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  • pooh [she/her, love/loves]
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    2 years ago

    Probably Rosa Luxembourg. Then she could establish communism in Germany and WWII would have never happened, or it would have instead just been the remaining capitalist powers getting their shit kicked in by the unstoppable global communist block.

    The Aztecs prior to invasions by Spaniards is another good option.

      • pooh [she/her, love/loves]
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        2 years ago

        The idea is that it would be more likely to happen if she survives her murder, not that she would use an RPG to take over Germany. That her survival would lead to revolution is a pretty big assumption though.

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        it probably would have quite a big effect as it would probably take out the freikorps as well as everyone in Germany collectively saying "what the fuck was that"

  • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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    2 years ago

    fuck my first thought was napoleon and then i realised an individual with an advanced weapons system might not have the capacity to steer the direction of history :sadness:

    my guy had way more firepower and still didnt manage to drag europe into modernity

    so anyway im giving it to john hinckley jr

    • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      do you mean His Imperial and Royal Majesty Napoleon I, By the Grace of God and of the Constitutions of the Empire, Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Mediator of the Swiss Confederation, Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, Co-Prince of Andorra?

      i wouldn't give a weapon to a monarch myself
      well, perhaps the business end
      at speed

      • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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        2 years ago

        yeah, that guy. not without controversy but the empire was still the most progressive in europe and if we're subscribing to great man shit id rather contribute to the triumph of (less) progress than an explosive but doomed attempt at more (the idealist near-communists in the revolution)

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Napoleon could maaaybe be a good choice IFF you did it right after Haiti revolts and you made it conditional on allying with L'Ouverture to start slave rebellions in the USA is his best path to destroying the British

      • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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        2 years ago

        sending troops to haiti and using it to hit the bahamas & jamaica would have a very appreciable effect on the british. starting a war with the US idk about, esp. considering they went against the brits themselves in 12

        • emizeko [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          am I crazy or is there a possibility that without the rum ration (produced in British carribbean colonies) the Royal Navy might have fallen apart due to mutiny

        • emizeko [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          was just riffing on the Napoleon choice but that's a great point

  • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
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    2 years ago

    ...I give it to the workers in the Paris Commune and watch them wreck the French. Or maybe Lenin could use it? Hmm decisions, decisions...

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

    Lee Harvey Oswald, I just think it would be cool to have the Zapruder film be the president getting fucking vaporized.

    • StarShip [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I thought Oswald never shot a single shot? You'd be better giving it to the CIA folks who did the shooting.

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

        I will refer to my conclusion that its Oswald because its the objectively funniest possibility(aside from it being both Oswald and a hungover secret service agent) and that every single CIA-Mafia-Gusano coalition theory is booooooring.

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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      2 years ago

      Hell yeah now that's a visionary answer, lets fuckin go! :yes-hahaha-yes-l:

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I give it to Hannibal. With it he can blow a hole open in Rome's walls and take the city, making Carthage the hegemon of the Classical period.