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  1. AHC: With a POD of 1700, make the world as developed, democratic, and peaceful as possible

    Napoleon reinstituted slavery in Haiti and waged a brutal war of occupation against conquered territories in places like Spain, so it's questionable whether he'd have been able to manage even that--and even if he had, it still wouldn't be more democratic considering his penchant for installing...

  2. AHC: With a POD of 1700, make the world as developed, democratic, and peaceful as possible

    “Benevolent colonizer” is an oxymoron.

  3. Pre-1900 Alternate History Tropes/Cliches:

    Post-decolonization Africa is almost never prosperous, successful, or free of foreign influence in any way in ATLs.

  4. Pre-1900 Alternate History Tropes/Cliches:

    I’m personally of the opinion that it would actually be at least somewhat more stable than OTL India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, but that’s not relevant to the fact that AH authors never have it show up. For that matter, they never have any native monarchy other than the Mughals unite it...

  5. Pre-1900 Alternate History Tropes/Cliches:

    Here’s one: India is almost always either Balkanized to a greater degree than OTL’s partition, remains a (usually British) colony forever, or (rarely) ends up united under the Mughals. There’s almost never a united democratic India.

  6. Pre-1900 Alternate History Tropes/Cliches:

    The USA never changes its government away from a liberal democracy unless the story is explicitly about that (e.g. Reds! or Decades of Darkness).

  7. Pre-1900 Alternate History Tropes/Cliches:

    Hell, even just the phrase “pulling a Meiji”, as if the process of national development and technological advancement to become a great power capable of standing toe to toe with the Western empires is the same for every country from East Asia to West Africa.

  8. President Forever and other 270soft games Megathread

    Now that is a weird election map.

  9. AHC: Least Racist Colonialism Possible

    They did still fight repeated wars of conquest, make use of slave labor, and (in the case of the Mongols) invent biological weaponry, though. “Empires are bad” should not be some sort of scorching take.

  10. AHC: Least Racist Colonialism Possible

    God damn it, not another one of these threads. The fundamental purpose of colonialism was to extract value, resources, and labor from the colonized territories at the expense of the people living there. It was never going to be not racist. Even if you take the edge off and eliminate the worst...

  11. AHC: Proto-Communism before the Industrial Revolution.

    You could have the Diggers/True Levellers be successful during the English Civil War as @lefthandhummingbird said. Objectification of women is one of the major identifying traits of incels.

  12. Palmerston's vision for the Crimean War

    Maybe we can get most of this in this scenario: Better Austro-Russian relations between 1848-1853 lead Austria to join the war on the Russian side. They do better than OTL and inflict heavy casualties but still ultimately lose, causing the Allies—now including Sweden and possibly Prussia—to...

  13. Favorite Small Countries to Remain/Become Independent?

    Kurdistan—either the Syrian, Iraqi, Turkish, and Iranian parts as separate countries or a unified Greater Kurdistan. (Although the latter is probably stretching the definition of a “small” nation.)

  14. AHC: Revolutionary Austria, France tries to set things the way they were

    Well, the problem with this scenario is that the whole Austrian empire was held together by dynastic bonds and royal prerogatives. If those go away, there’s nothing keeping it together. That said, though, if the scenario is an 1848-like revolution starting in Austria and spreading to the rest...

  15. If colonialism hadn’t happened, would the general standard of living of the world be higher?

    The imperialist apologism in this thread is turning my stomach.

  16. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    HMMMMMM I WONDER WHY THAT COULD POSSIBLY BE

  17. AHC: More “White” Countries

    I have some serious questions about the motivations behind this entire thread and many of the posts in it.

  18. The Union Forever: A TL

    Didn't the Republicans remain the more socially progressive party ITTL, though?

  19. WI: FDR was a fascist

    I know. Part of it was me being facetious and part of it was an allusion to Long fitting more or less the exact description of “economic progressive with heavy authoritarian tendencies”.

  20. WI: FDR was a fascist

    He would probably lose re-election or be impeached. And if he tried to take things too far too quickly there might even be a coup. Look at the backlash he got from court-packing IOTL, and that was small potatoes compared to jailing dissidents.
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