The Thanos Snap has sooo many problems associated with it. It’s developed by an evil multinational that doesn’t listen to its users and keeps trying to force itself on the universe.
People should use the Thanos Flatpak instead…
I say this as an American, from the bottom of my heart I wish Christopher Columbus never existed.
Well there goes me but at least my native ancestors would have had a chance to thrive.
I’m a white dude that’s obsessed with Mesoamerican history. Holy fuck I would prefer the civilization your ancestors would come up with than what my idiot dirt farmer progenitors from Europe ended up creating.
I’ve good news, the continent’s fate was sealed long before that because colonialism was never going to stop.
There was a French explorer who “discovered” America four years before Columbus. So Columbus’ erasure wouldn’t even affect the one purpose he had.
The acts of Christophorus Columbus directly perpetrated by him range from holocaustic to apocalyptic in scale.
Christophorus
You missed the opportunity to call him Mr. Christoffelees.
It’s his non-anglicized name.
Oh… I thought it was a pun on phosphorus used as a jab.
If it was an event, I would choose World War 2. I’m Bohemian (Gypsy) and my people were just as hated as Jews (I’m also like 10% Jewish). So snap Hitler out of history please.
Jack Welch’s whole business philosophy.
Before him, it was more or less understood that business owners had a responsibility to do what was best for their customers, their employees, their communities, and their company’s long-term sustainability; the companies that didn’t (or didn’t at least make it look like they were) were looked down upon.
Welch was the first one to popularize the notion that short-term shareholder value was the CEO’s highest priority. He normalized companies’ c-suites being cutthroat, craven capitalists.
To be sure, not everything that’s wrong with the world today can be laid at his feet. But late-stage capitalism can.
It was more Milton Freedman’s philosophy. Welch was teacher’s pet who implemented it to the fullest extent.
I think the birth of Hitler is an easy choice. But I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that eliminating some earlier event could both right another wrong and negate Hitler’s existence.
Aside from that there’s the existence of the internet, which I’m not sure has been an overall benefit to humankind. I think about this often.
Mao is probably a lot more impactful than Hitler - I’m just uncertain if it’d successfully abort the damage.
If I Thanos snapped myself, wouldn’t that just delete half of me? Left or right? Top or bottom half?
I’d go back to the very beginning, the Prime Mover, and prevent all of it from happening in the first place.
Reagan probably. If my understanding of history is correct, its the only thing that doesn’t delete me but helps the most.
How would removing Reagan help?
If it’s about the Berlin Wall, it’s not as if it wasn’t inevitable no matter who was president.
He broke basically every single pro middle class policy in the US. Unions, pensions, social security, taxes on the rich, exploded the deficit, congressional partisanship, brutal " better dead than red" foreign policy, on and on. He constantly broke every political “taboo” that protected these middle class bulwarks, and it worked. Our country has been brutalized for 40 years and counting, and most of the ugliness can be traced back to his administration.
He single handedly did more destruction to our nation than any other president so far, and yes that includes Trump.
Not to mention the completely failed War on Drugs which is still ongoing wasting trillions of taxpayer dollars providing jobs to the police to arrest minorities with laws aggressively passed to target them, and actively trying to to prevent more advanced research into “controversial” topics like HIV/AIDS and stem cells instead of actually trying to find treatments.
He may not have started some of these, or kept them going, but he expanded them and created a cult following for their continued implementation.
Jesus would be funny. Honestly any key religious figure or even their betrayers (Judas) would just make for just a wildly different human race.
Judas’ betrayal was a canon event for christianity, so I’m pretty sure Jesus would just snap him back to life.
Would this delete the religion or make the religion undeniably false? I’m asking from the historical fact he existed as a human. If he definitely did not exist but it continued to exist idk if that would change much. If Christianity never existed in sure we would be speaking Arabic.
Or alternatively, Christianity only exists because in an attempt to prevent it, someone from the future snapped Jesus out of existence. But it turns out that Jesus was just some dude who liked to do nice things for people until one day he poofed out of existence in front of a crowd and everyone suddenly figured he must be a god.
lol! That’s a fun alternative which is kind of already the story! Minus the son of man part
Interestingly, we may not be speaking Arabic anyway.
Christianity wouldn’t exist without Jesus as a central figure, and Islam probably wouldn’t exist without Christianity, as there would be no background for archangel Gabriel to deliver God’s “final” revelation, and he would just be the defender of Israelis as told in Hebrew Bible (correct me if I’m wrong).
Without Islam, there would be no single force to fuel Arabic expansionism, and so Arabs would find themselves on a similar ground with European civilizations. Israelis, on their end, could actually expand and permanently settle the land instead of rebuilding their country millennia after.
Did not consider that far, good thought! :)
Wonder if India and Central Asia would be Buddhist then.
Likely :)
I’m sure it’s been done, a novel where this exact thing happens would be kinda interesting.
The tiktaalik that though leaving the waters is a good idea, or the monke that thought walking up right is a good idea
Why stop there? There’s an energy gulf between the evolution of DNA and the first thing we could call a cell. Eliminate the first cell to ever exist on the planet, and the right conditions to evolve to that point may never be replicated again.
Henry Kissinger. Easy. Godfather of horrific war crimes and if we all die of nuclear annihilation one day he will be the person I would put the most blame on. It irritates the shit out of me that he died peacefully. A man who made sure napalm gets poured on civilian children? Gets to die like that? Fuck that goof and I hope he was afraid when he died and I hope it hurt.
This guy! This guy right here!! Holy fuck he lived for so fucking long too.
I listened to the Behind the Bastards series on him and it was a lot to unpack.
A certain guy named
DavelPutin, he’s Stalin’s aggression mixed with Beria’s inconsideration at this point.We can propagate effects through time? Perfect. I’m going send a snap forward into the future. From now on, anyone that attempts to gather up the infinity stones gets instantly dusted.
I feel like it’s one snap per attempt.
Like, thanos couldn’t permanently limit population, his one snap was big but finite.
Might as well Snap away the stones. They’re a thing. Much easier, very finite, just make sure you Snap away the stones deep into the past.
If it can be abstract I would snap away the acceptance of hierarchy as a method of social control, like historically speaking go back to the first people who decided that there should be a person in charge of all the things and have the people say “Naw, that’s fucked” and then that just not happen. Not that the idea of hierarchy not be in existence at all, because I think it would be more effective to have people recognize that it’s bullshit and intentionally build societies antithetical to hierarchy rather than to have society’s that are ignorant of its potential harm.
If it had to be a tangible thing that I could physically dissolve… Parasites? Would all parasites count or is that too broad? Cuz if we got rid of fleas and leeches and mosquitoes and ticks that would wipe out huge swaths of vectors of disease transmission. No black plague, no zika, no dengue fever. If we wanted to expand the definition of parasites even broader than the the bourgeoisie class might be included but I wouldn’t want to get my hopes up. XD
Ronald Reagan
Came here to say this
I’d even settle for Newt…
Why him? Why not someone who did something of note?
A LOT of the current Republican policies are based on the stuff that happened during his administration.
