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« on: May 08, 2005, 02:52:33 AM »
A year earlier. What happens?
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« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2005, 03:12:56 AM »
Wallace is president. Very bad.

But only for a year, Dewey will beat him. Especially with all the damage he'll have caused by then.

Umm- a unified communist Korea, a DPRJ in Hokkaido, no West Berlin, at the least.
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« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2005, 03:46:12 AM »
What if he dies in 1941, before Pearl Harbor?
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« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2005, 11:36:28 AM »
The TL is quite dark:

http://foralltime.alternatehistory.com
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« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2005, 11:56:17 AM »

It is also quite bad.
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« Reply #5 on: May 08, 2005, 02:52:58 PM »

It's basically Murphy's Law as a TL; everything that can go wrong (except for WWIII - unless you count USSR v. China as WWIII) does.

Some stuff from it:
-Three words: President Jim Jones. Alexander Haig's coup was for a damned good reason, ya know...
-Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa of France and his 'equatorial pork'. 
-Small nuclear wars everywhere - PA-13 bites the dust in one. Well, not exactly, but close enough... Tongue
-No Israel, and the Middle East still manages to be ed up. At least it proves it's not the Jew's fault... Tongue
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« Reply #6 on: May 08, 2005, 05:44:00 PM »
Quote from: Senator DanielX on May 08, 2005, 02:52:58 PM

It's basically Murphy's Law as a TL; everything that can go wrong (except for WWIII - unless you count USSR v. China as WWIII) does.

Some stuff from it:
-Three words: President Jim Jones. Alexander Haig's coup was for a damned good reason, ya know...
-Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa of France and his 'equatorial pork'. 
-Small nuclear wars everywhere - PA-13 bites the dust in one. Well, not exactly, but close enough... Tongue
-No Israel, and the Middle East still manages to be f**cked up. At least it proves it's not the Jew's fault... Tongue

It also suffers from massive, massive name dropping, pulling in famous names frm OTL that make little or no sense other than to shock the reader.  Once can be fun and not stretch plausibility.  THe numebr of times it happens in FAT is ridiculous.
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« Reply #7 on: May 08, 2005, 06:56:08 PM »

You made me waste 4 hours of my life...

Well spent, generally.  Although once you get beyond 5 years it's pure speculation, of course.
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« Reply #8 on: May 08, 2005, 08:05:23 PM »
Quote from: M on May 08, 2005, 03:12:56 AM
Wallace is president. Very bad.

But only for a year, Dewey will beat him. Especially with all the damage he'll have caused by then.

Umm- a unified communist Korea, a DPRJ in Hokkaido, no West Berlin, at the least.

You think Dewey as president will lead to those things?

The general shape of the post-war partion of Germany had already been decided upon at Tehran in 1943 IIRC and the partition of Korea was decided upon at Yalta.  Absent Yalta, there would have been that unified communist Korea that you worried about.  Wallace has no chance to do much mischief unless he is reelected.
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« Reply #9 on: May 08, 2005, 08:22:55 PM »
LOL at the mindless Wallace bashing.
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« Reply #10 on: May 08, 2005, 08:30:46 PM »
Are you sure Wallace'd have lost? I'm pretty sure FDR was being weighed down by the fact that he was running for a 4th term when no other president had ever run for more than 2, yet he still won in a landslide, and for good reason. We were in a shooting war, and we were winning!

Churchill's defeat in 1945 is surprising enough, but at least that was after the war was over.
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« Reply #11 on: May 08, 2005, 09:01:26 PM »
Quote from: jfern on May 08, 2005, 08:22:55 PM
LOL at the mindless Wallace bashing.
Mindless, eh?  Why don't you do some research on Wallace's policies and what he said.
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