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If you could change/prevent a single event in history, what would it be?
Posted on 7/25/21 at 10:38 am
Posted on 7/25/21 at 10:38 am
It can only be a singlular event.
For example, you can't say "no transatlantic slave trade," you can only say "prevent the transaction that resulted in the first boatload of slaves arriving in Virginia in 1619."
You can't say "loss of the Holy Land and parts of Europe to the Muslims" but you can say the fall of Constantinople.
For me, I'd kill Gavrilo Princip in his crib.
For example, you can't say "no transatlantic slave trade," you can only say "prevent the transaction that resulted in the first boatload of slaves arriving in Virginia in 1619."
You can't say "loss of the Holy Land and parts of Europe to the Muslims" but you can say the fall of Constantinople.
For me, I'd kill Gavrilo Princip in his crib.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 10:41 am to udtiger
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For me, I'd kill Gavrilo Princip in his crib.
I came here to say prevent the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 10:42 am to udtiger
Powder keg only needs a spark, stopping one spark won’t keep the keg from blowing shortly after from another spark.
Pearl Harbor?
Pearl Harbor?
This post was edited on 7/25/21 at 10:44 am
Posted on 7/25/21 at 10:43 am to udtiger
Prevent the assasination of Lincoln
This post was edited on 7/25/21 at 10:44 am
Posted on 7/25/21 at 10:43 am to udtiger
Oooo tough guy, killing a baby.
I’d say you can’t kill him in his crib, you have to kill him when he is 19 killing Ol Archduke Chocula or whatever.
I’d say you can’t kill him in his crib, you have to kill him when he is 19 killing Ol Archduke Chocula or whatever.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 10:43 am to udtiger
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"prevent the transaction that resulted in the first boatload of slaves arriving in Virginia in 1619."
That sums it up. Not picking your own cotton unless paying free White men to pick it would be punishable by death.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 10:44 am to udtiger
Prevent the assassination of Alexander II. Hopefully that ends up meaning no Bolshevism - which means no Stalin and nobody to support Mao, Kim, and Pol Pot. Could also (maybe) mean no Hitler or Mussolini if there's no Communist threat.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 10:45 am to udtiger
Never meet my ex wife. Been a pain in my side for years
Posted on 7/25/21 at 10:45 am to udtiger
Change LSU vs Bama 2011 championship game… huge loss on the frontier.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 10:45 am to udtiger
Slavery in America. I’d have the Continental Congress engage in protectionism of Southern plantations in exchange for freeing their slaves.
That way we end the single most divisive issue in American history in its tracks.
That way we end the single most divisive issue in American history in its tracks.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 10:45 am to udtiger
Prevent Toby in HR from being born
Posted on 7/25/21 at 10:46 am to UndercoverBryologist
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Slavery in America. I’d have the Continental Congress engage in protectionism of Southern plantations in exchange for freeing their slaves
Against the rules. Only one event.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 10:46 am to udtiger
The Shooting of Michael Brown in 2014.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 10:47 am to udtiger
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For me, I'd kill Gavrilo Princip in his crib.
Well that could change things where one of his fellow conspirators actually manages to kill the Arch Duke the first go around (they got really close to pulling it off) and we’re back where we started. No you wait in that cafe at 10:00 in the morning, wait for Princip to walk in, and when he goes to order his sandwich then you blow his head off.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 10:47 am to Reverend Jim
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"prevent the transaction that resulted in the first boatload of slaves arriving in Virginia in 1619."
Wouldn’t that be along some of the most racist motivations?
Essentially saying “If we never brought them from Africa wouldn’t wouldn’t have to deal with them now.”
Posted on 7/25/21 at 10:47 am to udtiger
fricking fat fingered a post when I have nothing to say 

This post was edited on 7/25/21 at 10:49 am
Posted on 7/25/21 at 10:48 am to Kujo
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Powder keg only needs a spark, stopping one spark won’t keep the keg from blowing shortly after from another spark.
Very true.
My choice is made with the hope/assumption that someone else doesnt take up his cause.
And killing him right before does make more sense.
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