For Want of A Sandwich - A Franz Ferdinand Lives Wikibox TL

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MaskedPickle

Whiteshore said:
Any achievements of the Kissinger government?
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Being second only to Bismarck in terms of longevity in this position should be an indication ! The first Jewish (and so far, only) Chancellor, he had to struggle with the Junkers (even the Kaiser), the militaro-industrial complex and the antisemites that composed his own party. On the paper, Reichskanzler Kissinger relaunched the Space Race, prepared German response to the 1980s economic crisis, struggled with terrorists and independantists in New Caledonia, launched the human cloning program. He is still a polarizing figure in Germany : the left sees him as a virtual dictator, who ruthlessly quelled all dissent and restablished the militaro-industrial complex in all its past splendourg ; the right sees him as the man who restored German world leadership in the last days of the Greater Game, thanks to astute Realpolitik, ending the malaise that had taken place since the Kongo War.
Wendell said:
Does he end up a judge? He seems to have been related to several. I was talking about Carlos Menem though. I liked what you did with him.
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Thank you very much, I read your comment the day the passing of Rush Limbaugh was announced, so I misunderstood.
Whiteshore said:
Still, their TTL fates should be interesting.
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It's under work !
 

MaskedPickle

Whiteshore said:
How big is the DVP's Integralist wing and what is German Integralism like?
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Integralism is the general term nowadays for ardent, jingoist, xenophobic nationalism, the term being French at the beginning ; it also has a strong conservative streak, in order to compare it to Pyrism which is much more revolutionary and concentrated on the Führerprinzip in nature.
The nature of the Deutsche Vaterlandspartei, founded by Alfred von Tirpitz and Alfred Hugenberg, tend to be integralist in nature, but the main focus of the party is : nationalism, nationalism, nationalism. It was the party of the Wilhelmian Place Under the Sea, of the Drang nach Osten, of resolution against decolonization and German exception, it takes its roots in German Conservatism, old Prussian ideals and the Vôlskisch movement.
In short, the "Integralist wing" (which would correspond nowadays to the less crazy wing of the AfD) comprehends the guys who would wish German society to stop liberalizing, stop giving rights to the minorities (strangely enough, the DVP tends to be pro-migration, as long as they come to work, not take German citizenship) and have serious issues about their most recent successful leader being a Jew.
The Integralist wing held leadership of the DVP from 2000 to 2011 with Jorg Haider, but losing three elections in a row and being rejected for all coalitions was too much for the party.
The long leadership of Kissinger also left the DVP without a strong leadership, putting the party at odds with their Völkisch, conservative, moderate Christian-Democrat (the Protestants who don't anything to do with Zentrum) and Integralist wings. Its current leader, Thomas Kemmerich, was a compromise candidate stemming from the moderate wing, who was forced to have the backseat during the Söder III coalition, and his days are counted.
 
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I love how this world is more technologically advanced, but to a realistic degree. Everything we've seen could've easily been achieved by now had we funded it.
 

MaskedPickle

BigVic said:
I like this version of the Australian flag in the FTWOAS world. We become a Republic on Australia Day 2000.
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Thank you very much !
The Congressman said:
Can we get the wikibox list of German Emperors?
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The Kaisers will each receive in due time their own update.
X_X said:
I love how this world is more technologically advanced, but to a realistic degree. Everything we've seen could've easily been achieved by now had we funded it.
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The downer side of this is that human experimentation and eugenics were never discredited in this timeline, due to having no Nazism. For example, the vaccines for Wuchang Pneumonia (TTL's Covid-19) were all ready as early as late Summer 2020, and the majority of Europe's adult population has been vaccinated as of now, but the human (clones) cost of the research is allegedly quite frightening...
BigVic said:
How is space exploration and culture going?
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Germany, Russia, the United States, China, the United Kingdom, and Japan have sent a crewed mission to the Moon ; the first four are maintaining a permanent base on the Earth's satellite but only Germany and the US have landed on Mars, with China preparing their own crewed mission. There are three space stations orbiting Earth : one European, one Chinese and one American. The Germans, Americans and Chinese are now preparing a landing on an asteroid and its mining exploitation.
As of culture... It's a large field, please be more specific :)
 
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galileo-034

MaskedPickle said:
Germany, Russia, the United States, China, the United Kingdom, and Japan have sent a crewed mission to the Moon ; the first four are maintaining a permanent base on the Earth's satellite but only Germany and the US have landed on Mars, with China preparing their own crewed mission. There are three space stations orbiting Earth : one European, one Chinese and one American. The Germans, Americans and Chinese are now preparing a landing on an asteroid and its mining exploitation.
As of culture... It's a large field, please be more specific :)
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In front of the mirror: Wikibox! Wikibox! Wikibox!
 
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MaskedPickle said:
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Now this is a list for a truly Great Britain!

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MaskedPickle

galileo-034 said:
In front of the mirror: Wikibox! Wikibox! Wikibox!
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Dude, that would be difficult, as of the Moon, let's settle for a map.
Lemonfish said:
What about AI? Did any country develop any project like Skynet?
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We aren't on the levels of Skynet (the military would wish a fail-safe) but the Turing Test was succesfully passed by 2010 and robotics are quite advanced : the developed world experiments huge levels of unemployment due to the automatization of factories, both for improving the working-class' standards and to diminish it, and along with it, leftist dissent... That's why the left-wing nowadays has a strong Neo-Luddite streak. Countries also concerned about their aging population, such as Japan, Germany, Italy and United Kingdom have also deployed a whole line of healthcare robots and aids for their seniors, and countries who have taken an abolitionist approach to prostitution invest a lot in robots for sex entertainment. The most advanced countries for robotics are China, Japan and Bulgaria, the latter of which has launched prototypes for warfare robotic units.
Whiteshore said:
On that note, how are civil rights ITTL?
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It depends where you are standing.

For women, it's more or less than the same level of OTL : equal pay, sexual violence, birth control, access to education are still issues, except for the United States where it's guaranteed by the Constitution. Political representation is even more backwards than OTL, due to conservatism being stronger ; for example, the "Kinder, Kûche, Kirche" tenet is still a thing in Germany, or Neo-Confucean theories in China, along with natalist policies. The plus side would be women serving in the military, with the Syndicalists showing the way. And also sexual freedom, with a vaccine being found for AIDS giving way to a new sexual revolution, along with the acceptance of Magnus Hirschfeld's theories earlier in the XXth Century. Abortion is a huge issue still, being outlawed in various countries.

For the GRSM (Gender, Romantic and Sexual Minorities, TTL's term for LGBT), it's much better, at least for the gays. Except in countries where religious and traditional values are still strong (such as Russia, China, Africa), male homosexuality is widely accepted, even by the far right, where the reasoning is behind the celebration of Greco-Roman values and also "the most important is that they shoot straight" attitude. Homosexual marriage is authorized throughout the Western Hemisphere, being even guaranteed by the US Constitution, and discrimination is quite frowned upon. Lesbians are much more frowned upon, also due to the natalist streak, as are trans.

Ethnic and religious minorities are also very diverse. Generally, except in countries that are dealing with Islamist terrorism, such as Russia or Greece, Muslims are quite well accepted. Antisemitism is much more rampant, with the attitudes towards the various Russian pogroms and Doriot's massacres being generally "well, the Jews always had to deal with it" officially ; in fact, many people think "who cares?" and some even "the Jews deserved it" ; Zionist terrorism in the 70s-80s didn't help. While African Americans are much more valued (given that the most radical elements elected to follow Marcus Garvey in Liberia), African immigrants in Europe elicit a reaction along the line of "they will never be like us, but at least they are here to work", so are the Indians in Great Britain and Mexicans in the US. The Chinese immigrants, which are much more widely distributed due to the huge population of the homeland, pay the greater price : they were the targets of lynchings and pogroms in Europe and America after the outbreak of Wuchang Pneumonia, alas...

For the disabled, it's much more worse. If wounded veterans are celebrated and helped by society, sterilization is mandatory in the Western Hemisphere for mentally disabled persons, due to the implementation of eugenics.

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Now this is a list for a truly Great Britain!

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United Kingdom, please, no one would want to offend the Scots. Why do you put the picture of a former Liberal MP, the one who agitated for referendums on the monarchy throughout the 2000s ?
I thought Prime Minister Jagger would trigger more reactions...
 

Prince Daemon Targaryen

So Alexei died without issue... likely of hemophilia related hemorrhage most likely. Good that they repealed the Pauline Law.

Who are the last three pictures of? And shouldn't the second Nikolai on here be Nikolai III, not IV?
 

Lalli

glenn67 said:
Even with the monarchy surviving in Russia, there are still military coups once every generation.
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Probably Russia wasn't quiet totally democratised yet. And we don't even know all of details of that. And yes, like mentioned that another Nicholas should be Nicholas III not Nicholas IV.
 
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