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That's right, this is the thread where you outline what YOU think the coolest TL ever would be. Your description can be anywhere from just a paragraph's worth to a full-fledged mini-TL if you want, cliche to the max or something totally original. Here's mine:

Multiple PODs involve China reforming Meiji-style at around 1900,
Cuba being annexed after 1898, and Roosevelt running for a third term in 1908, eventually completing almost five terms, dying in office in 1919. During his tenure in office, Cubans and Fillipinos are granted citizenship, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic are annexed, and the electoral system is reformed to be more direct, throwing out the electoral college. Also, border skirmishes between Mexico and the US lead to war in the mid-1910's, ending in the US annexing a huge chunk of northern Mexico.
World War 1 starts the same, but America stays isolationist, and the Germans do slightly better, ending the war in a status quo antebellum, except in East Asia, and Russia puts down the Bolsheviks. China had joined the Central Powers, easily conquering French Indochina, British Hong Kong, Vladivostok and other parts of the Russian Far East, but the Japanese manage to keep them from occupying Korea or Taiwan.
Back in America, an open Klansmen is elected president as a Democrat in 1920, but is successfully blocked from significantly expanding Jim Crow by Republicans in Congress. In Austria, the minorities are kept in their place after a brutal dictator named Adolf Hitler takes control of the country in a coup in 1923. A more powerful fascist regime comes in Italy after a coup in 1924, without Benito Mussolini. After a worldwide depression hits in 1928, Fascist also come to power in France under Petain in 1932. Germany remains monarchist for now, and the Nazi Party does form, but it isn't very prominent at first. Spain goes communists Britain gets fed up with European politics and strengthens ties with America.

No, I'm not done, I'm just tired, and I'll put up the rest later. So, what is YOUR dream TL?
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