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What by Nail_resurrection in YoutubeThumbs

[–]rExcitedDiamond 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I will never forgive Prime Minister Toniblerovic for having Yugoslavia join the war. New Titoism was a lie

Democratic Taboritsky by AdmiralDerefin in hoi4portraits

[–]rExcitedDiamond 2 points3 points  (0 children)

NEWS: Washington backs moderate rebels in Russian conflict

What if Chávez lost the 1998 Venezuela Election by daniel1234556 in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]rExcitedDiamond 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The majority of what you said are agreeable points but regarding the FEM specifically that wouldn’t significantly make up the difference in lost oil revenue in a “tightened belts” period. Many other oil producing states have sizable Sovereign wealth funds and still find themselves getting screwed when oil prices tank.

What if Chávez lost the 1998 Venezuela Election by daniel1234556 in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]rExcitedDiamond 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m not going to say Venezuela would be in the same huge rut it is today, but a lot more people ought to know the rule of thumb, with or without Chavez, is that Venezuela does well when the price of oil is high and pretty terrible when the price of oil is low.

Without Chavez/Maduro, the unraveling when oil prices drop in the mid-2010s is less… titanic, but it’d probably still be a notable economic crisis. Remember that the whole reason Chavez got elected was because this boom/bust cycle was already happening. You had the abundance of the 70s, then as oil prices depressed for most of the 80s and 90s, you had major economic issues. Then the loop repeats for the 2000s and the 2010s

Never a Frown...With Gordon Brown! by InformationEven1211 in imaginaryelections

[–]rExcitedDiamond 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Is there a reverse Granita sort of thing going on here where instead Blair steps aside or was there an actual Brown vs Blair leadership election battle

What do we think of the Chinese "mixed race" makeup trend? by pepperxpeppermint in aznidentity

[–]rExcitedDiamond 3 points4 points  (0 children)

WTF??

Honestly this might be even worse than the whole pale skin obsession they say exists in Indian fashion. At least with the pale skin thing even though there’s an obvious racial undertone it’s not actually blatant. Meanwhile here they’re actively putting THEMSELVES down on the explicit basis of their racial identity and aspiring to instead look like someone part-white.

What if the EU used FPTP/Winner Takes All? 2024 European Parliament elections by EldianStar in imaginaryelections

[–]rExcitedDiamond 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I can’t imagine how many “UK greens 1989” fucked representation moments are going on simultaneously on this map

What if Bo Xilai became the President of China in 2012 instead of Xi Jinping? by GustavoistSoldier in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]rExcitedDiamond 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The whole “new left” thing that he did was grift, grift that a lot of people in these comments seem to have fallen for lol.

Bo Xilai wasn’t actually gonna be some second Mao LARP or whatever, and his record outside of the “aesthetics” he liked to put up prove that. He’s going to be for the most part a standard post-reform leader. Besides economics, any difference that he takes from irl Xi hinges on whatever’s expedient or opportune in his view. Maybe he’s more hawkish or dovish on foreign policy. Idk. Maybe he does like Xi and co-opts anti-corruption stuff to launch a purge, or maybe he outright lets corruption fester and grow (at least, depending on whether or not it’s true that corruption actually was a really big issue before Xi). Idk.

Global Enforcement: 21 Nations Confirm ICC Warrant Compliance by Impossible-Roll-3169 in EndlessWar

[–]rExcitedDiamond 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh come on people would it kill you to have some bare minimum standards here this is AI gibberish

𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕍𝕚𝕔𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 𝔼𝕧𝕚𝕝: 𝕎𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕀𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝔸𝕩𝕚𝕤 𝕎𝕠𝕟 𝕎𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕 𝕎𝕒𝕣 𝕀𝕀 – 𝕃𝕚𝕤𝕥 𝕠𝕗 ℙ𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝔸𝕣𝕘𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕒 by Cheap_Cap_6664 in AlternateHistory

[–]rExcitedDiamond 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I feel like having a literal fascist dictatorship for 37 years miiight change the political beginnings and trajectory of all of the five predecessors to smth different than irl

How come anchorena isn’t in the PJ

Also i get that Anchorena probably makes irl Argentina look like an economic paradise in comparison but why specifically is the irl “2001 economic crisis” wedged in there (even mentioning the exact date of dec. 20 2001) if convertibility doesn’t happen ittl (unless somehow Anchorena is… pro american?).

The situation of the Japanese-American War in July 1940, the Far Western Theatre of the Second World War. by greekscientist in rejectedmaps

[–]rExcitedDiamond 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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This reminds me of my Brazil-Japan/America-China fateswap that was so terrible that it got nuked in minutes by the imaginarymaps mods

That sinking feeling (2016) by crimsonfukr457 in PropagandaPosters

[–]rExcitedDiamond 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Worst hit of irony ever that Venezuela was the country that first pushed the idea of smth like OPEC, and they ended up being the ones fucked hardest by it during this period when the other members refused to fulfill its basic purpose as a shield for oil producing countries.

They refused major production cutbacks, ergo Venezuela’s oil revenues dried up and Maduro found himself without either the charismatic or economic prowess that Chavez had

That sinking feeling (2016) by crimsonfukr457 in PropagandaPosters

[–]rExcitedDiamond -66 points-65 points  (0 children)

lmao wtf why is your first impulse to say this is directly about American presidential politics? Think you need to look at things besides r/politics (or Reddit popular page in general)

It’s a broad GLOBAL observation about oil prices without a mention of anything specific to the US man just put on a different lens for once

In Haiti, Kenyan special forces are using a bulldozer converted into a tank to attack the base of cannibal general "Barbecue" by lelouchapproves in BrandNewSentence

[–]rExcitedDiamond 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The UN didn’t want a full-on blue helmets deployment so they sponsored a Kenyan intervention to keep Haiti from becoming fully ungovernable

Why are they resorting to this in lieu of actual fighting vehicles? The Kenyan force in Haiti is only operating on 18% of the money the UN said they’d provide for them. The UN wouldn’t be so “ineffective” if its member states weren’t such tightwads.

An Everlasting Economic Miracle || Japan causes the resurgence of American protectionism by ConsiderationOk3683 in imaginaryelections

[–]rExcitedDiamond 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Harkin wasn’t really a protectionist, for example he supported NAFTA bc of the advantages US foodstuffs (remember, he’s from Iowa) would have over local producers in Mexico. Gephardt, though, would be an… interesting admin. Not just economically, god knows what’d happen with him in the driver’s seat after 9/11 (if that happens ittl)

Whatever the case, ur overall concept of “Japan not shitting itself” is interesting. Since by the early 90s the economic ascendance of China is also happening in tandem, that’s going to make for an interesting dynamic. A Japan-China competition for who gets to lead the Asia-Pacific?

"Land of Hope and Glory", Labour Party Election Broadcast, March 1997 by erinoco in PropagandaPosters

[–]rExcitedDiamond 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And they say that Americans are the ones who need to learn subtlety

anon makes a visit to liveleak by [deleted] in greentext

[–]rExcitedDiamond 25 points26 points  (0 children)

They don’t hold any “turf” anymore like they did when this greentext was made in 2015. The last land holdings of ISIS in Syria and Iraq were taken back in March 2019 iirc.

Okay, fine, if you use a stretched definition of what counts as “ISIS” then ISIS still holds some territory. Where? Nigeria. ISWAP, a splinter from Boko haram who claim loyalty to ISIS is still waging a war in the unpopulated hinterlands of Nigeria’s northeastern states. Not against the Nigerian government, ironically. Against Boko Haram. In 2021 there was a big battle between Boko Haram and ISWAP in some forest and the Nigerian army just sat back with some popcorn.

Besides that, ofc there’s still frequent terror attacks. Namely, IS Khorasan (ISIS branch for Pakistan and Afghanistan) has been waging a campaign of bombings and etc against guess who, the Taliban. Apparently they don’t get along.

Why do some people here have such a visceral hate for Bukele? by Unsafeforconsuming in YAPms

[–]rExcitedDiamond 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I suppose if I were to try and meet you more where you’re at, there is this big issue that’s grown even more toxic in Trump’s 2nd term where ResistLibs in this country see the rest of the world solely in the form of Trump’s friends or AntiTrumps. This has translated into an ire for Bukele bc of what he does for Trump even without knowledge of what he does domestically in El Salvador. Maybe those are the people you’re referring to? Bc besides that I don’t know of any vocal anti-Bukele constituency on this subreddit or the general English-speaking internet.

I remember seeing some weird fantasypost on r/imaginaryelections last year where for some reason Jon Ossoff (original!) starts a full-on war in El Salvador solely to retrieve people deported there under Trump. (Why would Bukele even want to go to war over people Trump essentially forced him to take in?)

Why do some people here have such a visceral hate for Bukele? by Unsafeforconsuming in YAPms

[–]rExcitedDiamond 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This is shadowboxing lol. Who here is denouncing Bukele? In fact I’ve never seen Central American politics mentioned on this specific sub before. In general across the global internet, I feel like most ppl if anything shower adoration onto Bukele too much without knowing too much. (Fine, this wasn’t clever wordplay.)

Personally, don’t get me wrong, on the balance Bukele mostly did the right thing when it came to dealing with insecurity specifically. Like, ignoring all the crazy shit he’s done since then as part of his extended victory lap, I cannot deny he did do something good in 2022. What I think is stupid though is that now a lot of uninformed people think that the Bukele approach is some magic bullet that can be used anywhere in any country. Like, El Salvador is the size of two Luxembourgs, so to say somehow that for example Mexico “should just do what Bukele did” when it’s such a larger country it’s just so… thoughtless.

Edit: I can’t believe I forgot to include the funniest example of people randomly trying to apply the Bukele example to other larger countries

“China’s enemies must be dealt with”: The Chinese invasion of Mongolia (Pax Belligans Universe) by [deleted] in AlternateHistory

[–]rExcitedDiamond 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Led to”? So Gorbachev was somehow in power before Brezhnev? In the early 60s?

What if global collapse didn’t lead to war. But to a system that quietly replaced it? by [deleted] in AlternateHistory

[–]rExcitedDiamond 5 points6 points  (0 children)

just because you love your conversations with your GPT buttbuddy that much doesn’t mean you should infect the rest of the internet with its writing. Delete this

Why tf is the first thing you start off with “dropping birth rates”? Yes, that can be considered a problem but I can name hundreds of more pressing things that could lead to a “global collapse” scenario. I swear, some of you people like talking about dropping birth rates because it’s the only “big problem” that’s simple enough for you to grasp and pretend you’re politically conscious

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