I think there is a lot to discuss here.
Nothing, no one would listen to me and I doubt I could get away with killing billionaires or destroying their property
The guy that made LED headlight tech for cars would disappear, that’s for sure.
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.
I dont know how much I’d be able to actually do, but I could whore bitcoin hard and use the money charitably.
Cancel Celebrity Apprentice before it aired
I mean, I’m still just one person, so uhhhh guess I’m taking out a lot of people before they get security detail.
If I go back in time, with the friend group I had at the time, I could conceivably beat Zuckerberg to market with Facebook.
The one thing I realize about questions like this is that they are simply pointless. There is very little an ordinary individual can do to alter much. Even if you got taken back in time to the right time and place to make a change, what would that look like? People write stuff that predict the future all the time. Technofascist predictions about the internet being used by a few jackasses to monitor everyone and keep people under control have been written in the 90s, but no one listened at the time.
Assassination? Good luck! Even if you got teleported back in time to 1997 and were armed with a gun and right outside a room with an unsuspecting Peter Thiel and Elon Musk (and maybe a few others) would blowing them away genuinely ‘solve’ the problems we have today? Or would it simply allow for another person to step in and do the same shit but just with a different name and face?
Enriching yourself using well timed lottery numbers is practically the only thing that would make things better for you, but while that would mean you can relive those years in complete comfort (even luxury) if your objective is to change the world then it is a hollow one.
I’d write a list of future events and share it everywhere I can, editorializing of course to make sure them coming to volition validates my political views, and then use the eventual fame to shape the world in my image.
Ignoring that path, and with no political sway of my own …
I’ve got nothing. I’d be like 5 years old and Australian. And overall Australia’s doing pretty fine. If there’s one issue I’d focus on it’s digital privacy and my biggest adversary there would be Google. IDK, there’s not really one domino I can affect to change things. Maybe warn about 9/11 and the subprime mortgage crisis but I’m pretty sure other people already did both of those to no avail. Plus I’d be 2 or so years old at the time of 9/11 so that’d probably not go well.
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
2 C: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!
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
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!
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.
