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  1. Sacer Bubonicus

    Miscellaneous <1900 (Alternate) History Thread

    If the American Civil War doesn't happen and slavery ends up being gradually abolished over time, how would Southern ideology develop, given that the planter elite which defined it IOTL doesn't have the odium of a failed rebellion(*)? (*): and the main feature which defined postwar Southern...
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    Best monarch or head of state to kill off early for a more prosperous future

    And what Spain got was two-and-a-half civil wars. Was that really a good thing, especially in this critical time when Spain was recovering from the reaming it took during the Napoleonic occupation and then the loss of the colonies? If there was any chance of Spain industrializing and remaining...
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    Decolonization in an Axis victory scenario

    Oh really? So much for fellow Aryans, eh?
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    Best monarch or head of state to kill off early for a more prosperous future

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    What alternate history ideas you wish they were used more often?

    Madagascar avoiding colonization and successfully modernizing.
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    Would a Central Powers Victory be Dystopian?

    A reaction which consisted of "We retract this statement!" while doing nothing to actually change the situation on the ground, where that statement was still being enforced. (As opposed to the British government, which actually intervened to stop the mass deaths in the Boer concentration camps...
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    Miscellaneous <1900 (Alternate) History Thread

    The Slavic languages take their pitch-accent system and turn it into a full-on tonal system.
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    Would a Central Powers Victory be Dystopian?

    At which point, we're back to time traveling Britbongs again. And look how far we have to go back! If you're going that far back, I might as well mention Maria Theresa and Joseph I's crimes against the Romani people as a sign of the Austrian Empire's indelible evil while I'm at it. Because...
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    Would a Central Powers Victory be Dystopian?

    Uh-huh. Observe how the reality of Jewish patriotism and military excellence is emphasized, while the fact of the German military leadership not giving a shit and stirring up antisemitism anyway is deemphasized as hard as possible - first being made physically smaller than the part about Jewish...
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    Would a Central Powers Victory be Dystopian?

    Combined death toll, please? I don't think this combined death toll goes up to even 100, or 200 at the very maximum, which just goes to show how desperate you have to be that this is what you call Britain's answer to the Belgian Congo and the Namibian genocide. Singularly pathetic!
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    Would a Central Powers Victory be Dystopian?

    *sigh* We've already been over this. Don't think I've forgotten or that I can't use the Search function. Edit: also, even then, let's say that were true... the German government sure didn't stop when the public found out about the extent of the Namibian genocide - re: the Hottentot Election...
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    What if Decembrist Revolt Succeeded and Overthrow Nicholas I of Russia

    See below. In addition to Mikhail, there were 4 daughters with sons who could inherit the throne.
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    What if Decembrist Revolt Succeeded and Overthrow Nicholas I of Russia

    In order for you to have Effect, you need Cause to exist. If Daddy Putin doesn't exist to knock up Mommy Putin, there will be no Putin. Simple as. I don't understand why the rules of cause and effect should be suspended when famous historical characters get involved.
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    Would a Central Powers Victory be Dystopian?

    Yes, the British government of 1914 somehow time traveled 66 years into the past to give itself tips on how to deal with the Famine. x'D Get your timeline straight before you get outraged. Which, unlike the Boer genocide, ended only when all Herero/Namaqua resistance had been put down. Who...
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    What if Decembrist Revolt Succeeded and Overthrow Nicholas I of Russia

    When 99/100ths of his army is still loyal to him and fully willing to kill the republican traitors themselves? Yeah, right. If you want to stop this from being a one-sided slaughter, you need a POD perhaps a decade prior to the actual revolt itself. And the Brits didn't try to, say, lop off...
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    What if Decembrist Revolt Succeeded and Overthrow Nicholas I of Russia

    The "discussion" was framed badly from the outset, and I don't see anyone who was engaging with it who didn't point that out. It's around the level of asking "What if the Sixth Army tried to break out of Stalingrad in December, how would it affect the Cold War?" I'm sure there would be plenty...
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    Would a Central Powers Victory be Dystopian?

    Except the British government, unlike the German government, did not intend for there to be a genocide and stopped it once it was appraised of the situation. Correction: Leopold II, who explicitly took the Congo for himself and not for Belgium at the Berlin Conference. Thus, unlike any other...
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    What if Decembrist Revolt Succeeded and Overthrow Nicholas I of Russia

    At which the Jews would protest loudly, since the idea that the Jews should not return to Israel until the coming of the Messiah and the rebuilding of the Temple was still very strong, especially in the communities of the Pale of Settlement, where the rabbinical establishment was about as...
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    What if Decembrist Revolt Succeeded and Overthrow Nicholas I of Russia

    tl;dr - Decembrist Revolt is the most overrated historical nothingburger of the 19th century, next to maybe the Paris Commune. Given their small numbers, the mutineers are swiftly crushed and either Nicholas I retakes power or someone else in the Romanov clan becomes tsar. In that case, the...
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    Best monarch or head of state to kill off early for a more prosperous future

    Akhenaten. People mostly remember him for being a religious nutcase who pissed off the Egyptian political establishment so much they pulled a He Who Must Not Be Named with him in the historical record, but there was another side to his insanity. For one, he had no foreign policy. Okay, that's...
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