I dunno, I can imagine a lot of orifices…

There is a book called Fire on the Mountain which is basically that story, except the turning point is John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry succeeding in starting a slave revolt. The slave rebels form a free Black socialist republic, which then sparks a worldwide socialist revolution.

The closest thing might be White Man's Burden with John Travolta and Harry Belafonte. It does not depict slavery, but rather a race-reversed modern society. I haven't seen it, but it is supposed to be not great. It flopped and is now basically forgotten.

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There is Lion's Blood and a sequel Zulu Heart, which I stumbled across on Wikipedia. It has advanced Afro-Arab Islamic states (with Egyptian -Carthaginian - Alexandrian roots) colonizing the Americas and fighting Toltecs and Aztecs. They use pagan and Christian Europeans as slave labor, supplied by Viking raiders. …

The South lost the war but won the peace. It's as simple as that.

Without the American Revolution straining France's finances and leading to the French Revolution, the whole world becomes unrecognizable.

McClellan almost managed it, and he was leading the other side's army …

It never seemed to bother ancient civilizations like the Greeks and Romans, who enslaved people from all the cultures and races they knew about. Although that meant anyone could theoretically become a slave, the sting may have been lessened by the fact that ancient slaves could be freed and some actually did fairly…

Until mechanization replaces all human labor.

Whenever people bring out the "talent not quotas" argument, I always wonder how they think people get hired for jobs. Do they believe that HR departments have some kind of talent detection equipment which "proves" that a straight white man is always the best for the job? Perhaps some kind of dowsing rod? Hiring…

I read the Wikipedia synopses of Turtledove's Southern Victory series, and man is that ever a grimdark crapsack world. An extra 80 years or so of slavery, wars repeatedly ravage North America, there's a major Argentine-Brazilian war, nobody stops Japanese domination of East Asia or the Ottoman genocide of Armenians,…

It's particularly weird since the books clearly draw on a lot of other civilizations and cultures as well as mediaeval Western Europe: Essos includes places inspired by Venice, the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, Barbary Pirates, various Central Asian hordes, Carthage, etc. And some of the "races" of people have…

To me his singing voice always sounds like the world's worst Ray Charles impression.

I once took a college course in which the (British) professor told us (mostly American) students that the USA was one of the oldest countries on Earth. After we scoffed or glanced around in confusion, he explained what he meant: the USA's Constitution had been in effect much longer than the political arrangements of…

"Use the Force, Harry." - Gandalf

Or the people who think the "mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore" speech from Network is a stirring call to arms against the frustrations of modern life, rather than the ravings of a demented lunatic.

Apparently he is blocked by Tinder so he can't apologize to her anyway, so my advice is moot.

Mr. Hammen: And how about the time we hopped in the family car and drove all the way to Woodstock?
Mrs Hammen: Oh, that was a time. You got hold of that bad acid and didn't come down for two weeks. You kept telling everyone that you were Jesus Christ and then you jumped off a roof 'cause you thought you could fly!
Mr.…

I'm in Sonoma County. The weather and scenery are great. It's got enough cultural interest to support two art house movie theaters (well, one and a half - one of them also shows blockbusters to help pay the bills) - a university and residents and tourists with money help ensure that. There is still enough local…