home than risk contracting the illness. A record number of early voters and postal voting applications were registered in the days before the election, though most were rejected. On election day, many polling booths were understaffed as workers stayed home, causing extended queue times and prompting many who did turn out to return home without voting.
The election result itself did not dramatically differ from the previous election, but the unexpected entry of the anti-vaccination Ethics Party was received with shock in the media and from the general public. The party had previously never achieved representation beyond a handful of local councils. In prior months and weeks, as the pandemic unfolded, Ethics Party members and leaders expressed belief in a conspiracy theory that the pandemic is a convention strain of a mild illness spread deliberately by world governments in order to coerce the populace into receiving vaccinations. A social media campaign was undertaken to convince "pandemic sceptics" to vote for the Ethics Party. Analysts suggest that these voters were disproportionately represented in the results since they did not stay home out of fear of the pandemic, and that the Ethics Party's base has not significantly expanded since the previous election.
As the incumbent Labour-Green government lost its majority, negotiations were required to form a new government. Given the circumstances of the pandemic, and the fractured nature of the Assembly due to the presence of the Ethics Party, Free Alliance agreed to a unity government with Labour. This was negotiated via a series of conference calls to limit direct contact. The government has not currently been invested by the Assembly, as its first, second, and third sessions have been successively delayed to prevent possible spread of the pandemic to members.
The 2020 election was marked by extremely low turnout of 34.2%, almost half that of the previous election. The was attributed to the influence of the ongoing pandemic; suspected carriers were advised to self-isolate, while others were warned against attending large events and gatherings. Fear of potential contact with carriers at polling locations spread on social media prior to the election, and numerous voters stated they would rather stay home than risk contracting the illness. A record number of early voters and postal voting applications were registered in the days before the election, though most were rejected. On election day, many polling booths were understaffed as workers stayed home, causing extended queue times and prompting many who did turn out to return home without voting.
The election result itself did not dramatically differ from the previous election, but the unexpected entry of the anti-vaccination Ethics Party was received with shock in the media and from the general public. The party had previously never achieved representation beyond a handful of local councils. In prior months and weeks, as the pandemic unfolded, Ethics Party members and leaders expressed belief in a conspiracy theory that the pandemic is a convention strain of a mild illness spread deliberately by world governments in order to coerce the populace into receiving vaccinations. A social media campaign was undertaken to convince "pandemic sceptics" to vote for the Ethics Party. Analysts suggest that these voters were disproportionately represented in the results since they did not stay home out of fear of the pandemic, and that the Ethics Party's base has not significantly expanded since the previous election.
As the incumbent Labour-Green government lost its majority, negotiations were required to form a new government. Given the circumstances of the pandemic, and the fractured nature of the Assembly due to the presence of the Ethics Party, Free Alliance agreed to a unity government with Labour. This was negotiated via a series of conference calls to limit direct contact. The government has not currently been invested by the Assembly, as its first, second, and third sessions have been successively delayed to prevent possible spread of the pandemic to members.
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Got around to doing the wikiboxes for these
Due to vague and unspecified reasons (perhaps an absence of the Walter Jenkins incident plays a role, along with other things), the early polls in 1964 showing Johnson with a huge lead end up being pretty much accurate. Johnson ends up getting (for simplicity's sake) a 20% swing compared to OTL. It ends up being the biggest landslide since 1820, though Goldwater still does over twice as well as Landon did in 1936 in the electoral college
In Congress, the shift is a bit less dramatic, but the Democrats still have a 15% swing from OTL, getting a dominating victory, with large supermajorities in both chambers...
At the state level, in the gubernatorial races (also note that in 1964, many more states had governor's elections in Presidential years compared to those that do it now), the Democrats have a rather more modest shift in their favor, of just 7.5% compared to OTL, though this still allows them to make some gains (compared to OTL where they had a net loss of one governorship)
Goldwater suffers a crushing defeat, and the Republican Party is reduced severely in Congress, holding a bit less than 25% of the senate and a hair under 15% of the House. Johnson is poised to push forward with an even more liberal and comprehensive version of the Great Society compared to OTL - though given the still relevant congressional moderates and southern Democrats, who knows for sure just how much more he'd actually be able to get done? And the Republicans are still sure to make some decent gains in the 1966 elections due to Civil Rights and Great Society backlash, maybe even more than OTL depending on how much backlash there is, though also possibly less depending on how able they are to overcome factional strife and come back to the mainstream, as well as to overcome the greater level of Democratic incumbents. And of course the Vietnam War is still ongoing, with the strife and divisions it would bring to the Democrats still being on the near horizon too
Due to vague and unspecified reasons (perhaps an absence of the Walter Jenkins incident plays a role, along with other things), the early polls in 1964 showing Johnson with a huge lead end up being pretty much accurate. Johnson ends up getting (for simplicity's sake) a 20% swing compared to OTL. It ends up being the biggest landslide since 1820, though Goldwater still does over twice as well as Landon did in 1936 in the electoral college
In Congress, the shift is a bit less dramatic, but the Democrats still have a 15% swing from OTL, getting a dominating victory, with large supermajorities in both chambers...
At the state level, in the gubernatorial races (also note that in 1964, many more states had governor's elections in Presidential years compared to those that do it now), the Democrats have a rather more modest shift in their favor, of just 7.5% compared to OTL, though this still allows them to make some gains (compared to OTL where they had a net loss of one governorship)
Goldwater suffers a crushing defeat, and the Republican Party is reduced severely in Congress, holding a bit less than 25% of the senate and a hair under 15% of the House. Johnson is poised to push forward with an even more liberal and comprehensive version of the Great Society compared to OTL - though given the still relevant congressional moderates and southern Democrats, who knows for sure just how much more he'd actually be able to get done? And the Republicans are still sure to make some decent gains in the 1966 elections due to Civil Rights and Great Society backlash, maybe even more than OTL depending on how much backlash there is, though also possibly less depending on how able they are to overcome factional strife and come back to the mainstream, as well as to overcome the greater level of Democratic incumbents. And of course the Vietnam War is still ongoing, with the strife and divisions it would bring to the Democrats still being on the near horizon too
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Polish Colonial series pt. 3: Second European War
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Second European War (abbreviated 2EW, SEW or IIEW) also known as Allied-German War was a military conflict fought in Europe, that lasted from 1939 to 1942. Starting with Invasion of Poland by Germany without declaration of war, it turned quickly into major conflict as Britain and France declared war on Germany in response on 30 August 1939. Rapid advances of German armoured troops, aiming to take Polish army by suprise, were quickly halted by Polish tank fleet composed of mainly TKS tankettes, 7TP and 10TP tanks and some hurriedly bought Char B1. Additionally German tankers bolstered by initial successes, spearheaded deep into Polish territory. As they went far beyond reach of supply lines, Polish cavalry harrased with nightly raids (also called "zagon") on units' camps, striking fear and panic in Wehrmacht soldiers.
With coming winter, halt of German offensive, first batches of supplies arriving through Romanian ports (and covertly from Hungary, which refused to allow transit of German troops to Poland as "matter of national honor") frontline stabilised ahead of Warsaw and along rivers of Vistula and Narew. Remaining pockets of resistance of Polish Army, like in Hel were being slowly defeated and stalemate dragged until Franco-British offensive in March 1940. German forces rapidly retreating from Polish Front could not seriously resist advancing Allied troops. As both German and Allied forces reached river Rhine frontlines again stabilised, at cost of allowing Poles take the initiative. As such it became apparent that in the West turned out to be a repeat of the Great War, with none of the sides being able to decisively strike at another. Continous offensives and counter-offensives were costly causing loss of many lives and vehicles. However with Polish forces slowly retaking their homelands and dangerously advancing towards Germany proper and German economy crumbling under demands of the Army, Germany was not able to defeat Allied forces and was ultimately conquered, surrendering on 6 October 1942.
Following the surrender, Nazi government was deposed and country occupied by Allied militaries. France annexed Saarland and established protectorate over Rhineland. Poland annexed Eastern Prussia, Free City of Danzig and Silesia was split between them and Czechs - as an appeasement for Slovakia becoming Polish protectorate and Hungary keeping its' gains. As Prussian militarism was blamed for two conflicts, Germany was demilitarised and Prussia abolished. Furthermore War caused ethnic tensions between Germans living in other countries leading to their expulsion from conquered territories. War has changed Europe geopolitically as it lead to rise of Polish and Italian bloc of anti-communist countries, oftenly dictatorships, in Eastern Europe, supported by France and Britain and aimed against the Soviet Union.
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Second European War (abbreviated 2EW, SEW or IIEW) also known as Allied-German War was a military conflict fought in Europe, that lasted from 1939 to 1942. Starting with Invasion of Poland by Germany without declaration of war, it turned quickly into major conflict as Britain and France declared war on Germany in response on 30 August 1939. Rapid advances of German armoured troops, aiming to take Polish army by suprise, were quickly halted by Polish tank fleet composed of mainly TKS tankettes, 7TP and 10TP tanks and some hurriedly bought Char B1. Additionally German tankers bolstered by initial successes, spearheaded deep into Polish territory. As they went far beyond reach of supply lines, Polish cavalry harrased with nightly raids (also called "zagon") on units' camps, striking fear and panic in Wehrmacht soldiers.
With coming winter, halt of German offensive, first batches of supplies arriving through Romanian ports (and covertly from Hungary, which refused to allow transit of German troops to Poland as "matter of national honor") frontline stabilised ahead of Warsaw and along rivers of Vistula and Narew. Remaining pockets of resistance of Polish Army, like in Hel were being slowly defeated and stalemate dragged until Franco-British offensive in March 1940. German forces rapidly retreating from Polish Front could not seriously resist advancing Allied troops. As both German and Allied forces reached river Rhine frontlines again stabilised, at cost of allowing Poles take the initiative. As such it became apparent that in the West turned out to be a repeat of the Great War, with none of the sides being able to decisively strike at another. Continous offensives and counter-offensives were costly causing loss of many lives and vehicles. However with Polish forces slowly retaking their homelands and dangerously advancing towards Germany proper and German economy crumbling under demands of the Army, Germany was not able to defeat Allied forces and was ultimately conquered, surrendering on 6 October 1942.
Following the surrender, Nazi government was deposed and country occupied by Allied militaries. France annexed Saarland and established protectorate over Rhineland. Poland annexed Eastern Prussia, Free City of Danzig and Silesia was split between them and Czechs - as an appeasement for Slovakia becoming Polish protectorate and Hungary keeping its' gains. As Prussian militarism was blamed for two conflicts, Germany was demilitarised and Prussia abolished. Furthermore War caused ethnic tensions between Germans living in other countries leading to their expulsion from conquered territories. War has changed Europe geopolitically as it lead to rise of Polish and Italian bloc of anti-communist countries, oftenly dictatorships, in Eastern Europe, supported by France and Britain and aimed against the Soviet Union.
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I found it on internet and I honestly can't tell whether it is or not, but looked convincing enough for purposes of this infobox.
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Ive always been facinated by the idea of a 50-state-landslide for LBJ in 1964, but I dont dont know how that would come about. Maybe a last minute well organized dixiecrat campaign splits the vote in th deep south?
From Desire the Right
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American actor and politician who served as US Senator from California from 1971 to 1995, being the leader of the Farmer-Labor Party in the Senate for a combined approximately 19 years. Characterized as a principled social democrat and a strong trade unionist, Reagan was famously the de facto leader of the "Gang of Four", a group of Farmer-Labor senators consisting of himself, Walter Mondale (MN), Mo Udall (NM), and George Wallace (AL) who, along with a sizable number of Farmer-Labor representatives, broke with the party establishment to support the impeachment of President Jacobetti in 1979, leading to his removal as FLP Senate leader by the party establishment. Reagan and the other pro-impeachment members of the party would break and form the Independent Labor Party the next year, running Mondale for president and Udall for vice president on a third party ticket in that year's presidential election. Jacobetti, who was running for an unprecedented third term, would blame his election loss on "Reagan and his buddies" despite the fact that the winner, the Freedom Party's Donald Rumsfeld, carried 57.4 percent of the popular vote. Shortly after the election the ILP, including newly elected officials elected under its banner, would fold back into the FLP, with the party beginning to distance itself from Jacobetti, with Reagan being reinstated as Senate Minority Leader and becoming the new de facto leader of the party. Reagan would be selected as the FLP nominee in 1984, running an aggressive campaign as a left-wing firebrand. During the campaign he gave his famous "Miss Liberty speech," in which he sung the praises of collective bargaining and spoke of a potential loss of freedom under Rumsfeld's economically right-wing policies, drawing parallels to Soviet suppression of collective bargaining rights in Poland (see below for a partial transcript). While Rumsfeld would win a second term, the FLP greatly outperformed initial expectations, bringing it back as a viable political force. He would refuse the nomination in 1988, with the nomination instead going to Kansas Senator Gary Hart. Reagan would campaign aggressively for Hart, however the Freedom Party nominee, Lincoln Governor Bob Dornan, still won the election. Reagan would also aggressively campaign for the 1992 FLP nominee, John Glenn, who managed to win the popular vote but not the Electoral College. In 1994, Reagan would announce his retirement from politics due to being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He would live another ten years, dying in 2004 from pneumonia complicated by his Alzheimer's. Today he is known as one of the most famous American politicians to have never won the presidency or vice presidency.
Exerpt from Reagan's "Miss Liberty speech":
"They remind us that where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost. They remind us that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. You and I must protect and preserve freedom here, or it will not be passed on to our children, and it will disappear everywhere in the world. Today the workers in Poland are showing a new generation how high is the price of freedom, but also how much it is worth, that price. I want more than anything I've ever wanted to have an administration that will through its actions, at home and in the international arena, let millions of people know that Miss Liberty still lifts her lamp besides the golden door."
(out of character note: that is an OTL Reagan speech which I simply recontextualized)
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American actor and politician who served as US Senator from California from 1971 to 1995, being the leader of the Farmer-Labor Party in the Senate for a combined approximately 19 years. Characterized as a principled social democrat and a strong trade unionist, Reagan was famously the de facto leader of the "Gang of Four", a group of Farmer-Labor senators consisting of himself, Walter Mondale (MN), Mo Udall (NM), and George Wallace (AL) who, along with a sizable number of Farmer-Labor representatives, broke with the party establishment to support the impeachment of President Jacobetti in 1979, leading to his removal as FLP Senate leader by the party establishment. Reagan and the other pro-impeachment members of the party would break and form the Independent Labor Party the next year, running Mondale for president and Udall for vice president on a third party ticket in that year's presidential election. Jacobetti, who was running for an unprecedented third term, would blame his election loss on "Reagan and his buddies" despite the fact that the winner, the Freedom Party's Donald Rumsfeld, carried 57.4 percent of the popular vote. Shortly after the election the ILP, including newly elected officials elected under its banner, would fold back into the FLP, with the party beginning to distance itself from Jacobetti, with Reagan being reinstated as Senate Minority Leader and becoming the new de facto leader of the party. Reagan would be selected as the FLP nominee in 1984, running an aggressive campaign as a left-wing firebrand. During the campaign he gave his famous "Miss Liberty speech," in which he sung the praises of collective bargaining and spoke of a potential loss of freedom under Rumsfeld's economically right-wing policies, drawing parallels to Soviet suppression of collective bargaining rights in Poland (see below for a partial transcript). While Rumsfeld would win a second term, the FLP greatly outperformed initial expectations, bringing it back as a viable political force. He would refuse the nomination in 1988, with the nomination instead going to Kansas Senator Gary Hart. Reagan would campaign aggressively for Hart, however the Freedom Party nominee, Lincoln Governor Bob Dornan, still won the election. Reagan would also aggressively campaign for the 1992 FLP nominee, John Glenn, who managed to win the popular vote but not the Electoral College. In 1994, Reagan would announce his retirement from politics due to being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He would live another ten years, dying in 2004 from pneumonia complicated by his Alzheimer's. Today he is known as one of the most famous American politicians to have never won the presidency or vice presidency.
Exerpt from Reagan's "Miss Liberty speech":
"They remind us that where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost. They remind us that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. You and I must protect and preserve freedom here, or it will not be passed on to our children, and it will disappear everywhere in the world. Today the workers in Poland are showing a new generation how high is the price of freedom, but also how much it is worth, that price. I want more than anything I've ever wanted to have an administration that will through its actions, at home and in the international arena, let millions of people know that Miss Liberty still lifts her lamp besides the golden door."
(out of character note: that is an OTL Reagan speech which I simply recontextualized)
Originally an idea of @Georgepatton that featured in a few cyberpunk stories by him, that has been "cross-canonized" as it were and adapted to this setting.
Crystal Lite is an American brand of methamphetamine-fortified cigarettes, owned and manufactured by Morley Tobacco. Lubbock, Texas, is the location of the largest Crystal Lite manufacturing plant. It is the global-best selling methamphetamine cigarette brand since its inception, and has a market share of 15% in the United States.
Methamphetamine was legalized at the federal level in 2056, during the lame-duck period of the Hayakawa administration. It remained illegal at the state-level in many states, but several followed the federal government's example, including California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and Texas. Morley Tobacco was the first tobacco company to take advantage of federal and state-level legalization, and released a methamphetamine-fortified cigarette brand in 2057. The niche market was modestly profitable for the early years of its existence.
However, the brand became significantly more popular in the aftermath of the WWIII. Many returning veterans of the trenches in China and the USSR suffered from amphetamine dependencies and addictions, due to the heavy use of combat amphetamine cocktails utilized by the infantry and other combat arms units. Crystal Lite marketed itself heavily to this demographic, and sales climbed steadily through 2076, 2077, 2078, and 2079.
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Multinational Force - Soviet Far East
2077 Dodge Hellcat Police Interceptor
Crystal Lite is an American brand of methamphetamine-fortified cigarettes, owned and manufactured by Morley Tobacco. Lubbock, Texas, is the location of the largest Crystal Lite manufacturing plant. It is the global-best selling methamphetamine cigarette brand since its inception, and has a market share of 15% in the United States.
Methamphetamine was legalized at the federal level in 2056, during the lame-duck period of the Hayakawa administration. It remained illegal at the state-level in many states, but several followed the federal government's example, including California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and Texas. Morley Tobacco was the first tobacco company to take advantage of federal and state-level legalization, and released a methamphetamine-fortified cigarette brand in 2057. The niche market was modestly profitable for the early years of its existence.
However, the brand became significantly more popular in the aftermath of the WWIII. Many returning veterans of the trenches in China and the USSR suffered from amphetamine dependencies and addictions, due to the heavy use of combat amphetamine cocktails utilized by the infantry and other combat arms units. Crystal Lite marketed itself heavily to this demographic, and sales climbed steadily through 2076, 2077, 2078, and 2079.
Previous infoboxes:
Melanie Sanchez
AGAMEMNON
Multinational Force - Soviet Far East
2077 Dodge Hellcat Police Interceptor
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