The soy fascism of Reddit alt history

who the fuck is still thinking about john mccain fucking hell

liberals. they love that man more than their own children.
- my lib mom got upset when Trump mocked the USS John McCain cause it was disrespectful to both the man and the troops
  i just don't get libs
I remember his campaign tried to brand him as a 'maverick' when he was one of the biggest conservative dullards around
- it's funny because it worked with the base, the problem was it was the base of the democrats instead lol

telling that all of these are reactionary daydreams and fantasies, and there's no progressive alternatives offered or discussed. Here are some of mine:

What if Lincoln had picked a radical abolitionist as his VP and after his assassination there was a massive anti-southern aristocracy crackdown to enforce reconstruction?

What if Kruschev didn't win the power struggle and instead Molotov did? What if the sino-soviet split never happened because Kruschev didn't get into power and immediately start shitting on and dismantling socialist achievement?

What if Stalin didn't stop at Berlin? What if the USSR discovered nukes before the west?

What if Lenin was not shot and didn't have health complications resulting from that?

What if the Spartacus Revolt was successful and the German Revolution joined with the USSR?

What if Napoleon defeated the British at Waterloo? What if Napoleon allied with the Haitians and revolutionaries of the new world instead of turning them into enemies? What if he supported a Haitian-African American take-over of the Louisiana territories?

What if temperatures stayed stable in the Paleocene, resulting in the dawn of civilization around paleolake megachad?
- Everybody has a really pronounced jawline, nothing else changes.
What if the Spartacus Revolt was successful and the German Revolution joined with the USSR?
unironically I believe we would all already be living under DOTPs by now
- WW2 would have looked very different indeed. Socialists vs. Imperialists instead of the weird mishmash of socialists + imperialists vs. newer more vicious imperialists. The victory there would have been a victory for socialism instead of a descent into cold war against an untouched US.
What if Napoleon defeated the British at Waterloo?
He would be defeated in the next battle. He had already won at Ligny and Quatre Bras, and it didn't bring him a strategic victory, and neither would a victory at Waterloo.
- Whoops was thinking of Trafalgar

The Nazis literally could not have ever won WW2 and anyone who argues against that is way too vested in learning about Nazi campaigns specifically

I think it's the closest you could get to historical determinism. The only way for the Nazis to win was for them to not be Nazis. They lost the war the moment they started it. Germany was doomed even if they never went to war because fascist economics will demand that they do. The whole thing was a fuck because it was fundamental to their ideology.
There's some scenarios where they could have maybe gotten a draw (like forming an alliance with the US and UK to invade the USSR), but it would have still left them worse off than...not being nazis.
- forming an alliance with the US
  Probably best case scenario for chuds. They're both ideologically aligned anyways, and there's a chance they figure out how to make a nuke before the Soviets
- FACT: 99% of wonder weapon scientists quit right before finding the one that will sweep aside the slavic hordes
They won against France only because Allied generals thought it was a good idea to stick their neck into an obvious trap, and then German generals decided that they were absolute geniuses and could win whatever they want.
- Yeah it turns out it really easy to win battles when you just surprise attack unmobilized neutral countries. When countries become mobilized and ally against you, horse carriages and bolt actions no longer cut it.

If the initial push into France fails I'm pretty sure the nazis are deeply fucked lmao. I suggest opening 13 more fronts, that always seems to work.

Alt History: Limitless possibilities, always how the Nazis can win

Genre fiction writer here, 99% of genre fiction is fascist.

- Even the Mahabharata is like a thorough endorsement of Patriarchal power structures but it's what makes mythology and its fuzzy ironic (ambivalent?) relationship with its historical context so interesting
- How is Ramayana a fascist story?
- "The main character needs to have her naked body described in detail during a mandatory shower scene."
  Okay cmon no way did anybody say this to you, right?
  ...please let it be fake...

You are Hitler

I'd rather not

They're aware John McCain died in 2018 right?

Here's how Hitler can still win!

The soviet union would have to not exist for the nazis to win, I think. Even without allied forces drawing german war materials away from the eastern front, there's no way they coulda beat the red army, I'm pretty sure.

Also though the nazis were gonna invade places that would bring them into conflict with the allies anyway, lol lmao

Ah yes, the Battle of France. Where you had that one general doing that maneuver.

Jesus Christ