What would you do 50 years from now (if you are still alive) if "Time Travel" becomes possible?
We know these two reached power through manipulation and cheating.
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1- Would you travel back to 1933 and prevent Hitler and the Nazis from accessing total political power, by whatever means?
2- Would you travel back to 2000 and prevent Bush and the Republicans from accessing total political power, by whatever means?
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Bet you all that years from now there will be movies about "Time Travel" with both characters as the main targets (to terminate them, physically or politically, or both) to achieve justice and peace for the future.

1) As much havoc as Hitler raised, would we have been better off without him? For instance, Germany and Japan are much better countries now than they were. Europe has been peaceful since the war, Asia has become an economic powerhouse, etc. Of course we'll never know, but I'd hate to kill him and find out the alternative was much worse.
2) Ignoring the slam about total power, ditto the sentiments above.

We know what happened, what we don't know is what would have happened if we altered events. Take your first action, stopping Hitler from coming to power. This might well have resulted in the continuation of the great depression worldwide. It was the World War II which ended that. Picture the United States, disgusted with the liberal policies of the Roosevelt Administration turning to a facist leader to restore America. America moves to crush Mexico and Canada and the various South American countries. Millions of blacks, jews, communists, and homosexuals are taken to camps to be killed. The world unites against America, but the war lasts for long enough that America develops the atomic bomb. Soon the rest of the world is forced to capitulate to the American facist empire.
Would you change Hitler coming to power for that?

Hitler came to power because of one thing--World War I.

This scenario is better--going back in time and talking Tsar Nicholas II Romanov from entering World War I on the Eastern Front.

This simple act would have ended the Great War probably 2 years earlier, saved millions of lives, not seen American intervention, not have had the Treaty of Versailles, and most importantly, not ensured the rise of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

I'd like to go back in time about 10-15 years & give myself the winning lotto numbers to a substancial prize - something in the double digit millions of $$ after taxes.

I WOULD GO BACK AND ASSASINATE KARL MARX, thus ending all these wanna be commies who go through Mcdonalds drive throughs talking on their cell phones with their MP3 players hanging out of their ears and lecture us on our excesses

I would go back to see what it was like but I wouldn't change a thing. The world is what it is today because of what happened then and I wouldn't want to take a chance on screwing things up.

I would go back to last Saturday,and do the lottery,'it was a rollover',and buy that place in Queensland,I always wanted.

Is it possible for the Left leaning members of these boards to write a post that doesn't bash Bush?


Picture the United States, disgusted with the liberal policies of the Roosevelt Administration turning to a facist leader to restore America. America moves to crush Mexico and Canada and the various South American countries. Millions of blacks, jews, communists, and homosexuals are taken to camps to be killed. The world unites against America, but the war lasts for long enough that America develops the atomic bomb. Soon the rest of the world is forced to capitulate to the American facist empire. Would you change Hitler coming to power for that?

You're just full of cheerful thoughts, aren't you, imagineer?


IF I were to time travel, I'd just want to be a witness to history. I'd want to see the Gettysburg address, what the land here in Connecticut was like before European settlers got a firm grip on it, be around in Boston when the Revolution was brewing, see a southern City in the first few weeks after those states seceeded, be around in NYC when war was declared against Germany and Japan. All kinds of things.

Dammit.

I would go back to see what it was like but I wouldn't change a thing. The world is what it is today because of what happened then and I wouldn't want to take a chance on screwing things up.
I share the same sentiment.

Dosent matter to me if its Bush,or the next one.The US is a fantistic country,I hate its Foreign Policys.

Howdy paul, nice to see you back.

Hi Ren,still working with the books.

Hey, Paul. Hop across to England and kick Red in the butt. Haven't seen her in weeks now. It's like she's too good for us poor slobs or maybe she's lying in a drunken stupor somewhere. Go shake her up.

I think she's having computer problems, Frogger. Red wouldn't desert us unless there's a good reason.

Hey, Paul. Hop across to England and kick Red in the butt. Haven't seen her in weeks now. It's like she's too good for us poor slobs or maybe she's lying in a drunken stupor somewhere. Go shake her up.
Well in your case,probably both,my man.

I'd go back so I could invest in the Dotcom, and cash out before the crash and jump into the real estate market. Win the lottery a couple times. Run for president when I'm rich, then after I lose, go back in time and redo all the things that worked, and change the things that didn't until I do win.

After I'm predsident, I'd declare war on the world and take it over. Easy enough since I could just keep going back in time. I would defeat every other nation on Earth without suffering a single casualty.

After that I'd probably go and take like 20 wives, then play video games for the rest of my life :thumbs:

You guys are dull.

You should do what I did after I won/stole my billions:

Give it all away to the Worm Foundation, go live in the jungle, and gather berries and wear animal skins as you run through the leafy green forest playing your flute.

Now that's living.

Do a lot of that in indianapolis do u.

Hey rendova, you should go do that! It's actually a real eye opener living out in the wild on your own. I did a week-long solo in Maine, and it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. I didn't wear only skins though, so I guess I wasn't really roughing it. I'll go try that one out next :)

You guys are dull.

You should do what I did after I won/stole my billions:

Give it all away to the Worm Foundation, go live in the jungle, and gather berries and wear animal skins as you run through the leafy green forest playing your flute.

Now that's living.
I'd be crying in under ten minutes... sniff!

What would you do 50 years from now (if you are still alive) if "Time Travel" becomes possible?
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If time travel ever becomes possible they are here now! We would be living in their past.
Could be that they are here now. Secretly. UFOs? Alien abductions?

Who knows?
Maybe Hitler was not stopped, just certain people saved.
Maybe America got certain information or help on the A-bomb construction.
Political "leaks?"
The guy that was in the right place at the right time?
Ideas?
Unexplained suicides?
Angels?
Prophets?

I will be moldering by then... if not, I would go forward as far as necessary to get a new body!

Hey rendova, you should go do that! It's actually a real eye opener living out in the wild on your own. I did a week-long solo in Maine, and it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. I didn't wear only skins though, so I guess I wasn't really roughing it. I'll go try that one out next :)

I did live in the jungle for 6 months by myself, and it was great! Just nature and I.... a casual human passing by every now and then, mostly natives....

I WOULD GO BACK AND ASSASINATE KARL MARX, thus ending all these wanna be commies who go through Mcdonalds drive throughs talking on their cell phones with their MP3 players hanging out of their ears and lecture us on our excesses

Does that happen often to you Travh2o?

I wonder how that makes them Marxists.

I wonder how that makes them Marxists.

They have signs on their foreheads

Which says 'the way ahead'.

I wonder how that makes them Marxists.
You have to admit he makes a decent point.

He said (and I quote) "wannabe commies". You name ONE good thing, invention, or product that ever came out of communism, and I'll concede the argument.

All commies should fu&%$ng HANG.

[quote=The Praetorian]You have to admit he makes a decent point.
You name ONE good thing, invention, or product that ever came out of communism, and I'll concede the argument.
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I've tried long and hard to find anything good about communism ... failed abysmally. The only thing I could come come up with is that makes any other form of society look good.

He said (and I quote) "wannabe commies". You name ONE good thing, invention, or product that ever came out of communism, and I'll concede the argument.

How could you forget Cuba's incredible health care system???? :rolleyes:

You have to admit he makes a decent point.

He said (and I quote) "wannabe commies". You name ONE good thing, invention, or product that ever came out of communism, and I'll concede the argument.

All commies should fu&%$ng HANG.
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and the Skoda hehe

You have to admit he makes a decent point.

He said (and I quote) "wannabe commies". You name ONE good thing, invention, or product that ever came out of communism, and I'll concede the argument.

All commies should fu&%$ng HANG.

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What a contribution........ :lolhit:

Here's an achievement--

wearing a bubushka on your head while you stand in line for 12 hours to buy a loaf of bread. And this in some of the richest farmland in the world......and seeing the bigwigs drive by in their long black cars, eating caviar and drinking vodka as they head to their dacha.

And the Bolsheviks called the Tsar a pig.

Yea theres commies everywhere.

How about going back and sinking the damn "Mayflower" in the middle of the Atlantic. The natives will sure love me for that... Or saving that stupid "Titanic" and all the bullshit story will stop.

No thanks,do you think we want all them right wing extremists back living in Europe.

No thanks,do you think we want all them right wing extremists back living in Europe.

"Only if they could've swam back"

How about going back and sinking the damn "Mayflower" in the middle of the Atlantic. The natives will sure love me for that... Or saving that stupid "Titanic" and all the bullshit story will stop.

Good to see you're up on your American colonial history there----Jamestowne Virginia was thriving before the Pilgrims even sailed.
As for your Titanic statement, I'm not even going to dignify that with a response.

On a point Ren,who was in Jamestown b4 the Pilgrims,I thought it was named after an English King.

Jamestowne was founded by 108 English adventureres , laborers, and "gentlemen" ( as they called themselves) the idea being to search for gold and a water route to the East.

The colony was named for the reigning monarch of England, James I , one of England's worst kings, but he did something right in this respect, even tho the colony fell on very hard times.

There's a great movie about this that came out recently, The New World, specifically about Captain James Smith and Pocahantas, who helped the settlers. It was filmed on location in Virginia and the scenery will take your breath away. A very interesting movie for those interested in this story.

Here's a link for a short history of the place:

http://www.apva.org/history/index.html

PS As other posters know, I work at a genealogy library, helping people trace their family tree. The Jamestown Society of descendants of these hapless settlers is THE hardest society to get into.

You see,I would have thought the Pilgram Fathers created Jamestown

The Pilgrims landed far north of there. Massachusetts vs Virginia

The Pilgrims of the Mayflower were supposed to land in Virginia!
At least, they had a land patent from The Virginia Company, but they didn't succeed in reaching that area--they settled farther north by accident!

The Pilgrims of the Mayflower were supposed to land in Virginia!
At least, they had a land patent from The Virginia Company, but they didn't succeed in reaching that area--they settled farther north by accident!

One should not count on finding a skilled navigator amongst those fleeing religous persecution. They were mostly shopkeepers, and skilled craftsmen. Not many able bodied seamen amongst the lot.

No thanks,do you think we want all them right wing extremists back living in Europe.

I think those ones were all liberals. Then they somehow managed to breed a cowboy with a revolver, which broke out of it's cage and gobbled up the midwest.

then America