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Egalitarian Thug

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9. It's nearly certain we would not have nuked Japan. Thinking about what turn

Reply to avebury (Reply #5)

Mon Dec 23, 2013, 05:11 PM

Dec 2013

the whole McCarthy red scare thing would have taken, and the post-war labor issues as well...

I think America would be unrecognizable today.

Or maybe the fascists would have found another way to win, either way, learning from the mistakes of the past is our best hope for the future.

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