Recent content by steve_wilson

  1. WI: Holocaust never happens, and nazis not anti-semetic

    Most of these posts ignore the mediaevalism of fascism. An old order that no-one living had actually lived in was painted as an age of piety, peace and prosperity, so the question became "who ruined it". To practically every party the answer was Capitalism. Here they differed. To communists the...
  2. The Dream of Iolo Morganwg: An alternate history of Welsh Patagonia

    Now I notice there was gold in Patagonia, but not discovered until the 1880s. Might the Welsh not find it earlier, what with them being miners ?
  3. The Dream of Iolo Morganwg: An alternate history of Welsh Patagonia

    New Scillies? The old Scillies would once have spoken Cornish, the language most closely related to Welsh. And there's more than one of them, so the Falklands could be St Mary's, New Tresco etc.
  4. The Dream of Iolo Morganwg: An alternate history of Welsh Patagonia

    Rugby is a long way off, but given that in OTL animosity between just 2 people were involved, I would like to see some butterflying and for Wales and New Wales to opt for Rugby League in 1895.
  5. Why didn't the British annex any of their overseas colonies?

    Tyr seems to have hit the nail on the head, without naming it!" The internal relationship between the United Kingdom and Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man and Sark alone is so confusing that extending it to anywhere else is a nightmare!
  6. Is this where Steampunk and clockpunk began?

    Although almost forgotten now, A Rubovian Legend was a BBC puppet show for the very young. Like a lot of such shows, it was repeated for decades. The peculiar technology of Rubovia might just have percolated away in the subconscious of various authors, as explained in this Wiki bit...
  7. How much less powerful is a USA without the southwest?

    Texas has an Atlantic coast but not one on the Pacific. So surely it's in the East. Or do their big hats and 1920s mindset with correspondingly low IQ qualify them?
  8. A Cure for Cancer

    I am currently taking part in the trials of the new stage of treatment by Nivolumab, which has a damn good chance of curing or at least controlling the renal cancer I was diagnosed with three months ago. In the inevitable long periods of waiting around I started to wonder: 1) Suppose an...
  9. American Nazi: Who Could It Be?

    Jeb Bush. http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/jeb-bush-praises-book-by-notorious-bell-curve-race-theorist-charles-murray/ 2016 election is overshadowed by the violence that has expanded over police shootings of unarmed black youth. Jeb Bush promotes The Bell Curve to argue that black people...
  10. Why Did Strains Of African Religion Develop In Latin America and Not the USA?

    Sorry to correct, but Hoodoo comes from Congolese religion, way to the south of the Yoruba culture. The word Hoodoo comes from the Portuguese for "Jewish" because all pre-New Testament practices were regarded as Jewish. Angolan slaves brought the word to the New World. Hudi and Vodun converged...
  11. AHC: The 60s Counterculture Movement is Victorious

    President McGovern introduces the Act Act, making 20 minute improvised guitar solos based on Dylan songs a compulsory part of every public performance, which causes real problems for the Grand Old Opry. Opposition grows until the election of President J Biafra in 1980. His Star Wars initiative...
  12. WI: Christian Communism became a major movement in the US

    Hmm. The last "Christian Communist" I can think of was Jim Jones. I would tell a joke about him and his People's Temple, but the punchline is too long.
  13. Could Khrushchev Rehabilitate Trotsky?

    In what world? He only switched to Bolshevism two months before the revolution!
  14. WI Apocalypse Now directed by George Lucas

    Tattooine. I was still on Tattooine........
  15. Compulsory voting in the USA

    No, the US government is representative of around 18% of the population - the ones who voted for them instead of the ones that lost.
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