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Old 03-03-2010, 09:13 PM   #371
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On Bywater, a growing socialist movement in Japan and an earlier success of the nationalists in China caused the Empire to invade in 1925, which threw it into a war with the United States starting in 1927. With the war putting so much of the United States' domestic industry into military expenditures, the Great Depression became a relative hiccup. Post-war Japan elected the Japan Socialist Party in 1933, after their defeat, and it is now a successful social democracy. However, thanks to the failure of the United States to learn the lessons of the Homeline Great Depression, another one began in 1940, and seems ready to lead to a devastating war, just like in Homeline.
The Great Pacific War, by Hector Bywater, describes the war between Japan and America. It's a great history story, by a naval expert of the time. The book is very real :)
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Old 03-03-2010, 09:56 PM   #372
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Not in a way that made removal from office more likely.
Sleeping with a bunch of hotties is not an impeachable office- unless you perjure yourself over the mess. Not that Clinton showed anything like JFK's taste in women.
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Old 03-03-2010, 11:39 PM   #373
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Here's a worldline that I think could use quite a lot of help from Infinity.

A World of Laughter, A World of Tears
Okay, that's freakin' brilliant.
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Old 03-04-2010, 10:50 AM   #374
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Warren G. Harding liked to fool around in the White House too, and he lived in an even more restrictive culture than JFK did. (Although the culture of his era did tend to hush up that type of scandal more).

Harding's death was rather mysterious. Perhaps that could be a divergence point. Was the Illuminati involved...?
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Old 03-04-2010, 02:39 PM   #375
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Okay, that's freakin' brilliant.
I know! That place really needs Infinity's assistance.

Plus, I'd love to see Rockwell get abducted by ISWAT agents and be have to get through with some "personel time" with Boss Otto. >:)
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Old 03-04-2010, 07:18 PM   #376
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I know! That place really needs Infinity's assistance.

Plus, I'd love to see Rockwell get abducted by ISWAT agents and be have to get through with some "personel time" with Boss Otto. >:)
What that place needs is a second U.S. Civil War, to put a spike into reactionary politics once and for all. Rockwell needs one in the base of the skull, and so does almost everybody south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and quite a few of those north of it, too.

That setting is one of the most amazingly well-done dystopias I've ever encountered.
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Old 03-04-2010, 08:22 PM   #377
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What that place needs is a second U.S. Civil War, to put a spike into reactionary politics once and for all. Rockwell needs one in the base of the skull, and so does almost everybody south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and quite a few of those north of it, too.

That setting is one of the most amazingly well-done dystopias I've ever encountered.
I bet even Centrum would probably be helpful here.
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Old 03-04-2010, 09:31 PM   #378
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Dreadnought-3

Wilson was never ellected. The US stuck to its guns regarding neutral rights in the Great War, threatening to escort its merchant shipt, although only to neutral nations. As a result, there was a peace of exhaustion in the west, while Brest-Livosk crippled the new USSR, and gave Germany a nice bit of additional land.

The USA is owed massive debts by both sides--and is in no mood to firgive these debts. Money pours in, and the US already HAS most of their gold.

Even so, a new naval arms race is in progress, with Imperial Germany playing also. The attempts to negotiate a naval limitations treaty fail, and by the early '30's, there are fleets of new dreadnoughts everywhere, and more on the way. Someone sets the spark off...
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Old 03-06-2010, 01:10 AM   #379
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How about a world without horses? That would mess with the ancient world something fierce.
If memory serves, that would be "Walker World" from one of the old issues of Pyramid Magazine. I don't recall which one, though.
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Old 03-21-2010, 11:48 PM   #380
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Was there an alternate Earth already mentioned where the U.K. was an entire penal colony and Australia was the former biggest "empire"?
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