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Donald Trump's campaign spokesman defended Trump using "vermin" to describe his enemies, while historians compared his language to Hitler, Mousselini.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know this is not really the point of the thought experiment, but I would like to point out that if time travel did exist, our current timeline as we have already experienced it, would be the result of time travel. Our timeline would in fact be, the best version that could be produced by such technology and/or we have particularly inept time travelers.

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

*Will have had already happened.

The timeline still needs to run up to the point of time travel being invented. We could be in the first run.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Right, but presumably from a hypothetical time travelers perspective, it already has been invented. But yeah, we could be in theory. =p

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

Time travel can only create branching timelines by changing the past without creating a paradox. So the time travellers who killed Hitler may have succeeded, just not in this timeline (if this timeline is even one where time travel will be invented one day).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If time travel did exist, it seems unlikely that we would be in the 'prime universe' with no time travelers. That would be one out of 2^n timelines where n is the number of time travelers. Assuming each time travel splits all parallel timelines and not just the original.