• Iron Lynx
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    172 years ago

    Adopt baby Hitler and raise him in a way that would not give rise to the kinds of feelings and ideologies that could lead him down the path of ethno-nationalsim.

    • @[email protected]
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      122 years ago

      That’s when we figure out that this is the path that lead him to flip flop completely hating everything you taught. You went back to stop Hitler only to be the thing that caused his reign of terror. Life would have that kind of irony.

  • @[email protected]
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    52 years ago

    You can never change history even if you can time travel. How did you manage to kill your own grandpa before you were born again?

    • @[email protected]
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      92 years ago

      You do relize there are like five different types of time travel. You could just as easily pull a future Trunks as you could a Marty McFly.

        • @[email protected]
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          1. Closed loop, meaning you cant change anything cause it already happened. You time traveling was already written.

          2. Back to the future, you can change things just be careful and dont accisently erase yourself through the butterfly effect.

          3. We’ll call this one reverse flash, not only can you change things but you can litterally kill your parents because you are disconnected from the timestream. (Not exclusive to number 2)

          4. Future Trunks, congrats you just created a new timeline. You cannot change your future, have fun.

          5. Alternate dimension, you just went to an alternate dimension that looks like your past. Dont let the British museum find out.

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          There’s really only 2 not 5. Most are just variants of the two:

          1. Singleton universe: time is linear, causality is set in stone, either through fix points (events that can’t be changed). Time travel will just create a loop but causality dictates that this will already have happened and you can’t change events.
          2. Multiverse: You can go back in time, but doing so will branch the timeline and create a different universe. This will not have impact on any causality as you’re an anomaly and you can do whatever you want (kill your grandpa, have a relationship with yourself etc.) and nothing will happen because you are in a parallel dimension and effectively can’t produce paradoxes.

          Sometimes movies just ignore paradoxes or logical fallacies because it makes for better screen time. But really all time travel is one of the two.

          Primer is 1.
          MCU is 2. (Endgame pretends to be 1 but really with the series Loki it’s clear it’s 2)
          Predestination is 1.
          The series Dark is actually a weird mix of the two. First it’s 1. And then morphs into 2.
          Triangle is 1.
          Rick and Morty is 2.

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            There is also type 3, called a closed timelike curve or Lorenzian manifold. Aka a Djinn: a loop in causality where the original cause depends on the final effect. It exists outside of linear time and yet is not a separate timeline or “-verse” in the multiverse.

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                A singleton universe doesn’t allow for multiple versions of a single moment to coexist. A closed timelike curve does, and potentially an infinite number of variations all as long as they are continuous in the same curve. It’s also different from a proper many worlds theory with quantum variations. The relationship between causes and effects are mapped differently. Thus it’s its own thing.

  • @[email protected]
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    02 years ago

    Gotta love the heteronormativity on this post. Why fuck the mother? Why not go back in time and fuck Hitler and make him fall in love with me? All hail homo-hitler!

    • Hextic
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      112 years ago

      Literally the start of Command and Conquer Red Alert lol

    • 001100 010010
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      342 years ago

      In an alternate timeline:

      “Yea who’s the fuck is Hitler? Himmler is the fuhrer of our fatherland, the Great German Reich, that spans the entire world!”

      • @[email protected]
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        252 years ago

        What if Hitler was the best case scenario result of time traveler interference? He bungled a lot of decisions someone like Himmler probably wouldn’t have. What if WWII is ultimately unavoidable, and every other timeline was way worse?

      • Ertebolle
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        Germany was only 75 years old in 1941; for all we know it’d be some totally new country that ended up conquering everything. “Hail to Field Marshal Bing Bong Potatoman, ruler of our great glorious Zambonian Empire”

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    “Fuck hitler’s mom”

    Yeah that sounds like the setup to a bootstrap paradox in which you were always hitler’s dad.

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    12 years ago

    You would have to deal with the social, cultural, and economic factors which lead to the rise of a person like him to power. Simply killing one person in the grand calculus of the social factors at play would likely do very little to stop WWII and it’s atrocities. Changing him could have lead to a more radical or desensitized power hierarchy that could have been much worse.

    Preempt the war by taking back info on the atomic bomb to Roosevelt so that it could be utilized earlier and more effectively as a deterrent.

  • JackbyDev
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    212 years ago

    Because it is a thought experiment about punishing people for pre-crime, not people actually planning what to do with a time machine.

  • @[email protected]
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    362 years ago

    Heads up, Hitler’s mom died of breast cancer when he was young. If you’re going to seduce her, you should be emotionally prepared for the consequences.

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    Just finished binging the 12 Monkeys TV show, thats just variations on an oops loop. If you seduce Hitlers mom you’ll just end up being the father figure he never met. If you strand him in Nepal then either Hitler or any Austrian who witnesses you doing the timey-wimey dance will just blame an international cabal of time traveling Jews for it.

  • MadGuy
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    Eva: Adolf, why are you destroying everything? Adolf: My father is a time traveler from the future and he left me. So I make sure he will not exist. Eva: From the future? So he could also be our son? laughs Adolf: takes the gun