Everybody chooses Hitler, even the great minds at :trueanon:

reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/10vjhva/if_you_could_go_back_in_time_and_could_off_one/

But that has to be a waste right? Great Man Theory, dialectical materialism, blah blah

Germany still would've became fascist because of their overwhelming debt to the victors of WWI. They most certainly still would have started World War II in some way. They almost certainly would've also started genociding the disabled, and probably move on the non-Aryans eventually, or at the very least thrown them all in prisons or some internment zone

  • Sickos [they/them, it/its]
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    2 years ago

    Thomas Midgley Jr.

    Great man theory still holds, but removing the person directly responsible for leaded gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons, even if it only delays their discovery and use by a few years, would have a tremendous positive impact on the planet.

    Let alone imagining the impact of non-lead-poisoned Boomer generation.

    • GaveUp [she/her]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Edit: I'm wrong, see below if you care

      The theory that lead exposure was the main or even a significant factor in why American boomers are the way they are is such an obvious op to distract from how twisted American culture makes people that I'm disappointed I see it brought up all the time in commie spaces

      https://www.thelancet.com/cms/attachment/afd16ec5-5071-400d-8cf8-5f16ae09e008/gr1_lrg.jpg

      • Sickos [they/them, it/its]
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        2 years ago

        Nah, the lead in air over time graph tracks beautifully with the worst people on the planet. No doubt American culture is a fuckin shit show, but it's made worse by the lead in their brains.

        • GaveUp [she/her]
          hexagon
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          2 years ago

          Yea nah you're right, I realized my mistake in logic and looked up the lead exposure of Americans roughly half a century ago compared to developing nations today

          It was way higher in the past lol

      • blight [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        that color coding is ridiculously confusing lol