Comment on Screw killing Hitler with time machine technology - I just want to go grocery shopping in the mid 80s.

Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Literally how hitler became popular in Germany. He basically said “your lives are shit, this country should be ashamed of how poor it’s gotten, but I’m here now to improve everyones lives, and blame it on someone who isn’t you”.

  And people said “Yeah, that guy isn’t afraid to tell the truth!”

  History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.

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  • Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The only reason not to kill baby Hitler is because his administration was somewhat incompetent… Someone far more skilled could rise up if he isn’t the one to do it and commit even more atrocities.

    Otherwise, baby hitler getting thrown off the building. Every time.

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    • DarkMetatron@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And the chance that it will erase yourself from the timeline is very high.

      Changing huge events like this will have all kinds of secodary and ripple effects creating a world fundamentaly different from the one we know. Nobody knows how good or bad such a world would be.

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  • Triumph@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    "What i want to hear" always wins over truth, even if the former makes absolutely no sense.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I mean…to be fair, he did achieve all his promises. He got people back to work, making living wages.

      There’s just this HUGE astrict next to that statement that he did so by murdering millions of people, thus creating a demand for jobs. He also only counted German born white heterosexual males. Sure, unemployment was virtually nonexistant, but women, gays, mentally challenged, other races all were not included in the employment pool.

      And the jobs they held were manufacturing war efforts. Whether that was building tanks, making food rations, drilling for oil, it all paid a living wage, and they got to blame someone who wasn’t them.

      You ALWAYS have to look for the astrict. It’s like the terms and conditions of the monkeys paw.

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      • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        *asterisk

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      • Triumph@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        They did it by both stealing from the people who weren't them and financial fraud.

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      • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        They also tanked the economy and had to go to war to stave off the impending collapse.

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They also said “This guy really cares about Germany”, which is getting harder for Magats to pretend everyday.

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