underused after 1900 pods

[insect]

What pods  after 1900 are rarely ever used??

[Zyobot]

Maybe I'm wrong, but here's one I haven't seen too much: 'George W. Bush Wins Popular Vote In 2000 Election'.

[lordroel]

Aug 15, 2019 13:15:08 GMT Zyobot said:

Maybe I'm wrong, but here's one I haven't seen too much: 'George W. Bush Wins Popular Vote In 2000 Election'.

That would solve the Florida recount issues.

[Zyobot]

What about 'No Section 230 In The Communications Act Of 1996'? Granted, that may be more of a 'Politics and Current Affairs" topic since it both a) has game-changing implications for the 21st Century and b) is very much relevant to 2019, but it would still take place after 1900 nonetheless.

[Zyobot]

I could be wrong about this suggestion, but how about 'Communist Adolf Hitler'? It's a rather unique prompt that I myself haven't seen often outside of one AH.com TL about it.

[lordroel]

Aug 17, 2019 18:53:21 GMT Zyobot said:

I could be wrong about this suggestion, but how about 'Communist Adolf Hitler'? It's a rather unique prompt that I myself haven't seen often outside of one AH.com TL about it.

Do not think we going to like a communist Germany.

[Zyobot]

Aug 17, 2019 18:54:08 GMT lordroel said:

Aug 17, 2019 18:53:21 GMT Zyobot said:

I could be wrong about this suggestion, but how about 'Communist Adolf Hitler'? It's a rather unique prompt that I myself haven't seen often outside of one AH.com TL about it.

Do not think we going to like a communist Germany.

Well, obviously. The real question, I think, is how it might compare to OTL Nazi Germany?

[lordroel]

Aug 17, 2019 18:57:46 GMT Zyobot said:

Aug 17, 2019 18:54:08 GMT lordroel said:

Do not think we going to like a communist Germany.

Well, obviously. The real question, I think, is how it might compare to OTL Nazi Germany?

Not a fine place to live, mostly for Poland who gets stuck between two Communist superpowers.

[Zyobot]

Aug 17, 2019 18:59:33 GMT lordroel said:

Aug 17, 2019 18:57:46 GMT Zyobot said:

Well, obviously. The real question, I think, is how it might compare to OTL Nazi Germany?

Not a fine place to live, mostly for Poland who gets stuck between two Communist superpowers.

Potentially, yeah. Based on that prediction, I'm guessing you think that Red Germany would be more prone to international adventurism in the name of "die revolution!" or what have you? With A. Hitler winding up in charge, I can imagine that happening.

[lordroel]

Aug 17, 2019 19:01:43 GMT Zyobot said:

Aug 17, 2019 18:59:33 GMT lordroel said:

Not a fine place to live, mostly for Poland who gets stuck between two Communist superpowers.

Potentially, yeah. Based on that prediction, I'm guessing you think that Red Germany would be more prone to international adventurism in the name of "die revolution!" or what have you? With A. Hitler winding up in charge, I can imagine that happening.

Well Soviet Russia was doing that until Poland kick their buts in the Polish–Soviet War of 1919-1921, i can see a Red Germany doing the same, starting in Spain and then going to Austria (who will not join a Red Germany under its current government) and so on.

[stevep]

Aug 17, 2019 19:17:41 GMT lordroel said:

Aug 17, 2019 19:01:43 GMT Zyobot said:

Potentially, yeah. Based on that prediction, I'm guessing you think that Red Germany would be more prone to international adventurism in the name of "die revolution!" or what have you? With A. Hitler winding up in charge, I can imagine that happening.

Well Soviet Russia was doing that until Poland kick their buts in the Polish–Soviet War of 1919-1921, i can see a Red Germany doing the same, starting in Spain and then going to Austria (who will not join a Red Germany under its current government) and so on.

  I think the problem with this is that given the conservatism dominant at that point across virtually all of Europe west of the USSR I can't see a communist Germany getting the same slack as Hitler got OTL.  Quite likely as early as the attempt to re-enter the Rhineland the French, probably supported by other powers are likely to step in.  There could be unrest in areas with strong communist elements but fear of a revanchist Communist Germany is likely to be significantly greater than OTL. 

[Zyobot]

What about 'FDR Lives Longer', say until around the 1950s or '60s? Even though that'd have far-reaching implications for a changed TL going forwards, I don't recall seeing that scenario discussed on AH.com all that often.

[stevep]

Aug 25, 2019 17:35:25 GMT Zyobot said:

What about 'FDR Lives Longer', say until around the 1950s or '60s? Even though that'd have far-reaching implications for a changed TL going forwards, I don't recall seeing that scenario discussed on AH.com all that often.

  It would need a hell of a change given his poor health and the strain put onto him during the war.  However if it happened would he seek to stand again in 1948?  Or possibly seek to be the power behind the throne in the Democratic party?

[Zyobot]

Aug 25, 2019 20:46:14 GMT stevep said:

Aug 25, 2019 17:35:25 GMT Zyobot said:

What about 'FDR Lives Longer', say until around the 1950s or '60s? Even though that'd have far-reaching implications for a changed TL going forwards, I don't recall seeing that scenario discussed on AH.com all that often.

  It would need a hell of a change given his poor health and the strain put onto him during the war.  However if it happened would he seek to stand again in 1948?  Or possibly seek to be the power behind the throne in the Democratic party?

Good points. I don't know what could be done about his polio and other defining physical ailments, but maybe if he somehow quit--or at least, vastly cut down on--drinking and cigar smoking during his presidency, FDR might be able to live for at least a few years more?

Plus, assuming that World War Two ends around 1945 and with the Allies having crushed the Axis ITTL, perhaps he'll cite his record of leading America through the Great Depression and another global war if he runs for reelection in 1948. Although, a weak response to any post-war Soviet expansion (or at least, encroachment) may hurt his chances of winning a fifth term.

[Zyobot]

How about 'Nazi Germany With No Holocaust', which is a rather self-explanatory scenario? There's one recent AH.com thread that essentially explored this premise, but it's the only example I remember coming across thus far.