Comment on epidemiology
vic_rattlehead@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yes but NOT traveling back in time to cause the black plague results in all kinds of worse timeline shenanigans.
There’s a few of these
I think the biggest one for me is quite how much support Hitler apparently had in the Anglosphere before the wars.
Assuming he managed to grow that support without war, I have a feeling we would have potentially had a very fascist 50s across the world instead of the era of progressive politics we actually got. Then whatever inevitable revolution or nuclear winter that followed a couple of decades later, would leave the world looking very different to today.
I often wonder how different the world would be if Hitler had used his power for good.
He would not have managed to get any support if it wasn’t for the hate and scapegoating, he’d be some unknown good guy.
That simply isn’t true, contemporary sources make it clear that he had charisma to spare. The Weimar Republic was ripe for a radical populist movement due to a number of reasons, but that means a less hateful ideology could have succeeded as well. The period balanced on a political knife edge, and who knows what would have happened if he’d been a true believer in something actually helpful?
ptz@dubvee.org 6 months ago
The temporal trolley problem. Lol