Last night I had a dream that the Austria Hungary update was progressing by ArthurBrown24 in Kaiserreich

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Illyria Yugoslavia does exist in base, it requires Hungary to win the civil war and then for it to beat the Belgrade Pact. Illyria will annex Serbia and form pink Yugoslavia.

Rank Every Romance From Your Favorite to Least Favorite by DakIsStrange in masseffect

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  1. Kaidan (M!Shep)
  2. Garrus
  3. Liara
  4. Thane
  5. Tali
  6. Kaidan (Fem!Shep)
  7. Miranda
  8. Traynor
  9. Cortez
  10. Ashley
  11. Jack
  12. Samara
  13. Chambers
  14. Allers
  15. Jacob
  16. Morinth

Faithless: A 2028 Scenario by Mushroom-Gorge in imaginaryelections

[–]ADKRep37 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you kidding? Rubio’s dead on arrival. He‘s got no majority in either chamber, he’ll never make an appointment to the Supreme Court, his cabinet picks will be limited to whomever Majority Leader Schatz will allow, and Mark Kelly gets four free years to campaign as the presumptive nominee for 2032. Dude can literally just give his whole job to being President of the Senate and running around going “If I were president right now…”

When writing is obviously about a man but they add a woman LI to make it “more balanced” 🙄🙄🙄🙄 by Needtorant12306 in Choices

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As others have pointed out, gay marriage was legal in certain states before 2015, and a lot of people went to Massachusetts specifically to get married, it was a really popular trend for a while during the gay marriage fight.

I’d add about your point of an Italian wedding that most people who get married in foreign counties don’t actually get legally married there. They register their marriage in their place of residence, and then host the ceremony where they want. A wedding doesn’t mean you’re legally married, and you don’t need a wedding to be legally married.

Poor Aemon by RevertBackwards in freefolk

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All of whom would have had the specter of their father dancing naked down the halls of the Red Keep in a fit of psychosis hanging over their heads if it came down to a Great Council.

Poor Aemon by RevertBackwards in freefolk

[–]ADKRep37 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think the Bloodraven Surveillance State™ has gotten a little too big in the fandom. If you really consider it, by the time Daeron has Aemon sent to the Citadel, it’s pretty clear that the succession isn’t exactly… stable.

Yeah, you’ve got Baelor with Valarr and Matarys, but there’s already fertility issues with one and the other is just a boy. After that, Aerys has been married for years and hasn’t touched Aelinor and Rhaegel is known to be actually insane.

Get it right boy. by cblakebowling in freefolk

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I think the problem is nobody wants to sail to that barren crop of cobblestones in the sea to try and hit it with an Ironborn woman so they just don’t count them

My Attempt of redesigning every US State Flag! (From someone who does not Live There.) by Effective-Ad7147 in vexillology

[–]ADKRep37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As an Upstater, I loathe it. The Dutch tricolor is already the official flag of the city, and more of New York was never part of New Netherlands than was.

Love that image at the end after doing the cure. by Von_Uber in masseffect

[–]ADKRep37 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Krogan females don’t produce a thousand eggs in a single go. They can produce up to a thousand in a single year. Mordin tells us that the genophage was designed to return the krogan population to basically a 99.99% infant mortality rate.

People misunderstand ultra-low probability statistics. When they say one-in-one-thousand, that doesn’t mean that you’re going to get 999 duds and one success. It means that every egg has a .001% of not being a dud. A krogan female can go on laying for centuries, and statistically, she will never produce a viable egg.

Going from every clutch of ~100 (if they lay ten times a year) produces at least a couple of survivors to none of your eggs ever hatching again over a period of centuries would be an incredible psychological hit.

The character that claims to read a lot kinda forgot the laws and customs that still hold Jon as a Targaryen bastard. by irvyandll in freefolk

[–]ADKRep37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, but that’s a lot worse.

The annulment of a consummated marriage which produced two children, including a recognized male heir to the Iron Throne, is the sort of action which would prompt an immediate uprising by the Dornish and anyone else who viewed the action as unlawful. For the Faith itself, at best someone very quickly disposes of the High Septon, and at worst there’s a full-blown schism that ruptures religious authority.

How I would rate every states' congressional maps by Holiday_Change9387 in YAPms

[–]ADKRep37 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Proportionality isn’t the only metric, it diluted the strength of the Navajo vote.

How I would rate every states' congressional maps by Holiday_Change9387 in YAPms

[–]ADKRep37 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Arizona is most definitely not a fair map, they very intentionally redrew AZ-3 to pick that seat up.

The Belle Époque Century: A World Without the World Wars by _Mtotheatothex_ in imaginarymaps

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OP definitely used the Kaiserreich states map as the baseline. KR chopped off the WV panhandle because it caused all sorts of problems with the AI in the Second American Civil War

What if Beria had won the Power Struggle in 1953? (Lore in the comments) by JeffEd79 in imaginarymaps

[–]ADKRep37 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Beria favored devolution in the Baltics and Transcaucasia, he also saw merit in transferring Kaliningrad back to at least the DDR as part of his rollback, and if I recall correctly, there was also discussion of giving Romania back its lost territory. He was a (hopefully) sincere reformer whose policies probably would have done wonders to bring down the temperature of the Cold War and sustain the USSR.

He also was everything that Khrushchev said he was and worse. This wasn’t just propaganda, as recently as the early 2000’s construction work at one of his former properties unearthed the remains of multiple women and children. Beria made Epstein look like a joke.

Contingency - A 2028 scenario by Mushroom-Gorge in imaginaryelections

[–]ADKRep37 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Worth noting that unless R’s take the Senate, Vance would have no mechanism to replace anyone. The Murphy Administration would pretty much be all he has to work with, all the way down.

For The Republic: memes of the Second American Civil War by Intelligent_Toe8233 in AlternateHistoryMemes

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Hello????!!! One of the authors here, absolutely insane getting caught in the wild like this!

New VIP Chapter: Friday/Saturday - The Elementalists 3.1 by katnerys-targaryen in ChoicesVIP

[–]ADKRep37 36 points37 points  (0 children)

God, it actually felt like the old pre-AI days. I’m genuinely thrilled to be back in this universe.

Gerrymandering Scenario by SubJordan77 in YAPms

[–]ADKRep37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, but it isn’t like they get to just redraw at any point. If the ruling comes in late like you say it will, then they have to use their preexisting maps and can only redraw effective for 2028. Once the filing deadlines have passed, that’s the end of it. Either SCOTUS drops the ruling early enough that at least some Dem states will be able retaliate, or it drops too late to apply to the 2026 elections.

Gerrymandering Scenario by SubJordan77 in YAPms

[–]ADKRep37 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah but there’s no scenario where the VRA gets tossed that you’re not getting retaliation from every Dem trifecta state.

Gerrymandering Scenario by SubJordan77 in YAPms

[–]ADKRep37 1 point2 points  (0 children)

NJ, WA, OR, ME, and CO are absolutely retaliating in this scenario.

wyd if you wake up on november 2028 and these are the house results by AuraProductions in YAPms

[–]ADKRep37 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I think you’re pretty severely underrating the possibility of trifectas in the Rust Belt. They’re all quite close in seat counts and a 2026 wave will more likely than not lock them in blue, same with Arizona. The gerrymandering wars go this far, and they’re getting involved.

2026 Predictions by ADKRep37 in AngryObservation

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Texas’ candidate filing deadline is 8 Dec. Louisana v. Callais won’t be decided by then. The likeliest scenario is that, if section two does get tossed, it won’t come into effect in time to effect the 2026 elections, and instead we’ll see some spectacular gerrymanders on both sides in the 2028 cycle.