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  1. WI: an Ottoman-dominated Ethiopia after a CP victory in WW1

    If the Ottomans manage to somehow take control of Ethiopia, that's not the same thing as being willing/able to devote the resources to holding it long term - as into the 21st century - as far as priorities (vs. trading it to some other power for something more important, perhaps). So in hopes...

  2. Earliest possible State Atheism?

    I'm not 100% sure I 100% agree with this wording, but it does seem like you need an expressly "this is the one true way" attitude about atheism (as far as "is actively anti-religious", as opposed to "we don't actively hold to religion and don't care what you do") to come from something.

  3. Earliest possible State Atheism?

    Thank you for your explanation of what you mean by "material".

  4. Earliest possible State Atheism?

    I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here. Spiritual being real is not the same thing as spiritual and material being the same thing.

  5. Earliest possible State Atheism?

    Correct me if I'm wrong as this is from my limited understanding as a non-believer (it's complicated, so "agnostic" will do), but isn't "spiritual" being very real a big part of Christian understanding of these concepts? Not just angels and demons, but well - everything? It'd make as much sense...

  6. Earliest possible State Atheism?

    I thought you meant something like that, but didn't want to assume I was reading you right.

  7. Earliest possible State Atheism?

    For clarity's sake: A temporal force as opposed to what?

  8. WI:After the first Sino-Japanese war, the emperor of Japan dissolved Japan's judiciary, parliament, and all other non-emperor powers?

    I'm not sure making the disruptions the Emperor intends to make to Japanese society even greater is going to give him more supporters to rely on, or make it easier to address those who don't want these changes.

  9. WI Council of Acre (Second Crusade)… (2024 Ed)

    I'm not sure why you're quoting my posts on France's internal affairs here.

  10. How Would a Surviving Byzantine Empire Affect the Age of Exploration?

    With or without the Byzantines, the incentives to cut out the middle men are pretty much the same. You'd see a lot of changes in other regards with a surviving Byzantium holding Anatolia, but I'm not really sure there's much distinction between a strong enough Byzantium to have any impact on...

  11. WI Richard II isn't deposed (2024 ed)

    That's not a quality that's going to make his ambitions any easier to achieve, to say the least. At best it means once anyone crosses him once, or even seems to cross him, he's going to spend time and energy past the point someone like his grandfather would have thought the point had been made...

  12. WI Richard II isn't deposed (2024 ed)

    This brings up a troubling thing for Richard, in that preventing what happened OTL is not necessarily the same thing as Richard being in the clear - Edward II managed to avoid being actually kicked off the throne longer than Richard did (measuring from when Richard came of age), but he still...

  13. Ireland in a Habsburg England?

    I am not convinced that Philip (father or son) is necessarily willing to compromise over anything important to him, regardless of what Habsburgs did or did not do in general and in other times and places. Is confrontation inevitable in all possible worlds? No, but if the Irish are going to just...

  14. Ireland in a Habsburg England?

    It would make sense from someone acting rationally on what's important and what can be put on the back burner, but Philip (as in his father) and Mary do not strike me as that pragmatic or likely to have their son be. I'm not saying it's impossible, but I'd definitely wager on Philip II seeing...

  15. Ireland in a Habsburg England?

    "How interested is Philip II in asserting control of Ireland, and what does that involve?" feels like the answer to the question of what next. Hostility is not some inherent inevitable thing, but it's pretty predictable that Philip isn't going to accept traditional Irish law instead of English...

  16. AHC: Make the world stagnate in the Middle Ages

    I don't think that's a particularly specific context, honestly, as far as "late medieval". Seeing a relatively stagnant Venice specifically is a lot easier than seeing that freeze the entire continent. To be clear: The problem I have as far as personally having a more constructive answer to...

  17. AHC: Make the world stagnate in the Middle Ages

    It's not hard to imagine a Europe screw, depending on when the POD is and what one means by "screw", it might even be easy for this poster. "Europe stagnates at the late medieval point for centuries" is a particularly hard to imagine kind of screw, I will admit that.

  18. AHC: Make the world stagnate in the Middle Ages

    If we're talking the plague as a plague I think it's a lot closer to fated to happen "at some point" - the 1370s picked only as an example "some point" different than OTL by decades - than not without some significant changes on an evolutionary level as far as diseases and human resistance to...

  19. How Isolated Would Vinland be in the Little Ice Age?

    That was roughly what I thought you meant.

  20. How Isolated Would Vinland be in the Little Ice Age?

    Well, I'm looking more back as in what stops Norway or Denmark from this as far as "eastern" (it may not be the best word) here. A Vinland colony in general is sounding to me like the sort of thing that could prosper if it developed far enough, but not like something that offers many incentives...
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