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    Writing Alternate History: The Unexpected Consequence

    "Much is lost, but much abides."
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    See also how the United States' constitutional structure is a version of the 18th century British constitution with all the branches democratized as opposed to how Britain just transferred all power to the elected branch.
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    AHC: Socialist-dominant USA

    I mean, it'd probably be even worse. Policies to restrict competition to urban workers by banning rural workers moving to cities are unlikely to go well for African Americans. "Proper" socialism is incredibly urban supremacist in program. The United States has always had a large population of...
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    This is a big factor in the popularity of Axis victory over WP victory scenarios, IMO. The former has been more remote from contemporary politics (and has fewer and more easily dismissed apologists) than the latter.
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    If those who had died in "their time" had lived longer (if Oscar Wilde had seen WWI and other ideas)

    The closest analogy to the NoI is the volkish neopaganism of Europe, IMO.
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    Ah yes, a communist Germany. How could we possibly know what that would look like.
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    Screwing up lend lease on the political side to the point where it’s too little too late seems like a natural way to flip things for an axis victory TL. Just because something’s your war to lose… doesn’t mean you can’t lose it.
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    Alternate History and Terry Pratchett. Part 4: Lords and Ladies

    Honestly, Pratchett's elves are so malevolent that the nice euphemism trope stops making sense. It's rather pointless to avoid pissing them off. Eldritch horrors and scary elves are in some ways different spins on the same archetype. Lovecraft's work grew out of Dunsany and Machen's creepy...
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    Tales from Development Hell: Nessie

    It really surprises me no one has ever made a "X-Com but you're NERV" game.
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    I mean, it almost became the editorial line here.
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    I have no desire to see this tested, but I think "nuclear powers fight without using the nukes" is more plausible than commonly believed. I mean, China and India have managed to actually pull off "only fighting with melee weapons thanks to escalation risk" albeit for rather low stakes.
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    The less discussed (but probably more important) corollary of the great man theory of history is the great idiot theory of history. You can have a massive personal impact on history by crashing and burning. As for the above discussion on US influence in the Middle East, plenty of dictatorships...
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    Also, the stated objection is non-Muslims being too close to Mecca.
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    I said this about Russia, but it applies here as well: Except with Bin Laden (and the Ayatollahs) instead of Putin, of course.
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    You know, this really does put the pages of hand-wringing about the nonexistent Pro-Nazi timeline in perspective. After all, if you take a Brave Moral Stand (TM) against glorifying a system of oppression that's actually existed in the last seventy years you might actually upset someone, and...
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