BF2S Forums Who would you kill if you could go back in time?

cpt.fass1 wrote:

But he didn't find it, there where already people here. Also haven't the Nores(spl) been coming back and forth to this country for a way longer time..

Imagine what American would be like today if we didn't find this country till much later? I've always wondered, cause they seemed alot more in tune with nature.

It would've been conquered even quicker. Even if you waited until after Europeans adopted emancipation you're talking about almost modern rifles vs bows and arrows anyway. I'm sorry, but there's no country on earth that won't make a move on another country completely underutilizing it's resources. The midwest of America is ridiculously rich farmland and there was gold in california, north carolina and colorado etc etc etc. It's not like Native Americans have been quick to adopt to modern life or adopt new technology, most of them still live on reservations and revere their traditions and live on government assistance. I really can't feel bad for them and the people that put them up on a pedestal as something we should revere as a 'simple life' really are ignoring all the negatives.

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

He didn't discover it.  I like where I live too.  If a Norseman or other Euro or Asian explorer had done the same I'd probably be railing against him instead.  Sucks for Columbus.  Not really sure why he's held on a pedastal by us Americans.

Because he had the balls to do what others were afraid of. Gotta respect that.

Hitler

A quote from The Dead Zone:
Dr. Sam Weizak: All right. All right. I'll give you an answer. I'm a man of medicine. I'm expected to save lives and ease suffering. I love people. Therefore, I would have no choice but to kill the son of a bitch.

IF AD is killed as a kid there would not be a National Socialist German Workers' Party. Karl Harrer would have stayed in charge of the German Workers Party (DAP). Harrer became the party's first chairman (adopting the title of "Reichsvorsitzender"); however, his plans to continue the DAP as a secret society similar to the Thule Society collided with Adolf Hitler's, who had also joined the party.
At a meeting of the Party in Munich in September 1919, the main speaker was Gottfried Feder. When he had finished speaking, a member of the audience stood up and suggested that Bavaria should break away from Prussia and form a separate nation with Austria. Adolf Hitler sprang up from the audience to rebut the argument. Drexler approached Hitler and thrust a booklet into his hand. It was entitled My Political Awakening and, according to Hitler's writing in Mein Kampf, which is Hitler's autobiography, it reflected much of what he had himself decided upon. Later the same day he received a postcard telling him that he had been accepted for membership of what was at that time the German Workers' Party. After some internal debate, he says, he decided to join.

If He's dead, he can't be at this meeting. Can't "spring up", get noticed, asked to join or take over the party.
The DAP would have gone the way of the Thule Society.
No National Socialist German Workers' Party.
No WW2. No A-bomb.

Last edited by Karbin (2009-11-23 13:50:24)

Killing Hitler would create Red Alert. OH SHIT

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

JohnG@lt wrote:

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

Where did I say that?  It is what it is - he initially brought the disease and paved the way for the implementation of the "white man's burden" policy in the Americas.

The Arawak population was already devastated by the time Jamestown was founded.  I think the number was something like 3 million Arawaks wiped out due to disease and warfare in the few decades after Columbus' first visit.  Can't remember the exact numbers.

So does it really matter who the person was that discovered America? Is there really any reason to revile the man? I'm thankful that he found the place. I like where I live.

He didn't discover it.  I like where I live too.  If a Norseman or other Euro or Asian explorer had done the same I'd probably be railing against him instead.  Sucks for Columbus.  Not really sure why he's held on a pedastal by us Americans.

Columbus is a good one

The death of Columbus might have delayed contact with the new world then there might have been a chance that europe would have taken care of its religious zealot problem instead of shipping them here.

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JohnG@lt wrote:

CameronPoe wrote:

Hitler. We would have found and ravaged the Americas and developed nuclear weapons eventually. I'd be interested to see what today would be like if someone iced baby JC in his manger.

We'd all be Muslims, Jews or worshiping a Celtic or Roman god.

ruisleipa wrote:

George Bush, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Bliar tbh.

How does anyone outside of slightly less than middle aged brits hate Margaret Thatcher? If you're from Finland what possible effect did she have on you that would warrant her death? Same with Blair, just to a lesser extent cause he's actually fairly recent.

Easy

Columbus of course ... if he was killed obviously there wouldn't be a North and South America as we know it today ... and that would again lead to the Atom bomb not being invented ... it would also have saved us from the great depression thus leaving Hitler without a Germany in economic ruins and he would have gone through history as a mediocre painter ...

Dilbert_X wrote:

Einstein invented the atom bomb.

lol. He had nothing to do with it.

jord wrote:

ruisleipa wrote:

George Bush, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Bliar tbh.

How does anyone outside of slightly less than middle aged brits hate Margaret Thatcher? If you're from Finland what possible effect did she have on you that would warrant her death? Same with Blair, just to a lesser extent cause he's actually fairly recent.

I'm half-British and lived in the UK from 74-97.

Fass's father as a child so we would not have a time travel paradox thread