The act has to be small(ish). You can’t say “Make everyone vote a certain way!” As an example I’ll give mine.
- Take all of the money I currently have in savings and invest in Nikola Tesla and attempt to slander Edison.
- Ride the train with Edgar Allen Poe and make sure that he made it to wherever he was going safely and keep an eye on him for a few days to make sure he was ok.
- Sit on top of the library of Alexandria with a SOPMOD and several hundred magazines worth of ammo.
Update: gotta say, there’s a lot less “save my favorite musician from death” or some such than I thought there’d be.
- raise hitler Jewish to see what would happen
- see if Jesus really died and revived
- prevent myself from getting as fat as I am
I’d keep Sirhan Sirhan from assassinating Robert F Kennedy That’s where the timeline split, and sent us down the timeline where Conservatives dominate and brought us to where we are now.
Had RFK lived, he would have ended the Vietnam war years earlier, saving thousands of lives. With Vietnam out of the way, he would have focused on strengthening America, making it less dependent on foreign oil, making the 70s a boom period, instead of a decade of poor Republican governance.
Nixon wouldnt have resigned, inspiring Ailes and Cheney to establish the Conservative Propaganda Machine, which began the Conservative brainwashing of America, helped elect Newt Gingrich elected, and controlled the political rhetoric until the present day.
The Conservative dominance of America started with the assassination of RFK.
PARIS COMMUNE YOU NEED SOMEONE WATCHING THE GATES!! PUT SOMEONE OUT AND HAVE THEM WATCH THE FUCKING GATES! OH GOD THEY’VE REDISTRIBUTED THE AIRPODS THEY CAN’T HEAR ME
Okay, I have a wife and kids, and can’t do anything that risks their existences, so how far back I go is limited.
The earliest I can safely go back is mid-2010, so that’s when I start.
For my first wish, I’m going to give the DA in New York incontrovertible evidence of the size and value of various properties in and around NYC as reported to banks for the purpose of securing loans, and as reported to state tax authorities for the purpose of determining taxation.
That should be enough to get Donald Trump indicted for tax fraud at a time when we still had a functioning judiciary, and before the red wave election in November.
For my next wish, I’m going to Twitter and giving them the easy ability to identify and block foreign disinformation agents on the platform. This is well before Twitter decided it liked the clicks Russian trolls bring. End result: The most widely used platform by Russian trolls is cut off to them, and Twitter execs have evidence of foreign interference efforts to give the feds early.
Finally, I’m zipping forward to 2012 and giving the two guys who tried to assassinate Putin some better planning, opsec, and training. Couldn’t hurt.
You’re welcome, everyone!
I’d assassinate Robert Owen. He’s the man that proposed the 8-hour a day labor idea that we’re all enslaved to, today. If you got rid of him, Henry Ford wouldn’t make the 9-5 bullshit.
I’d also assassinate Abraham from going to Egypt. My details are vague but I think if you prevented that from happening, Christianity wouldn’t ever have much of an iron grip in regards to influence that it has today.
Prevent the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. I think we need someone like him more than ever today.
I’d argue against the first one. As prior it was work any hours asked and the only day off was Sunday. But I see what you’re going for.
Imma poop in the primordial ooze.
For all we know, that’s exactly what happened.
No one answered why, not even OP.
Event 1: I’d seduce OP’s mom before she meets his dad.
Event 2: I’d seduce OP’s grandma before she meets his grandfather
Event 3: I’d step on the first organism to develop lungs and legs that crawled onto land from the ocean
I’d take John Hinckley Jr. to the shooting range
11/22/1963 spoiler
Although kinda the opposite, the book 11/22/1963 is about a time traveler who stops the JFK assassination, but then returning to present day, finds the world in ruins because JFK lived and bipartisan/international sympathy over his death never happened, so the cold war escalated to the point of nuclear war, and present day was like the world of Fallout.
Impossible to say, but it’s possible the reverse could be true, and if Regan died, the USSR could have seen an opportunity and attacked, starting mutually assured destruction?
Mail him a better scope while you’re at it, you still get 1 wish after that.
Wasn’t the burning of the Library of Alexandria actually possitive, as all the clay tomes there burned and got presserved till today?
I would be too scared of changing too much of history, so I’d just go back in time and keep epstein alive and see that he can actually give a detailed lists of the people on his island.
No, because the burning of the library of alexandria is a fictional event that did not actually happen.
About the clay tablets, you’re thinking of the library of ashurbanipal
OP actually did it, they saved the library!
