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Maybe, one of the post-WWI proposals for an Assyrian state goes through, and the leadership of the new country tries to roll back a thousand years of Arab influence in just a few decades, even though most of this new Assyria's populace would be Arabic-speaking and Muslim. Going back to an even...

That's likely, if they remain in Formula One; that said, their status as the last of their kind, even more so than Williams (even today, they host events in which the fans can get very close to the cars, and they clearly have not forgotten their almost artisanal roots), would gain them quite the...

Galaxy-brained moment: Ayrton Senna and Giancarlo Minardi were so close, it's possible Senna could've driven for Minardi at some point in his future. Sure, he wouldn't be able to turn Minardi into a top team, but Senna knew the team needed money and talent to survive, so his stint at Minardi...

Speaking of crossovers, a hip-hop/punk crossover would make a lot of sense; and even if he didn't play punk, a surviving Kurt Cobain would probably be the right person for the job: he grew up in conditions that would've inspired a whole hip-hop discography had he been born black, after all, and...

Some good ideas there, but the Veneto split is weird (especially since the historical divide was between the whole mainland, and the city of Venice itself), and I'd merge Basilicata and northern Calabria, too. To keep the number stable, I'd split off the province of Foggia from Apulia as...

Galaxy-brained play - that was pushed forward, to no avail, by some actual inhabitants of Nice IRL: have Garibaldi, who spoke French natively, represent Nice in the French Parliament and push for a new plebiscite to re-annex Nice to Italy. Even more galaxy-brained play, perhaps it becomes an...

That Batistuta/Rui Costa/Baggio trio at Firenze, holy shit. They all played for Fiorentina IRL but, never together, as far as I know. Milan seems like the most stacked team, however.

The only thing that would save them, is a decisive push against extremism by the community but, given how quite a few people in Dearborn openly chanted "death to America" while in America due to recent events just a few days ago, that's probably going to cause a massive split inside the US'...

Another early, feasible POD: when Napoleon rolls in, he annexes the whole of Italian-speaking Switzerland to his Italian domains, and not just Sondrio and its environs. Less feasible, but not that unlikely, Venice openly resists Napoleon - sure, the mainland would probably be occupied, but the...

Italy without South Tyrol, but with Istria; however, the Bulgaria/Yugoslavia merger goes through. Bigger East Germany, retaining all of Pomerania and Lower Silesia; however, Poland gets the OTL Kaliningrad Oblast.

I wonder, in a world without Fascism, is Di Canio just as... vocal, about his political preferences, or... :D

Yeah, AFAIK, the last Buu Saga chapter even ended with a full on epilogue, so that's a good way to end the series (even though there will surely be more than a few non-canon movies, as in OTL). Was Toriyama approached to write a Sonic manga IRL, too?

Graeber himself mentioned more than a few of them, but AFAIK there's no present-day state that's been able to do that while also having the kind of modern amenities for which it's basically indispensable to intervene on a territory on a permanent basis, by creating power plants, sewer systems...

Kind of, since in a panarchist system, rather than moving to a place that's more closely aligned to your views, you simply change your political membership, but it's close enough.

In his book The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber postulates that the development of the state as we know it went hand in hand with the loss of three kinds of freedom: the freedom to escape one's surroundings and move away, the freedom to disobey arbitrary authority, and the freedom to reimagine...