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[–] [email protected] 69 points 6 days ago (3 children)

These guys just fixed humanity with a hug

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Imagine that the hug changed the family, made them loving and supportive, and Hitler was just a recidivist incel who was destined to be hateful. Sometimes things can't be changed, some people don't want to be fixed, and some shitheads need to be rejected for who they are.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Honestly, you'd need to fix World War 1 and uhhh... Good luck. Hitler was just the drug addict the bitter world war 1 veterans and conservatives rallied around. There were multiple options. They all had similar stories, massive PTSD, using drugs and propaganda to cope.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I can only imagine a The Boys scenario where it cuts their body in half from squeezing too hard.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You could fix my humanity with a hug :')

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Best I can do is a friendly tap on the back

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

(Dark souls style) Humanity Restored

[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago

That was uh something.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

that's exactly the comic this reminded me of, but I didn't remember the ending, it makes no sense

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

narrator: and then they lived happily ever after

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago

It does if you're a homophobe.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

With the social climate of the time, there would just be another guy who would replace him. It's a fallacy to think "fixing" the individual will solve social problems.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

...

Yep, you are right.

Send someone sick with COVID.

[–] explodicle 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Specifically near the end of WW1, like 1918 or so, that should get them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

let's make a whole new strain for it too. we can call it the Spanish Flu or something

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

So I'm hearing we need to go to the negotiation room of the treaty of Versailles, and then send a predator drone to Italy. Sorry future Italians.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hitler's father was quite cosmopolitan. He had a nationalist history teacher and a rough time after he was rejected from art school. Take that with a huge grain of salt since this is how he depicts it in his autobiography. I think the major part of his radicalization was in prison while he wrote Mein Kampf but that's just my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think I read somewhere that he was supposed to infiltrate the Nazis and report on them. Instead he got radicalized.

Whoops

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

think I read somewhere

Doesn't make it true.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

True!

So here’s a source. Wikipedia

He was an intelligence agent assigned to infiltrate the German workers party, precursor to the nazi party. It’s the first bit in the “entry into politics section”.

https://imgur.com/a/zBAKJYU

[–] girsaysdoom 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Jesus Christ. I had no idea that he was a turned Intel agent too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Germany wasn't great at spying... In world war 2 the British basically kept German agents as pets.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

With the time machine plot I didn't even question the massive exposed brain.

It's hair...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

I thought it was just pink hair but, I like your perspective better.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Not how I expected the Planet of the Apes reboot to start

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

They should probably try to fix the issues that caused the population to vote for him.

It never about "fixing" or "killing" individuals, but about systems that do not work for some people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Interwar Germany wasn't meant to work. It was a collective punishment over a war the entire nobility of Europe jumped into with all the fervor of a kid with a new wargame.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Removing Hitler would not have changed the world he came up in. He works have been replaced by someone similar.

[–] Kite 15 points 6 days ago

I kind of think about things like this a lot because of my family. My mom's parents were amazing. My mom was amazing. Her brother.. total asshole. My dad's parents - especially his mom - were beyond awful. Out of 6 kids, only 2 turned out good, and 1 was my dad. He's told me so many times over the years how he swore he'd never be like his parents. I've wondered before how things might have turned out of my maternal grandparents had been awful and my paternal ones good. I wonder how things would have changed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've actually thought about this type of thing quite a lot, and I've come to the conclusion that you'd have to go back to the first Sumerian cities, and convince all the regular peaceful cooperative people to kick out anyone who says anything along the lines of "do what I say or I'll kill you".

[–] explodicle 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It wasn't even "do what I say or I'll kill you". It was "this land is mine" - the establishment of private property. The lords never needed to explicitly make a death threat themselves when nature could make the death threat for them, and the victim is deprived of access to vital resources.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But being territorial with violence as enforcement goes back fast beyond that. Look at large cats or various primates. Yes the latter have enclaves but they are enclaves and tend to have a bruiser at the top

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

That's probably why the peaceful cooperative non violent types tolerated the sociopaths in the first place... Need that bruiser to protect you from the neighboring city's bruiser

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

If only our species took more from Bonobos than Chimps..

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (4 children)

The line leading to Homo sapiens went extinct that day after trying to have peace talks with the much more aggressive neanderthal ancestors.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

I think they messed up and went for the ancestors of bonobos, that's why they're so chill.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

And neanderthals sprang whole into being

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

"Finally the time machine is finished. Now I can go back and stop Caligula from being raised all fucked up by Tiberius!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

With that humans possibly gone extinct due to diseases introduced on that timeline. On the other hand the time travellers just bought a new disease to the current timeline.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

May I suggest a plush monkey and not an actual live one? Real monkeys may react violently to an unexpected hug.

... which is kind of my way of saying that this comic would probably not go as shown, and the true ending might have been the cause of that particular family line seeing violence as an occasional necessity...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Pretty sure the next panel of this comic is going to be NSFL due to catastrophic dismemberment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And then when they return to their own time hominids are all extinct.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Only to be replaced by a much more advanced species, because these two totally did the nasty in the pasty with some lady apes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Time can be rewritten

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