DBWI: Bernie Sanders doesn't kill Rosa Luxemburg

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Ramontxo

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Wrong forum someone born in 1941 cannot kill anyone in 15 January 1919 without ASB help. And had she lived enough to to be eighty years old he would have been ten years old, they just dont overlap.
 
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Zachariah

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This is so going to get locked by the mods. If you want to escape a ban, I'd recommend apologizing before they get here and shut it down...
 

James G

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This is so going to get locked by the mods. If you want to escape a ban, I'd recommend apologizing before they get here and shut it down...

Really? It this is your view on how this board is run? Because that is wrong. The premise of this thread is silly, yes, but you are overreacting with such a statement.
 
Really? It this is your view on how this board is run? Because that is wrong. The premise of this thread is silly, yes, but you are overreacting with such a statement.

Yeah the mods here are harsh, but they are also fair. Not unlike Roman rule but with fewer crucifixions.

OOC: Who says it can't be another person with the same name?:p
OOC: if we factor in genetic butterflies then it would be a different person with the same name.
 
What would have happened if the young American radical hadn't successfully assassinated Volkschancellor Luxemburg?

Well, at least this historical murder would not have torpedoed the political career of the less well-known guy by the same name, the Socialist from Brooklyn. It is all pretty ironic, considering the guy who killed the German leader in 1944 was a Falangist and an anti-semite, politically as far from the other guy (who was 3 at the time) as possible.
 
IC: I never bought that whole "16-year old Polish Jew, recently arrived back to Europe with his family, suddenly shoots the old hag during her visit to the newly-opened Dassel School Book Depository in Lower Saxony, after his father missed". I mean, she was already 86 at the time, but she was still going strong, and her opponents from the left wing of the Party couldn't wait to see her gone. The Sanders' were just a bunch of patsies.
 
OOC: So, had Rosa lived to be 88, Bernie would've been 18.

Okay, so Bernie could conceivably have killed Rosa, assuming she lived a very (but not impossibly) long life.

Had Rosa not been killed in 1919, then her movement would've either succeeded or failed.

If it failed but she somehow survived, I find it unlikely that her death in old age would've mattered that much to very many people.

But had her movement succeeded, then Bernie just murdered the icon, the doyen of Germany's (possibly still extant) Communist system. That'd be a very big deal, indeed.
 
IC: I never bought that whole "16-year old Polish Jew, recently arrived back to Europe with his family, suddenly shoots the old hag during her visit to the newly-opened Dassel School Book Depository in Lower Saxony, after his father missed". I mean, she was already 86 at the time, but she was still going strong, and her opponents from the left wing of the Party couldn't wait to see her gone. The Sanders' were just a bunch of patsies.

I dunno. Germany's government was by then, properly-speaking, Socialist, having departed strict Communism years (decades?) before.

But Rosa was still revered, by both Communists and many Socialists alike.

Her murder, regardless who really was behind it, had a dramatic impact.

The Communists blamed the majority Socialists; the Socialists blamed the various Conservative factions, and the Conservatives considered it a sign of impending Left decline.
 
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