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Posted: 12/26/2022 7:19:39 PM EDT
Who? Why?
And why is someone else wrong? I'll start with Genghis Khan. He seems like the most murderous and sadistic fuck to have walked the Earth. |
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The bastard in Africa who started capturing folks and selling them into slavery.
Might need an occasional follow up shot. |
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Initial thought would be Karl Marx, with Joe Stalin is a close second.
But it really wouldn't matter: dictators are a dime a dozen, and most of humanity is more comfortable living under their rule than struggling with freedom. So, it would probably be FDR, whose communist ideology wreaked the most havoc on the U.S. |
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What would happen if I went back in time, and killed one of my ancestors when he was a kid?
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The first guy to suggest utilizing slave labor in North America.
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Probably Karl Marx.
Without him you get no red October uprising is Russia, which means no Stalin or Mao in power- and given the impact on WW1 probably no Hitler in power. Runner up - Muhammad. The lesson is the most powerful and world changing thing a person can do is have an idea. These two had ideas that lead others to do incalculable harm to the course of human history. |
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Karl Marx has probably done more damage to human progress than any other in history.
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His name starts with M. He was a psychopathic genocidal murderer and a pedophile. His followers are still doing what he did.
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Marx.
But could I also get Woodrow Wilson on my way back? Maybe also Keynes, the economist? |
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Person? That damn Satan-serpent in the Garden of Eden...fucked it up for all of us. I don't blame Eve, women do stupid shit and men stupidly believe them. We were all good before that snek did shit.
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Quoted: Probably Karl Marx. Without him you get no red October uprising is Russia, which means no Stalin or Mao in power- and given the impact on WW1 probably no Hitler in power. Runner up - Muhammad. The lesson is the most powerful and world changing thing a person can do is have an idea. View Quote Based on how Germany was treated by France, and other countries to a lesser extent after loosing WW1, I suspect Hitler would have still been elected. |
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Quoted: Initial thought would be Karl Marx, with Joe Stalin is a close second. But it really wouldn't matter: dictators are a dime a dozen, and most of humanity is more comfortable living under their rule than struggling with freedom. So, it would probably be FDR, whose communist ideology wreaked the most havoc on the U.S. View Quote stalin was a dictator. marx was a wannabe philosopher. |
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View Quote Winner! |
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Otto Von Bismarck or Alfred Thayer Mahan.
Not because they're particularly bad, but the downstream effects of their influence really fucked shit up. |
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If you killed them, they wouldn't have existed for you to kill them or you wouldn't have the reason to kill them because that timeline wouldn't exist.
Example, if you killed Hitler, the holocaust wouldn't have happened, so you'd have no reason to have killed Hitler and therefore would never have killed him, or you would have killed him for no reason. |
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Quoted: Based on how Germany was treated by France, and other countries to a lesser extent after loosing WW1, I suspect Hitler would have still been elected. View Quote My thought process is that without Russia imploding, Germany buckles quite a bit sooner - resulting in fewer casualties overall for France and the Brits and a less punitive peace. |
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View Quote if I could I'd go for a twofer with Hegel, threefer? I'd shoot for Feuerbach too. |
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The fucking ginger kid with the zit face that was able to throw a curve ball at the age of 13 , fucker knocked us out of going to the Little League district championship game . I hate that little fucker all these years later
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I wouldn't trust myself to not make it worse. Unintended consequences and all that
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Hmmm, what an absolute shitshow of a thread
Can't kill an idea by killing a single man. Really think Lenin was the sole heir to the concept of communism? Never been dun befo? Had that whole Jan 6th thing gone differently, maybe there's some name that would loom over the rest for the history books. Right place, right time. But very few times could you truly alter history by taking out a single man. Some good and expected names in here and quite a few debateable names as well. |
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Quoted: If you killed them, they wouldn't have existed for you to kill them or you wouldn't have the reason to kill them because that timeline wouldn't exist. Example, if you killed Hitler, the holocaust wouldn't have happened, so you'd have no reason to have killed Hitler and therefore would never have killed him, or you would have killed him for no reason. View Quote and this quote wouldnt have appeared, so the thread would be better |
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Quoted: Who? Why? And why is someone else wrong? I'll start with Genghis Khan. He seems like the most murderous and sadistic fuck to have walked the Earth. View Quote His DNA is in 2% of the population or something like that. Dude raped and pillaged, and rape raped again at every conquered pupated area. |
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