Where would be today if Al Gore wouldn’t have been robbed of his presidency and Yitzhak Rabin wouldn’t have been assassinated
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 07:17:16 JST Thomas 🔭✨ -
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Mike Loukides (mikeloukides@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 07:24:42 JST Mike Loukides @thomasfuchs Not many people get the importance of Rabin's assassination. Peace was actually working, and that was intolerable.
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botvolution (botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 07:31:41 JST botvolution @thomasfuchs
Counterfactuals?
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 12:07:42 JST Thomas 🔭✨ @JoeQuinlan it would have been better than a 20-year long war with almost 5 million people killed
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Joe Quinlan 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 (joequinlan@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 12:07:43 JST Joe Quinlan 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 If Al Gore became President, Joe Lieberman would have been the VP.
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draNgNon (drangnon@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 12:43:52 JST draNgNon @thomasfuchs all music strictly censored
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2024 23:40:15 JST Thomas 🔭✨ @mpjgregoire @serge I don’t think Gore would have, for a bunch of reasons, but it’s a moot point.
Perhaps the bigger issue is that the US Supreme Court basically usurped power to decide elections. It should have disbanded and replaced by a new Supreme Court with more judges and an enforceable code of ethics at that point.
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M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2024 23:40:16 JST M. Grégoire @serge @thomasfuchs
The death of Prime Minister Rabin changed the path of Israel/Palestine. As for Mr. Gore on the other hand, I think his foreign policy would have made decisions similar to those of President Bush. See https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/why-al-gore-would-have-invaded-iraq-and-what-it-tells-us-about-syria/article14105322/ for some specifics.A President Gore would have made #ClimateChange a much higher priority, but I don't know if he would have gotten any relevant legal changes through Congress in 2000 to 2008.
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Serge from Babka (serge@babka.social)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2024 23:40:17 JST Serge from Babka What a different timeline!
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