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Bush v. Gore 2000 down in Florida comes to mind. Would 9/11 have happened with Gore at the helm? And if yes, what he'd have done differently? Maybe Al Gore wo
by maverick-iceman 5y ago
Bush v. Gore 2000 down in Florida comes to mind.
Would 9/11 have happened with Gore at the helm? And if yes, what he'd have done differently?
Maybe Al Gore would have been impeached for incompetence and treason had he refused to get carried by the moment and declare war.
If he declared war solely against Al Quaeda, then what would have happened to Saddam?
We could have an Iraq with Saddam still at the helm? Or maybe he'd have gone down in the Arab Spring?
Would we be enjoying fracking had we not lost so many lives in the Middle East in an era of shifting societal values in the early 2000s?
- darawk 5y ago> Bush v. Gore 2000 down in Florida comes to mind. I think about this one frequently. I think this was actually pretty impactful, and in an interesting way. I suspect that Gore would have put all of his energy into climate change work, and he might have actually made a dent in it, because it was still possible to do so relatively cheaply then. I think the consequences of that would likely have been that the problem got mitigated to a degree, and everyone would remember it as that ridiculous fake crisis that Gore made up and wasted a bunch of money trying to prevent.