I have heard many people say that the national parks are the key highlights of being in America, and in general how cool they are, but how many Americans have actually visited it?
A Double-Blind What If (or, DBWI) is a type of alternate history “What If” written as if the thread starter and commenters are from an alternate timeline where a stated event unfolded differently from the way it did in our timeline. The participants discuss the topic from the point of view of this alternate timeline, the details of the timeline being filled in through the conversation.
I am trying to do the "explain X poorly" trend for TFR but I am gonna try it for every story. Let's story with the poster child of the mod.
In Myanmar, there's a weird romanticization of British Burma, mostly due to how (un)well the country has been going since independence. Even before the coups and civil war, the government basically destroyed the Burmese economy with the Burmese Way to Socialism.
Plus at independence, Burma was (relative to her region), a fairly rich country and was I believe even called the Rice Bowl of Asia which probably contributed to it.
My father when asked what the Burmese golden age was, answered the colonial period because and I quote "The Myanmar people weren't in charge." He also once claimed that the only thing Myanmar people invented was jealousy.
I try to make a nutshell style post summary like I have seen done with Chinese history and European history
Let's start:
US history be like:
> President John Johnson puts US troops in South Chungistan to protect the corrupt government from North Chungistan
> North Chungistan uses guerrilla tactics and knowledge of local terrain to push US troops back
> War becomes unpopular after the deaths of 5.7 American troops and $1.5 trillion
> Economy goes into recession as it's revealed the taxi-bussy market was unnaturally propped up by Federal Reserve loans
> Attempts to run for re election
> Confirmed to have dementia in debate
> Senator Krieger Kessler Keenings (KKK) becomes next president
> Only gives bandage fixes to the economy
> Attempts to withdraw from Chungistan War
> South Chungistani government immediately collapses
> Is blocked from further legislation by hostile congress
> Almost wins re election anyways but loses to outsider Governor Victor Vincennes who promises transparency in government
Repeat.
I originally thought America (အမေရိကန်) meant "mother's lake" because အမေ means mother in Burmese and ရိ of and ကန် lake. Of course it's wrong and I also pronunced it wrong, similar to what I thought the meaning was. I also thought the Columbia pictures girl was the အမေ the name was referring to which started it. Lol.
I have heard liberals and the media claim that USAID saved millions of lives and that its shutdown is leading to deaths on the level of the Holocaust. Calculated or course by forever USAID members.
If this is true then this means that the United States was also saving people on a regular basis of the same magnitude that died in the Holocaust. Why doesn't anyone highlight this? Hell, why did nobody talk about how good USAID was when it was active?
Instead all I heard was how dumb Americans were, how they sucked at geography, how they had no "real" culture, etc.
The most egregious one is that the United States is a Third World country in a Gucci belt. If Americans truly were struggling that much and conditions in America that bad, why is she expected to take care of others as well? Shouldn't it be the job of their "more developed and civilized" countries?
If you resurrected him and told him everything about the events leading up the Second American Civil War (including the rise to hegemony itself) and asked him how a seemingly invincible superpower that had vanquished her archnemesis simply collapsed after just ONE bad year (it wasn't even consecutive years of trouble, no just one bad year and now the titanic has sunk), what would his answer be?
Unlike most countries, Japan's colors aren't very consistent in map games. I have seen Japan colored as both a pinkish white or a hard redish pink.