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gradenko_2000
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I've always wondered what might've happened if Nixon didn't do Watergate.

ZorajitZorajit posted:

Joe Biden shows up to the presidential debate like a WWE wrestler, on a motorcycle with pyrotechnics behind him and slaps Jim Webb with a giant belt.

BAH GAWD IS THAT DIAMOND JOE'S MUSIC?!

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gradenko_2000
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We already didn't have the "Dark Ages". That's not (anymore accepted to be) a thing that happened.

gradenko_2000
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What if FDR survived to push and pass his Second Bill of Rights?

gradenko_2000
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Zeroisanumber posted:

He personally thought that LeMay was completely insane.

He's not wrong.

gradenko_2000
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What if Joe Lieberman was not in the way of a single-payer option

gradenko_2000
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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.

gradenko_2000
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What if they never passed the 22nd Amendment?

gradenko_2000
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:

What would have happened in regards to 9/11 and the aftermath if Al Gore had won the election?

We probably still would have gone to Afghanistan, but we almost definitely would not have gone to Iraq.

gradenko_2000
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In our reality, America won the Cold War, the Soviet Union collapsed under the weight of unsustainable Communism, and became a lovely capitalist country with a mean authoritarian streak.

What would a "the Soviet Union wins the Cold War" scenario look like? How does the United States "collapse" via political and socioeconomic turmoil without the Soviet Union ever having fired a shot in anger?

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hakimashou posted:

What if America had spent the years after world war two stockpiling nuclear weapons to eradicate the soviet union in one fell swoop?

And then forbidden all other countries to research nuclear weapons on pain of eradication.

What then?

That would have required that American counter-intelligence was strong enough to prevent the atomic secret from being spread to the Soviets, and it's my understanding that the seeds for that failure of the FBI/CIA were sown years before WW2.

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