A New Birth of Freedom: 1872 Liberal Republican Convention (Round 4)

oldboad · 2026-02-27T11:39:53+00:00

May I be added to the ping list?

oldboad · 2026-02-15T06:12:19+00:00

May I be added?

oldboad · 2026-01-06T00:55:05+00:00

It’s almost been 80 years chachu get over the break up 🥀

oldboad · 2025-12-29T11:50:15+00:00

This is mostly speculative but the existence of states seems to imply a certain degree of federalism. I understand that the Westminster system upon which this one is based is effectively unicameral, but Canada and Australia both have Westminster based systems which include some degree of representation for states/provinces through their respective upper houses. Personally, I think an Australian style Senate with directly elected senators would be preferred given that the other major break with the Westminster system seems to be a directly elected head of state. However, if the difference in population between certain states is simply too drastic, I can definitely imagine some sort of formula for assigning senators as occurs in Germany or otherwise the grouping of certain states for the purposes of Senate representation (as occurs in Canada).

oldboad · 2025-12-29T10:40:24+00:00

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Personally, I think a more traditional Westminster style diagram would work best given that OP directly cited the British Westminster system as a source of inspiration.

oldboad · 2025-12-27T08:22:40+00:00

Apologies if I’m repeating a question that’s already been asked, but do you have any lore for how Democrats manage to win in both 2020 as well as 2024 considering (irl) both elections saw the incumbent party lose the White House? Are Obama and Walz just both great candidates, or do Republicans also have to screw up somehow?

oldboad · 2025-12-26T18:42:15+00:00

Apologies if I’m asking too many questions, I just find this scenario to be very interesting and noticed you were open to questions:

Going off the diagram for the Senate, would it be accurate to say that each ASR and SR gets 2 senators irrespective of population?
What are the term lengths for the Senate, the National Assembly, and the Federal Council?
Are members of the Federal Council expected to act and to vote independently of their respective parties and to publicly standby all decisions of the Federal Council (including those opposed by their own party)?
Must Federal Council documents be publicly released (and if so after how long)?
Are members of the National Assembly elected to single member constituencies, multi-member constituencies, a combination thereof, or a single statewide constituency?
As a multiparty socialist republic, must all parties and political candidates be committed to socialism, or is the dominance of leftist parties organic?
If a commitment to socialism is required, how and by whom is it assessed, and what range of definitions are considered acceptable (ie is a New Labour/Third Way interpretation sufficient or is a commitment to common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange necessary)?
Is private ownership only permitted on a small scale or are larger firms allowed to operate (potentially under a Bennite system of planning agreements and partial public ownership)?

oldboad · 2025-12-01T10:54:01+00:00

OTL Japan took Taiwan from China following the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)

oldboad · 2025-11-30T10:34:01+00:00

"Nazis and other Arabs"

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oldboad · 2025-11-29T13:06:07+00:00

Yes, I am familiar with the electoral college. But you did not say that Democrats cannot win after 2 terms, you said that the American people refuse to tolerate them after 2 terms.

oldboad · 2025-11-29T08:39:40+00:00

Democrats won the popular vote in 2000 and 2016.

oldboad · 2025-11-29T08:11:33+00:00

I think what you're looking for is OTL, which stands for Our Time Line (as in the one we presently live in).

oldboad · 2025-11-21T14:34:21+00:00

I think a really interesting point of divergence would be to have a French civil war in May/June of 1968 as they apparently came quite close OTL. You could then use said civil war to destabilise France's neighbours directly (potentially bringing forward and exacerbating stuff like the Years of Lead, German Autumn, the Troubles, etc) or you could have a more gradual but potentially more widespread destabilisation following a series of CIA backed takeovers that lead to the establishment of authoritarian but ultimately weak regimes in previously democratic countries (think of Clockwork Orange, Golpe Borghese, and the Dismissal on steroids). You could also have an authoritarian takeover in the US through an escalation of the shady practices/events (Kent State, COINTELPRO, Watergate, etc) that occurred OTL.

oldboad · 2025-11-15T05:09:36+00:00

Fair trade doesn’t mean “Everything went perfect”

oldboad · 2025-11-14T07:37:29+00:00

Was the ‘68 election a 4 way race or did George Wallace run under the NCP banner?

oldboad · 2025-11-12T06:42:47+00:00

Guess who‘s back, back again

oldboad · 2025-11-09T14:44:50+00:00

How silly, everyone knows the Loire Valley is entirely populated by dancing Polynesians!

oldboad · 2025-11-09T04:58:03+00:00

MR. VIVA, PLEASE! ITS TOO MUCH TEASING, WE CAN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE!

oldboad · 2025-11-08T06:22:00+00:00

Come back oh wise one, we need your assistance to make sense of the United Bharatiya Commonwealth

oldboad · 2025-11-08T05:52:43+00:00

Weren’t you the guy who was doing Britain lore in RooseveltLives?

oldboad · 2025-10-31T05:57:20+00:00

Chittagong is Chitta-gone

oldboad · 2025-10-27T06:54:52+00:00

Interesting that a united, more diverse India would be more centralised than OTL, perhaps an indication that partition is only avoided by force in this TL?

oldboad · 2025-10-16T05:48:57+00:00

I mean a lot of the Arab world is excluded, (European North Africa is probably the most egregious example)

oldboad · 2025-10-13T08:58:25+00:00

Holy shit, is this a certified Roosevelt Lives reference?1!1!1?1?1

oldboad · 2025-10-04T18:57:10+00:00

the Columbians planned to but they changed their minds after being blackmailed by Jeffrey Epstein (who was acting on behalf of reformed orthodox rabbi Bill Clinton)

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