Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VI (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)
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I see people spelling his name wrong all the time. Just figured I'd help you out from making the same mistake.
It's completely appropriate to spell presidential candidate names wrong on Wikipedia, though, because Willie P. Mangum's name was spelled MAGNUM on the 1836 election map for actual years. Look at that revision history.
Here's another thing from my democratic/Kuomintang China TL from the old thread.
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The Communist Party of China (Chinese: 中国共产党; pinyin: Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng) is a political party in China, and is the largest self-described communist party in the world by membership. Originally founded in 1921, principally by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao, it grew quickly to become the main rival to the nationalist Kuomintang. However, in October 1934, its military wing, the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army, was defeated by the Kuomintang and many major leadership figures such as Mao Zedong were killed, and as part of its consolidation of power in China, the Communist Party was outlawed and many remaining members fled to neighboring countries like Russia, Hong Kong or Macau.
The party was finally re-established a week after President Zhao Ziyang approved China’s 1989 constitution, on the 5th June that year, and on the 5th August it elected its first leader, the recently pardoned ex-political prisoner Chen Yun, who led the party until his death in 1995. Under Chen, the re-established Communists established their new ideology, contrasting themselves with their main left-wing rivals, the Progressives, by advocating for peaceful reform to undo the capitalist (or at least neoliberal) economy the Kuomintang had built up in the intervening 55 years and replace it with a socialist economy, rather than simply pushing for an expanded welfare state.
In the first election to the National Congress, the Communists took 23 of the 900 seats, making them the third-biggest party, and 7.2% of the popular vote, the fourth-most of any party. However, this was less than a quarter of the total the Progressives managed, and the Communists have never managed to perform better than becoming the third-biggest party in the National Congress either in terms of voteshare or seats, with their worst result being in 2013, when the party took just 8 seats and 3.8% of the popular vote and came fourth in terms of seats in part due to backlash from its perceived ‘cowardice’ for refusing to support a Progressive-led government and allowing the Kuomintang to retain power in the hung Congress of 2009.
Numerous different theories have been posited by political scientists as to why the modern Communists have struggled to gain popularity in China; some factors pointed to include the resistance of many Chinese voters to communist ideas given the violent history of the original party and ingrained resistance to Communism, the contemporary collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc, and the greater appeal of the Progressive Party to students, non-Han Chinese citizens, and other demographics which oppose the Kuomintang, with only particularly radical working-class Chinese voters favouring the Communists instead.
Despite this, the party has managed to win positions in provincial governments, although its members are fiercely resistant to allying with the Kuomintang or Economic Liberal Party, with the party constitution citing that those parties are ‘too committed to the injustices of neoliberal capitalism to cooperate with’. However, it does currently support the Turkestani Party in government in Xinjiang and the Progressives in ten other state governments.
In their early years, particularly under Chen, the re-founded Communists were moderate on social issues, with some members actively taking socially conservative positions and the party’s members mainly being united through their economic agendas while diverging on social issues. In recent years, however, the party has taken a more adamantly progressive stance on said issues in line with the increased acceptance of liberal attitudes in China in the 21st century, supporting abolition of the death penalty, affirmative action for non-Han ethnic groups and LGBTQ rights at least to a degree (though the party’s members have always overwhelmingly supported changing the Chinese flag due to its associations with the Kuomintang).
Since its nadir in the 2013 election, however, the party has managed to grow as resistance to Kuomintang President Wang Yang has grown. While this has not been true for the Communists to the same extent it has for the Progressives, Communist leader Leung Kwok-hung* has established himself as a colourful and popular leader among the party’s rank and file since he took over in 2014, as well as showing bipartisan behaviour by organizing tactical voting campaigns with Progressive leader Jiang Jielan for the 2017 Congress election (in which both parties gained a large number of seats) and being in the process of arranging a similar campaign for the 2021 Congress election.
*in TTL Leung’s family left China for Hong Kong due to the suppression of the Kuomintang rather than the communists, and he returned there in 1989, initially to participate in the pro-democracy protests and later to settle in Guangzhou, serving as a Communist Congress member for one of its inner-city districts since 1993.
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The Communist Party of China (Chinese: 中国共产党; pinyin: Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng) is a political party in China, and is the largest self-described communist party in the world by membership. Originally founded in 1921, principally by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao, it grew quickly to become the main rival to the nationalist Kuomintang. However, in October 1934, its military wing, the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army, was defeated by the Kuomintang and many major leadership figures such as Mao Zedong were killed, and as part of its consolidation of power in China, the Communist Party was outlawed and many remaining members fled to neighboring countries like Russia, Hong Kong or Macau.
The party was finally re-established a week after President Zhao Ziyang approved China’s 1989 constitution, on the 5th June that year, and on the 5th August it elected its first leader, the recently pardoned ex-political prisoner Chen Yun, who led the party until his death in 1995. Under Chen, the re-established Communists established their new ideology, contrasting themselves with their main left-wing rivals, the Progressives, by advocating for peaceful reform to undo the capitalist (or at least neoliberal) economy the Kuomintang had built up in the intervening 55 years and replace it with a socialist economy, rather than simply pushing for an expanded welfare state.
In the first election to the National Congress, the Communists took 23 of the 900 seats, making them the third-biggest party, and 7.2% of the popular vote, the fourth-most of any party. However, this was less than a quarter of the total the Progressives managed, and the Communists have never managed to perform better than becoming the third-biggest party in the National Congress either in terms of voteshare or seats, with their worst result being in 2013, when the party took just 8 seats and 3.8% of the popular vote and came fourth in terms of seats in part due to backlash from its perceived ‘cowardice’ for refusing to support a Progressive-led government and allowing the Kuomintang to retain power in the hung Congress of 2009.
Numerous different theories have been posited by political scientists as to why the modern Communists have struggled to gain popularity in China; some factors pointed to include the resistance of many Chinese voters to communist ideas given the violent history of the original party and ingrained resistance to Communism, the contemporary collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc, and the greater appeal of the Progressive Party to students, non-Han Chinese citizens, and other demographics which oppose the Kuomintang, with only particularly radical working-class Chinese voters favouring the Communists instead.
Despite this, the party has managed to win positions in provincial governments, although its members are fiercely resistant to allying with the Kuomintang or Economic Liberal Party, with the party constitution citing that those parties are ‘too committed to the injustices of neoliberal capitalism to cooperate with’. However, it does currently support the Turkestani Party in government in Xinjiang and the Progressives in ten other state governments.
In their early years, particularly under Chen, the re-founded Communists were moderate on social issues, with some members actively taking socially conservative positions and the party’s members mainly being united through their economic agendas while diverging on social issues. In recent years, however, the party has taken a more adamantly progressive stance on said issues in line with the increased acceptance of liberal attitudes in China in the 21st century, supporting abolition of the death penalty, affirmative action for non-Han ethnic groups and LGBTQ rights at least to a degree (though the party’s members have always overwhelmingly supported changing the Chinese flag due to its associations with the Kuomintang).
Since its nadir in the 2013 election, however, the party has managed to grow as resistance to Kuomintang President Wang Yang has grown. While this has not been true for the Communists to the same extent it has for the Progressives, Communist leader Leung Kwok-hung* has established himself as a colourful and popular leader among the party’s rank and file since he took over in 2014, as well as showing bipartisan behaviour by organizing tactical voting campaigns with Progressive leader Jiang Jielan for the 2017 Congress election (in which both parties gained a large number of seats) and being in the process of arranging a similar campaign for the 2021 Congress election.
*in TTL Leung’s family left China for Hong Kong due to the suppression of the Kuomintang rather than the communists, and he returned there in 1989, initially to participate in the pro-democracy protests and later to settle in Guangzhou, serving as a Communist Congress member for one of its inner-city districts since 1993.
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If we really wanted to be realistic we'd probably put more "mistakes' in our infoboxes.
There was an amazing one last thread or the thread before where the infobox had been vandalized by someone making a political statement about the event, I remember that.
My first national infobox for a mini TL I'm thinking up.
The General POD is that the settlers of Australia are nicer to the Aboriginal People. Butterflies ensue and New Zealand the other Pacific territories of the British join in federation earlier. Notable differences include PM Vincent lIngiari, Liberal Soviet Union, more Formal Commonwealth, less racist British Empire and a French Civil War.
The General POD is that the settlers of Australia are nicer to the Aboriginal People. Butterflies ensue and New Zealand the other Pacific territories of the British join in federation earlier. Notable differences include PM Vincent lIngiari, Liberal Soviet Union, more Formal Commonwealth, less racist British Empire and a French Civil War.
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Hitler works for Disney, then decides "Screw walter, i'm making my own company!" before he fucking dies
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So I recognise The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure but not the other two
Death tolls on Earthquake and Inferno are far to low. Earthquake took out the entirety of LA and there are too many casualties on screen to be in the hundreds. Meanwhile at the end of Towering Inferno McQueen's character actually says "We got lucky, we only lost about 200."
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