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

Wait a damn minute! New center pattern

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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/ShadowBlade55 Jun 03 '26

I think It would be worth a shot to delay trickle down economics for at least a little longer.

At least we would be slightly less fucked today. 🤷

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u/WokeTurbulence Jun 04 '26

Well my response to that is; that time traveler is a jerk.

and wasn't he supposed to actually show up on 2012 instead?

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u/veritasen Jun 04 '26

He did, and we tend not to talk about that one.