• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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    I’ve long ascribed to the theory that, if time travel is ever invented, no one kills Hitler because WWII was inevitable and Hitler actually bungled a lot of key decisions. I’m praying Trump is the same. Maybe this is the most painless purging of nationalist sentiment across the timelines.

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      Changing timeline with useful morons. Not a bad idea.

      So, 3rd world war will start and Russia will launch nukes. Nato will fuck up their response, because of the orange freek. Most Russian nukes either fail to fly, fail to detonate or the yeald is garbage, because corruption and stolen maintenance funds. Earth will only be partially ruined. Russia will declare victory and soon collapse due to internal conflicts, arguments about the new world order and related assassinations. Something better will eventually rise from the mess.

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      The only way to really prevent World War II is to prevent World War I and to do that we would need to prevent the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and our own timeline made it pretty clear that he was destined to die that day.

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        The assassination of Franz Ferdinand feels like there will be two competing organisations with access to time travel.
        One was trying to prevent the assassination while the other was making sure it happened.

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          And here I immediately thought if one were trying to assassinate him, the other was trying to seduce him. Did you save him? Unfortunately no, he died of a heart attack. Apparently ED medicine had greater effects on people in that time period

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    Two so far.

    Remember, they have discovered 42 plots against Hitler.

    And they didn’t have nearly as sophisticated means of communication that time.

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      Fun fact: Hitler’s father was called Alois Schicklgruber until he was 40.
      A pretty convoluted and sketchy turn of events surrounding a small inheritance lead to him being forced to change his last name to Hitler, 10 years before his son Adolf was born.
      It’s debatable whether Germans would have been as eager to shout “Heil Schicklgruber”.

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        They would opt to “Heil Führer” or something. There are other ways to refer to someone than their given name but it’s a fun fact indeed, thanks for sharing!

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        The joke is that a person named Hans Duchtelstein was the previous timelines “Hitler” and after being successful Hitler just stepped in because fate is inevitable.

        Reverse: we time travel and kill Hitler, come to the present and Hans Duchtelstein takes Hitlers place but does the exact same thing.

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      When you went back in time to prevent Hitler’s entry into art school so that you wouldn’t have to analyse his overrated aquarrells in art class anymore.

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      Kind of. Ex supporter traveled from Hawaii and was seen on the golf course waiting on a later hole with his rifle. They shot at him, and missed, then politely arrested him from what it seemed like on the news at the time. The one you knew about I assumed was the kid who just wanted to shoot any candidate he could? I assume he wanted to show his markmenship club from school he was a good shot. Fn nailed his shot at prison