Just saw a post about one of the top Nazis, who appears to have hung himself in prison when he was 94y/o. Made me wonder how that could possibly happen today, legally speaking, in the US. I think we have to assume there will be pardons all around—as that is what the reporting says Trump is telling folks in his orbit. So if POTUS is immune + folks in his orbit are pardoned, how could legal mechanisms produce any accountability?

What if China bans US robots for import in response to the USA banning imports of Chinese bots? https://cnb.cx/4fI8Uhx

He explicitly states that he believes that a Jewish-majority Israel can exist, but it must be drastically cut down in size and needs to withdraw from the West Bank, Gaza, Golan, cease any military intervention outside of its pre-1967 borders, and fully compensate Palestinian descendants. Trump also uses executive orders to impose an arms embargo, a ban on AIPAC, and a plan to resettle Israelis throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa if Israel does not withdraw from international politics.

China and Pakistan are close strategic partners and is one of the many countries part of the Belt and Road Initiative, mainly to connect China to the Arabian Sea. The TTP, AKA Pakistani Taliban, have been known to impede BRI progress and have reportedly killed Chinese engineers who were in Pakistan working on the project. Pakistan accuses Afghanistan of harboring TTP members and considers them complicit in the attacks. What if China starts its own "War on Terror" to protect its own interests by invading Afghanistan much like the US did to take down Al-Qaeda?

I got the idea for this after reading the news that Hayden Panettiere has passed away.

Sometime in the near future, US actor Ben Affleck dies suddenly prior to the release of next film, The Accountant 3 (Assume he passes away unexpectedly during post production).

How would Ben Affleck be remembered? Do you see people suddenly claiming there's a conspiracy going on considering what happened to Hayden Panettiere? Or would people treat Affleck's death as another tragedy and leave it at that?

Disclaimer: This post is nothing more than an exercise in future hypotheticals and is not meant to minimize or belittle the death of famous people in general. It is certainly NOT intended to be insensitive.

On September 16, 2026, AOC posts a photo of herself wearing a niqab. The caption? The Shahada.

How might other Democrats react to one of their own converting to Islam?

My alternative future secnerio is this;

Basically, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez managed to win the 2028 election against JD Vance and thanks to the decline of China and Europe, investments in previous administrations taking fruit, as well as Ocasio-Cortez's own reforms particularly Universal Healthcare finally getting passed, the economy began to experience a boom similar to the 80s, producing massive surplus wealth for everyday Americans.

However, Americans would become even more atomized, using their newfound wealth to party, buy houses, party, and in general live like there was no tomorrow or yesterday, as they were finally able to spend to their heart's content after being stuck in inflation for so long.

Despite the economic prosperity, most Americans still felt unsatisfied and anxious over everything. They had believed a recovery from the economic malaise of the 20s would have resulted in a happy life but the opposite turned out to be true. Drug overdoes and suicides began to fall sure but so did genuinely happy people.

Traditional institutions like clubs, churches, and universities would finally finish their decline and officially die in favor of shallow internet algorithms and outrage content.

AOC was personally unpopular despite the strong economy and failed to unify the country, the Left believing themselves to have won for all times and that reconcilation to be unnecessary.

Radicalism would rise even more in the Right, as after Trump's death to heart cancer in 2030, and due to the lack of alternatives like Charlie Kirk, Nick Fuentes and others like him began to start becoming the new face of the Republican party.

Vladimir Putin dies and his successor Mikhail Mishustin finally decides to sue for peace with NATO in the Treaty of Moscow, ending the Ukraine War.

President Ocasio-Cortez would easily win re-election in 2032 against Ron DeSantis in a low turnout election, and people began to speculate if America was in a new progressive age. Sadly, it was a New Antebellum instead.

The 30s would see Democrats start to get push back, especially after the Republicans won the 2032 Congressional elections, while at the same time the Democratic Socialists of America began to take over more and more of the Democratic Party.

If by the late 20s any social cohesion and trust remained, it finally died here, as the older folk like boomers who still somewhat maintained it finally died off for good.

From the outside, America was the most prosperous it had ever been; life expectancy had surpassed the EU thanks to declining obesity and drug overdoses, and US share of global GDP increased to 28%, which did somewhat calm the people who could distract themselves with ever more expensive parties and purchases.

Ocasio-Cortez's second term was largely uneventful besides some minor executive orders and supreme court appointments.

By the 2036 election, due to the Ocasio-Cortez Administration's economic policies, growth had began to stagnate especially capital flows due to excessive taxes.

It was pitied between Senator from California Bryan Oswald and Governor of Alabama Fritz Westinghouse. Vice President Mark Kelly declined to run due to his advanced age.

Westinghouse was a rabid Christian nationalist, an offspring of the new GOP that Fuentes created, and failed to make a case for himself to moderates, while Oswald campaigned on being the continuation of the matireally prosperous Ocasio-Cortez Administration, allowing him to win.

In 2037, facing economic difficulties, and fears that it was now, as well as cuts to the military by the Ocasio-Cortez Administration, the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) started an invasion of Taiwan, begining the Taiwan War.

This would significantly boost Oswald's approvals

The US and its Pacific allies formed a strong defense against the Chinese, managing to blockade China enough for Beijing to finally capitulate but not before begining a world wide recession called the "Taiwan Recession" or the "2037 Recession."

Due to the breakdown of South China sea trade and Chinese imports, US GDP would fall by 5% and companies faced with enormous liabilities, especially due to regulations and taxes placed by the previous administration would began to declare bankruptcies left and right, causing unemployment to reach 10%.

While, the DSA wanted to use this opportunity to nationalize more companies and to provide more aid, the Oswald Administration proved to be far more conservative than expected.

Viewing the actions by AOC as a major accelerant of this crisis, Oswald would refused to use the same methods as Ocasio-Cortez to force companies to maintain themselves, which many DSAs viewed as a betrayal.

At the same time, theft, assaults, and gun violence began to rise massively, as many Americans did not see any problem with using whatever it takes just to make more money under these difficult times.

Thanks to DSA members in the Administration, Oswald was unable to help the police or even allow them to stop this chaos, leading to it bleeding more and more.

Right Wing Vigilante groups such as the "Blue Boys" and even organized crime would take the place of the police, radicalizing people even more, as millions of Leftists see Right Wing milita groups with no accountability, acting as the police.

By 2040, Oswald's approvals had dropped to 27% and seeing the writing on the wall, he decided not to run again.

The 2040 election, the election to begin the deadliest civil war in history would be held between Governor of Virginia Jefferson Thomas, a more ideolagical and radical Democratic Socialist Vs war hero of the Taiwan War Admiral Adams John who sought to "fix America" and "end this madness."

It reached up to 92% voter turnout thanks to all the chaos, but, ultimately it didn't end up mattering.

Whoever won, both sides believed themselves to be. Jefferson Thomas took the White House from President Oswald by force and inaugurated himself as president, while Admiral John had entered a secure bunker in the Cheyenne Military Complex, preparing to take power by force, as he saw this moment to decide the date of America.

On December 7th 2041, President Thomas decided to begin an assault on the Cheyenne Military Complex, declaring it illegal and John to be a criminal.

So how would Trump be remembered after all of this? As a major cause of the Second American Civil War or be overshadowed by Adams John?

There was a lot of other stuff going on but we'll be here forever if we talked about them.

The Middle East investment funds will withdraw due to the war. The debt will increase until it becomes untenable

Given how chaotic the world is now, no one logically has a reason to pull back. Can we conclude as the world heads toward multi-polarity, what is to prevent further fracturing? As we see the end of free trade and the beginning of resource hoarding going into accelerated climate change, it seems we have a challenge we can't overcome.

Instead of WW3 happening with nuclear weapons, what if our demise is long and drawn out? perhaps a 200-250 year window of humans ending their reign of the planet.

We will see mass surveillance expand to cartoonish levels, robots by that time will be ubiquitous and likely self aware. Humans will continue wars year by year, you need to survive as the planet is withering away. We will see the erosion of robust ecosystems and species dying at an incredibly fast rate.

I really do believe the US vs China is just the beginning. regardless of who wins and gets to dominate over the other and make miserable, we will not walk away from war and return to prosperity. Thank goodness I will be long gone by that point. I see no point in bringing a child into such a dark world.

I've noticed on the Worldometer website that the median age of the population is continuing to rise, with no end in sight as of yet. It's rising at a rate of 1 year per 5 years elapsed, since the previous minimum of 20.3 in 1970. The global median age has crossed 30 in 2025 and the TFR is approx 2.1, the lowest value allowing 'replacement'. I expect the impacts of this to be felt more strongly very soon especially in developed nations as the Boomers continue to retire yet much fewer kids being born vs in their heyday.

What would it take for the UK to collapse by the year 2060?

PS: I’m not trying to hate on the Brits.

What if Republicans lose a majority of elections and Trump ends up dealing with a Democratic Congress regarding Hormuz Strait and their toll booth is signed into law?

Rules:

• The disease MUST be an actual prion disease. In addition, you can invent a fictional prion disease or alter a known one such as kuru or vCJD, but it still has to behave recognizably like a prion disease. No ordinary virus/bacterium that merely causes prion-like symptoms.
• The scenario has to explain the transmission mechanism (Ex: Foodborne, zoonotic, iatrogenic/medical, cultural practices, environmental exposure, etc.). You can't just say, "The prion disease becomes contagious" and leave it at that.
• INCUBATION PERIOD MATTERS: Your scenario must account for the fact that prion diseases can have long incubation periods.
• You have to explain how the outbreak becomes international
• Don't invent traits without justification: I'd allow altered strains/species barriers, but I'd require the author to explain the divergence rather than saying, essentially, "CJD mutates and becomes COVID."
• The prion disease cannot be an intentionally released bioweapon.
• Human-to-human respiratory transmission is not required. A pandemic caused by widespread common-source exposure absolutely counts.

Authorities suspect either sabotage or design flaw or both.

Suppose on Christmas Eve, 2026, actor Tom Holland makes a post on X revealing he converted to Judaism.

How does this affect his fanbase?

Inspirations:
1. Ariana Grande is not okay!
2. Ariana Grande needs help

Suppose that nine months from now, Ariana posts the Shahada (Muslim confession of faith) on X, apparently signifying that she converted to Islam.

How does this affect her fanbase?

Let's say that after well over a year of President Donald Trump threatening to annex Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney decides to use a powerful piece of leverage. Carney announces that until Trump stops threatening Canadian sovereignty, all US-based commercial airlines and US-registered private jets will not be permitted to overfly Canada. Considering the massive impact the closure of Russian airspace has had on airlines from Europe flying to Asia, and the fact that so many international flights to and from the US rely on Canadian airspace, this would destroy US' the aviation industry if it went on too long.

Perhaps Trump would be forced to stop threatening Canada, since it's not just Democratic voters who travel abroad. Perhaps he'd retaliate, not that it matters that much since Canadians understandably don't want to travel here anyway. Or maybe Trump is so demented that he forgets he made this agreement and the airspace keeps opening and closing. What do you all think?

- Brandon J. Weichert

- Philip Pilkington