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It's also a little unfair of me to use a photo of 6'7" tall Christian X next to Vittorio Emmanuel III, because everyone looks like a giant next to 5' 0" Vittorio Emmanuel.

As the largest of the European monarchs, why doesn't King Christian X simply eat anyone who dares to oppose him?

The British government is technically obligated to defend Belgian neutrality due to the Treaty of London (1839 so pre-POD), but the British government's actual motivation is to ensure that no single Continental power controls the majority of the Channel coast facing it.

Wisconsin abolishing the death penalty pre-dates the POD by 10 years, so if anything it might be accelerated in the rest of the USA without the South adding the death penalty as an option to everything during the Jim Crow-era.

We don't have to romanticize him, that's definitely true. However, it's still really funny that in OTL when Hitler tried to give Lettow-Vorbeck a job as ambassador to the United Kingdom in the 1930's, Lettow-Vorbeck told Hitler to go fuck himself and walked out of his office.

"Someday the people of Louisiana are gonna get good government and they ain’t gonna like it.” - Earl Long

Queue up the saddest war ever in 1991 when Norway is accusing Denmark of illegally slant-drilling, and the United States has to go protect a major oil producer.

In OTL John McAfee was operating on a level where even insane people would question just wtf was going on in his mind. Wanted for murder in several countries, tried to create a drug-based private militia, had an ongoing obsession about having sex with a whale...

Gavin Newsom actually found a way to turn Elizabeth Holmes's scam into something slightly useful.

The idea of soul-patched Fred Durst in lederhosen but still wearing a backwards baseball cap would almost make polka's dominance worth it.

In From the Earth to the Moon, Michael Collins told Neil Armstrong that "If you had any balls, the first thing you should do when you step off the ladder is scream 'OH MY GOD WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!" and then immediately cut your mike."

If we're going to have a light vehicle-mounted recoilless rifle then why not go as light as possible?

"And Operation Roundup, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Cherbourg to be born?"