What would Atlas be like if it existed in the past?

[John Dule]

Jonesing for some Kool-Aid People's Temple for Peace YaBB God ★★★★★ Posts: 3221

Sick of hearing baseless accusations against Dear Leader Jim Jones on this forum « on: November 18, 1978 at 10:45:31 am » The fake news media continues to lie and spin stories about our leader, ignoring a wealth of alternative facts proving that he is a kind, decent, gentle individual who has created a wonderful life for all of his followers. But despite the negative press covfefe, we are pressing on. In my eyes, Pastor Jones has been completely and totally exonerated; there was NO obstruction to the congressman's visit and definitely NO forced labor in our commune. Jim is one of the most unfairly attacked cult leaders of all time. The Rainbow Family will not be intimidated by the mainstream media and its constant attempts to undermine Jim and his message. Together, we will make Jonestown great again.

Lol you should’ve had that one’s username be BRTD

I genuinely considered that.

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mygaltrish Full Member ★★★ Posts: 326

I will now accept my accolades « on: November 2, 1948, 06:08:38 pm »I tried to tell you what was going on.  I really tried.  This looks like a landslide, folks. https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/elections/dewey-defeats-truman-19481102-story.html

This one should have 100 recommends, although I suspect the reference (from 2004) is just too old on modern Atlas.

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

I'd probably make some attention-whoring thread shortly after Christine Jorgensen started making the news. Three guesses as to what it'd be about.

[morgankingsley]

Some maps with Perot actually winning states

[darklordoftech]

“Who’s worse: Czar Nicholas II or Lenin?”

[OSR stands with Israel]

Nixon is Smarter than You NYC Boomer Minority YaBB God ★★★★★ Posts: 6500

Re: Is Nixon Done after the Release of the Tapes « on: August 6th , 1974 at 3:56:17 pm » Nixon is not done, almost everyone I talk to Democrat or Republican still loves Nixon and is against this Partisan Witchunt and know the President was just joking. Mark my words this impeachment will backfire so badly that the Republicans will win both houses in November

[Kingpoleon]

“Who’s worse: Czar Nicholas II or Lenin?”

Lenin. At least Nicholas II didn’t suppress religious freedom or establish a new revolutionary system... that terrorized and persecuted political opposition in a whole new way. He actually began liberalizing - largely because of his cousin, Grand Duke Nicholas - his country.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

At least Nicholas II didn’t suppress religious freedom

[Tender Branson]

1975:

The Official Live TV Debate Thread: Kreisky (SP) vs. Taus (VP)

„Taus sweating like a dog.“

[President Johnson]

President Johnson Majority Leader Johnson YaBB God ★★★★★ Posts: 5,417

JOHNSON OUT! « on: March 31, 1968 11:47:11 pm » NOOOO! Damn it, I hope he makes a comeback at the convention, because otherwise the Democrats will lose. We need the incumbent president, who is despite wrong decisions in Vietnam, still the best politicial operator. Otherwise, I will enthusiastically endorse Nelson Rockefeller for president over any Democrat. Go Rocky!

President Johnson Majority Leader Johnson YaBB God ★★★★★ Posts: 10,372

Who do you support in November? « on: June 25, 1972 08:49:23 pm » George McGovern is too far left and dangerous on Vietnam. Therefore, I have decided to support President Richard Nixon. To be fair, he's been successful on foreign policy and moderate on domestic policy. I think he's the better choice in this election. Hope Spiro Agnew gets replaced with Nelson Rockefeller, though.

[Kingpoleon]

At least Nicholas II didn’t suppress religious freedom

Under the guise of promoting atheism, Lenin and Stalin arrested Orthodox priests, suppressed religion, and made the adoption of atheism a goal of the state. Nicholas II had a... not very nice view of Jews, but he suppressed anti-Semitic riots and actively fought anti-Semitism, particularly after 1911. And, of course, he didn’t establish a new government that COULD grant total religious freedom only to suppress religion. Nicholas II’s October Manifesto was criticized by the Russian Orthodox Church for legalizing religious freedom, in fact.

[Sir Mohamed]

Olowakandi Olawakandi YaBB God ★★★★★ Posts: 29,715

Gallup National: Dukakis +17 « on: July 22, 1988 at 09:46:29 am » Prez Michael Dukakis 😎

Olowakandi Olawakandi YaBB God ★★★★★ Posts: 29,726

Gallup National: Dukakis +17 « on: July 22, 1988 at 01:01:33 pm » Dukakis will sweep the election and be prez as of Jan 1989. Its gonna be a landslide as big as 1984. HW got corrupted in Iran Contra, as a result, he'll lose bigger than Carter. Dems will win back South because HW is too tied to rich GOP elites in CT and Reagan, who got unpopular in Midwest with Farm crisis, Dems will also sweep Midwest. GOP dominance will end in this cycle, as Dems already won senate in 1986 midterms when Reagan got corrupted in Iran Contra and Challenger disaster.  😁

Olowakandi Olawakandi YaBB God ★★★★★ Posts: 29,732

Gallup National: Dukakis +17 « on: July 23, 1988 at 01:23:58 am » With Bentsen picked as VEEP, Dems will sweep TX and South. Bentsen is from TX, while HW is a CT carpetbagger tied to rich GOP elites. His father was a Rockefeller GOPer, not Reagan GOPer 😁

Olowakandi Olawakandi YaBB God ★★★★★ Posts: 31,077

Gallup National: Dukakis +17 « on: November 9, 1988 at 10:52:06 am » The polls were wrong, Dukakis never had a chance. He got corrupted in Willie Horton case while Iran Contra has not hurt Bush like Teheren hostages hurt Carter. Voters rejected Dukakis for having a loser image, since he lost 1978 gov primary. Also, secular candidates like Dukakis don't fare well in South. He should have picked Midwestern VP to capitalize in Midwest, not focus on South. Bentsen was doomed in TX 😁

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I posted this once. An IRC convo circa 250:

IRC circa 250 AD:

<oakvale> hey bedstuy
<oakvale> So it looks like BRTD just joined a cult.
<bedstuy> Uh, what?
<bedstuy> Did he join one of those Germanic pagan cults?
<Gully> No, he joined some weirdo group that thinks the Jewish messiah has already come.
<BRTD> It's not a cult!
<bedstuy> Uh, what? BRTD I didn't think you were even Jewish.
<BRTD> I'm not.
<bedstuy> Then why do you believe in the Jewish messiah?
<BRTD> Because he's already come and died for all people.
<oakvale> Yeah so basically these people believe this guy who lived in Judea like over 200 years ago named Jesus was God.
<oakvale> He was some carpenter from Nazareth and said he was God and then got crucified.
<bedstuy> So, they believe God came to Earth as a man...and just as a carpenter? Not like a king or something?
<oakvale> I know right! Oh and get this:
<oakvale> They believe after he was crucified he was resurrected three days later.
<bedstuy> ROFL
<bedstuy> BRTD are you even circumcised?
<BRTD> No I'm not.
<BRTD> We don't practice the old ways anymore.
<BRTD> Jesus abolished that law.
<AlbertRosenfield> Hmmm
<AlbertRosenfield> You know BRTD
<AlbertRosenfield> you might want to be careful
<AlbertRosenfield> I recall an Emperor in the past wasn't too fond of your kind.
<BRTD> Oh Nero? That was like 170 years ago!
<AlbertRosenfield> Well yes.
<AlbertRosenfield> But I've heard
<AlbertRosenfield> some provincial governors
<AlbertRosenfield> aren't too please with your sect now.
<AlbertRosenfield> Some are encouraging people
<AlbertRosenfield> to hunt down and kill people in your group
<AlbertRosenfield> and they might even start
<AlbertRosenfield> feeding you to lions in the coliseum
<bedstuy> BRTD if that's the case how do you join this group? It's all based on Judaism but you don't follow anything from Judaism?
<BRTD> You get baptized instead.
<BRTD> So basically a couple days ago I went to this river.
<BRTD> And I got dunked under and brought up by this hot girl.
<oakvale> lol
<BRTD> Seriously, she was quite hot
<BRTD> I'd like to wash her feet sometime.
<oakvale> lmao
<oakvale> oh and get this too:
<oakvale> They believe in monogamy, like that a man can have only one wife.
<Gully> Wait, what? Haha!
<bedstuy> Whoa..
<oakvale> Not only that, but you can only pick one wife, and then you're stuck with her for life.
<oakvale> Can't divorce her or anything.
<Gully> LOL. This is going to work out so well for BRTD...
<AlbertRosenfield> So BRTD
<AlbertRosenfield> Does this mean
<AlbertRosenfield> that you won't be visiting
<AlbertRosenfield> the temple prostitutes anymore?
<BRTD> Dude, I haven't been to that temple in like over a year now.
<BRTD> OK there was one time a few months ago.
<BRTD> But that was ONLY because there's one there who was a personal friend of mine that I wanted to see.
<oakvale> lmao
<oakvale> so BRTD, I take it then that you only talked to her right? You didn't...."interact" with her?
<BRTD> Well I mean I came so far anyway....
<BRTD> But I was very nice and tipped her well
<BRTD> Also I let her dominate me. She's tough. She even bruised me in a spot.
<oakvale> ...
<Gully> WTF BRTD?
<Gully> You're a weird man.
<BRTD> What do you know Gully?
<BRTD> You once said that Iberian was a separate race on the Roman census!
<Gully> Ugh...
<Gully> BRTD, do you SERIOUSLY want me to bring up every ignorant and incorrect thing you've ever said about Hibernia?
<Gully> We'd be here for a long time...
<BRTD> All I know is Hibernia is some stupid epic fail island that's so dumb even the Romans aren't interested in it.
<oakvale> lol
<Gully> sigh....

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I think it'd be interesting to see what maroon avatars would say about Israel in the 50s and early 60s. They'd be raving about how it's the best country on Earth/etc.

[morgankingsley]

I'm not even going to try and convert my posts in past talk

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

<BRTD> And I got dunked under and brought up by this hot girl.

Baptisms in the early Church weren't cross-sex; part of the reason (possibly the entire reason; it's a live subject of historical debate) why they had female deacons was to facilitate nude baptisms of women.

[Sir Mohamed]

Olowakandi Olawakandi YaBB God ★★★★★ Posts: 14,195

Gallup National: Carter leads Reagan and Anderson 45-39-9 « on: October 25, 1980 at 08:27:19 am » Reagan is done 😎

Olowakandi Olawakandi YaBB God ★★★★★ Posts: 14,239

Gallup National: Carter leads Reagan and Anderson 45-39-9 « on: October 26, 1980 at 08:20:56 am » Ford trailed by 2 in 1976 Halloween polls and lost by nearly 300 EVs. As a result, Reagan trailing by 6 means Carter will win in 1912-style landslide in EC. Carter will be prez for 4 more years due to Iran situation. Voters are unified behind their prez and do not chose Reagan, who will start WW3. Also, Carter can name Rockefeller GOPer Anderson SoS. Reagan backed Goldwater, as a result New England GOP will switch to Carter. And like LBJ, Carter has picked MN VP 😁

Olowakandi Olawakandi YaBB God ★★★★★ Posts: 14,283

Gallup National: Carter leads Reagan and Anderson 45-39-9 « on: October 27, 1980 at 11:21:00 pm » With 1912-style landslide, Carter has South and 400 EVs locked. He's from South like Wilson with Midwestern VEEP. Reagan is big business GOPer like Taft, which is why he will lose. It will be EC landslide on Nov 4.😁

Olowakandi Olawakandi YaBB God ★★★★★ Posts: 14,355

Gallup National: Carter leads Reagan and Anderson 45-39-9 « on: November 2, 1980 at 03:33:45 pm » After stumbling in only debate, Reagan's perspectives are doomed. Voters never elected a 70 year old prez since Harrison, who died 1 month into office. Carter has Mid West and South locked for him and can also win Cali, where Reagan hasn't won statewide in 10 years. Young voters in secular CA reject Reagan and cutting welfare state 😎

Olowakandi Olawakandi YaBB God ★★★★★ Posts: 14,403

Gallup National: Carter leads Reagan and Anderson 45-39-9 « on: November 5, 1980 at 09:58:23 am » 1912-style  landslide occured, but Senate Dems hurt Carter, who got corrupted with Iran hostages. Due to senate GOPers taking back majority after decades, Reagan managed to be elected prez with bare PV majority. Carter didnt do much in office, anyways 😎😁

[John Dule]

I liked this thread, so I'm gonna bring it back:

Consul Suburban Carthago Nova Optimate SPQR019 YaBB God ★★★★★ Posts: VMMMCDXI

Tired of Vandalism near my nice Latifundium « on: October 22, 409 AD at 11:15:22 pm » Ave, fellow citizens. Recent bouts of Vandalism in Carthaginensis have damaged my estate and hurt my feelings. I hereby demand that the legions DO THEIR JOB and ban these undesirables from our communities. In the meantime, do not engage with their blatant Vandalposting.

Fuzzy Wolf YaBB God ★★★★★ Posts: XVMCDLXX

Re: Tired of Vandalism near my nice Latifundium « on: October 23, 409 AD at 12:03:19 am » The recent Vandalism is just a harbinger of what's to come. Someday soon we will all pine for the days of Commodus. The barbarian horde cannot be reasoned with; it is an unruly Gothic mob that wants nothing more than to tear down everything we have built. They are enemies of Rome and of the very idea of Roman culture. I will stand with Honorius until my dying breath against these monsters, win or lose.

Landslide Leonidas px75BC YaBB God ★★★★★ Posts: XXMMCCCXLIX

Re: Tired of Vandalism near my nice Latifundium « on: October 23, 409 AD at 12:17:39 am » Typical racist attitudes of Optimate Roman patricians showing their ugly faces again.

Fuzzy Wolf YaBB God ★★★★★ Posts: XVMCDLXX

Re: Tired of Vandalism near my nice Latifundium « on: October 23, 409 AD at 12:19:57 am » Typical racist attitudes of Optimate Roman patricians showing their ugly faces again. Silence, Grecian. You contribute nothing to this Empire. Go grow some olives.

President Alaric YaBB God ★★★★★ Posts: XMMMCCXCII

Re: Tired of Vandalism near my nice Latifundium « on: October 23, 409 AD at 12:29:17 am » Haha you guys I'm gonna steal all your s**t

[PSOL]

I like where this is going.

[Ferguson97]

Fuzzy Bear YaBB God ★★★★★ Posts: 16,889

Re: Birmingham riots « on: May 11, 1963 at 11:41:55 pm » Any decent human being should stand with the Birmingham police. Rioting is NOT an acceptable solution to any problem. I have no doubt that the KKK bombers (if it was indeed them) will be brought to JUSTICE. Radicals like MLK and JFK only encourage this kind of lawlessness. Burning businesses and fighting police in the street won't bring you "civil rights" (aka forced equality). Goldwater '64

[Continential]

S019 Suburban New Jersey Conservative YaBB God ★★★★★ Posts: 16,422

Re: Black People Are Coming to the Cities « on: July 18, 1969 at 07:50:15 am » The Black People are coming to the cities, they are hoarding the cities and ruining them, and they are bringing crime! I'm moving to Morristown, New Jersey where we can live away from the blacks. We should ban drugs and guns for black people to stop the crime and we should have a war on drugs. [signature: VOTE SUBURBAN FOR COUNCILOR]

[LAKISYLVANIA]

I wonder what I would have done if Atlas existed in the past. Probably at first - if being honest - defending the USSR in the 1920's and maybe the 1930's because a lot of the information that is known now wouldn't been know than. The USSR quickly revolutionized their industries, education and economy, and their economy was almost unaffected by the Great Depression which at the time was used as proof as how communism was working. Of course with what now is known, we can conclude different things as what happened. Stalin was an pure evil man. I still defend Lenin though, although he has his flaws and his system clearly didn't work. But the man had good intentions. I wonder what would have happened if Trotsky seized power. The world would have been a lot different. People worldwide would have been more open to communism but the USSR might have destablized a lot and there would be a lot of internal fightings in the Communist Party for power as he would never have purged almost the entire leadership of the communist party of the USSR. Stalin's purges united the Communist Party, because all opponents were simply killed or sent to the gulags, but also weakened the early war efforts. It's always a question what Trotsky would have done during WW2 and what after that. Would he have made a deal with Hitler (Molotov-Ribbentrop pact) or would he have allied with the allies (as during the end of the world war and the partitioning of Germany) and spread the world communist revolution that way. But there is also a distinct possibility, more countries would have gone communist because of Trotsky's world revolution plan, and Germany, Spain, Italy and France were all on the brink of going communist.

[ChrisMcDanielWasRobbed]

I wonder what it would have been like for 1932.

[Interlocutor is just not there yet]

SirWoodbury Jr. Member ★★★ Posts: 1,855

Literary Digest: Landon +14 « on: October 31, 1936, 12:42:06 pm » OOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH  YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!

[Sumner 1868]

bronz bronz YaBB God ★★★★★ Posts: 14,195

Do you think most slaves favor the horrors of St. Domingo against whites? « on: September 14, 1859 at 011:32:01 am » I heard a Democrat say this at a saloon recently. Would you say it's accurate?

bronz bronz YaBB God ★★★★★ Posts: 14,195

Are slaveowners bad people? « on: October 27, 1859 at 01:32:03 pm » I do not own slaves and have never meet anyone who does, but I don't think they are all bad people like blue avatar posters say.

bronz bronz YaBB God ★★★★★ Posts: 14,195

Could a Henry Clay candidate win today? « on: November 2, 1859 at 05:21:43 pm » I think so. Most voters in states like IL, OH and PA want internal improvements and a compromise on slavery.

bronz bronz YaBB God ★★★★★ Posts: 14,195

Should Catholic immigration be banned? « on: November 25, 1859 at 02:01:58 pm » A lot of old Whigs think so.

bronz bronz YaBB God ★★★★★ Posts: 14,195

Should Negroes be allowed to homestead? « on: December 5, 1859 at 09:45:38 pm » Republicans have been dodging this question.

bronz bronz YaBB God ★★★★★ Posts: 14,195

Should John Brown's birthday be a holiday? « on: December 12, 1859 at 09:12:07 pm » Many abolitionists would favor this.