I think there is a lot to discuss here.
I’m going to visit the Cincinnati Zoo in 2016 and stop this one kid kid from falling into a gorilla enclosure.
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Cincinnati. 2 n’s 1 t
Thank you. Maybe that’s why I failed the first time. I must’ve went to the wrong city.
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Cinncinati, got it!
Well if you allowed one more year, I really feel that stopping the Columbine shooting would have an exponential improvement on the quality of the timeline.
I’d write a list of future events and share it everywhere I can, editorializing of course to make sure them coming to volition validates my political views, and then use the eventual fame to shape the world in my image.
Ignoring that path, and with no political sway of my own …
I’ve got nothing. I’d be like 5 years old and Australian. And overall Australia’s doing pretty fine. If there’s one issue I’d focus on it’s digital privacy and my biggest adversary there would be Google. IDK, there’s not really one domino I can affect to change things. Maybe warn about 9/11 and the subprime mortgage crisis but I’m pretty sure other people already did both of those to no avail. Plus I’d be 2 or so years old at the time of 9/11 so that’d probably not go well.
Convince a guy in Google to not publish a paper that started this AI nonsense.
- Do what I could to stop the passing of the SCOTUS Citizen’s United ruling
- Write a letter to then Senator Obama that there’s a major recession coming and that holding the banks accountable and buoying the lower and middle class is a better option than a bailout of the private sector
- Warn about various impending natural disasters around the world to try to save as many folks as I could
Prohibit social media.
Considering I’d just be some guy, I’d invest all of my money in Nvidia and Bitcoin then when I get back and have millions, I’d spend it on passing wealth taxes and raising the minimum wage.
This 1. Buy bitcoin 2. Bribe, but for good
Yeah, a focus on altruism, but make investments to be more effective at it. Hey, you could even get ahead of the game and start a crypto exchange!
Invest on Apple first, their profit curve and stock price gets absurdly higher after 2010
The other half of states that do not have ballot initiatives should have them. So the drug war would have ended peacefully. Contaminated overdoses and corruption would have been prevented.
Cancel Celebrity Apprentice before it aired
I’d pump the brakes on technology. Especially the internet.
“Does X need to be improved?” “No” “Then we don’t progress it because its current state functions and does things as efficiently right now” “Does Y need to be improved?” “Yes” “Then we research, fund and progress it”
Phones would be fun again and not just a series of rectangles with silicone. They’d have any design that they want, so long as it still functions normally as a phone would.
Pretty sure that’s how we got here in the first place.
Life imitates art.
Funny thing is the character was a parody of Trump to begin with
Then trump became a parody of Tannen. Go figure
Do I just get one shot or can I keep trying until I get it right?
Basically anything that reduces Republican power in the US is probably a win overall.
If it’s just a single shot, then preventing the Brooks Brothers Riot would be the best use of your time.
All it would take is an industrial sized can of pepper spray. Just like the kind police regularly use on leftwing protesters.
So, the Republican shift toward the far right was already in full swing by the 2000s. You’d need to go back to at least Reagan to head that off. Trickle down economics, Two Santas, etc. was already decades in the making. My dad had already been fully brainwashed by talk radio in the 90s.
But on the flip side, the Democratic establishment has made it painfully clear even to this day that their only priority has always been to maintain the status quo for the privileged NIMBY class. The Republican party didn’t need to do anything to keep unaffordability rising, they all want to maintain the housing market bubble to protect the wealth of boomers.
We make it so Reagan still runs but doesn’t win presidency, ever, until he dies. We make sure Bill Clinton doesn’t do that incident with Monica that got him impeached so he can still have some goodwill with the people enough to make them think we want the current path he paved to continue.
Then advising Carter to get all the US embassy out of Iran before the revolution could do the trick.
Clinton mostly became president by embracing Reaganism, so he didn’t really pave the path and it did continue
Yeah but my point is, we’d still have democrats in office to ensure no Republican is voted in to destroy the country from within. Gore would’ve won over Bush, we’d still have Obama, we might’ve even had Bernie Sanders or so. All politicians who’re democratic who might not just keep Reaganism alive, they have their own ways too.
If Reagan was never elected, Clinton never would be either. I also see no reason why you think you’d have Obama still after Gore. You make it sound like the Lewinsky scandal is the only reason that Democrats didn’t get 32 straight years in office.
Go back bit future and prevent the Columbine shooters. Done some studying on that day. Couple flat tires and a motail cocktail in the basement they hung out in before the shooting would have ended that.
That’s dumb.
What would’ve really needed to happen is to speak to the parents and the school about “hey, your child and student is doing some pretty fucked up things and they’re raising the stakes soon, so you may want to commit them somewhere or talk or smack some sense into them”
They had plenty of warmers and many teachers went to the parents about concern about those boys. It fell on deaf ears.
Then the media cycle that would have been about the columbine shooters is about the mad stranger who killed two innocent high schoolers and vanished.
At least it wouldn’t glorify school shootings. They are big part of why that suddenly became popular.
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Diplomacy.
After 9/11, when the world weighed an invasion of Afghanistan, America could have skipped the invasion, taken the Al Qaeda leadership the Taliban offered up, and continued to seek O/UBL. A forensic investigation and specific arrests, extradition, trials, and convictions would have been much better than a disastrous 20 year war that accomplished two things: enriching military contractors and the impoverishment of a central Asian nation.
Diplomacy.
Deposing Saddam Hussein with the same type of pressure that, later, led to the ousters of Hosni Mubarak, Ben Ali, and Bashar al Assad. Some might say that 2003 created the pretext for the Arab Spring. I’d counter that time and tide created the conditions. Operation Iraqi Freedom was a pipe dream and an extension on the GWoT piggy bank.
Diplomacy.
Building a better, more sustainable future demands a move away from fossil fuels. Making driving, urban sprawl, warfare, agribiz, and Amazon packages into a socially toxic soup of ideas would have done wonders for green initiatives. Instead a turn away from the largest industries of the time was — and still is — regarded as heresy.
