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re: If you could change/prevent a single event in history, what would it be?

Posted on 7/26/21 at 7:46 am to
Posted by The Spleen
Member since Dec 2010
38865 posts
Posted on 7/26/21 at 7:46 am to
Robert Kennedy assassination.
Posted by Tchefuncte Tiger
Bat'n Rudge
Member since Oct 2004
57214 posts
Posted on 7/26/21 at 8:16 am to
Provide close air support for Pickett's Charge.

ETA: One fully loaded P-47 or Corsair would have done the trick.
This post was edited on 7/26/21 at 12:13 pm
Posted by dchotard
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2008
1163 posts
Posted on 7/26/21 at 9:45 am to
I would have Adolf Hitler be accepted to the art school that he applied to as a youngster, instead of getting turned down.
Posted by Notnac
Vidalia
Member since Nov 2020
881 posts
Posted on 7/26/21 at 9:50 am to
Without a doubt, I would prevent the import of slaves into America. America would be such a better place without this horrible chapter. If slaves had never been brought to America, racisim would be not exist and life would be so much better for all of us. If this were the case, the current African Americans would still be in Africa and would certainly be much happier. I would be happier for them as well. The world would certainly be a better place had slavery in America never existed.
Posted by 9Fiddy
19th Hole
Member since Jan 2007
64051 posts
Posted on 7/26/21 at 10:42 am to
This is a tough one. I saw a lot of posts referencing killing someone in their crib like Gavrilo Princip or Hitler, but I don’t think that would have the desired effect. I think if you killed them that early, the variant timeline (thanks MCU) would result in creating the same type of person to commit the same heinous crimes by adulthood. You need to get to them once they are already formed or about to begin their reign of terror. It would deal a much more devastating blow to whatever their eventual plans were. Like if you killed Princip while he was on the way to the assassination, or Hitler when he was ramping up Germany after WW1, you’d have a much better chance of stopping the event you’re trying to stop.

For me, I have to agree the poster who went with stopping the Titanic from sinking. If that stops, it’s likely the federal reserve never gets created and we’re at a much better place in this country.
Posted by concrete_tiger
Member since May 2020
5991 posts
Posted on 7/26/21 at 10:52 am to
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That sums it up. Not picking your own cotton unless paying free White men to pick it would be punishable by death.



Send plans for defoliant and harvesting equipment that could made using technology at the time. Horse drawn harvester...
Posted by RemyLeBeau
Member since Mar 2015
1794 posts
Posted on 7/26/21 at 10:57 am to
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Kill Karl Marx


Why not kill Friedrich Engels so he couldn't be an inspiration to Marx?
Posted by GumpInLex
Lexington, KY
Member since Nov 2011
1617 posts
Posted on 7/26/21 at 11:00 am to
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Prevent the assassination of Alexander II. Hopefully that ends up meaning no Bolshevism -


In a similar vein- I would have prevented the German high command from sending Lenin back to Russia to spark the revolution. The Germans were beating the Russians on the Eastern Front anyway and didn’t need this to happen.

Like you said, no Bolshevik Revolution and the entire world looks completely different. And the Marxist BS we see taking hold here would have never happened (Marxists infiltrating American academia at every level was KGB initiative)
Posted by Perrydawg
Middle Ga Area
Member since Jan 2014
4769 posts
Posted on 7/26/21 at 11:43 am to
Kennedy assassination. LBJ started us on a course we are as a country and society.
Posted by dgnx6
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2006
68593 posts
Posted on 7/26/21 at 11:54 am to
Stop the guy in wuhan from eating a pangolin that fricked a bat.

Posted by RazorBroncs
Harding Bisons Fan
Member since Sep 2013
13540 posts
Posted on 7/26/21 at 11:56 am to

Permanently shut down the Wuhan Coronavirus Lab in mid-2019 and encase the whole place in concrete and a tent like Chernobyl
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
98182 posts
Posted on 7/26/21 at 11:58 am to
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For me, I'd kill Gavrilo Princip in his crib.


A major European war had been brewing since 1870. Germany wanted to be a Great Power and Britain and France said Nah.
Posted by CitizenK
BR
Member since Aug 2019
9429 posts
Posted on 7/26/21 at 11:59 am to
It is so hard to figure out whose father to give a condom too
Posted by greenbean
USAF Retired
Member since Feb 2019
4584 posts
Posted on 7/26/21 at 12:01 pm to
I love to strangle the internet, social media and smart phones in the crib.
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
98182 posts
Posted on 7/26/21 at 12:04 pm to
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Like you said, no Bolshevik Revolution and the entire world looks completely different


Like WWI, a socialist revolution was going to occur somewhere. It was an idea with enough momentum that somebody was going to try it. Russia was a surprise to everybody, including the Bolsheviks. The consensus was it would break out in one of the industrial states. Without the Bolshevik revolution sucking all the air out of the room, attention would have turned to Germany. If you liked agrarian backward Russia making trouble, you'd love modern, industrial Germany spreading socialism throughout the world.
Posted by Bullfrog
Institutionalized but Unevaluated
Member since Jul 2010
56240 posts
Posted on 7/26/21 at 12:08 pm to
Stop Isaac Newton from leaving science to be the Master of the British Mint, for which he was Knighted. Obviously not for the reason most people think.
Posted by Turf Taint
New Orleans
Member since Jun 2021
6010 posts
Posted on 7/26/21 at 12:25 pm to
Asteroid to the right a smidge, missing Earth, and dinosaurs roam much longer.

Man evolves to want to work together productively much more, by learning together how to not be dinosaur dinner.

Forty times probably decreased by 0.5 sec for avg human in so doing.
Posted by kciDAtaE
Member since Apr 2017
15759 posts
Posted on 7/26/21 at 12:58 pm to
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For me, I'd kill Gavrilo Princip in his crib.


That shite was going to happen anyway. Hell it was the 2nd attempt just that day.
Posted by BayouBengal51
Forest Hill, Louisiana
Member since Nov 2006
6535 posts
Posted on 7/26/21 at 1:00 pm to
Tell Franz Ferdinad's driver the proper route to get to the hospital before they left town hall that day.
Posted by Nigel Farage
South of the Mason-Dixon
Member since Dec 2019
1210 posts
Posted on 7/26/21 at 1:43 pm to
I would kill the prophet Muhammed in his bed when he was a boy.
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