I listened to a Dark History podcast episode on Booth and I’m not sure people would be as shocked as you’d think haha.
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BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 2 days ago
People talk about going back in time to kill Hitler. College humor had a skit where they talked about why you’d have to do it as a baby, and the world would hate you as a kind of funny haha. Or maybe it was stopping 9/11? But imagine going back in time and killing Booth. Even right before the act. “Some guy just showed up and killed America’s second favorite actor, right behind the president!” No way to spin it to them. “No guys I swear he was the bad guy”
other_cat@piefed.zip 1 day ago
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Go and stop 9/11 and youre a super racist who just murdered some Muslim pilots.
vrek@programming.dev 2 days ago
They weren’t pilots… Killing people is wrong regardless of religion or profession but you should know the people who did 9/11 were passengers who basically broke into the cockpit and took it over.
troybot@midwest.social 1 day ago
They were taking pilot lessons to learn how to maximize the damage. The flight instructors raised concerns but nothing was done and the FAA gave them a commercial pilot certificate.
iloveDigit@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Sure, in the prime timeline. But in the pocket universe alternate timeline where time travelers went and executed the perpetrators, I’d say the instructors’ concerns were addressed
PolarPirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
They were definitely not intended yo be the planes pilots, but they did take flying lessons to prep for it.