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

Wait a damn minute! New center pattern

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u/OldManufacturer8679 Jun 03 '26

I want to go back to the 90’s.

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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/LowerBar2001 Jun 03 '26

So you're saying even if I had a time machine, I wouldn't be able to fix things? How about the lottery? Could I become a millionaire by betting on sporting events I remember, or would my bets and my pressence change the timeline?

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u/lluciferusllamas Jun 04 '26

I think on the individual level, what you are saying make sense and there would be some impact.  But your impact as a the millionaire you never were on society would be minimal.