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So You Think You Can Time Travel

AstaerethAstaereth In the belly of the beastRegistered User regular
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You have a time machine.

You can take one trip into the past, which must be at least ten years back.

Your mission: save the Republic, these United States of America, from whatever you consider the current crisis.

What do you do?

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  • RiemannLivesRiemannLives Registered User regular
    how do you think we ended up in this mess in the first place?
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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    The crisis is the slave power was never broken and destroyed. So it's got to be something between 1860 and 1876. The biggest thing I can think of is make sure that Andrew Johnson never becomes president. Lincoln may have been too lenient on the rebels, but he wouldn't have actively supported the slave states. Follow it up with 8 years of Grant and maybe you're getting somewhere.

    The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
  • Duke 2.0Duke 2.0 Time Trash Cat Registered User regular
    Tell Gavrilo Princip that murder isn't the way

    less to save anything and more to see what the fuck happens

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  • RedTideRedTide Registered User regular
    Astaereth wrote: »
    You have a time machine.

    You can take one trip into the past, which must be at least ten years back.

    Your mission: save the Republic, these United States of America, from whatever you consider the current crisis.

    What do you do?

    Lincoln or Bobby Kennedy gets saved.

    I lean Kennedy because I know what happens when Lincoln goes and it sucks but there is no guarantee he does significantly better in reforming the south and mainstreaming former slaves.

    Kennedy probably means no Nixon and maybe the GOP doesn't morph into the segregation party in order to grab power.

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    RedTide wrote: »
    Astaereth wrote: »
    You have a time machine.

    You can take one trip into the past, which must be at least ten years back.

    Your mission: save the Republic, these United States of America, from whatever you consider the current crisis.

    What do you do?

    Lincoln or Bobby Kennedy gets saved.

    I lean Kennedy because I know what happens when Lincoln goes and it sucks but there is no guarantee he does significantly better in reforming the south and mainstreaming former slaves.

    Kennedy probably means no Nixon and maybe the GOP doesn't morph into the segregation party in order to grab power.

    1) It's not clear to me that RFK beats Nixon
    2) The Dixiecrat vote is going to go somewhere. It probably inevitably ends up with the GOP.

    The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
  • tinwhiskerstinwhiskers Registered User regular
    edited June 2018
    tinwhiskers was warned for this.
    Travel 8 months into the future the slow way. Travel back to February 2009.

    Find a way to off Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Roberts 1 month before Citizens United is argued.

    So It Goes on
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  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User, Transition Team regular
    edited June 2018
    I travel back to 1990 during George Bush Sr's term and convince Brent Scowcroft to black-bag Osama, then locate several other 9/11 conspirators and disappear them all. The info gets passed to Clinton, and Al Qaida never becomes a thing. GWB never gets a 2nd term and off we go.

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    Is this just me as an individual or can do I have total history-altering powers? If I have total powers, I convince the Allies to turn on Stalin and invade Russia before they can develop atomic weapons.

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    SAN DIMAS HIGHSCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES!

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  • Havelock2.0Havelock2.0 What are you? Some kind of half-assed astronaut?Registered User regular
    am I the only one who would use the power for wholly selfish reasons and scrub the mission

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  • skyknytskyknyt Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Wallace becomes VP instead of Truman, becomes president in his stead.

    Tycho wrote:
    [skyknyt's writing] is like come kind of code that, when comprehended, unfolds into madness in the mind of the reader.
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  • So It GoesSo It Goes We keep moving...Registered User regular
    tinwhiskers wrote: »
    Travel 8 months into the future the slow way. Travel back to February 2009.

    Find a way to off Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Roberts 1 month before Citizens United is argued.

    This thread is now over.

    Geth, close the thread.

  • GethGeth Legion Perseus VeilRegistered User, Moderator, Penny Arcade Staff, Vanilla Staff vanilla
    Affirmative So It Goes. Closing thread...

  • So It GoesSo It Goes We keep moving...Registered User regular
    If this hasn't been made perfectly clear, advocating violence of any sort towards political figures is not okay. Even with a sparse OP I thought people might understand this thread as a historical exercise instead of an opportunity to talk about murdering judges.

    Guess not.

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