Shitty Alternate History Thread - If only the Romans had AK-47's they would've survived...

[General Emílio Médici]

Brazil actually has a lot of potential to become a superpower. It has abundant resources, decent chunk of population, a good location and climate.

The problem with Brazil is that it is full of Brazilians. And that holds it back from ever being great.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

Brazil actually has a lot of potential to become a superpower. It has abundant resources, decent chunk of population, a good location and climate.

The problem with Brazil is that it is full of Brazilians. And that holds it back from ever being great.

Brazil has a lot of Japanese migrants aka Nikkei dating back to the 50s. Is there an alternate scenario where Japan makes overseas territory out of areas in Peru and Brazil, like a Hong Kong type area in those places only under the Japanese?

 

[KID NAMED SCHWARMAPUNK]

What if Georgist Corn won?

 

[Radola Gajda]

Brazil has a lot of Japanese migrants aka Nikkei dating back to the 50s. Is there an alternate scenario where Japan makes overseas territory out of areas in Peru and Brazil, like a Hong Kong type area in those places only under the Japanese?

In old Red flood (hoi4 alt history mod) had there was option to create Jap Brazil, but idk if it is still in modern Red flood.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

I was recently reading some shit on SpaceBattles and man, it really looks like Ian has absolutely no passion left for his site. All he does is be a janny over politics and argue/circlejerk on the Political threads.

The site is fucking dying. The mods are ban/kick happy and seem to have no concept of warning people off before handing their punishments which really fucks with things (Like has been mentioned before they will hand out punishments but also lock your account making it impossible for you to read WHY you were banned/kicked) but that is the minor thing, the issue is it looks dry as fucking tax legislation.

I have spoken about how the site looks like shit, still using a default XenForo skin from over a decade ago without any attempt at making it look good and keeping stuff like profile pictures and user customization straight up blocked out of their stupid desire to "look serious" or some shit but it's even worse than that. It looks worse than some late 1990s forums on how fucking bland it is.

There is this very simple, super handy tool on SpaceBattles that is a complete lifesaver for anyone who wants to read anything: When you choose to watch a thread, you get to chose if you get notified for every post or only for posts from the OP. It's a fucking godsend because it means you can follow a story without being spammed with notifications every time someone replies.

AH.com simply... doesn't have this. Why?

Similarly they don't have the thread-marker system that SB and similar forums have where you can index the main story posts but also make a different chain of markers for side stories, apocrypha, media and even janny posts if they are having to clean it up too much.

I wonder how hard it would be to buy AH from Ian. I might try if I had money but it would likely be a fucking pain to deal with the jannies like CalBear.

Brazil has a lot of Japanese migrants aka Nikkei dating back to the 50s. Is there an alternate scenario where Japan makes overseas territory out of areas in Peru and Brazil, like a Hong Kong type area in those places only under the Japanese?

In old Red flood (hoi4 alt history mod) had there was option to create Jap Brazil, but idk if it is still in modern Red flood.

Fun fact: The japs had a terrorist organization here during the 1940s of ultranationalists running pro-Empire shit. Mostly they did attempts at sabotaging war production of material in Brazil, but they went real violent after 1945 claiming that either Japan hadn't lost the war or that it actually won and the Allies were lying and coping. They mostly ended up killing other japanese who didn't share their ultranationalism.

Sorce (In American) (Be advised, some leftist whitewashing and bias since this is wikipedia and then Brazilian sources tend to be Humanities types)

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

I wonder how hard it would be to buy AH from Ian. I might try if I had money but it would likely be a fucking pain to deal with the jannies like CalBear.

How? If you bought the site and the admin-access, you can un-janny jannies, isn't that so? I mean, that's provided Ian is willing to seel, and he isn't as far as I can tell.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

How? If you bought the site and the admin-access, you can un-janny jannies, isn't that so? I mean, that's provided Ian is willing to seel, and he isn't as far as I can tell.

The problem is less removing the jannies and more finding new jannies to take over

 

[OrangeJuliusEvola]

I was recently reading some shit on SpaceBattles and man, it really looks like Ian has absolutely no passion left for his site. All he does is be a janny over politics and argue/circlejerk on the Political threads.

The site is fucking dying. The mods are ban/kick happy and seem to have no concept of warning people off before handing their punishments which really fucks with things (Like has been mentioned before they will hand out punishments but also lock your account making it impossible for you to read WHY you were banned/kicked) but that is the minor thing, the issue is it looks dry as fucking tax legislation.

I have spoken about how the site looks like shit, still using a default XenForo skin from over a decade ago without any attempt at making it look good and keeping stuff like profile pictures and user customization straight up blocked out of their stupid desire to "look serious" or some shit but it's even worse than that. It looks worse than some late 1990s forums on how fucking bland it is.

There is this very simple, super handy tool on SpaceBattles that is a complete lifesaver for anyone who wants to read anything: When you choose to watch a thread, you get to chose if you get notified for every post or only for posts from the OP. It's a fucking godsend because it means you can follow a story without being spammed with notifications every time someone replies.

AH.com simply... doesn't have this. Why?

Similarly they don't have the thread-marker system that SB and similar forums have where you can index the main story posts but also make a different chain of markers for side stories, apocrypha, media and even janny posts if they are having to clean it up too much.

I wonder how hard it would be to buy AH from Ian. I might try if I had money but it would likely be a fucking pain to deal with the jannies like CalBear.

It hasn't been about alternate history for Ian for over a decade already. It's all about his need to be a ersatz reddit power mod, lord over people and give his shitty anodyne opinions about whatever without being questioned. Consequently he will never sell the site even though it costs him more money than it brings in and always has. He's not hurting for money, and this place allows him to have the power over people he doesn't have as an squill-headed socially-clueless corporate IT server-janny that is his main profession.

Fun fact: The japs had a terrorist organization here during the 1940s of ultranationalists running pro-Empire shit. Mostly they did attempts at sabotaging war production of material in Brazil, but they went real violent after 1945 claiming that either Japan hadn't lost the war or that it actually won and the Allies were lying and coping. They mostly ended up killing other japanese who didn't share their ultranationalism.

They tried organizing that here. Returning Japanese-American vets from Europe beat the shit out of the leaders dumb enough to publicly agitate and destroyed their property while the authorities looked the other way. Oddly, the last ultra-nationalist defeat denialist magazine didn't close up until 1978. It's a very covered up part of history because the local-born Nisei were highly invested in showing American patriotism in the following decades after the war.

 

[AmbassadorAutismo]

AH.com users circlejerk about El Salvador being fascist:

I have to laugh at all the hyperbolic whining about how incarcerating gangbangers is just like heckin Nazis. And then there's the one cuckold declaring he's happy to live in a crime ridden shithole as long as the government doesn't be mean towards lawbreakers. It's the heatmap meme in action.

 

[InspectorJappOfficial]

Brazil becoming a potential superpower seems to be an idea dating back to the '40s-50s SF stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viagens_Interplanetarias

Of course de Camp did it first.

Brazil has been "about to become a great power" in the minds of various commentators since the 1870s or so. At some point you'd think people would learn to temper their predictions, but what do you expect historians to do - read history? The mind boggles.

 

[Alexander Thaut]

Brazil has been "about to become a great power" in the minds of various commentators since the 1870s or so. At some point you'd think people would learn to temper their predictions, but what do you expect historians to do - read history? The mind boggles.

I mean, it's funny in hindsight. At least de Camp wrote about that before it got memed to death.

 

[millais]

I think it's a well-established running joke that the social media interns at the Nixon Foundation are all meme-addicted zoomers, but now they are producing Nixon-themed AH podcast, they are not beating the rumors.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Nixon negotiated the return of POWs from Vietnam in exchange for ransom, just like the French did with their own POWs.

Congress decided that wouldn't fly, and so they killed the deal because they didn't want to admit defeat.

They knowingly left thousands of POWs to die in Vietnam that Nixon would have brought home. And they doubled down on it 20 years later when John "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran" McCain (who spent most of his POW time in a mostly nice prison due to his father's Admiral status) led the comitee on POWs and helped burry the case. [1] [2][3]

I firmly believe Nixon was the target of a coup by the deep state. He was doing some shit they didn't like, and they removed it. Maybe his real-politik dealing with commies and temporary detente was too much. Maybe he refused to greenlight one too many CIA shitshows. Maybe he wanted to get glowies on a shorter leash. Who the fuck knows. But they removed him.

Watergate was a complete nothingburger when you compare it to other scandals involving presidents like FDR's attempt at court packing and his literal NKVD agent sidekicks, or Iran Contra, or GWB lying about WMDs in Iraq, or LBJ false flagging the Gulf of Tonkin to get the USA in Vietnam. But it was held up as some sort of masterstroke of journalism for decades and absolute win. How many people even fucking know what it actually was and what happened? You think people realize Watergate was Nixon doing one tenth of what Crossfire Hurricane from Obama did to Trump? Nah. It's all a big meme. And the media never forgot the high they got from it, and kept chasing it for 50 years until it caused them to collapse.

Also Spiro Agnew was funny. He got to go to that super party the Shah of Iran threw for the 2500 anniversary of Iran.

 

[millais]

Nixon negotiated the return of POWs from Vietnam in exchange for ransom, just like the French did with their own POWs.

Congress decided that wouldn't fly, and so they killed the deal because they didn't want to admit defeat.

They knowingly left thousands of POWs to die in Vietnam that Nixon would have brought home. And they doubled down on it 20 years later when John "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran" McCain (who spent most of his POW time in a mostly nice prison due to his father's Admiral status) led the comitee on POWs and helped burry the case. [1] [2][3]

I firmly believe Nixon was the target of a coup by the deep state. He was doing some shit they didn't like, and they removed it. Maybe his real-politik dealing with commies and temporary detente was too much. Maybe he refused to greenlight one too many CIA shitshows. Maybe he wanted to get glowies on a shorter leash. Who the fuck knows. But they removed him.

Watergate was a complete nothingburger when you compare it to other scandals involving presidents like FDR's attempt at court packing and his literal NKVD agent sidekicks, or Iran Contra, or GWB lying about WMDs in Iraq, or LBJ false flagging the Gulf of Tonkin to get the USA in Vietnam. But it was held up as some sort of masterstroke of journalism for decades and absolute win. How many people even fucking know what it actually was and what happened? You think people realize Watergate was Nixon doing one tenth of what Crossfire Hurricane from Obama did to Trump? Nah. It's all a big meme. And the media never forgot the high they got from it, and kept chasing it for 50 years until it caused them to collapse.

Also Spiro Agnew was funny. He got to go to that super party the Shah of Iran threw for the 2500 anniversary of Iran.

He was winning too much, moving from strength to strength, so the deep state hated him. Very famously, Nixon basically sidelined the entire glowie/commie compromised State Department, keeping them out of the decision-making loop, and all the important foreign policy/affairs was run through Kissinger's small, handpicked staff. This majorly pissed off the glowies and bureaucrat/functionary careerists.

The podcast is AI generated slop though, it's not even an entertaining example of shitty AH. The Nixon Foundation social media interns should stick to editing and remastering archival video recordings of interesting events and speeches from the Nixon presidency.

 

[TotalDiggerNeath]

AH.com users circlejerk about El Salvador being fascist:

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I have to laugh at all the hyperbolic whining about how incarcerating gangbangers is just like heckin Nazis. And then there's the one cuckold declaring he's happy to live in a crime ridden shithole as long as the government doesn't be mean towards lawbreakers. It's the heatmap meme in action.

Libtards will really go out and say "Yes, having your family raped and killed and by Gangbangers is better than being le mean to them"

(Though, going on PolChat is essentially easy pickings at this point, it's best to just ignore it and just avoid current Pol altogether imo)

 

[Sooty Soot]

This thread should become a general althistory thread, really.

 

[Hugbox Kommissar]

This thread should become a general althistory thread, really.

In an alternate universe it is.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

I found some autism.

 

[DJ Grelle]

This thread should become a general althistory thread, really.

It already is tbh, just like how the TNO thread in community watch is the actual HOI4 thread.

In the end thread subjects are more like guidelines.

 

[Sooty Soot]

There was this AH dot com thread a year ago, the premise was every single tranny in the modern day on a specific date got superpowers. I can't for the life of me find it anymore, I think it was posted around Feb. or March of last year.