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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours 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".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

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] 5 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 34 minutes ago

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] 7 points 3 hours 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] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

...

Yep, you are right.

Send someone sick with COVID.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 minutes ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours 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] 1 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Time can be rewritten

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago

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

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

And neanderthals sprang whole into being

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours 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] 13 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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

It's hair...

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

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

[–] [email protected] 41 points 22 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 19 hours 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] 1 points 4 minutes ago

Neither does this 💋

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

It does if you're a homophobe.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 22 hours ago

That was uh something.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 day ago (3 children)

These guys just fixed humanity with a hug

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

You could fix my humanity with a hug :')

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Best I can do is a friendly tap on the back

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

(Dark souls style) Humanity Restored

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day 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] 2 points 2 hours 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 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day 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] 8 points 22 hours 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 21 hours ago (1 children)

think I read somewhere

Doesn't make it true.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours 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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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] 2 points 2 hours 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] 15 points 1 day 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] 9 points 1 day ago (2 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 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"neanderthal ancestors", "that day", "peace talks"

you need to read about Neanderthals.

Neanderthals never met ancestors of homo sapiens those apes in the strip seem to represent.

they're probably assimilated and not killed to extinction in a war

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Neanderthals never met ancestors of homo sapiens

That's what people USED to think. Turns out they not just met, but interbred.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

yes, according to researchers, they did meet homo sapiens and interbred

The oldest potential Neanderthal bones date to 430,000 years ago

Anatomically modern humans emerged around 300,000 years ago in Africa, evolving from Homo heidelbergensis or a similar species.

The date of divergence of Neanderthals from their ancestor H. heidelbergensis is also unclear.

my thinking was that if both homo sapiens and Neanderthals evolved from "h. heidelbergensis" than Neanderthals met h. sapiens but not their "ancestors"