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I wonder if my birth country would've been in a better place, be making more friends in the world instead of antagonizing everyone like PRC and CCP is doing, destroying the reputation of my people abroad, and causing widespread Sinophobia.
In terms of US History, Abraham Lincoln, by far. What a completely different country this would be today. Or at least would have had a good chance to be.
I would travel back in time and prevent the deaths of all the other sperms in the load that became Justice John Roberts Jr. If only one of those other sperms got into that egg.
This court Jester that thinks that 12 years after civil rights and voting rights were extended to black people, that there was no racism to deal with anymore and has been trying to overturn them until he succeeded this time.
My son. It would likely only delay his death, as he was determined to end his life. Even off it was only for one day, it would give me another chance to let him know i loved him, to let his younger siblings see him one last time.
Think I’d have gone with saving my grandmother from cancer when my dad was 4, hopefully if they caught it early enough she would’ve lived and my grandfather wouldn’t become a twisted abusive man and my dad could’ve had a normal upbringing. Maybe then he would be reasonable enough to stay in contact with.
Lincoln's.
I've no idea whether Reconstruction would've been successful with him at the helm, but it almost certainly would've gone better.
Andrew Johnson pardoning nearly every traitor so they could rot our country from the inside out like a cancer definitely didn't help.
Aaron Swartz.
Fred Hampton. I don't mean to pass over other civil rights martyrs, but the Black Panthers were something special. Real revolutionary politics, organised, and taking direct action; the high-water mark of leftest politics in modern America.
Harambe.
We could have had utopia, but instead we killed Harambe.
My friend, Chris, who ended his life. It's been years, but I'd give just about anything to have him back.
RBG. I wound have forced her to resign.
My late father. He passed away July 21, 2014.
Back in January that year, I came home from work, and he told me that he made some eggs and grits. But when he ate it, it was too hot, but his reflexes made him swallow it anyways. Which basically boiled his insides.. ☹️
He refused to let me call emergency services, hell he even told me that if I did so without his permission, he would shoot them, and yes he slept on a couch loaded with multiple guns under the couch cushions. He even threatened to kill me if I called emergency services without his permission.
5 months in, I realized that daddy wasn't gonna recover, as he was seeking cell phone signal the morning before I was about to head out to work. Daddy like never called anybody, so when I saw him seeking a good cell signal, I asked him if he wanted me to step out and call 911 myself.
He said, and I quote, "Hold the fuck on, I'm getting ready"
Needless to say, I missed work that day. I got him to the hospital, where he lived for another month or so, but passed away because he didn't tend to his health back in January when the situation happened.
I'd write out more about this, but it's too sad for me to think more on.
Damnit daddy, I coulda saved you, if you weren't so stubborn!
☹️😭💀
Martin Luther King maybe?
My dad. Fuck cancer.
My mom's
Kurt Cobain
in that vein, Amy Winehouse
I bet he had a lot of people already trying to save him.
No "famous" person. Two families that are friends of mine. Both have lost a child at ages 8 / 10 from accidents, and they could never really get over it and it has changed their lives so much.
By that standard... All the Palestinians, Cubans, Peruvian, Lebanese, Libyans, Vietnamese, Iranians, Koreans, Africans , Eastern Europeans, Asians etc etc etc who really just wanted to build a better society for themselves and their descendants, probably even the world that the empire couldn't allow to live and do that.
My best buddy who feel asleep at the wheel 2km from his destination.
Could've been there with him to keep him awake 1 more minute. Or drive. Or maybe I'd have died with them.
I've stopped asking myself "what if", I'll never know, but I miss you buddy.
Probably this guy. Hopefully prevent a lot of pointless bloodshed
Not so sure about that. I think Europe was already on the road to war, and he was just an excuse.
At the time, war was still seen as something romantic that could be ended relatively easily with few consequences for the ones in charge. Nobody making the decisions anticipated the industrial scale slaughter that modern tech enabled.
If one takes the position that part of the issue was that various leaders and diplomats hadn't appreciated the degree to which military plans with fixed mobilization schedules essentially made it very difficult to back down once mobilization has started, I suppose that it's possible that some clever people could have figured that out and started a series of arms control treaties aimed in such a way as to provide "breakpoints", where even once mobilization had started, the move towards war could be reversed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_World_War_I
Primacy of offensive and war by timetable
See also: Cult of the offensive
Moltke, Joffre, Conrad, and other military commanders held that seizing the initiative was extremely important. That theory encouraged all belligerents to devise war plans to strike first to gain the advantage. The war plans all included complex plans for mobilization of the armed forces, either as a prelude to war or as a deterrent. The continental Great Powers' mobilization plans included arming and transporting millions of men and their equipment, typically by rail and to strict schedules.[citation needed]
The mobilization plans limited the scope of diplomacy, as military planners wanted to begin mobilisation as quickly as possible to avoid being caught on the defensive. They also put pressure on policymakers to begin their own mobilization once it was discovered that other nations had begun to mobilize.[citation needed]
In 1969, A. J. P. Taylor wrote that mobilization schedules were so rigid that once they were begun, they could not be canceled without massive disruption of the country and military disorganisation, and they could not proceed without physical invasion (of Belgium by Germany). Thus, diplomatic overtures conducted after the mobilizations had begun were ignored.[152] Hence the metaphor "war by timetable".
Russia ordered a partial mobilization on 25 July against Austria-Hungary only. Their lack of prewar planning for the partial mobilization made the Russians realize by 29 July that it would be impossible to interfere with a general mobilization.[citation needed]
Only a general mobilization could be carried out successfully. The Russians were, therefore, faced with only two options: canceling the mobilization during a crisis or moving to full mobilization, the latter of which they did on 30 July. They, therefore, mobilized along both the Russian border with Austria-Hungary and the border with Germany.[citation needed]
German mobilization plans assumed a two-front war against France and Russia and had the bulk of the German army massed against France and taking the offensive in the west, and a smaller force holding East Prussia. The plans were based on the assumption that France would mobilize significantly faster than Russia.[citation needed]
On 28 July, Germany learned through its spy network that Russia had implemented partial mobilisation and its "Period Preparatory to War". The Germans assumed that Russia had decided upon war and that its mobilisation put Germany in danger, especially since because German war plans, the so-called Schlieffen Plan, relied upon Germany to mobilise speedily enough to defeat France first by attacking largely through neutral Belgium before it turned to defeat the slower-moving Russians.[citation needed]
Christopher Clark states: "German efforts at mediation – which suggested that Austria should 'Halt in Belgrade' and use the occupation of the Serbian capital to ensure its terms were met – were rendered futile by the speed of Russian preparations, which threatened to force the Germans to take counter-measures before mediation could begin to take effect."[153]
Clark also states: "The Germans declared war on Russia before the Russians declared war on Germany. But by the time that happened, the Russian government had been moving troops and equipment to the German front for a week. The Russians were the first great power to issue an order of general mobilisation and the first Russo-German clash took place on German, not on Russian soil, following the Russian invasion of East Prussia. That doesn't mean that the Russians should be 'blamed' for the outbreak of war. Rather it alerts us to the complexity of the events that brought war about and the limitations of any thesis that focuses on the culpability of one actor."[154]
If someone realized the implications of these war plans, they might have either placed more weight on pre-mobilization diplomacy or had some arms control agreement that reduced some of the time pressures and didn't turn mobilization into an escalation spiral that led to all-in war.
I am not saying that that would have happened had Franz Ferdinand not been assassinated, but I could at least imagine that time a non-assassination might have bought might have made it possible.
That would do nothing, he was just the insignificant excuse.
Have you watched the Stephen King movie about that?
Or better yet, read the book that the "movie" (it's a miniseries) was based on? Both are called 11/22/63, but the book is much better.
I know it's not really that important in the scheme of things but probably Chris Cornell which would hopefully also save Chester Bennington. Quite selfish of me but that's what first came to my mind.
I'd show him a newspaper clip of the day of his assassination. I'd probably be looked at a little crazily and suspected of maybe being involved
In that time you would not simply be "looked at".
100% You would have been accused of being involved and then sentenced for life at least.
Is JFK not in the conversation?
Maybe he would have beaten some sense into little Bobby brain worm.
I'm reading Laura Franko's BROADWAY REVIVAL again. A Broadway actor and composer uses his brother's participation in THE SLINGSHOT, a time machine for historians, to go from 2077 to 1934 and prevent George Gershin from dying of a brain tumor. He brings 2077 drugs to do it.
https://www.amazon.com/Broadway-Revival-Laura-Frankos/dp/1732523924
I don't have a laudable goals, but if I could, I'd pump Jim Hensen full futuristic drugs so he didn't die. The world can always use more rainbows.
My grandma’s, or my gramps on my other side.
Both to technically elective surgery gone wrong, both in 2020. So it would have been preventable, unlike the heart issue that took my cousin just the year before, or the cancer I lost my nonna to.
Pretty rough couple years those were. 😞
Corey Comperatore. It'd be quite easy, just tell Thomas Crooks "aim a few more inches to the right."
Mako
Ernesto Guevara
Jesus'.
