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Old 11-10-2017, 09:01 AM   #64
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Default Re: GURPS Lucifer-5?

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Originally Posted by Astromancer View Post
Take the Irish issue. Even with the crisis this world has from the Tunguska event, Irish Homerule/independence agitation would continue. Home Rule was almost granted. The fact that the Kaiser would have been against Home Rule in Ireland and supportive of Ulster Protestants, would likely make Home Rule in Ireland more attractive to the average Brit in this world.
I've always assumed that one side effect of no WWI would be that colonialism and other racist BS would last longer without WWI casting doubt on the inherent wonderfulness and superiority of European peoples and culture.

I think Michael Moorcock's Oswald Bastable stories may have inclined me this way.
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