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What if you could make humans literally incapable of hatred with no other effects?
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Oct 16, 2015 08:11
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Ignatius M. Meen posted:What if you could make humans literally incapable of hatred with no other effects? What if the Torres Strait had a land bridge?
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Oct 16, 2015 08:17
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Guavanaut posted:Rule by psychopaths who still have a dispassionate lust for power, but without the hatred needed for the occasional revolution against them. People kill each other all the time without needing to hate the other person though...?
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Oct 16, 2015 09:54
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Ignatius M. Meen posted:What if you could make humans literally incapable of hatred with no other effects? Much better to make people incapable of deception. That would clean up just about every problem. But still be capable of skepticism so we don't end up like those Galaxy Quest aliens.
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Oct 16, 2015 15:52
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Phyzzle posted:What if South America hosed South Africa? Presumably mass suicide in Panama while Suez starts importing massive amounts of (now more accessible) cocaine.
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Oct 16, 2015 15:56
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OwlFancier posted:Presumably mass suicide in Panama while Suez starts importing massive amounts of (now more accessible) cocaine. Argentina would start a territory war with South Africa over the Prince Edward Islands.
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Oct 16, 2015 16:01
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What if Yitzhak Rabin hadn't been assassinated and there had been continuing meaningful progress made on Israeli-Palestinian peace agreements and possible even the establishment and recognition of the state of Palestine?
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Oct 16, 2015 16:34
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What if Mr Rogers was still alive?
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Oct 17, 2015 12:48
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What if FDR survived to push and pass his Second Bill of Rights?
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Oct 17, 2015 15:16
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What if we took control of the NSA and used it to track down and deal with every ancap and ever dark enlightenment creature?
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Oct 19, 2015 06:40
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Fojar38 posted:Doubt North America would respond well to being cucked by a black continent. Cucktinent.
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Oct 19, 2015 13:34
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This poster loves police brutality, but only when its against minorities!
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Ignatius M. Meen posted:What if you could make humans literally incapable of hatred with no other effects? War and mass murder would just come out of perceived utility.
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Oct 19, 2015 14:34
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What if Bush listened to Cheney and actually invaded Iran... I wonder what the world would like with oil at $300/barrel.
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Oct 19, 2015 16:03
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Tab8715 posted:What if Bush listened to Cheney and actually invaded Iran... I wonder what the world would like with oil at $300/barrel. Well we'd control 90% of the oil in the middle east so OPEC would be dead, or our rivals.
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Oct 19, 2015 18:42
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And the Sasol slurry process would be profitable with out at that price, so South Africa would be a petrostate and Montana would have gone ahead with that Sasol contract to build plants there.
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Oct 19, 2015 18:45
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My favorite counter-factual is JFK not being assassinated and pulling the US out of Vietnam, then handing off the baton to RFK who beats the dogshit out of Goldwater in 68 and Nixon in 72. So much bad, crazy poo poo could've been avoided.
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Oct 19, 2015 19:28
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Zeroisanumber posted:My favorite counter-factual is JFK not being assassinated and pulling the US out of Vietnam, then handing off the baton to RFK who beats the dogshit out of Goldwater in 68 and Nixon in 72. So much bad, crazy poo poo could've been avoided. I'm with you there, mostly, only I'm fine (hypothetically) with JFK getting shot as long as RFK survives the Ambassador Hotel. LBJ had some good moments that I'd like to keep. After all, I can't be the only person uncomfortable with the thought of a pill popping sex addict with a serious medical issue having his finger on the nuclear button. Mayor Dave fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Oct 20, 2015 |
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Oct 20, 2015 01:57
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Mayor Dave posted:I'm with you there, mostly, only I'm fine (hypothetically) with JFK getting shot as long as RFK survives the Ambassador Hotel. LBJ had some good moments that I'd like to keep. After all, I can't be the only person uncomfortable with the thought of a pill popping sex addict with a serious medical issue having his finger on the nuclear button. If the Cuban Missile Crisis isn't enough evidence that your fears are misplaced, I'm not sure anything could convince you otherwise.
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Oct 20, 2015 04:29
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Mayor Dave posted:After all, I can't be the only person uncomfortable with the thought of a pill popping sex addict with a serious medical issue having his finger on the nuclear button. Nah. JFK never trusted anyone in his military command after the Cuban Missile Crisis. He personally thought that LeMay was completely insane.
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Oct 20, 2015 04:37
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Zeroisanumber posted:He personally thought that LeMay was completely insane. He's not wrong.
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Oct 20, 2015 04:56
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some hot bill on hillary action
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Oct 20, 2015 05:36
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What if John Kerry had become president in 2005?
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Oct 20, 2015 06:07
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DrSunshine posted:What if John Kerry had become president in 2005? a new jerusalem...
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Oct 20, 2015 08:50
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McDowell posted:This is the case with syphilis. The Columbian Exchange: smallpox for syphilis
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Oct 20, 2015 17:11
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DrSunshine posted:What if John Kerry had become president in 2005? The Democrats would've gotten the blame for things turning to poo poo in Iraq and for the Great Recession. The Tea Party might never have coalesced, but you can bet your rear end he'd be a 1-termer with either McCain or Romney taking the presidency in 2008. The Dems would be locked out of the halls of power until at least 2016.
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Oct 20, 2015 17:15
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Zeroisanumber posted:The Democrats would've gotten the blame for things turning to poo poo in Iraq and for the Great Recession. The Tea Party might never have coalesced, but you can bet your rear end he'd be a 1-termer with either McCain or Romney taking the presidency in 2008. The Dems would be locked out of the halls of power until at least 2016. yeah right before the surge Kerry probably would have pulled out and towed the party line. Then Ol' Public Functionary would lead us out of the dark ages.
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Oct 20, 2015 17:52
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Zeroisanumber posted:The Democrats would've gotten the blame for things turning to poo poo in Iraq and for the Great Recession. The Tea Party might never have coalesced, but you can bet your rear end he'd be a 1-termer with either McCain or Romney taking the presidency in 2008. The Dems would be locked out of the halls of power until at least 2016. It's even worse, if you remember that was John Edwards's last hurrah before 2008 and then his Macbethian affair with a witch-lady over his cancer-stricken wife being revealed. It felt horrible then, but Kerry might have been a disaster for the Democratic Party. LeoMarr posted:yeah right before the surge Kerry probably would have pulled out and towed the party line. Then Ol' Public Functionary would lead us out of the dark ages. The lack of the surge surely would have kept Iraq in poo poo (not because it was effective, just that Iraq was destabilized and the surge disguised some of that), and the Right Wing Media would be howling about how Kerry lost us another war by pulling out too soon like Vietnam. He loses 2008, and with the Arab Spring then happening in 2010, they would have crowed about being right about their domino theory. Deal with it, libs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-z2D9lo9-8 foobardog fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Oct 20, 2015 |
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Oct 20, 2015 19:00
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What if the TSA had never been formed and we could bring water and other beverages through airport security? What if the war on drugs never happened and the USA incarceration rate was on par with other first world nations?
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Oct 20, 2015 20:39
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What if Ayn Rand had been a actually good writer? What if Hitler had been exactly the same politically but also a artistic genius of modernist art par exellence? What if Lenin had lived a extremely long and healthy life?
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Oct 20, 2015 22:06
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What if Space Shuttle Colombia hadn't exploded?
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Oct 20, 2015 22:57
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Demiurge4 posted:What if Space Shuttle Colombia hadn't exploded? NASA would have never fed the fish
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Oct 20, 2015 23:03
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NASA would have kept on sending up the same outdated shuttles until one of the other ones did.
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Oct 20, 2015 23:05
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What if Richard Feynman didn't take the bait for the O ring thing.
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Oct 20, 2015 23:11
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What if Martha Coakley had defeated Scott Brown in Mass. 2009 Senate race, in regards to the ACA (Obamacare).
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Oct 21, 2015 06:28
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What if Joe Lieberman was not in the way of a single-payer option
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Oct 21, 2015 06:51
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What if Obama declares that he was a secret kenyean muslim after all the day after his term ends?
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Oct 21, 2015 12:58
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What if Huey Long had survived his assassination?
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Oct 21, 2015 15:10
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:What if Richard Feynman didn't take the bait for the O ring thing. WHAT IF... John Hinkley Jr. had been a better shot?
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Oct 21, 2015 17:06
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:What if Richard Feynman didn't take the bait for the O ring thing. What do you mean by this? I know Feynman was the guy that dropped an O-ring into some icewater.
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Oct 21, 2015 17:18
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gradenko_2000 posted:What do you mean by this? I know Feynman was the guy that dropped an O-ring into some icewater. It's been a while since I read up on it, so I'm probably off base here, but I got the impression that there were people who knew exactly why the rocket failed, and that it was the O-ring. But for political reasons, they needed an outside person to 'discover' it, and Feynman being a celebrity genius made it even better. So they sorta led him to the answer. Edit: Kutyna to be specific. Dr. Arbitrary fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Oct 21, 2015 |
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