Yup! Arlen definitely gaining alot of points here and he serves as pretty good foreshadowing as what's to come politically. I just need to find a good place to explain it... probably 1997 or 1998.
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It was actually a pretty good thing, but yeah, it’s still a prominent turning point here. What do y’all think these effects will have?
Also, ended the East-West rivalry and butterflied away the death of Biggie Smalls and Tupac.
On a similar note, I wonder how different a show like Stranger Things would be if something like it still gets made ITTL
Well, that is something you can figure out if y’all want on the fan thread, though obviously don’t go too carried away since we haven’t reached the 2010s obviously
I wonder that too having just watched Season 4 (it was incredible)Well, that is something you can figure out if y’all want on the fan thread, though obviously don’t go too carried away since we haven’t reached the 2010s obviously
Summer 1996- Centennial Olympics
Summer 1996- Centennial Olympics
1996 Summer Olympics logo
1996 Summer Olympics logo
The Tulsa Massacre Memorial event as it would be called would unsurprisingly have an influence over in the last wing of the primary elections. The talks were on various matters such as race relations, reparements, and other aspects of reform along with the concern of domestic terrorism. Askew himself has helped push a bill on expanding "internal affairs" in various aspects and more comprehensive vetting and has been running into some trouble with police unions though other aspects such as further training in deescalation and the like pased without much concern. Many noted that the Askew Administration was focusing on a major topic ongoing for the last several months and may be reaching a decision soon. Despite the new system, it seemed like alot of the stuff was buisness as usual though this was chalked up to people not being used to it. That said, smaller political parties were getting the chance to try and succeed over on the political platform, though some more than others. The Libretarian Party would become trounced due to a series of scandals along with the massive unpopularity of some of the ideas of their past candidates, resulting in the party entering a state of flux. This fully cemented the Unizens as the new major third party though other parties were starting to make their presence known, as least in smaller circles. However, with the United Citizens Party still led by Ross Perot in terms of candidacy, many wondered if the party could really go beyond him. For the Democrats, it would be a surprisingly rather quiet affair, likely out of an awareness they would likely lose and it would be a while before potential new blood would arise. Eventually, the Democrats would choose Walter Mondale over Bill Clinton, former Arkansas governor, over for the candidacy with Mondale choosing Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. Many attributed this due to Clinton not running a wholly focused campaign and seemed more focused on testing the waters. However, the big focus would lie over on the Republican Party as the clear favorite in Arlen Specter would end up winning the candidacy. As for his running mate, he would choose Colin Powell, a prominent member over in the military. As such, it would be Specter vs Mondale vs Perot in this new system, though it is becoming increasingly clear that further elections would be increasingly more diverse as more parties would come together, especially with the upcoming rumors...
However, beyond this excitement in the political sphere, there was also the excitement over on the Olympics being hosted over in Atlanta. Centennial Olympic Park, a public park constructed to be a public focal point, would further help in revitalizing the city of Atlanta, especially with the improvements over the last decade and a half, including the expansion of the MARTA public transportation system, expanding even further the limits of the Atlanta metro area. Meanwhile, the Olympic Village buildings are planned to be used as residential housing for area universities or public housing down the line. [1] At the same time, given the memories of the Oklahoma Bombing along with the standoff in Montana, there was an increase over in security measures over during the event, especially with the usage of cameras. This would pay off when a pipe bomb would be discovered by Security guard Richard Jewell, who responded by clearing people out of the park as the authorities would come. Thanks to the additional work put in wth the cameras, the subject would be identified as Eric Rudolph. It would later be discovered that he had additional bombing plans, including aimed at an abortion clinic and a nightclub associated with samgen women, showing affiliation over with a group known as the "Army of God", an American "Christian munafiq" domestic terrorist group specifying in anti-abortion attacks. Fortunately, thanks to the work of Jewell along with the extra security, the bombing attempt would be subverted though it would also reinforce the need for public safety and awareness on such individuals, especially at a public event like the Olympics [2]
All the while, various other fascinating developments would be emerging during this summer. One would be occurring over in Roslin Institute in Midlothian, Scotland, UK where the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell, is born, that of Dolly the sheep. [3] This provided to many a potential and fascinating future over in the glimpse over of the future of genetics and the like that could be done. Another level of news would be of a rising individual over in Saudi Arabia, Osama Bin Laden. A member of the very wealthy Bin Laden family, he would end up going to Pakistan after graduating from college, but would get roped up over in the Afghan-Pakistani War. While initiall giving money to some of the Afghan tribes, the experience there along with the post-war collapse of Pakistan had changed him considerably, especially in the failed Islamic aspects of Pakistan. While still remaining a pious man, he would become much more secular and influenced by Afghanistan's development post-war, especially the cooperation between the National Revolutionary Party and the PDPA, which would shape his ideals in politics. Upon returning home, he would begin using his vast inheritance to fund groups and movements based on these ideals, especially when he would connect over to the Neo-Baathists of Qatar following advice from Afghanistan. He would rise as a public figure in releasing a manifesto calling for the dissolution of the monarchy, noting the failures of the House of Saud in looking out for the people along with the call fo secularizaton, noting that faith and politics can only function well when seperate. Some other bit of fascinating news would be the release of the long awaited Nintendo console. Known as the Ultra Famicon in Japan, it would be called the Nintendo Ultra 64 (or sometimes called the Ultra Nintendo Entertainment System) in the US. With this, Nintendo releases their competition against the Sony Playstation. While the Japanese release is in the summer, North America and Europe plans thier over in the fall and holiday season later in the year, along with one of the first games, Super Mario 64. [3]
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[1]- Informaton and phrasing from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Summer_Olympics
[2]- Informaton and phrasing from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Olympic_Park_bombing
[3]- Informaton and phrasing from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996
Oh my gosh! I predicted Specter/Powell!Summer 1996- Centennial Olympics
1996 Summer Olympics logo
The Tulsa Massacre Memorial event as it would be called would unsurprisingly have an influence over in the last wing of the primary elections. The talks were on various matters such as race relations, reparements, and other aspects of reform along with the concern of domestic terrorism. Askew himself has helped push a bill on expanding "internal affairs" in various aspects and more comprehensive vetting and has been running into some trouble with police unions though other aspects such as further training in deescalation and the like pased without much concern. Many noted that the Askew Administration was focusing on a major topic ongoing for the last several months and may be reaching a decision soon. Despite the new system, it seemed like alot of the stuff was buisness as usual though this was chalked up to people not being used to it. That said, smaller political parties were getting the chance to try and succeed over on the political platform, though some more than others. The Libretarian Party would become trounced due to a series of scandals along with the massive unpopularity of some of the ideas of their past candidates, resulting in the party entering a state of flux. This fully cemented the Unizens as the new major third party though other parties were starting to make their presence known, as least in smaller circles. However, with the United Citizens Party still led by Ross Perot in terms of candidacy, many wondered if the party could really go beyond him. For the Democrats, it would be a surprisingly rather quiet affair, likely out of an awareness they would likely lose and it would be a while before potential new blood would arise. Eventually, the Democrats would choose Walter Mondale over Bill Clinton, former Arkansas governor, over for the candidacy with Mondale choosing Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. Many attributed this due to Clinton not running a wholly focused campaign and seemed more focused on testing the waters. However, the big focus would lie over on the Republican Party as the clear favorite in Arlen Specter would end up winning the candidacy. As for his running mate, he would choose Colin Powell, a prominent member over in the military. As such, it would be Specter vs Mondale vs Perot in this new system, though it is becoming increasingly clear that further elections would be increasingly more diverse as more parties would come together, especially with the upcoming rumors...
However, beyond this excitement in the political sphere, there was also the excitement over on the Olympics being hosted over in Atlanta. Centennial Olympic Park, a public park constructed to be a public focal point, would further help in revitalizing the city of Atlanta, especially with the improvements over the last decade and a half, including the expansion of the MARTA public transportation system, expanding even further the limits of the Atlanta metro area. Meanwhile, the Olympic Village buildings are planned to be used as residential housing for area universities or public housing down the line. [1] At the same time, given the memories of the Oklahoma Bombing along with the standoff in Montana, there was an increase over in security measures over during the event, especially with the usage of cameras. This would pay off when a pipe bomb would be discovered by Security guard Richard Jewell, who responded by clearing people out of the park as the authorities would come. Thanks to the additional work put in wth the cameras, the subject would be identified as Eric Rudolph. It would later be discovered that he had additional bombing plans, including aimed at an abortion clinic and a nightclub associated with samgen women, showing affiliation over with a group known as the "Army of God", an American "Christian munafiq" domestic terrorist group specifying in anti-abortion attacks. Fortunately, thanks to the work of Jewell along with the extra security, the bombing attempt would be subverted though it would also reinforce the need for public safety and awareness on such individuals, especially at a public event like the Olympics [2]
All the while, various other fascinating developments would be emerging during this summer. One would be occurring over in Roslin Institute in Midlothian, Scotland, UK where the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell, is born, that of Dolly the sheep. [3] This provided to many a potential and fascinating future over in the glimpse over of the future of genetics and the like that could be done. Another level of news would be of a rising individual over in Saudi Arabia, Osama Bin Laden. A member of the very wealthy Bin Laden family, he would end up going to Pakistan after graduating from college, but would get roped up over in the Afghan-Pakistani War. While initiall giving money to some of the Afghan tribes, the experience there along with the post-war collapse of Pakistan had changed him considerably, especially in the failed Islamic aspects of Pakistan. While still remaining a pious man, he would become much more secular and influenced by Afghanistan's development post-war, especially the cooperation between the National Revolutionary Party and the PDPA, which would shape his ideals in politics. Upon returning home, he would begin using his vast inheritance to fund groups and movements based on these ideals, especially when he would connect over to the Neo-Baathists of Qatar following advice from Afghanistan. He would rise as a public figure in releasing a manifesto calling for the dissolution of the monarchy, noting the failures of the House of Saud in looking out for the people along with the call fo secularizaton, noting that faith and politics can only function well when seperate. Some other bit of fascinating news would be the release of the long awaited Nintendo console. Known as the Ultra Famicon in Japan, it would be called the Nintendo Ultra 64 (or sometimes called the Ultra Nintendo Entertainment System) in the US. With this, Nintendo releases their competition against the Sony Playstation. While the Japanese release is in the summer, North America and Europe plans thier over in the fall and holiday season later in the year, along with one of the first games, Super Mario 64. [3]
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[1]- Informaton and phrasing from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Summer_Olympics
[2]- Informaton and phrasing from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Olympic_Park_bombing
[3]- Informaton and phrasing from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996
I don't think Mondale will win though. I'm thinking that Specter or Perot will win, leaning towards Specter for plausibility but think a President Perot in '96 would be very entertaining to see.
Congrats there yeah with the prediction, but yeah gonna be harder for some political suggestions though something upcoming may help there.
yeah, Mondale's gonna lose, but it's not gonna be the blowout he saw against Reagan OTL
Probably the same as OTL, so yes. I’m still trying to figure out some computer things, like how only a partially privatized internet would look like. Probably not the selling of data, but not sure beyond that.
Speaking of computers, what's Microsoft like, and are screen readers widely avaiable for blind computer users?
I mean, Microsoft has not truly diverged from OTL just yet outside of finishing the acquisition of a certain company.
And I mean, I guess… from what could be with OTL, JAWS and Emacspeak came out a year prior, but as for wide availability? Hmmm… well, more available than OTL, but unsure to which extent since just now did Windows 95 just come out and thus with an interface most people would become familiar with.
From what I read, he was raised always as a rather strictly religious fellow. He was radicalized by the Afghan-Soviet War and subsequent events, especially regarding the carelessness of certain actors and thus he became worse than him.
Here, he doesn't leave college and so he graduates. However, he still gets involved in causes that he is moved by though here he is radicalized by the failures of Islamism of Pakistan along with his recovery/growing buisness over in Afghanistan. As such, he becomes a secularized counterpart to his OTL self. While TTL's version of himself does not disdain the Sauds with the same level as OTL with the USA and the like, it is basically still showing his ideological radicalization if in a moderately different direction.
And yeah, was wondering how many people would note that
.Very interesting case with Osama. So, it's likely 9/11 may not occur, or, at least, not as we know it in our world.