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Things that look like alternate history but aren't

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Republic P-47 Thunderbolt Lend-Leased by the United States to Brazil to help it prosecute the 1941 Uruguay War against the Nazi-backed Argentine regime.

(Actually, of course, one used by Brazilian forces fighting for the Allies in Italy in OTL).
 
Thande said:
Also, one for @Sideways, Pakistan sticks out a bit on the map of places that allow gender self ID as of 2024.

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"The Non-Aligned League was a geopolitical bloc, centred on the Americas, which brought together a wide range of sovereign states and overseas dominions concerned about the rising Phoney War between the Heavenly Kingdom and the Dar al-Islam [...]"
 
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On first look, North America seems to have a lot of extra nations
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I expected it from Canada and the US but it was a surprise to be reminded that Mexico is also Really That Federal.

It's striking that such federal systems don't seem to have a problem with something as existential as this (someone gets to define their own gender in one state or province, then crosses over a border and now they can't). Compare with the UK, where the SNP introducing Game Harwich was a big factor in what pushed the Tories into doing it in order to avoid cross-border inconsistency (and conversely we saw gender self ID being shut down in Scotland more recently).
 
Thande said:
I expected it from Canada and the US but it was a surprise to be reminded that Mexico is also Really That Federal.

It's striking that such federal systems don't seem to have a problem with something as existential as this (someone gets to define their own gender in one state or province, then crosses over a border and now they can't). Compare with the UK, where the SNP introducing Game Harwich was a big factor in what pushed the Tories into doing it in order to avoid cross-border inconsistency (and conversely we saw gender self ID being shut down in Scotland more recently).
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Australia and Brazil too.
Slightly surprised Argentina and Switzerland don't tbh.

EDIT: Worth noting of course that English and Scottish marriage law have never been the same in other respects, and have actually diverged further in some ways in recent years.
 
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Thande said:
Also, one for @Sideways, Pakistan sticks out a bit on the map of places that allow gender self ID as of 2024.

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The traditional trans response to this would be to talk about Hijras and traditional trans feminine identities in South East Asia but honestly this approach kinda pisses me off because as far as I can see the Pakistani trans community isn't some alien separate identity with its own history. Trans women in Pakistan have the same transition journeys as the rest of us, use the same terms and have the same history. Pakistan is red here because trans people in Pakistan made it red.

I think part of the issue is if you're producing your laws about trans people after the DSM declassified being trans as a mental illness in 2017, you're going to base laws on self-ID. This is changing now. While medical best practice and the science has not changed, there are now political narratives that allow you to push against self-ID. For instance in Pakistan in 2023 certain aspects of self-ID were challenged because they allow male bodies in women's safe spaces and protecting women is important and also trans rights is unislamic because the laws on things like inheritance should favour men. As in the UK - opposing trans rights seems to often be a way to hit out at feminism in the name of protecting women
 
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Distributed by groups including the Russian-American Fund for Justice, the "Basketball of Death" shirt was distributed extensively in the Anglosphere in advance of the 1996 Basketball World Cup to protest the revocation of Lithuania's ban from international sporting events. Though President Burokevičius had ended the expulsionist policies of his predecessor, Petras Griškevičius, he still maintained Lithuania's status as a single-party dictatorship with extensive use of surveillance, imprisonment, and police brutality, particularly against ethnic minorities and labor organizers.

(h/t @Enigma-Conundrum )
 
Steve Brinson said:
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Distributed by groups including the Russian-American Fund for Justice, the "Basketball of Death" shirt was distributed extensively in the Anglosphere in advance of the 1996 Basketball World Cup to protest the revocation of Lithuania's ban from international sporting events. Though President Burokevičius had ended the expulsionist policies of his predecessor, Petras Griškevičius, he still maintained Lithuania's status as a single-party dictatorship with extensive use of surveillance, imprisonment, and police brutality, particularly against ethnic minorities and labor organizers.

(h/t @Enigma-Conundrum )
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Just finished the Lithuanian Eurovision national selection and gods damn those people like basketball. This is deeply lithuanian and I kinda love that
 
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