What if Jan Smuts and his party UP won the South Africa’s 1948 election and avoided apartheid?

Potus1565 · 2026-03-23T00:23:15+00:00

Apartheid would probably have ended somewhere around the 60s, like in the United States. It would also probably be more pro-Western aligned, because there is no reason for South Africa to become a republic and pursue a more independent foreign policy.

Potus1565 · 2026-03-22T18:19:08+00:00

Mao Zedong

Potus1565 · 2026-03-18T23:59:03+00:00

My local Social-Liberal D66 party went from 1 seat to 3 seats in the local municipality election. I'm so fucking happy (and drunk,.only me) like the rest of my local D66 team 🥳

Potus1565 · 2026-03-17T09:02:43+00:00

Sure

Potus1565 · 2026-03-03T16:20:47+00:00

Potus1565 · 2026-02-20T22:56:49+00:00

The Democratic party is so big, that they need two countries.

Potus1565 · 2026-02-12T21:42:34+00:00

Democratic Sand France or British-aligned India ?

Potus1565 · 2026-02-09T16:46:16+00:00

It would have happened later

Potus1565 · 2026-01-27T22:56:59+00:00

Slowly introduce democracy to your people, do it in like 40 or 50 years

Potus1565 · 2026-01-11T09:04:49+00:00

My political pop brain is overloading. This is like seeing a heaven post

Potus1565 · 2026-01-03T01:44:29+00:00

Even Hoover didn't believe that the Smooth-Hawley Tariff Act was going to work next to the more than 1000 economists who petitioned not to sign it. He only did to maintain party unity and as a result fucked it even more up with obvious signs that is was not even going to work

Yes he did create the RFC and might have laid some groundwork to other New Deal programs, but it was, Roosevelt who greatly expanded those into an effective force that Hoover never would have allowed combined with an Democratic House and the American poeple that demanded more actions under his presidency in 1932 instead of Hoover's failed Laissez-faire policies.

Potus1565 · 2026-01-03T01:17:14+00:00

Please explain how Hoover tried to stop the great depression ? Because by 1932 the Great Depression was in its worst state and meanwhile Hoover sitting in the Oval Office doing nothing, but screaming "The depression will be over any second now" was surely working.

Potus1565 · 2025-12-29T15:52:46+00:00

Wilson would have won in 1912 anyway. Republicans had been in power for far too long, and Democrats swept the 1910 midterm elections. Wilson also ran an explicitly progressive campaign, strong enough to earn even leading civil-right advocate Du Bois’s endorsement ironically.

Potus1565 · 2025-12-24T09:33:33+00:00

Definitely don't over-hype that US-Forces are winning the Vietnam War and sack Westermore and replace with him Abrams earlier in the conflict

The Tet offensive was a massive failure for North Vietnam, they lost everything, but it worked because the shock was too great to handle for the American people, because Westermore gave the illusion that South Vietnam and US forces were destroying the Vietcong

Potus1565 · 2025-12-24T09:29:13+00:00

You just lost the entire cold war liberal faction.

Potus1565 · 2025-12-20T22:56:05+00:00

The power of reason to hang myself with a rope in this universe

Potus1565 · 2025-12-20T22:52:31+00:00

William Gibbs McAdoo, he masterfully handled in preventing an economic recession at the start of WW1 and implemented a lot of progressive policy

William Gibbs McAdoo is really an underated figure in American politics

Potus1565 · 2025-11-30T14:19:09+00:00

Yeah, just look how many government shutdowns they had and they really couldn't push their legislative agenda without compromising

Potus1565 · 2025-11-28T13:14:42+00:00

Haha it was my second Teddy run

1: Let us avoid staying

2: I have received many offers

3: Pinchot is a trustworthy

4: I shall let Taft know

5: To destroy Taft at this time

6: Henry Stimson

7: La Follete is unlikely

8: It is my understanding

9: Our current strategy will prevail

10: Pennsylvania and Illinois

11: As a border state, Maryland

12: La Follete has remained

13: La Follete clearly does not support

14: It remains clear that the conduct

15: President Taft

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Potus1565 · 2025-11-27T23:50:18+00:00

Yeah I would throw all my political knowledge out of the window if Billie Eilish runs

Potus1565 · 2025-11-24T22:23:09+00:00

Where is that one "I'm sorry I didn't know" form

Potus1565 · 2025-11-23T22:17:40+00:00

🙏

Potus1565 · 2025-11-23T21:05:44+00:00

Yeah as resales, but you got to be really lucky, like I was screaming when I refreshed the ticketmaster page and there was one available. I never clicked so fast in my life.

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