What would you do with the ability to go back in time and how would that change our history?

#1

"Hey dude don't eat that bat soup!"

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Red
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*Pulls out a gun* You don't wanna do this man just put the soup down.

Fred L.
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It´s horrible for the world, sure, but without it Trump most likely would have won the election, many other populists around the world would have not been shown to be the useless gits that they are and without the pandemic war might have been a lot more active throughout the year.

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    #2

    It might sound crazy, but I wouldn't change a thing, and here's why: any change in history might mean that most of us wouldn't exist, or our relations might be completely changed (the butterfly effect), which means our parents, friends, and everything else might not exist, or wouldn't know each other, or would meet under different circumstances. Sure, history has loads of horrendous events, but in the end, no-one could guarantee that their changes in history would be for the better. And even if you'd know that something might turn out better—would you be willing to sacrifice all of this world for it?

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    Henry Saravia-Melara
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah!Travel to the 1800s and sneeze,and half of your ancestors die of the common cold and it turn out you don't exist!

    YouDontLikeMe?
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or maybe that's what Hollywood wants us to believe...

    Nicole Weymann
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Too true. But I'd like to go back far enough/do nothing too remarkable to NOT affect the course of history. Like visiting dinosaurs or mammoths or just passing through some antique/medieval market place.

    #3

    I don't think I would change anything. I would be way too scared to mess things up and make everything much worse.

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    #4

    There was once a girl I liked so I asked her out. However I was shy as hell back then and asked if she would meet me round the corner where there were a few less people. She brought 50 People with her who all filmed the exact moment I asked her out in front of them and she laughed in my face. That video was uploaded to Facebook and my self confidence was destroyed. I am a changed guy now but it took a long damn time to heal that damage. I would change that moment in time so that I would not have gone through that and got on with my life earlier

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    Earl Grey
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    By now you have probably realized that she accidentally did you a favor by revealing her true nature before you made the mistake of getting involved with someone so morally bankrupt and utterly despicable.

    Liam Walsh
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Any decent person watching that would just feel for you and be completely disgusted by the actions of the others. Sadly, it is only human to feel that we're the ones that look bad, even when it isn't true. You are, and always were, a better person than them.

    idkwhatsmyname
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The lion the witch and the audacity of this bitch

    Elizabeth Molloy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Despicable, as her her friends who laughed.

    Dave van Es
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not to excuse what she did, but maybe that was exactly the turningpoint you needed to start working on your self-confidence.

    #5

    Honestly I wouldn’t change a thing I would just want to see the dinos

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    Hermitbunny
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Love it. Which one would you want to see first?

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would probably go from plant eaters to meat eaters so I can see as many as possible

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    I'manoob!
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    SAMMEE!!!! I would specificly visit the Pterodactyls :)

    #6

    I would go back and change the moment that men started to subjugate women. I believe that if women had an equal role in history, and girls were cherished and not treated as breeding stock by fathers and husbands, many ills of the world could have been avoided. I believe there would have been less war and more preservation of natural resources because women are innately practical. I also feel sure that at least one woman who was traveling with Jesus said "hey, we should hire someone to write all this down" and was ignored. If women were of equal value to a man, rape would never be tool in war, and slavery, and that would greatly have changed how the Europeans who explored the Americas interacted with the people they found there. Women in equal roles in the early church would have brought a pragmatism to the original goals of the Christian church which were to share everything in common and preach the good news. Certainly, there are greedy women, and stupid women, we could point and say "it would not have worked" but overall, we can see the destruction that thousands of years of patriarchy has brought the beings of Earth and I firmly believe that the equal role of women in Earth's affairs would be a mitigating factor to the heavy-handed, frat-house politics, testosterone fueled destruction we have seen evidenced all around us.

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    Henry Saravia-Melara
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and for some reason their is an add for bikinis on my screen,I know what you mean

    Hermitbunny
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like this a lot. I have a theory myself that this started happening when agriculture became our new norm. When people were able to hoard resources, like crops and livestock, it became important to keep it in the family. The family became strictly blood relations, instead of your tribe, which in turn made it very important to know who was making babies with who. But also, it's been over 10,000 years, all the aggressive women likely had less and less babies, I mean who knows what women were truly like before patriarchy, are women innately practical or has that been a side effect of subjugation? Men too, hell, killing a mammoth could have ended in tears and a group hug, we don't know.

    Hermitbunny
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I want it to be that way really bad now. Grog! You almost died but you got im! We love you Grog!

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    Scagsy
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    4 years ago

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    Yeah it's all men. Meanwhile, in woman's magazines; how to look good and find a man, here's a picture of an impossibly airbrushed model, how to bake a cake. Definitely all men's fault tho.

    #7

    April 15, 1865- Stop Abraham Lincon's death April 10th, 1912-Blowing up the Titanic while people aren't on it to save many lives. June 14, 1946- Stop Trump's birth November 22, 1963-Save J.F.K. November 5, 1955-See the day time travel was invented. ???????- Steal a vaccine serum and take it to the start of Covid. I have no clue how this all pans out I would love to see it.

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    Matthew White
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Joe your one funny man i got that back to the future referance

    Imtiredandiwannagotobed
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    “Halt, Wilkes Booth, the power of the M4 will destroy you!”

    Bacony Cakes
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Couldn't you just make the Titanic hit the iceberg head-on to stop the iceberg from sinking the Titanic?

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, you must blow it up because 1.It looks cool 2. It has a major flaw and if a blow it up they will rebuild it but it will be better. 3.Even if they get past that iceberg who says there wasn't more after that. 4. People will put their trust into an "unsinkable" ship.

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    Sentient Duck
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd just appear behind him and say "Hey security, this buffoon with a gun is suspiciously creeping towards the president!" and then leave.

    Aragorn II Elessar
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There was no security. Lincoln left his guards to go to the theatre

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    #8

    I would keep slavery from happening and make sure people stay away from bats

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    Joe McRee
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think she forgot to finish her sentence because there is no period, but I'll finish it for them, "I would keep slavery from happening and make sure people stay away from bats and ducks." There

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    Shelby P
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like this thought about slavery (also the one above about subjugating women) these are the best suggestions

    #9

    Let Hitler into art school. 'Nuff said.

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    Jesus
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ''dont let that kid in'' they said ''whats the worst that can happen" they said

    Allen Lavine
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think the people who ran the school was jewish

    #10

    i would do something, no, ANYTHING to make sure that trump never wanted to run in 2016...

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    Sentient Duck
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The biggest problem with him is that there was no problem, until AFTER he screwed up the United States, Hence preventing his birth/presidency seems to be a popular post here.

    Lis Daglish
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think enough people had the foresight to see exactly what would happen BEFORE 2016

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    Maanya Chandra
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    give him an acting job. he can't run if he's busy!

    #11

    There was so much 'wrong' over the history that it's difficult to pick from. Of course, it has shaped the world we live in today, but if certain things could be avoided, that would be great, you know what I mean? I would forbid wars and make big guys battle it out in a tabletop game or a video game, depending on the period.

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    Up All Night
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Whoa, tiger, you only got to travel back in time, not superpowers!

    Sarah Lishman
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wasn't that why chess was invented? To stop two brothers physically fighting?

    Henry Saravia-Melara
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    if the people who sent soldier fought one on one their would be less wars

    Up All Night
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The best leaders are bad fighters. The best fighters are bad leaders. Go figure.

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    #12

    First, I'd go to Stephen Hawking's time traveller party - I bet he was a real blast. Then, I would go back to a time just after The Return Of The Jedi and have a good long chat with George Lucas about Jar-Jar Binks and the Star Wars legacy. I think that would serve mankind well.

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    Who? Me?
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I need a Doctor Who episode on the Hawking party thingy. And yes... if you're going by any chance, take me with you

    #13

    Oh boy, here i go to save the books in the librarby of Alexandria!

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    Xandi the INFP-T
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd preserve all the books in all the old libraries and make it my job to keep record of every single language so we could read all the books/scrolls/documents. I love history and antiquities.

    Freya the Wanderer
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Take me with you! In fact, you may be interested in the idea of a Knowledge Ark, a way to preserve our accumulated knowledge and culture in case of societal collapse.

    Candace Porter
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is exactly what I was thinking!

    #14

    No question that I would go back to the time when Christianity was invented and stop it from happening. I have researched this and found that no-one wrote about Jesus when he was said to be alive. The 4 gospels were written by people who never even met him, so have no authenticity. Anyway, if it wasn't for Christianity, we would not have hard the dark ages, where religion supressed all kinds of development to keep the population enslaved. Advances were forbidden for 1300 years and if it hadn't happened, we probably would have had all the things we currently have, but at least 500 years earlier.

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    Aragorn II Elessar
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I understand that viewpoint. “Christianity” has been responsible for a whole lot of problems. However, Christianity as it’s intended, to love one another, how can that harm anything? That’s how I and many I know practice it. Perhaps it’d be better to adapt it prior to the rise of the Catholic Church of that era and ensure that it wasn’t misinterpreted.

    Martin Kaine
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Exactly. Christianity, as well as other religions and ideologies, are labels for people's bad behavior. "I am killing/taking land/disrupting your lives in the name of (check all that apply): God, the Queen, the Pope, the Emperor, the Shah, the Mandate of Heaven, the Koran, the Will of the Proletariat, etc." It is rare that people honestly check off "Because I want to, because I can and you can't stop me." Its much easier to get people to follow a label than a selfish leader.

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    Up All Night
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why Christians? Why not other religions that has extremists and do terrible things up to this day?

    Andres Tejeda
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    christians still do terrible things today, but I would stifle all religions. They are all equally terrible.

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    idkwhatsmyname
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    im a christian because of my parents but im the type that is super devoted. You know that all of that stuff actually happened because people started saying that they knew jesus and the people that had power started saying the rules that only helped them and not everything. I like to think of the bible as a guide of you should behave but as any guide it has its bad parts so i feel like everyone should just go with their belives are and not follow all the rules of the bible

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    #15

    I would go back in the early 1900s when the companies started getting the same rights as people and became legal persons. Without that no huge corporations would exist today.

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    #16

    I wouldn't change a thing,but I kinda wanna go back in time. Not to change things, But to sorta relive some moments..

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    #17

    However Covid-19 started, I would go back in time to stop it. Just imagine the world without Covid-19!

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    TooManyFandoms
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Find the guy who ate the bat and bring him to 2020

    #18

    I would go back to about a year ago. What i would do is save my aunt from k!lling herself... How it would affect the course of history ig all it would do is make it to where her kids have a mommy to live their life w/ uhmm idrk if that's a good answer but. uhmm.. yeah.

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    #19

    I would slash the tires of the guy in the bar who had way too much to drink, and killed two young guys riding their motorcycles home from night school. I hope the affect would be growing up with my father and godfather

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    #20

    I'm not sure. People always say they'd want to go back and kill Hitler, but honestly, someone else would take his place. I'm not excusing him on anything he did. It was atrocious, but the butterfly effect would put someone else in his situation. I don't think I would want to change anything, for that matter. I would just like everything to stay the same.

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    Up All Night
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    May be it would be someone who would win the war for the nazis, so it's better not to mess with history.

    TheBookwormPotato
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don’t think I would be alive if it wasn’t for WWII, but I’m fine with that if even more people would not have to suffer and die

    Freya the Wanderer
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or shmooze a wealthy Jew into giving him art lessons so he would get into that prestigious art school

    #21

    I would give the knowledge of metal working to the Native American tribes in both north and south America. Allowing them to have a better fighting chance against the Spanish and later the English. I would try to right the course of Colombus so that he makes it to India, so that the Mayans, Aztecs, Incas, and other civilizations in the Americas could flourish and grow with out the Spanish and other European empires subjugating them.

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    ADHORTATOR
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Aztecs ---- these were the guys with human sacrifices, weren' t they?

    Up All Night
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait, you have to destroy the American continent if you want Columbus to find India. I'm 100% sure he wouldn't want to bypass a whole continent.

    #22

    I agree that changing the past creates an uncertain future, but since we're pretending :) I've always liked the idea of grabbing someone tragic out of time, and trying to save them. Tell Franz Ferdinand don't go driving that day, let security know what was up before Kennedy got in the car. Or even like, don't kill Hitler, grab him when he was still an infant, raise him with care, educate him. There are people whose brains are unfortunately wired poorly from birth, they literally just don't/can't feel anything for others, but it's so, so often that monsters are made. I like the idea of unmaking one.

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    #23

    Get a dog sooner, stop watching the news and just concentrate on listening to and loving my dogs.

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fifteen years from moving out from my parents' house to getting our first Dane. Waiting for the 'perfect moment', which actually never arrived. In the end, I just forged ahead, brought hubby along and it worked out brilliantly. She's still with us and still 'talks' more sense than 99% of people. Dogs are not people - they're far better. :)

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    #24

    I'd grab my kids and take them back to before my grandfather died and let them spend some time enjoying his company. He was my favorite person in the world and a terrific grandpa. I bet my kids would have loved meeting him and vice versa. And I'd give him one last hug and tell him that he was more of a dad to me than my dad was, and I miss him every day.

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    #25

    i would make sure me and my bbfaetteot ( best friend forever 'till the end of time) met in pre- k not in kindergarden and make sure me and my enemy never met soooooo ya!

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    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Y ARE YOU DOWNVOTING ME! JUST BECAUSE I SHARED MY OPINION DOES NOT MEAN U CAN JUS HATE FOR NO REASON! IF YOU WERE IN MY SHOES YOU WOULD POST THIS TOOOO! SHEESH! I KNOW 2021 ISN'T TO EXITING BUT YOU DONT HAVE TO TAKE IT OUT ON ME PEOPLE! YA HATERS!

    Bernice Laurie Marquez
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I know.your submissions is based on your own opinion.so I'm up voting my faves and the ones that don't have upvotes

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    why do yall keep downvoting me? if u dont like somethin' leave it alone!

    #26

    stop adolf hitler from being born and stop the assassination of martin luther king

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    #27

    If I had the power I would go back to the time Europeans were colonizing the Americas. I would write books that explain and humanize Native American's culture and way of life. I would try to fight for their right's to stay on their land. I feel like a lot of really bad history may have been avoided if we had tried to work with and try to understand the locals, then what happened which was genocide.

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Though I doubt I could make a difference, being female and lower middle class. They would probably dismiss me and toss me in a sanatorium or something. I am insignificant in comparison to their greed. "They" referring to the British, French and Spanish aristocracy who are the ones to benefit from the raw resources to be gained from the "new world"

    Guardian54
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    well, they were natives and were nice to about everybody, and obviously listened to the whites, so they might listen to you 🤷

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    #28

    I would go in germany before Hitler was a Nazi and I would get him into art school so he can have a good time in art school and so the Holocaust wouldn't happen.

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    Janelle Madison
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe that could possibly make him a good person before he became the reason for millions of innocent people to be murdered I think he was just evil but nice theory

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    well when he got rejected from art school the people who rejected him where jewish and then he wanted revenge on them

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    #29

    If I could go back in time I would make sure that I could speak the language of that time. It helps a lot :-) And I would go back to the Golden Age here in the Netherlands were I live. I want to meet Rembrandt, Vermeer and all the other great painters. I want to see how the city's look liked, how it smelled, how the food tasted. Then travel to all other country's to see and meet the, now very famous, artists.

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    Radar Doi
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ooooh, you wouldn't want to know how it smelled.... just sayin'....

    #30

    Elect Hilary. She would be our first women president, and we also wouldn't have Trump as our president.

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    Mary Rose Kent
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So really, abolish the archaic Electoral College, because Hillary won the popular vote but not the EC.

    #31

    Well if I'm going to change history, I might as well go all out. You know the "grandfather paradox" where if you go back in time and kill your grandfather as a child, therefore you can't be born (so who went back in time?) Well lets go further, like 1,000 generations and kill off my great great.... grandfather when he was young. That would result in me, and probably 80% of the people in the western world no longer existing (replaced by other people). How different would history be if the majority of people in our history books were never born? It would be interesting to watch the results.

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is extremely likely that I am, and you too (if you have any European ancestors). I'm not saying that I'm a direct descendent of him, but it is almost guaranteed that I am at least a cousin. e.g. 14th cousin 26 times removed. https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/all-europeans-are-related-if-you-go-back-just-1-6C9826523

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    #32

    Harambe! stay away from that kid!

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    Maanya Chandra
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually, according to my random research Harambe was going to help the kid, and was unfairly shot. Someone PLEASE correct this in the chat. IDK anymore.

    Owen Salmon2028
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yes it will save us all from 2020 2021 and trump

    #33

    I'd probably go back to the last time I ate ice-cream :P

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    Mary Rose Kent
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or maybe just buy some more ice cream?

    #34

    1. Tell Rosalind Franklin about Watson and Crick and their plans 2. Help van Gogh emotionally and mentally 3. Tell Mendel to not stop researching on pea plants Though changing history will have far reaching implications. Whovians will understand.

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    Helen Haley
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes. Would totally give van Gogh some anti-depressants and a sandwich.

    #35

    Id go back about 6 to 5 years and tell dad to get a cancer screening. He would still be alive now.

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    #36

    For my personal life: get proper help for my mental and physical illnesses much sooner - as another poster said, "be my own guardian angel". I also suffered years of abuse at the hands of my family so I would definitely protect myself from all that. For the betterment of the human race: I would want to travel through all of history with appropriate recording devices. What really happened at the beginning of time/space? Did certain religious figures really exist the way we think they did? Have we ever been visited by non-Earth entities? What colour were dinosaurs? Was there ever life on Mars? All these questions would finally get answers. :)

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    #37

    I would want to go back in history and explore, but I wouldn't change anything. If you mess something up, you could end up not existing.

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    Sentient Duck
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    but that would mean you wouldn't exist to go back in time and stop yourself from existing, thus creating another paradox

    Tiny Dynamine
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's only hypothetical anyway and can never be done. If it could, people from the future would have already let us know of it.

    #38

    I would tell myself to go back in time to tell myself to go back in time and so on to create an infinite loop of unnecessary time travel.

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The temptation to misuse any time travel technology would be overwhelming for me honestly. like instead of saving someone or preventing a disaster I'd just throw rocks at Socrates or something.

    Who? Me?
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or steal Archimedes ' rulers or throw a brick on Newton

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    #39

    I wouldn’t change anything really, I like being in existence. Like most people would try to prevent wars or whatever but if it wasn’t for Word War 2 my great grandpa wouldn’t have come to the US and then my parents wouldn’t meet. Also it would create a paradox of if I don’t exist I never went back in time but if I do I do go back in time but then I don’t exist but I really do so on and so forth,

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    Mary Rose Kent
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where did your great grandfather come from?

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Germany, he was forced as a doctor to work for Hitler, and as soon as he could he skipped over to the US. They let him cross because he was a doctor and never technically hurt anyone.

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    #40

    If I was sightseeing: I would watch Julius Caesar get stabbed. If I was changing: I would destroy Christopher Columbus's ship as he traveled to America.

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    Mahshid Chowdhury
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes make them not look for spices and get creative with their cooking with what they have already. And make England stay in England and stop coming to errdamn country.

    Up All Night
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Noob. You must sightsee something never before witnessed (and record it, of course) to make a great historical discovery. Columbus is expandable, someone else would discover America later.

    Dave In MD
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Europeans had already made to what would become American. Columbus never set foot on what is American. And you can't "discover" a place that already has people there. You can be the first person from where ever you are from to be there but he didn't even do that.

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    #41

    I would go back in time and find a way to insist on good writing standards for everyone, including on the web, so that all the mistakes in these answers would disappear.

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    Wolfowl
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    but y th0 moi grmaer s pefct m spelimng to

    Guardian54
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    you could also use something like Grammarly 🤷

    #42

    I wouldn't change anything, but I would take a team so that history could be recorded as accurately as possible. Also, some kind of sworn in fact checker so that it wouldn't be challenged. That way we can learn from as accurate a history account as possible, and not just rely on victor's propaganda.

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    #43

    i would see freddie mercury at the live aid

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    #44

    I know it’s not much to most people, but I would go back and try to save the old man of the mountain. My dad used to live out there in NH and he was very saddened when he fell. It wouldn’t change much. My dad wouldn’t have been sad, and the beautiful landmark would still stand strong.

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    Roos Dillema
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who was the old man of the mountain? I never heard of him. Please tell me more

    Xenon
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was a natural rocky outcrop in NH that looked like a stone face. It crumbled and fell in 2003, upsetting a lot of people.

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    #45

    I don’t think I’d change anything. I’d go explore Ancient Rome, but I wouldn’t change a thing, because who knows how that would impact the future?

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    Janelle Madison
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love Ancient Rome and Greece the mythology and cultural traditions amaze me

    Michael Hernandez
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    would you like to fight the lions with me?

    #46

    Buy toilet paper, chips, ice cream, put it in my house then travel to a time and make sure I never meet my ex

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    ispeak catanese
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are a few ex's I'd love to go back and skip!

    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean we’re on speaking terms but he was creepy and clingy

    #47

    I got a reptile a while back, but he sadly passed away a few months ago because of some choices I made, so I would go back and warn myself to not make those decisions.

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    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think he died because the room he was in was too cold, so I would put him in a different room.

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    Tiny Dynamine
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The right decision would be to not have them as pets.

    #49

    go back and get famous famous famoussss people to give me an autograph before they become really popular

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    #50

    I'm going to be a wee bit selfish. I would go back to September 2, 2015. The thing I would change would be going to work that day. My mother died of a GI bleed while babysitting my children while I was at work. I can't guarantee that she would still be here if I had been there, but at least I would have been with her at the end. What would it change if the end result was different? My daughter was less than 2 years old at the time, she would have had the chance to actually know her grandmother, and my son would have had had more time with his "Meega".

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    #51

    I would just buy a little stock in some of the biggest companies in the world when it was cheap. I doubt that would have any effect on the course of history.

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    Mahshid Chowdhury
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Except you’d def be ballin and part of the 1% by now

    #52

    I would go back in time and kill Hitler. No Holocaust and millions of lives saved.

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    Aliquid A
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We put too much credit in the hands of individuals. If Hitler was killed, others would have done similar things in his place. The political and social environment was ripe for that sort of thing happening. Heck maybe the "Hitler replacement" would be more strategic and successful in their war tactics.

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    #54

    I would not go back in time because there is a medium chance of a paradox and disappearing from existence.

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    #55

    Honestly, I don't know WHY, but I wanna see my entire life in third-person. Starting from my birth. It'll be cool and kinda cringy when I see things that I regret doing now. Without anyone able to see me. Man, that'd be awesome.

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    That One Girl
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I agree! It would be cool to be my own guardian angel and, if I want to, guide myself instead of just watching myself do things I regret.

    #56

    I would want to go back to whenever it was declared that being LGBTQIA+ is bad and change that forever!

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    #57

    Well I dont want to mess things up so I would change nothing but if it was just something just did not happen I would change trump being president (boo trump) or I would make corona just nit happen

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    #58

    I'll bring my smartphone to prehistoric age and teach people how to make it and how to use it so in 2020 we will know how they looks like and how they life instead just a theory and 3d rendering

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    Imtiredandiwannagotobed
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Uhhhhhhhhh CHILD LABOR (I’m kidding, of course, but It sadly does happen)

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    Who? Me?
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And that's how my friend, History channel came up with the idea of Ancient Aliens

    Bacony Cakes
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fun Fact: History Channel is stupid, since p**n-shopping alien truckers are (unfortunately) not part of history.

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    Sentient Duck
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean you could start educating them on basic advancements like wheels, pulleys, levers, recorded history, fire (if not already discovered), and agriculture so the human race would get a head start on scientific discoveries.

    Tiny Dynamine
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You couldn't teach them to make it as it would require thousands of steps in the development chain to get to it.

    Hermitbunny
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ..what about the battery? And how to make the power, to power it? and the wire, to transfer the power.. Lol you really would be their one true god. Wait-- You mean use it temporarily! like stone age dudes making a documentary! Yes!

    Up All Night
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just record them from safe distance, dude.

    #59

    I would go back to 2016 and ell everyone how dangerous and bad a Trump presidency would be. It wouldn't change anything because I knew that in 2016 and I told anybody who would listen, but it happened anyway.

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    ProfessionalTimeWaster
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Past US presidents have done much worse, especially ruining lives of generations in Middle East, ignoring genocide happening in some part of the world.....they just got away with it because they didn't sound like a 13 year old with tissue-paper thin ego.

    #60

    I know I’m crazy but i’d try to remove Disney. It’s too big, too annoying and I just hate how it’s on everything. Would keep the mandalorian tho.

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    Bernice Laurie Marquez
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Disney was my life back then. Without Disney,my life would've been a mess Not hating,just saying. Sorry if this offended you

    Andres Tejeda
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Walt Disney was not the problem, it was the people who took over after his death that really grew Disney into the goliath it is today.

    Mahshid Chowdhury
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you don’t like Disney... just don’t watch Disney there’s tons of other stuff out there

    #61

    I wouldn't change anything, but I would go back to 1945, when Hitler died, just to see people's expressions of joy. I wonder if it would be anything like when Biden was elected.

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    #62

    Go back to the stone age, give them the latest technology, come back and see what the technology now would be like.

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    #63

    I wouldn't change anything, but I would go back to when my parents were teenagers, I've only ever seen pictures and that was years and years ago. I wonder what they would be like...

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    #64

    I want to visit the Constitutional Convention. I would encourage them to clarify the power of a President to pardon. Specifically a President cannot pardon him or herself or immediate family.

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    #65

    Keep Kathleen Kennedy away from Star Wars

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    #66

    I would stop war and disease and violence wherever it showed up, periodically returning to modern times to see new things to change, and eventually make humans a perfect society. Also, I would continuously give technology to 15th century people and come back to get more advanced tech to give them so we would have perfectly advanced tech. I would also go and save knowledge from being destroyed, eventually gathering a complete archive of everything humans have ever known.

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    #67

    I'd go back in time and stop the invention of the smartphone. We'd just have cellphones with cameras in it. Why? Because our smartphones are not making us smarter, just more isolated and disconnected from the real world. It's become an addiction.

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    #68

    would have advised my parents they should have me 2 or 3 years apart from my sister and not 7, because we would be closer together. or tell my dad to use protection

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    #69

    Walk in on my parents when they were making my siblings. Peace and quiet.

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    Tiny Dynamine
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now seriously imagine that the police came to your door and told you that your siblings had died in a terrible accident. Try to see how you would actually feel.

    LONDYN BROWN
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    🧍🏿‍♀️🚶🏿‍♀️🏃🏿‍♀️🏃🏿‍♀️🏃🏿‍♀️ 😨🤢🤮 that would be ME!

    #70

    I thing i would go to world war 2 just because in interested and would like o see it for myself!

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    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, yes i Know, i only put the o in to and and i spelled in instead of I’m so yeah..pls dont judge me.

    Sentient Duck
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    no prob. I'm also fascinated by ww2 history btw

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    Janelle Madison
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would do this too and write a book on it probably

    #71

    Tell James's Woods agent to forward the script and be given the chance for him to have been in Reservoir Dogs. Look, I like Tim Roth as an actor, but James Woods would’ve been a better choice.

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    #72

    At the 2011 White House Correspondent's Dinner, I will somehow persuade Obama to omit jokes about Trump so he would not be inspired to run for president.

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    Mahshid Chowdhury
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It’s not Obama’s fault that the cheetah ran for president.... he was planning this from a long time ago, there’s a clip of him saying it in the internet somewhere

    Tiny Dynamine
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He ran for president because he wanted to inflate his ego even more.

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    #73

    What I would want to do isn't a "go back and change this" event. It would involve going throughout the timeline to stomp out three concepts wherever they catch fire. [1] "Traits are either nature or nurture" (it's usually both) [2] "Theory vs. empirics" (they are each crucial to the other in any endeavor to discover) [3] "I can't explain why something happened scientifically, so it must be the result of magical forces/God's will". As liberally as these ideas are seasoned through history, such an endeavor would exhaust an army.

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    #74

    i would go to December 2019 and get rid of the bat

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    Henry Cheves
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    COVID was already in China in November.

    LONDYN BROWN
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    lol our hero! GOODBYE COVID, HELLOOOO MISSED DISNEYLAND TRIP! YEEHAW!!

    #75

    I would go back to be first in line to buy stock at the IPO's of Intel, Apple, Amazon....

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    #76

    sorry if im posting twice the wifi went out and then turned on again so i'm not sure but i wouldve went back in time so i could tell p.me to not steal the cookie, as my parents said no. i ate the cookie anyway and it led to my parents distrusting me.

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    Up All Night
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    C'mon, everyone expects the small child to steal the cookie!

    Liam Walsh
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But they were 37! Just kidding... I completely agree to be honest. Kiddies will eat the treats. Normal behaviour and no-one should be made to feel bad for any longer than it takes to eat the wretched thing! Forgive yourself Exotic Panda!

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    #77

    tell my mom: "AYO DONT GET PREGNANT, I DONT WANT TO BE HERE"

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    Maya Jones
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    NOOO! YOU DESERVE TO BE HERE!!! YOU ARE AMAZING AND NEVER DOUBT THAT. EVER.

    #78

    make sure tRump didnt win the election

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    #79

    I would go back in time to destroy the garden of eden so nothing bad will ever happen in the future.

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    Up All Night
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Story time: You did it. You made it back to Eden and tried to get in. This enraged God who turned you into a snake, so you don't have hands to destroy anything. Furiously, you decided to ruin his creation once and for all, so you located the tree of wisdom and approached Eve...

    Who? Me?
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why did god place the forbidden fruit which was like the juiciest and most alluring in the middle of a paradise with nothing but a warning about it. Could've put it on a mountain or something

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    Mintchinchilla
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    bruh, destroying it means destroying the fruit

    Spinaap
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Stop the link to human evolution, that would be a really good way to save the planet ... too bad for all the humans, but they would not exist.

    Sentient Duck
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    rejec da humens return to da monke

    Tiny Dynamine
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where do we start? The Vatican has confirmed that the story of Adam and Eve is not true, plus the area where Eden was said to be is now a big desert anyway, so there would be no need.

    LONDYN BROWN
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ummmmmmm i think THAT would be bad anyway but lol

    #80

    I would go back in time and bring weapons and masks to help the native Americans. If they had been prepared I think they might have made it, or at least had a better chance. I'm confident that America wouldn't have taken the path that it did if they'd been in charge back then.

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    Swyft
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    introduce a weaker strain of smallpox in the area hundreds of years earlier, this would allow them to avoid the problems caused by smallpox

    Imtiredandiwannagotobed
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    “Hey homies, you gotta try this *proceeds to fire an M4A1*” lol

    Jesus
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    setelers be like: "gods on are side" haha. not my dad!

    Up All Night
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You would be remembered as a great prophet, but sadly, smallpox is unstoppable with mere masks. Its death rate is 30%, it killed up to 300 million people just in the 20th century. Also, how many weapons can you carry?

    Sentient Duck
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd just plant a bomb on the English ships on their voyage to the undiscovered America to stop the indigenous from being nearly wiped out smallpox.

    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought about that but somebody else would have come around and wiped them out just as badly if not worse. This way they would be prepared

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    Martin Kaine
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just bring them horses, pigs, and cattle around 3000 BCE.

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    #81

    I'd teach people tik tok dances I don't know what'd do but we'd probably look cool

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    Tiny Dynamine
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You'd teach people how to dance really badly? Have you no soul? :D

    Mahshid Chowdhury
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Teach me! They are hard as heck even when you go slow LOL

    Bacony Cakes
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *pumps dr. kleiner's resurrected teleport like a shotgun*

    #82

    i would create the infinity stones and snap half the world out of exsistance and the world will be balanced just like ot should be

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    Sentient Duck
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd assist you, as long as I'm not gonna be part of the half that literally bites the dust

    Red
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Another one bites the dust

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    carol peacock
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For America...I'd go back to implement that every person running for office of any kind would have to take a basic civics class and pass with 100% on top of a psychological evaluation! lol

    Bacony Cakes
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yeah but what about supply chains there'd be absolute bedlam

    Michael Hernandez
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nah I think taking out covid is a better idea

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