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Post by Zyobot on Jun 27, 2020 18:59:06 GMT
Understood. How about a ‘No Post-Mao Reforms In China’ thread, would that belong in ‘After 1900’? Or is it potentially best suited for ‘Politics and Current Affairs’, due to the lasting legacy of said reforms as they apply to current events (i.e. American jobs and factories having been sent overseas to China so much lately)? Think in After-1900 is the place to put it. Okay, then. What about a ‘1980 US Population To 2020’, is that too potentially political for the normal ASB board?
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Post by lordroel on Jun 27, 2020 19:07:10 GMT
Think in After-1900 is the place to put it. Okay, then. What about a ‘1980 US Population To 2020’, is that too potentially political for the normal ASB board? Any event happening in 2020 is going to the Politics and Current Affairs due the current ongoing situation, also adding 226.5 million from 1980 could fall in the ASB and mass death scenario due the dropping a large group of people into a country that has already got many people who are dealing with Covid-19, a lot of people could die.
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Post by Zyobot on Jun 27, 2020 19:15:06 GMT
Okay, then. What about a ‘1980 US Population To 2020’, is that too potentially political for the normal ASB board? Any event happening in 2020 is going to the Politics and Current Affairs due the current ongoing situation, also adding 226.5 million from 1980 could fall in the ASB and mass death scenario due the dropping a large group of people into a country that has already got many people who are dealing with Covid-19, a lot of people could die. ...Ah, yeah. Whoops. [Awkward silence] In that case, how about sending some 2020 states back to 1980 instead (or vice-versa)?
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Post by lordroel on Jun 27, 2020 19:24:56 GMT
Any event happening in 2020 is going to the Politics and Current Affairs due the current ongoing situation, also adding 226.5 million from 1980 could fall in the ASB and mass death scenario due the dropping a large group of people into a country that has already got many people who are dealing with Covid-19, a lot of people could die. ...Ah, yeah. Whoops. [Awkward silence] In that case, how about sending some 2020 states back to 1980 instead (or vice-versa)? Seem story, you are going to kill a lot of people, a virus that has a hold on America in 2020 is bad, just think what it will do in a America that now has 500 million people livening in it and the rest of the world.
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Post by Zyobot on Jun 27, 2020 19:31:49 GMT
...Ah, yeah. Whoops. [Awkward silence] In that case, how about sending some 2020 states back to 1980 instead (or vice-versa)? Seem story, you are going to kill a lot of people, a virus that has a hold on America in 2020 is bad, just think what it will do in a America that now has 500 million people livening in it and the rest of the world. Alright...what if the ISOT coincides with Covid-19 disappearing and never coming back? And again, I’m saying that some 2020 states gets sent back in time, meaning that they replace their 1980 counterparts and as such, don’t bolster the population to 500+ million.
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Post by lordroel on Jun 27, 2020 19:33:23 GMT
Seem story, you are going to kill a lot of people, a virus that has a hold on America in 2020 is bad, just think what it will do in a America that now has 500 million people livening in it and the rest of the world. Alright...what if the ISOT coincides with Covid-19 disappearing and never coming back? And again, I’m saying that some 2020 states gets sent back in time, meaning that they replace their 1980 counterparts and as such, don’t bolster the population to 500+ million. So 2020 USA replacing 1980 USA, no Virus, that would go in the ASB board.
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Post by Zyobot on Jun 27, 2020 19:34:51 GMT
Alright...what if the ISOT coincides with Covid-19 disappearing and never coming back? And again, I’m saying that some 2020 states gets sent back in time, meaning that they replace their 1980 counterparts and as such, don’t bolster the population to 500+ million. So 2020 USA replacing 1980 USA, no Virus, that would go in the ASB board. Understood. I thought that was where it’d belong at first, but then I wondered if it’d be too politically charged for anywhere but ‘Politics and Current Affairs’. That said, I’m glad we could clarify that ambiguity.
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Post by lordroel on Jun 27, 2020 19:37:05 GMT
So 2020 USA replacing 1980 USA, no Virus, that would go in the ASB board. Understood. I thought that was where it’d belong at first, but then I wondered if it’d be too politically charged for anywhere but ‘Politics and Current Affairs’. That said, I’m glad we could clarify that ambiguity. Well 2020 USA in 1980 diverges so quickly, it will not be current soon after, thus the ASB board.
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Post by Zyobot on Jun 27, 2020 19:39:35 GMT
Understood. I thought that was where it’d belong at first, but then I wondered if it’d be too politically charged for anywhere but ‘Politics and Current Affairs’. That said, I’m glad we could clarify that ambiguity. Well 2020 USA in 1980 diverges so quickly, it will not be current soon after, thus the ASB board. That, I'll concede is true. What I meant, however, is that the inclusion of Trump and the raging culture war might play enough of a role to make it politically tinged anyway, hence my question about whether it belongs in 'Politics and Current Affairs' or not. But seeing as you've cast your judgment, I digress and drop the issue now.
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Post by Zyobot on Jun 28, 2020 20:04:11 GMT
How about a 'How Long Can The Modern Welfare State Last?' thread, would that belong in 'Future History' or 'Politics and Current Affairs' (due to how politically charged this topic would be)?
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Post by lordroel on Jun 29, 2020 3:05:17 GMT
How about a 'How Long Can The Modern Welfare State Last?' thread, would that belong in 'Future History' or 'Politics and Current Affairs' (due to how politically charged this topic would be)? Politics and Current Affairs would be the place to put it in.
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Post by Zyobot on Jun 29, 2020 3:12:38 GMT
How about a 'How Long Can The Modern Welfare State Last?' thread, would that belong in 'Future History' or 'Politics and Current Affairs' (due to how politically charged this topic would be)? Politics and Current Affairs would be the place to put it in. Yeah, I wondered about that. Also, as long as I’m posting and still have thread ideas, what about a ‘How To Best Share Your Political Views With Other People’ one? It’s certainly one of the big no-no conversation topics alongside money and religion—at least, where I live. But in cases where whoever you’re chatting with, for example, asks about your political views and it’s best to answer out of politeness, I think that the ideas people bounce around in such a thread could prove useful to at least the more introverted among us—myself included.
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Post by lordroel on Jun 29, 2020 3:13:33 GMT
Politics and Current Affairs would be the place to put it in. Yeah, I wondered about that. Also, as long as I’m posting and still have thread ideas, what about a ‘How To Best Share Your Political Views With Other People’ one? Also Politics and Current Affairs.
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Post by Zyobot on Jun 29, 2020 3:21:28 GMT
Yeah, I wondered about that. Also, as long as I’m posting and still have thread ideas, what about a ‘How To Best Share Your Political Views With Other People’ one? Also Politics and Current Affairs. That’s what I thought, thank you. I’d also like to ask about a ‘Cliodynamics and Macrohistory Thread’, in which we’d discuss the accuracy, implications and where to best learn about methodical analyses of historical trends and forecasts of the future thereof? I’ll make sure to respond to your eventual answer if you’d be so kind as to provide one, but given that it’s late at night where I live, I’ll probablt have to hit the sack before I post again (meaning sometime tomorrow).
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Post by lordroel on Jun 29, 2020 3:48:01 GMT
Also Politics and Current Affairs. That’s what I thought, thank you. I’d also like to ask about a ‘Cliodynamics and Macrohistory Thread’, in which we’d discuss the accuracy, implications and where to best learn about methodical analyses of historical trends and forecasts of the future thereof? Future History maybe, not sure as i have never heard of this before until now.
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