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Recent content by Md139115

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    Alternatives to nation-states?

    Internal federal structure, yes absolutely - but the idea on paper at least was every one of those groups was there because they had seen the light of Communism instead of being former subjects of the Russian Empire (the Finns after all were not included).
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    Alternatives to nation-states?

    Arguably we’re not in the period of the nation-state anymore as many countries see themselves as less the state of their “nation” (as in an ethnic group) and more of a vessel or container for all the people living in a certain geographical area. There’s also the ideological states, like the U.S...
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    Nonsense. With how widely Spanish pieces of eight were being used as de facto currency in the colonies, they’d be enthusiastic supporters of octimalization, especially if it brought more British specie to that side of the Atlantic. It really is unreported just how much the Founding Fathers and...
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    This forum may be closing down in March 2025

    It’s funny, I’m still somewhat bent out of shape about the recent argument elsewhere, and in particular the inability of some people to realize that human rights can only exist as something greater than human constructs, given that it is often in the rational self-interest of individuals or...
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    Well I am not going to call it the worst sex scene in AH because I have not read all or even the most of AH ever produced. All I can say is that if there is something worse than Conroy’s 1862 scene of a lesbian servant drugging and raping her mistress, then I give thanks for not having beheld it.
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    As someone who read the novel, that’s leaving out a lot of context - MacArthur is rarely mentioned, and the movement to overthrow the Kaiser was hinted for most of the story as a liberal bourgeois movement negotiating with doubters in the military and it was only on the very last page in the...
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    How valid is this costing of a Dover/Calais causeway - when built by the Romans?

    One more consideration is that the Romans might realize they don’t exactly want a true causeway since, you know, that kind of puts a crimp in trade from Iberia and Gaul to the North Sea if boats now have to sail up and around Scotland. You could see something built in segments, like the...
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    Pickett Goes Forth: Confederate Victory at Gettysburg

    Ah, I see what you mean, thank you.
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    Pickett Goes Forth: Confederate Victory at Gettysburg

    I’m sorry but is this correct? It is different from your original post, and an impossiblity; Pender’s division, with Isaac Trimble in acting command, was already sent forward in the initial attack, and Rodes is occupying the right-center of the Confederate lines directly in front of Cemetery...
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    Pickett Goes Forth: Confederate Victory at Gettysburg

    And really, while I know that the (narrower) point of this exercise is to investigate a relatively undiscussed PoD of Gettysburg, I do find it strange that we’re quibbling over whether a major Confederate victory with tens of thousands of additional Union casualties is possible on July 3, when...
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    Pickett Goes Forth: Confederate Victory at Gettysburg

    I do apologize for the late reply - work has left me unable to do the in-depth research that such a response deserves. Before anything else, I should note that I am going off of this map of the 3rd day of the battle prepared by the Corps of Engineers in 1878, as it is finely detailed enough to...
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    Pickett Goes Forth: Confederate Victory at Gettysburg

    Unfortunately I do not seem to have access to the full text, so I cannot properly comment on this scenario. I would however be interested in knowing how the study takes into account the reserves that Meade would have had on hand to respond to a more concerted attack, particularly the recently...
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    “Your majesty, the British keep conquering all the native island monarchies of the Pacific, and they even conquered us once by accident! They’re almost certainly going to come back to finish the job at some point, how are we going to defend our independence?!” “I have an idea. Let’s add the...
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    Least favorite alt-history story?

    Oh absolutely.
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    Least favorite alt-history story?

    Not quite: it’s actually almost the entire border area between Kaliningrad and Poland on the east and Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine on the west, with the contemporary borders running almost right down the center. Major population centers include Kaunas, Lublin, Grodno, and Brest, but narrowly...
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