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• What the hell do conservatives want? An alternate history project - Robert - 3/17/2004 4:11:02 PM
  • Points of divergence... - Tom Brosz - 3/20/2004 3:06:11 AM
    • Wikipedia's take on it - Tom Brosz - 3/20/2004 3:17:21 AM
      • The alternative history of L. Neil Smith's "Probability Broach" - Tom Brosz - 3/20/2004 5:20:26 AM
        • Where was I? - Robert - 3/23/2004 2:44:14 AM
          • BTW - Tom Brosz - 3/23/2004 5:45:53 AM
          • "Probability Broach" - Tom Brosz - 3/23/2004 5:32:08 AM
            • re: "Probability Broach" - Robert - 3/23/2004 5:55:19 AM
              • P.S. - Tom Brosz - 3/23/2004 8:16:12 AM
              • Some culture stuff... - Tom Brosz - 3/23/2004 8:13:43 AM
  • But, but, but - FrankC - 3/18/2004 5:40:33 PM
    • Not bad - Robert - 3/18/2004 6:16:36 PM
      • World Government - FrankC - 3/18/2004 8:38:24 PM
        • A World Government is no guarantee that a global 'civil war' will be averted. - Jacob Samorodin - 3/24/2004 3:23:01 PM
        • re: World Government - Robert - 3/18/2004 10:00:51 PM
        • re: UN - Raoul - 3/18/2004 9:40:27 PM
    • You know, I kinda liked that - tony - 3/18/2004 6:02:47 PM
      • I thought of that... - FrankC - 3/18/2004 7:56:43 PM
  • A couple of suggestions. No Social Security, and no Pearl Harbor - Bowser - 3/18/2004 3:58:24 PM
    • The irony of it all - Robert - 3/18/2004 5:27:54 PM
      • Maybe liberals aren't as worried about accuracy and plausibility. - Tom Brosz - 3/19/2004 4:42:58 AM
        • Why write a fictional history in which liberal ideas are ascendent? - Mary Anne - 3/19/2004 5:10:59 PM
          • re: Why write a fictional history in which liberal ideas are ascendent? - SDG - 3/19/2004 9:37:30 PM
            • Utopia? I don' want no steenking Utopia! - Mary Anne - 3/20/2004 12:34:25 AM
              • re: Utopia? I don' want no steenking Utopia! - SDG - 3/23/2004 3:38:11 PM
                • Utopia is literally "Nowhere" - Larry J - 3/23/2004 10:19:12 PM
      • Ah, screw him. - Bowser - 3/18/2004 5:50:19 PM
        • And the horse I rode in on! - alcaray - 3/18/2004 7:26:41 PM
          • Looked more like a burro. And us typing dogs prefer "anomaly" to "freak". (n/t) - Bowser - 3/18/2004 7:49:36 PM
            • Well, the burros are a little cuter (n/t) - alcaray - 3/18/2004 10:22:51 PM
              • That's funny! Score a couple for yourself. And not burros. (n/t) - Bowser - 3/18/2004 10:40:29 PM
        • Low probability branches - Robert - 3/18/2004 6:30:16 PM
          • re: Low probability branches - Bowser - 3/18/2004 6:43:25 PM
            • re: Low probability branches - Robert - 3/18/2004 7:05:14 PM
              • Documentation. - Bowser - 3/18/2004 7:42:52 PM
                • Wow - Robert - 3/19/2004 3:24:47 AM
                  • Invasion of Cuba - SDG - 3/19/2004 4:48:56 AM
                • another question about that order - SDG - 3/19/2004 12:32:20 AM
                  • Nukes against an amphibious landing in Cuba? - Tom Brosz - 3/19/2004 4:49:36 AM
                    • re: Nukes against an amphibious landing in Cuba? - SDG - 3/19/2004 5:13:20 AM
                  • I'm not sure. - Bowser - 3/19/2004 12:52:31 AM
                  • more info - SDG - 3/19/2004 12:45:36 AM
                    • That makes more sense. - Bowser - 3/19/2004 5:39:22 AM
                • re: Documentation. - SDG - 3/18/2004 9:52:32 PM
                  • My suspicions. - Bowser - 3/18/2004 10:57:56 PM
                    • very good points - SDG - 3/18/2004 11:55:13 PM
                      • Sure. - Bowser - 3/19/2004 12:41:37 AM
                        • re: Sure. - SDG - 3/19/2004 1:22:08 AM
                • And the most important part. - Bowser - 3/18/2004 8:02:44 PM
      • What the hell do liberals want? Let's turn it around.. - FrankC - 3/18/2004 5:47:29 PM
        • your turn first (n/t) - alcaray - 3/18/2004 6:27:02 PM
        • Nah - Robert - 3/18/2004 6:04:17 PM
  • This is what I think you're proposing. - Mary Anne - 3/18/2004 12:22:09 AM
    • Duh. It's been a long day. - Mary Anne - 3/18/2004 12:24:34 AM
      • Sigh - Robert - 3/18/2004 3:52:37 AM
        • re: Sigh - SDG - 3/18/2004 3:38:44 PM
          • "To rewrite 70 years of history is a hell of a lot to ask." - Tom Brosz - 3/19/2004 4:57:00 AM
          • re: Sigh - Robert - 3/18/2004 5:30:43 PM
  • ( A hint for 'em.) Tony Blair would be speaking German. (n/t) - Bowser - 3/17/2004 11:50:14 PM
  • re: What the hell do conservatives want? An alternate history project - mclute - 3/17/2004 11:00:07 PM
    • rewriting history - Robert - 3/17/2004 11:26:25 PM
      • re: rewriting history - SDG - 3/18/2004 1:02:31 AM
        • re: rewriting history - Robert - 3/18/2004 6:40:27 PM
  • Not gonna happen: Conservatives have no imagination. - alcaray - 3/17/2004 7:38:44 PM
    • Not helpful. This is their game. (n/t) - Robert - 3/17/2004 10:20:38 PM
  • I wish I was that good - Tom Brosz - 3/17/2004 7:04:40 PM
    • Have faith - Robert - 3/17/2004 10:18:27 PM
      • I'm so damned tired.... - Tom Brosz - 3/18/2004 1:40:18 AM
        • Aren't we all - Robert - 3/18/2004 3:54:28 PM
          • Utopia - Tom Brosz - 3/19/2004 6:07:27 AM
        • Understand: tired - Mary Anne - 3/18/2004 2:24:45 AM
          • A few data points - Larry J - 3/18/2004 2:48:29 PM
            • Thanks - Robert - 3/18/2004 5:42:32 PM
              • And... - Larry J - 3/18/2004 7:38:40 PM
                • Thanks 2.0 - Robert - 3/18/2004 9:44:38 PM
                  • I don't know if Hoover could've ended the Depression - Larry J - 3/19/2004 4:19:58 PM
            • The subject is conservatives, not Republicans. - Mary Anne - 3/18/2004 3:44:18 PM
              • The terms conservative and liberal have almost lost their meaning - Larry J - 3/18/2004 7:52:00 PM
                • Definitions in context - Robert - 3/19/2004 3:35:11 AM
                  • Voting - Tom Brosz - 3/19/2004 6:47:52 AM
                    • re: Voting - Robert - 3/23/2004 9:04:52 PM
                      • Ideally, you're right. - Tom Brosz - 3/24/2004 7:20:19 AM
                    • Would you include sales tax? - Mary Anne - 3/19/2004 5:50:44 PM
                      • re: Would you include sales tax? - Tom Brosz - 3/20/2004 2:58:09 AM
                • I cant remember a time when liberal wasnt a secret code-word for communist (n/t) - alcaray - 3/18/2004 10:20:55 PM
                  • Likewise, I keep hearing some declare conservatives are Nazis - Larry J - 3/19/2004 5:48:28 PM
                  • Not much of a secret, though, was it? - Robert - 3/19/2004 3:48:16 AM
          • re: tired - Tom Brosz - 3/18/2004 5:57:30 AM
            • re: infinite forks - alcaray - 3/18/2004 7:05:43 PM
            • A definition from Heinlein's "Notebooks" - Tom Brosz - 3/18/2004 6:01:50 AM
              • Heinlein and me, and stuff - Mary Anne - 3/18/2004 2:08:37 PM
                • re: stuff - Tom Brosz - 3/19/2004 7:19:01 AM
  • There seems to have been a "Publius" back there. (n/t) - Bowser - 3/17/2004 6:08:56 PM
  • A problem - FrankC - 3/17/2004 6:00:56 PM
    • A hypothetical exercize - Robert - 3/17/2004 6:53:41 PM
  • I'll go, if someone will lead. - Mary Anne - 3/17/2004 5:27:37 PM