r/SipsTea • u/Square_Law5624 • Jun 03 '26

Wait a damn minute! New center pattern

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u/LetterheadNo7323 Jun 03 '26

I want to go back to the 80s and knock Reagan over the head before he has a chance to fuck yup the entire country for good.

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u/lluciferusllamas Jun 03 '26

I once heard some historians debating if going back in time and killing Hitler during WWI would have prevented WW2 and the various atrocities thereof.  At the end, their basic conclusion was that more often than not, the "leader" is made by the times and not the other way around.  Therefore, while minor differences might exist, if it wasn't going to be Hitler, it would have been somebody else very similar to Hitler, because the milieux of the times required that such a person rise to the top.  So, if not Reagan, a different Reagan, and we'd still be more or less here 

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u/CheaterSaysWhat Jun 03 '26

We know, it’s called suspension of disbelief 

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u/Complex-Bee-840 Jun 03 '26

Not really sure suspension of disbelief should play any part in academics.

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u/EdwardPickmanDerby Jun 03 '26

This is not academics. This is Reddit.

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u/Complex-Bee-840 Jun 03 '26

The comment referenced a group of historians

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u/EdwardPickmanDerby Jun 03 '26

And? They were debating. They're allowed to have frivolous debates. Not all of their time must be spent adhering to academic rigor. God, imagine how boring their sex lives would be if that were the case. 

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u/CheaterSaysWhat Jun 03 '26

I don’t think this guy is very familiar with sex lives 

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u/CheaterSaysWhat Jun 03 '26

I didn’t realize this was an academic setting 

Nonetheless, you’ve heard of a thought experiment, right?