WI USNA and post-British CSA

Eurofed

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Anything on the Base Maps from 550 BC... thread from the past five months.

Peace of Amiens

1783 (but adjust the US borders to match the Mississippi)

1750 (but remove anachronistic British territory in Australia)

1815

Those are the only ones I could find that are applicable to this thread, there are tons before 1500 and after 1815 though.

Or if you need another year's map just ask, I'm sure they've been working on it and haven't posted it.

I've seen them, but I'm rather uncertain about the merit of going through the chore of redoing maps for my already-started TLs and threads, including this one. As far as I'm concerned, old-style maps are probably informative enough.
 

Eurofed

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Here are just some things that come about from corporate influence from the top of my head in US politics: subsidies for oil companies, a limit on the maximum liability for oil spills, 40 years to get a decent healthcare system, a ban on re-importing pharmaceuticals from Canada, tax breaks for SUVs, a lack of investment in public transport, etc etc. 99% of times the better funded congressman wins, and corporations spend BILLIONS on such donations. Do you really think they'd do that if they didn't get something in return?

True, but as I said, I don't perceive any real difference in corporate pandering between the USA, UK, continental EU, and the White Commonwealth.

Hang on. The USA has had well documented civil rights disasters, from segregation to the imprisonment of Japanese Americans. Nothing on anything like this scale has happened in the UK, and they're one of the few countries in Europe for the extreme right to get nowhere in elections. Yet you think the UK is a worst political system based on civil rights ground?

OTOH, the UK did not find itself in the conditions that made segregation or the internment of Japanese-Americans possible (but South Africa did, and apartheid happened). Make no mistake, I hold the modern USA far from blameless as civil rights go, "tough on crime" paranoia seems to have a most unhealthy grip on the US criminal law system, but as I see it, the UK system seems to have even less in-built checks against tyranny of the majority than the US system does.

Anyway, this is not really the thread to debate that kind of topic.
 
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