DagwoodIII

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[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

You didn't challenge anyone to improve themselves. You tried to impose your ideas on other people. There's a difference.

Cheers.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

it could not have happened and would not have happened, for essentially economic reasons.

The interesting alternative histories are ones that turn on a single fortuitous event.

You said it couldn't happen, then said that there are ways it could have happened.

Also, if you don't want to be part of the discussion, you are free to stay out. other people are participating and enjoying themselves.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

You are contradicting yourself.

Hitler left orders not to be awakened so he slept in on D-Day. Rommel had left his post. Think that wouldn't have changed things?

Stalin had dozens of warnings that Hitler planned to invade. What if he'd taken even one seriously?

What if Hitler had let the Army get the glory at Dunkirk and steamrolled the troops on the beach?

I can think of dozens of times the course of the War changed by the actions of one person.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

iirc they decided to do the reboot after Michelle Trachtenberg died.

I'm not going to speculate about it, but I'd think that Geller and Trachtenberg were friends and I do know that Geller has resisted doing a reboot for years.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://richardpoe.substack.com/p/how-the-british-caused-the-american

I've seen this idea from several sources. The British figured that American 'Manifest Destiny' would mean annexing Canada eventually. It didn't cost the Brits a lot to stir up Southern resentments against the North. So they South got played.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://richardpoe.substack.com/p/how-the-british-caused-the-american

Many people believe that the British government actively pushed the south to secede in order to weaken the US.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 20 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Apples and oranges.

Vietnamese had been fighting for twenty years against the French and Japanese. The South thought they would achieve victory with a few battles.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

https://youtu.be/F-Vz67p5kLQ

I take it as a personal affront that there are grown adults who are ignorant of their own cultural heritage.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago

Stop, I can only get so hard!!!

/s

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's one of those things that sound reasonable until you actually spend a minute thinking about the details.

Minting money. Starting a post office. Borders. People who work out of state.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/BonanzaS05E28

At about the same time, it was common to have White people play Asians on TV.

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