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I think it's hard to predict as these all have effects on each other. Like the USA could have continued social democratic reforms to appease it's strong labor whole snatching up European colonies in Asia and South America to subsidize the core.

And an anglo alliance might consider Europe lost and pivot to cementing their grip in South Asia and Southern Africa etc

The weird outcome is I think Imperial Japan would probably have at a minium a non aggression pact with Europe and possibly an alliance. Which is an enormous contradiction of Idealogy versus realpolitik. Possibly leading to an Anglo or US aligned Nationalist China movement etc

Though it's coin flip that Enid would have either the best or worst position on Palestine or Trans Rights now.

I rewatched Legally Blonde last night and I was surprised how well it holds up. Especially how unproblematic it is.

There's bi-erasure with the pool guy (but they had only just invented bisexuals in the 90s so it might have not have reached them).

The autistic guy is a bit rough but displayed as morally good and helps Elle in the last act.

The character of Enid Wexler is interesting because it feels like she's mean spirited in intent but just comes off as cool af in modern context.

She's a black Jewish lesbian with a PhD in women's studies (with an emphasis on combat) who organised a lesbian march against drunk driving. That feels like a conservative joke but none of that is bad. In fact it's cool.

Even the scene where she has cornered the cishet white Warner (who the film agrees sucks), and is telling him the university should change the name of "semester" to "ovester" could be fixed with a wink to show she's yanking his chain.

I think there would have been a WW2 it just would have been communist continental Europe versus the UK/Commonwealth-USA alliance maybe with Imperial Japan as a wild card.

Still probably a better timeline but uncertain.

Also Louis XV should have been guillotined too, so I wasn't completely wrong.

Thanks, Yeah, I thought I was screwing that up. It's the unbroken Louis XIV to XV to XVI that got me.

Definitely, though importantly the King was often changing those frequently too.

It's like how if you are not able to have a shower you still feel fresher if you change shirt, underwear etc.

2035 me: look the limited nuclear exchange between France and Israel was as bad as it was surprisingly. But Tony Gilroy's Firefly reboot on Disney-Flix-Plus was an also an unexpected balm in these trying times.

The media can be notoriously homophobic and misogynistic

Anti-fatness too, which is still bad but was worse in the 90s and 00s

Louis XIV should have gotten the guillotine just like his grandson. But he probably didn't smell that bad.

Experimental historians have shown that changing your clothes multiple times a day, like the dozens of times Louis XIV would, soaks up the sweat and smells quite effectively.

It's a form of conspicuous consumption as only the King and high noble can afford to go from a sleeping outfit to breakfast outfit to early morning outfit to morning tea outfit and so on etc.

He's yanking their chains!