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#WhatIf Gregory Watson pushed to pass the Congressional Apportionment Amendment instead of the Congressional Compensation Amendment? (1) #alternatehistory en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressi…
In May of 1992, after a decade of spite-fueled lobbying, the final state to ratify the Congressional Apportionment Amendment... and all hell breaks loose.
Like in OTL, many Congressmen are livid that a new amendment has been imposed upon them, and try to block certification. (2)
Like in OTL, many Congressmen are livid that a new amendment has been imposed upon them, and try to block certification. (2)
On May 18, 1992, the Archivist of the United States, Don W. Wilson, certifies that the amendment's ratification had been completed, despite more legitimate calls that the wording of the amendment is unworkable. (3)
In honor of #IndigenousPeoplesDay: #WhatIf Columbus never returned alive from the New World? #alternatehistory
POD: 13 February 1493 the Niña and Pinta are smashed upon the rocks of the Azores by the roughest storm of their journey back to Europe... (1)
POD: 13 February 1493 the Niña and Pinta are smashed upon the rocks of the Azores by the roughest storm of their journey back to Europe... (1)
Like in OTL, the 39 survivors of the Columbus voyage at the colony of La Navidad eventually begin fighting amongst themselves and destroyed their own settlement. 28 survivors remained and became quasi-prisoners of the Cacique of Marién. (2)
The arms and artillery seized by the Cacique of Marién, along with the skills of their captured Europeans, to say nothing of their stock of the horses, pigs, chickens, goats, and cows, would change the world. (3)
Here's a random timeline: #WhatIf Reimar Horten was able to follow through with his plan to create Radar Absorbent Material during WWII for the Ho 229? #aviation #alternatehistory (1) 
At the end of the war, a nearly complete Ho 229 is found and captured by the Americans and transported to the US during Operation Seahorse, along with samples of Horton's RAM. (2)
Once back in the US the Ho 229 and its test data are extensively studied, particularly with regard to its claims of low radar visibility. Horton's RAM is tested in flight on one of the 3 YB-49 Flying Wings in 1947. (3)
#WhatIf the "Business Plot" succeeded in overthrowing FDR in 1933? There probably would have been an anti-capitalist Revolution in the US a few years later, and ironically Smedley Butler probably would have been one of its leaders. #alternatehistory (1)
Blah blah, second American civil war 1933-1938, the United Socialist States of America is established, its a dictatorship, because that's what communism always slides into, heard it all before. (2)
Fast forward to the cold war with two communist blocs (cue the comparisons to 1984). The US would still win, and probably would have at best a Chinese-style economic/political system in the 2020s, and would still be the world's strongest economy and most powerful nation. (3)
I loved Season 1 and 2 of For All Mankind. It ticked damn near every box for plausible #alternatehistory and aerospace engineering.
But Season 3 has been hot garbage. (1)
But Season 3 has been hot garbage. (1)
First, the good:
The domestic politics of the show has been more or less on point at every turn. Ellen's entire arc this season has been more or less believable... (2)
The domestic politics of the show has been more or less on point at every turn. Ellen's entire arc this season has been more or less believable... (2)
...and the public backlash from hydrocarbon workers against nuclear fusion shines a light on an unpleasant truth about the relationship between the labor movement and environmentalism that is only being reconciled today in OTL. (3)
#WhatIf Lincoln didn't replace Hannibal Hamlin as his Vice President in 1864? Thus Hamlin becomes President in 1865 rather than Andrew Johnson. #alternatehistory (1)
1865 - Hannibal Hamlin is sworn in as the 17th President of the United States. Having narrowly kept his job as VP after Lincoln shelved plans for a unity ticket in 1864 in order to appease Radical Republicans, Hamlin takes a more aggressive approach to Reconstruction. (2)
Hamlin's first term sees Special Field Orders No. 15 (which granted 400k acres of land to 18,000 former enslaved families) is never rescinded, former Confederates are immediately barred from ever holding office again, and many Confederate leaders are imprisoned for treason. (3)
