Recent content by Aisha Clan-Clan

I said "soviet alliance" not "supported by the western left" for a reason. Getting Rhodesia or south africa supported by the western US/UK/frencrh moderate/mainstream left implies either no WWII or WWII that's the UK-US-france-germany-italy against USSR-Japan axis and implied radically different...

Eh, they'd just need to claim they're "more progressive" somehow. Feudalism or ewarly capitalism as a higheer level than slave society/tribal society. Is the reasoning insane? Yeeah but it doesn't mean the logic couldn't have been assembled. Is therre any geopolitical reasoning or them to do...

Hey, I said it was OP's job to come up with the legwork to justify it. I didn't say it was particularly likely...

Their problem was trying to be reactionary and western-aligned. If they'd been soviet-aligned somehow, they would have gotten both protection from marxist guerillas as well as protections from western intelligenstisa. No idea how to get Rhodesia as a soviet ally, that's on OP to figure out, lol.

No USSR just changes the ideology of the rebels in the global south the russians fund. In TTL they'd just fund local nationalists instead of communism. So yeah no change there. no WWII? Yeah, that's significant for decolonization. Probably 5-15 year delay depending on specific country for asian...

You get the corporate neoliberals trying and failing in '84 and '88. Hart flops in 1984, Clinton in 1988. Good ol' east coast liberal Mario Cuomo takes power in 1992.

You want a pod to get to speed things up a decade to get it at least STARTIGN with like 3 states in the 1970s? Avoid prohibition on top of my first POD. This prevents feds getting involved in anti-marijuana initiatives, leaving it to the states. You end up with some states that are both...

Too many GI/silent/the silent majority of boomers who were proto-neocons to pull off legal marijuana in the 1970s. On this POD I'm unironically sympathetic so me arguing "it can't be done in 1970s but we *can* have it starting to be legal in 80s and 90s, probably on similar lines to where it's...

My guess is mostly similar programs, the main difference comes in how it's funded(using land value tax instead of income/sales/property taxes). Given it funded in a less socially intrusive way than income/sales taxes this implies a probably less regulatory and more vague sectoral corporatist...

Earliest I can do for marijuana legalization on a federal level given same cultural configuration circa 1960 as OTL is probably, like 2010. However, if you flip 1976 to have a long democratic/liberal period 1981-1997/2001/2005 you'd potentially see that trope of 1960s SF novels with a bunch of...

I meant populism.

Georgist-Labor coalition america instead of OTL's Progressive-labor coalition? Be still my beating heart. Not as utopian as having georgists beat progs to the punch but a way better domestic policy for sure. Foreign policy? Probably little to no change given the electorate's moood back then...

Ok so india is in there OTL? Did not know that

Argentina declines like it/uruguay/australia/new zealand did in OTL but the level or rate of decline is closer to australia/NZ. So you get a lower end of first world argentina with annoyingly #populist politics. Call it say a greek or malaysian level of development, basically. Still not great...

Uh... A whole lot of horrible stuff happens. zionism happens in uganda instead. There's a US-Sotuh Africa-Rhodesia-Israel-Portugal axis in the region. Blacks remain segregated in the US thanks to alot of the older great/silent/boomer generation moderate or liberal pro-israel hawks being small-c...