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They were at the height of their power at this point. Remember that they had just formed a union with Portugal (technically uniting the two halves of the world that the pope had divided for them) and also had Hapsburg lands too. Had they won in England or just let France collapse during its war of religion, they really could have expanded into China eventually. (Or at the very least Taiwan and a bunch of treaty ports)

Always remember that China was saved from partition by the Open Door Policy. If Spain and Portugal became the European hegemony and survived like the UK did in our timeline, there would have been no scramble for Africa, just unimpeded exploitation of African and American resources. There’d probably just be a revival of the wars between Rome and the Parthians aka an exasperating money sink until the discovery of oil fields. Now of course there is no way they’d take all of China, but the Chinese Jesuit ban likely would have led to war.

I’ve finally reached the point at which I understand enough about politics to not pay attention to politics.

The brotherhood of steel is guild socialism that devolved into proudhunism

That’s only because enshitification meant most people never adopted 4k tvs let alone that computer thing that makes Minecraft water shiny. (Raytracing)

Frowns at you in black myth wukong. Stagnation is partly due to live service games and fear of cloud gaming, not because of call of duty file size bloat.

Look up the Eric Bischoff Ted Talk.

Another antichrist box checked

Don’t underestimate people supporting him out of fear, after the assassination attempt the dude meets like half of the prerequisites to being the actual antichrist. Who is like the Beast?