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  1. AHC: Communism without personality-cults

    How can you create a world where Communist states are far less inclined to venerate their leaders(Lenin being only the oldest and most notorious example)? It does seem strange that a political philosophy built on the notion of larger material forces pushing history forward would so readily fall...

  2. Jeremiah Wright dies during the 2008 campaign

    On March 18 2008, Barack Obama gave a well-received speech about the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, in which he both criticized certain of Wright's views on the USA, but also sought to explain them within the context of American racism. On Nov. 4 2008, Obama was elected president of the United...

  3. Int'l sponsorship for right-wing domestic terrorism in US

    Like it says on the tin. Have some foreign entity, be it a government or a non-state actor, fund, arm, cheerlead etc. right-wing terrorism in the USA, analagous to the way Libya used to support left-wing and anti-imperialist terrorism. Right-wing groups here can include white-supremacists...

  4. M. Twain's radical essays get him booted from American pantheon

    I'm thinking mostly of some hypertrophied backlash to these two pieces... To The Person Sitting In Darkness The United States Of Lyncherdom And I don't mean he's ostracized to the point of eg. students at Yale needing special permission to take his books from the library(as I've heard was the...

  5. Mounties blow up downtown Montreal in 1972

    From Vice... The question of the dynamite is an odd one. The RCMP never did anything with the 14 cases of explosives stolen from a shed on a construction site in the spring of 1972. They carted it from one spot to the next, initially leaving it in an unmarked squad car, then storing it in one...

  6. Give Carter a more "countercultural" presidency/image

    Carter was the first Democratic president since the end of the 1960s. But off the top of my head, pardoning the draft-dodgers and then Peter Yarrow(that one on his last day in office, can't imagine why) are about the only liberal stances he took on issues specifically related to the 60s youth...

  7. Confederate Flag On The Moon

    With a POD no earlier than October 1957(Sputnik), get the flag now known as the Confederate flag planted by American astronauts on the moon. Some restrictions... - it has to be a full sized flag. - it can be planted along with the American flag(possibly in a lesser position), but no more...

  8. AHC: Have Hawaii dump the Union Jack

    Like it says on the tin. The state-flag could be changed for any number of reasons, eg. anti-British sentiment, pro-indigenous identity, multiculturalism, or what have you. What sociopolitical forces would have to come together to make it happen? POD anywhere between 1900 and 2016. I chose...

  9. Hinckley shoots pimps instead of politicians

    IOW rather than emulating the crimes that Travis Bickle TRIED to commit, he emulates the ones that he actually DID commit. And let's say he actually goes to the trouble of researching his targets, finding pimps who really are involved with child-prostitution and similar crimes. AND let's give...

  10. Canadians stereotyped as rude and violent knuckledraggers

    Simple. Have the typical stereotype of Canadians be less like this and more like this. (re: historical events, as much as possible, change the perception of them, without changing the event itself. So eg. "FLQ gets more global media attention, Canadians associated with bombings and martial...

  11. Christianize US civic iconography and texts

    Say that some time around when "under God" was added to the Pledge Of Allegiance(IOW mid-50s or so), devout or opportunistic politicians go an a sacralization spree, trying to get as much Christian content into the USA's patriotic texts, music, icons, flags etc. What are some things that could...

  12. DBWI/challenge: No (literal) Kiss Army

    In mid-1976, a Pentagon psychologist managed to convince Pres. Rockefeller that the glam-rock act Kiss conveyed just the right combination of rebellious individualism and regimented militarism to help instill patriotic values in young teenaged males, with the eventual aim of encouraging military...

  13. DBWI: William F. Buckley never leaves Firing Line

    OTL, Buckley in the mid-70s was most famous for hosting a conservative discussion show called Firing Line. That is, until late 1975, when he got caught doing an interview with Ronald Reagan, then gearing up for a primary run, in which Buckley asked Reagan a series of softball questions that had...

  14. More dictatorships in the British Caribbean

    Like it says on the tin. Have more of the former British colonies in the Caribbean be dictatorships, of any ideological stripe. Off the top of my head, the only example I can think of is Grenada, from the premiership of Eric Gairy(who might not been a dictator per se), through that of Maurice...

  15. Create a new flavour of nationalism

    Inspired by someone's thread on Cornish nationalism. I'm basically gonna just illustrate this with an example... NORTHERN ALBERTA NATIONALISM Homeland: Alberta from Edmonton northward. Ethnic identity: None specifically. Civic nationalism, though with a slight tinge of "We're more tolerant of...

  16. Get a POTUS to defect

    Like it sez on the tin. Have a US president leave the USA to live in a rival nation and never return. A few rules... ...the prez in question must be a real-life POTUS, or.. ...a real-life failed candidate for one of the two major parties, who wins election in the alternate time-line, or...

  17. DBWI: CCR the iconic music for Vietnam movies

    What would have to have happened, both in terms of how the war went historically and how it is perceived by later generations, for CCR's music to be used as much in Vietnam movies as the music of that OTHER group is?

  18. Rock bands continue with "pluralized countable noun" names

    IOW, Rock bands still mostly all have names like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones etc, rather than like Led Zepplin, Chicago, Nirvana, Oasis etc. (And yes, I realize there are still contemporary bands with PCN names, but I want it to be the overwhelming majority for...

  19. Plausibility check: Falklands War a standard left vs right conflcit

    OTL, the Falklands War of 1982 didn't fit the parameters of the ongoing Cold War, as it was a conflict between two conservative governments(albeit of rather different governing styles!), who under most circumstances would have been at least comfortable with, if not outright ecstatic about, each...

  20. Wank time-travel research

    Notice the thread title specifies "research". I'm not asking for time-travel to actually come about. Anyway, like it says, have governments and/or corporations spend the maximum of time, money, and manpower on researching time travel. Maybe this works best as a Cold War scenario? Possibly the...
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