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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.

Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.

You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.

Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.

Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.

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[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

You wouldn't stop WWII, but you would drastically change its nature.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Get rid of Hitler and you just end up with President Himmler instead. Virtually nothing else changes.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Says who?

History is not predetermined.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

You can argue with a philosopher over that. But certain historical events can be over-determined, with enough causal factors prompting them that a given outcome is functionally inevitable.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Perhaps odds may favor “macro” events like “war”. They do not predict which countries are invaded, the brutality of the leader, the alliances, who the leader is, concentration camps, etc. but not a “Hitler”.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

If you want to go back in time and prevent the Holocaust specifically, your time would be better well spent killing Henry Ford or Arthur de Gobineau or Martin Luther. Mass murder of Jews in Europe had been common place for centuries. It was a sentiment the Nazis capitalized on, not one they invented.

Similarly, if you wanted to deter shape of European politics that lead to the World Wars, temporal assassination of Bismark or Napoleon III would be far more effective. Those battle lines had been drawn well in advance of 1932.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

You’re simultaneously arguing that history cannot be deflected, yet are offering candidates for hypothetical assassination that would do just that.

Pick one.

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