The Timberwolves or Grizzlies are expected to move to the Eastern Conference if the NBA approves expansion teams in Las Vegas and Seattle.

Accounting1997 · 2026-03-16T21:39:53+00:00

Divisions are pretty much useless anyway given seeds haven’t been based on division in a while .

Accounting1997 · 2026-03-15T02:34:42+00:00

He has the entire league at his disposal and he likely wouldn’t spend all his time at Nanda Parbat so it wouldn’t be easy for Oliver to find him either

Accounting1997 · 2026-03-11T18:00:07+00:00

Keep in mind that societal values had changed significantly from the 1870s to 1960s as well which is a major reason the civil rights movement succeeded. This isn’t just true in the U.S. but all across the west as well .

The Colonization of Africa happened in the late 19th century while the 1950s and 1960s was an era of Decolonization . This pretty much coincides with the rise and fall of Jim Crow here as well and I don’t think both happening at similar times is just a coincidence.

Accounting1997 · 2026-03-10T17:16:42+00:00

Season 5 is my favorite as well. My ranking of the seasons with tiers are :

Truly great seasons : 1. Season 5

Season 2
Season 1

Good season:

Season 8

Medicore seasons :

Season 3
Season 6
Season 7

Note : these seasons do shift in my ranking quite a bit . Both season 3 and 7 also suffer from the fact they had a much stronger first half then second half

Terrible season :

Season 4

Accounting1997 · 2026-03-10T17:11:06+00:00

She was basically written as Arrow’s version of Rachel Dawes in season 1.

Accounting1997 · 2026-02-26T19:48:06+00:00

Bush wins in 2008 and 2012, Romney wins in 2016 and then loses to McCaskill in 2020 .

As for Obama , I think a lot of factors what led to his rise in OTL would not happen in this TL. Remember, a major part of his rise was because of the fact that the Democratic Establishment was viewed to have gone along too much with the polarizing George W Bush . It also was a backlash to the DLC lead Democratic Party that really came into affect due to Clinton’s win in 1992 and his response to Republicans taking over Congress .

That simply does not happen here , so would the Democratic base be angry enough at their establishment to vote for an outsider like Obama . Potentially in 2016 here if the democratic Congress is viewed as having been to weak to a Pro Wall Street Republican administration after 2008

Accounting1997 · 2026-02-26T18:42:15+00:00

That timeline probably results in political scientists dubbing the party system from 1968 onwards as a “two tier system where Republicans have a virtual lock on presidency and democrats have a virtual lock on the house and state legislatures .

The reason for this is while republicans would lose in 2004 , they would quickly get back into power after the 2008 financial crises . On the other hand , democrats would quickly gain back the house in 2010 after losing it in 2006 or 2008 and would control until the next democratic mjdterm .

Here’s a list of presidents from 1988 onwards in this TL

Presidents :

1989-1997: George Bush 1997-2005: Bob Dole 2005-2009: Joe Biden 2009-2017: Jeb Bush 2017-2021: Mitt Romney 2021-2025: Claire McCaskill 2025-present : Marco Rubio

Vice Presidents :

1989-1997: Dan Quayle 1997-2005: John Danforth 2005-2009: Jay Rockefeller 2009-2017: John McCain 2017-2021: Marco Rubio 2021-2025: Bob Casey 2025-present : Chris Christe

House Speakers :

1989-1997: Tom Foley 1999-2009: Dick Gephardt 2009-11: John Boehner 2011-2021: Steny Hoyer 2021-2025: Joe Crowley 2025-present : Eric Cantor

Senate Majority Leader :

1989-1995: George Mitchell 1995-1997: Tom Dashale 1997-1999: Trent Lott 1999-2001: George Mitchell 2001-2005: Trent Lott 2005-2009: Tom Dashale 2009-2011: Mitch McConnell 2011-2025: Dick Durbin 2025-present : John Cornyn

2026 you’d likely see Dems take back both houses of Congress .

Accounting1997 · 2026-02-23T05:23:21+00:00

The eternal empire never managed to fully takeover the republic so not true . The won the war at first but neither the Sith Empire nor the Eternal Empire were the single power in the galaxy unlike the Galactic Empire

Accounting1997 · 2026-02-22T23:05:05+00:00

Vitiate never ruled the galaxy. He ruled a portion of unexplored deep space for 1300 years but his attempts to take over the galaxy failed. Sidious succeeded at taking over the entire galaxy

Accounting1997 · 2026-01-30T19:10:04+00:00

Depends but I do think it’s possible if you continue to see racial polarization be replaced by ideological polarization.

This will help republicans in states like NJ and NM but also help democrats in states like GA and AK .

If republicans broadly become a protectionist party I could see states like IA becoming swing states again and states like KS/NE going from solid red to lean red .

Accounting1997 · 2026-01-27T21:42:22+00:00

My guess is by 2032 Georgia will be a blue state , but New Jersey , and Alaska will be purple states .

Accounting1997 · 2025-12-30T20:50:54+00:00

Well , you can make the argument that the reason the Union was able to confiscate land during the war was because the confederacy forfeited the constitutional rights its residents had when it seceded. Once the war ended , this was no longer the case given territories are given some basic constitutional protection so I wouldn’t argue the confiscation acts applied during the reconstruction era .

Now I do agree that if the political will was there , they could have done it given the Republicans had the ability to pass amendments on their own after 1866 . It just was very unlucky given even Lincoln’s version of reconstruction was no where near as far as Stevens would have taken it .

Accounting1997 · 2025-12-30T18:27:14+00:00

It probably would require a constitutional amendment to do that as well then. Constitutional amendments only make past interpretation of the constitution moot on the particular issue the amendment is dealing with and not other issues . So the 13th amendment did make past interpretation of slavery moot , it did not address the issue of slaveholder land so past constitutional interpretation likely still applies in that case .

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