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--- alternate_history:fh_cliches [2018/01/03 11:53] – petike
+++ alternate_history:fh_cliches [2018/10/13 19:42] – [Past Future History clichés] max_sinister
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 ===GLAWWWWWWBUL WARRRMING===
-  * **What it is:** Forget the Maldives losing some land or Florida being flooded in a few decades; according to the FH subforum London will be submerged by next Tuesday. Typically used as an excuse for a superpower Canada when it gains all that unfrozen land. Not that we would blame anyone for a superpower Canada.
+  * **What it is:** Forget the Maledives losing some land or Florida being flooded in a few decades; according to the FH subforum London will be submerged by next Tuesday. Typically used as an excuse for a superpower Canada when it gains all that unfrozen land. Not that we would blame anyone for a superpower Canada.
   * **Why it won't happen:** Sorry Al Gore, global warming won't happen that fast.
   * **Current progress:** In 2014 (are you noticing a pattern here?) some holes blew up in the Siberian tundra, where the methane levels were 100 times higher than normal, possibly signalling the start of the methane clathrate runaway process. Oh wait, I was supposed to write why it //wouldn't// happen? Um, well, the idea of "global warming" is a liberal conspiracy to distract from real issues, overtax hard-working Americans, spread Sharia law and promote the gay agenda. Somehow.
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 === Cyberpunk Superpower Japan ===
   * **What it is:** In the 1980s, Japan's GDP was predicted to eventually become greater than that of the US, and that the US would face a coming war with Japan.
-  * **What happened:** In the 1990s, Japan's economic bubble bursted, however some people still maintain that Japan WILL attack America with it's robotic hordes. Mainstream has instead moved towards a Postcyberpunk Superpower China (see above).
+  * **What happened:** In the 1990s, Japan's economic bubble burst, however some people still maintain that Japan WILL attack America with its robotic hordes. Mainstream has instead moved towards a Post-cyberpunk Superpower China (see above).
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