I think there is a lot to discuss here.
If I go back in time, with the friend group I had at the time, I could conceivably beat Zuckerberg to market with Facebook.
Grays Sports Almanac 2000 - 2025 edition.
Just download a copy of Wikipedia and become a God. By the convoluted bttf rules, it should update anytime the timeline changes, and you’ll know everything that happened.
Nothing, no one would listen to me and I doubt I could get away with killing billionaires or destroying their property
Cancel Celebrity Apprentice before it aired
The guy that made LED headlight tech for cars would disappear, that’s for sure.
I dont know how much I’d be able to actually do, but I could whore bitcoin hard and use the money charitably.
Do I have the power to change things on a large scale? Cuz like, I was already an adult by 2011, and I still just sorta watched as shit went to shit. I did ‘my part’, and I warned people when I could about alarming trends they were unwittingly contributing to, but no one cared, and to be honest, unless one can actually hit the powerful folks, there is very little an individual can do.
If I have power to change things, to actually affect the powerful people, then I’m going to Y2K and I have a few ideas:
- Stomp Jair Bolsonaro to death a full decade before he becomes popular. When he was a nobody state representative from São Paulo who was only there to generate more seats for his party.
- Arrange a convenient accident for Steve Jobs years before the iPod drops. People talk about technology becoming boring, I place the blame for that entirely at Apple’s feet. And it all began with the iPod, which in turn, if you believe the stories told, was Jobs’ baby, to the point he harrassed the engineers at Apple for years until it was EXACTLY as he had planned.
- Stop 9/11 from happening, which slows down the US’s descent into being a Police State, which in turn slows down the rise of neoconservatism/neofascism pretty much everywhere. Oh it’ll still happen, but maybe if it happens more slowly, there might be fewer victims and people might do something about it sooner.
Oh and
- “Disappear” Peter Thiel. People really sleep on how much damage Thiel has done because he doesn’t post cringe as often as say, Musk. But he’s the high priest for the techbro “we are building god” faith.
I can’t exactly do much about Climate Change with the time given. For that I’d need the same power-scale but to go back to the 60s, when the first scientists took notice of the trend but had their research suppressed by big oil.
9/11 was convenient, but 90% of what happened was already happening at the time.
Bush was planning on invading Iraq as soon as he got elected. The housing crisis was set in motion by Clinton, and exacerbated by Bush. LA had already built the blueprint for a militarized police state with the Olympics in 84.
This shit was coming.
I’m going to visit the Cincinnati Zoo in 2016 and stop this one kid kid from falling into a gorilla enclosure.
Edit: fixed spelling error
Cincinnati. 2 n’s 1 t
Thank you. Maybe that’s why I failed the first time. I must’ve went to the wrong city.
Cccinnciiiiinattttttiiiiiiii!
Cinncinati, got it!
3 N:s
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Be really obnoxious about the ballot format in the Florida 2000 election until they either fix it or news outlets do a good job educating people about how to correctly vote for Gore
Better yet, help Elián González make it to Florida with his mom. That saga made Democrats lose a lot of votes in Florida in that election.
It’s all Chad’s fault. We should just hang him
No! That’s how we got here!
Find Elon musk and tell him that only betas use ketamine, and real epic cyberlords smoke fent
Savage!
I mean, I’m still just one person, so uhhhh guess I’m taking out a lot of people before they get security detail.
Pretty sure that’s how we got here in the first place.
Life imitates art.
Funny thing is the character was a parody of Trump to begin with
Then trump became a parody of Tannen. Go figure
Convince a guy in Google to not publish a paper that started this AI nonsense.
Do I just get one shot or can I keep trying until I get it right?
Basically anything that reduces Republican power in the US is probably a win overall.
If it’s just a single shot, then preventing the Brooks Brothers Riot would be the best use of your time.
All it would take is an industrial sized can of pepper spray. Just like the kind police regularly use on leftwing protesters.
So, the Republican shift toward the far right was already in full swing by the 2000s. You’d need to go back to at least Reagan to head that off. Trickle down economics, Two Santas, etc. was already decades in the making. My dad had already been fully brainwashed by talk radio in the 90s.
But on the flip side, the Democratic establishment has made it painfully clear even to this day that their only priority has always been to maintain the status quo for the privileged NIMBY class. The Republican party didn’t need to do anything to keep unaffordability rising, they all want to maintain the housing market bubble to protect the wealth of boomers.
We make it so Reagan still runs but doesn’t win presidency, ever, until he dies. We make sure Bill Clinton doesn’t do that incident with Monica that got him impeached so he can still have some goodwill with the people enough to make them think we want the current path he paved to continue.
Clinton mostly became president by embracing Reaganism, so he didn’t really pave the path and it did continue
Yeah but my point is, we’d still have democrats in office to ensure no Republican is voted in to destroy the country from within. Gore would’ve won over Bush, we’d still have Obama, we might’ve even had Bernie Sanders or so. All politicians who’re democratic who might not just keep Reaganism alive, they have their own ways too.
If Reagan was never elected, Clinton never would be either. I also see no reason why you think you’d have Obama still after Gore. You make it sound like the Lewinsky scandal is the only reason that Democrats didn’t get 32 straight years in office.
Then advising Carter to get all the US embassy out of Iran before the revolution could do the trick.
Considering I’d just be some guy, I’d invest all of my money in Nvidia and Bitcoin then when I get back and have millions, I’d spend it on passing wealth taxes and raising the minimum wage.
Invest on Apple first, their profit curve and stock price gets absurdly higher after 2010
This 1. Buy bitcoin 2. Bribe, but for good
Yeah, a focus on altruism, but make investments to be more effective at it. Hey, you could even get ahead of the game and start a crypto exchange!
