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No problem. :)

Not to interrupt, but isn’t this more appropriate for the General AH thread? Because this thread is for controversial opinions about OTL history, as opposed to conjecture about ATL scenarios.

Maybe, though I'm uncertain cutting ties with racist edgelords and genocidal swastika-wavers would be enough, anyway. And I know where you stand already (which is decently close to my own political sympathies), so I'm not worried about that. :) Well... we'll see. Given the "dubious" trajectory...

Probably, but at this point, I think it's too late (and frankly, not worth it) to undo nearly eighty years of negative press. That, and even if it were more politically and socially "acceptable", @Skallagrim already noted how given time, fascism was bound to crumble under its own weight (much...

Kinda' digressive here, but even if it's not your go-to divergence, I don't suppose you consider the POD of Footprint of Mussolini a viable option here? I recall you listed it as one of your favorite TLs elsewhere, so I assume it's largely in line with your expectations for how a "fascism as the...

Agreed. However, even if it becomes dirt-cheap and superabundant, I can still imagine gold being valued because it "looks nice", not to mention its use as an electrical conductor and such. That, and there's no shortage of resources out there in general, though as far as short-term (or, y'know...

Considering how industrial-scale asteroid mining probably won’t be viable for a while, let’s leave that to our descendants to figure out. ;)

Okay, thanks.

Interesting. I don't suppose you have a reference handy?

Racism, sure. But what I was getting at was Greco-Roman reactions to the 13th Amendment, as far as whether they'd say the US should've "regulated" slavery to make it more "humane", or if they'd have agreed that any and all slavery was a lost cause to begin with?

More or less my understanding, yeah. Actually, I'm curious as to what the Greeks and Romans would've said about the US abolishing it and contemporary arguments about whether the civil war was fought over slavery? If that's too much of a derail, though, I'll save it for another thread.