re: What 5 things in history would you change if given the chance?

Stopped slavery from ever happening in the US.

We'd have a clean, highly functioning prestine country that would function like a rich European nation.

Harambe lives
Cracker Barrel lady kept her job
Knights Templar eradicated the world of Islam
Slave trade never involved America
Hitler never lived.

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I guess just knowledge transfer. We have burned libraries, etc

Kill Marx

Stop slave trade to the Americas

Forced Clinton at gunpoint to 'ok' the strikes to kill Bin Laden

Given the Knights Templar all modern arms with a many thousands of rounds to completely eradicate Islam and kick their asses out of Jerusalem for good.

Then I would go back and figure out how to make another time machine and make it to go to five more.

My next five would all be pretty much all at the same time with exceptions to like one or two.

Kill Mao Zedong

Kill Stalin

Kill Lenin

Kill Hitler

Stop the US from ever getting involved in the ME in any capacity.

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Could be an unmitigated disaster for humanity. There was a power vacuum in Germany following WWI and someone was going to fill it. As bad as Hitler was, there was one good thing about him. That thing is that he was badshit crazy and totally sucked as a military strategist

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2 comments here:

1) Think about if that power vacuum had been filled by a Communist takeover, which is entirely plausible. Imagine a European power state like Germany being fully Communist and allying with the USSR. This scenario is absolutely horrifying.

2) I don't think it was so much that Hitler was a horrible strategist as he was a rash decision maker and when things started going poorly this characteristic was amplified tenfold. Early on he allowed his generals to operate freely and with initiative. It really wasn't until the Soviet campaign started going south that his distrust in his generals led to his constant meddling and shuffling of commanders. But Germany's geopolitical situation at this point was already pretty much fricked, as a result of Hitler's brazen decisions to fight the British Empire, the USSR, and the United States with the most worthless group of allies imaginable (minus the Finn's).

His major geopolitical decisions were what ultimately doomed Germany, not meddling in tactical matters. He also had to mediate lots of disagreement within the German General staff and field commanders.

Adam eating that dam apple.

I wouldn't need the other 4.

Kill Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx, Mao, and repeal the 19th amendment

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No 17th Amendment

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That would be the death knell of American democratic government. Also, it's unlikely that changing the events of only one day could have accomplished this. Remarkably short-sighted that you would waste one of your five chances to change the world on a procedural point just because you are pissed that your president can't get his bills passed by the Senate.

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Kill Marx in his crib

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That wouldn't accomplish much, if anything. What he helped bring about was inevitable with or without his involvement.

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Change the word "people" to "citizens" in the US Constitution

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Seriously? You have five things in all of human history you can change and you would use one of them just to frick with immigrants after already using one to change the method of selecting U.S. Senators? Ridiculous.

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Prevent importation of slaves into the North American colonies

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Not something you could have done by changing the events of only one day, but would be a good one if it were.

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Kill Hitler in his crib

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The only reasonable one on your list that fits the criteria (i.e. changing the events of one day).

I sincerely hope that if some magical all-powerful being ever does decide to give someone five chances to change the world, it won't waste them on you.