Thread: What if Gore were in office?
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Old 05-02-2004, 09:32 PM
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Someone actually dug this old thread up. For what? We gonna' sit around and "what if" ourselves to death. For what reason? How is this going to solve anything. The fact is, Gore ISN'T the president. All these suppositions are a waste of time.
Counterfactualism is a useful tool for understanding history.
This is so true, Grizzly and I may not have agreed in his earlier post but in this one we indeed do. I have seen many "what if" discussions on WWII instance and many other subjects, actually there are many games and movies based on a "what is" assumption. Check this out for an "what if " movie http://www.mediacircus.net/fatherland.html
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