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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 73 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The shoestring paradox. It was always a trime traveller, trying to prevent a war that caused the war that caused the war that they are trying to prevent

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Gee, didn't realize fascism was the default

[–] subignition@fedia.io 28 points 10 months ago

It wasn't, but now that somebody came back and screwed up the timeline, the utopian future they originally came from got detached from our causality. Can't get there from here anymore. :(

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

We missed out on shrimp being the default

[–] Cheems@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I think that the people that want to be in power and have control over others are predispositioned to lean fascist.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The question we really need to be asking is why were they trying to alter the timeline in the first place? Presumably they come from a timeline in which the second world war didn't happen so what's their beef with Hitler.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Probably a disgruntled art critic.

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[–] Rokin@lemm.ee 47 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I think "1914" in Serbian is "1914"

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 18 points 10 months ago

I love how many polyglots here are! I learned to say 1914 in 4 languages this year and I can confirm that in Serbian it's "1914".

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Big if true

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

he was looking at it in a mirror. thought it was 1941.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

he accidentally entered 1491 and decided fuck it, I'll find a new route for the Indies. His name ? Christopher Colombus

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Hiljadu devetsto četrnaesta - checks out.

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

OP says the calendar is in Serbian, not the number.

Calendar says 1914 AND is in Serbian

[–] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Any guy in a car in the past must be Hitler, right?

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I... he... he had... a uniform and a funny mustache...

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You killed Worf?

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

When Worf and Hitler kiss, their beards fit perfectly into each other

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is also what I had in mind!

edit: Also, Wolverine from the front looks like two Batmen kissing.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

You know, if you can't tell those two guys apart, that's on you. And the education system.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Red Alert modding community, where are you?

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

We fled to the ONLY place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism. . . .

SPAICE!

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

The spaice must flow

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

There is one good thing you can say about Hitler. He killed Hitler.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but he also killed the guy who killed Hitler. So it's kind of a wash

[–] Olmai@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, yes, but consider he is the one who killed the guy who killed the guy who killed hitler !

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

That dude just killed everyone. Damn!

[–] kromem@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Always check the mustache first.

[–] anzo@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

Hitler copied it from Chaplin (or so it claimed Charles)

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

"Oh no, I missed. Oh well, I guess I'll get a sandwich."

(Later, outside the sandwich shop): history

[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 10 months ago

"Oopsy-doodle! Well, what's one archduke anyway, right?"

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

I know I won't be leaving here. With you.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

That motion of events is a bit like going back in time to have sex with Adolfys mom 9 months before he is born.

[–] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

imagine you do that, and the guy still does ww2, and that was your only chance. Now imagine, you do that, and the guy is born much smarter, and he actually wins, and that was your only chance.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Ofc he still does the war, otherwise why would you go back in time to have sex with some Austrian chick?
(But WW2 was happening anyway, that's why we went back in time to kill that tourist in Serbia)

much smarter

Dang, then I'm prob not the father of this one :/

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

otherwise why would you go back in time to have sex with some Austrian chick?

She's hot?

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, her signature Chaplin mustache was ahead of her time and misunderstood.

[–] Sweetshark@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean: ultimately ended three monarchies, but at what cost.

[–] Maven@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 months ago

About 82-132 million people

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Whilst it was done in the name of Siberians, it happened in Bosnia.

[–] verstra@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Siberians, lol

They would not like being called that

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

Neither do they like that Bosnia is an independent country, but such is life

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Any other humans thinking about DC Legends of Tomorrow reading this???

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Charlie Chaplin didn't die of a stroke. They covered it all up.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

But now that artillery gunner at the Somme aimed their next shot just a tick over to meet its mark...

And now Jenkins survives...

[–] weeeeum@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This couldn't happen, because hitler would have only become leader if ww1 happened.

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Exactly, that's why this works isn't it?

This makes one self consistent timeline where the big reveal is OP kills the archduke starting WW1 giving rise to Hitler in the first place.

What we wouldn't know is the nature of "Jenkins" let's call him, before the very first time travel that first timeline OP went back to kill. Maybe it was in fact the archduke who rises to horrible power, adding another layer of indirection to the story.

Seems to me that, once you time travel you're on a different timeline where the events you originally wanted to change didnt happen so you wouldn't have memory of them, right? Perhaps you'd think it was all about Hitler, but Hitler was the result not the cause.

Edit: Lots of words to effectively reinvent and colorize the bootstrap paradox lol. Should have read the thread first.

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