If you could eliminate one person at any given time in the last century who would it
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Flip it on its head
So far the posts have been centering on the evil ones, in light of removing the ugliest butterflies. I'm going to crawl out on a limb here, would eliminating the good people also rip out dark butterflies?
the consequences of removing:
Eleanor Roosevelt
JRR Tolkien
Wernhar von Braun
Albert Einstein
Arthur Fiedler
Norman Rockwell
Pablo Picasso
So far the posts have been centering on the evil ones, in light of removing the ugliest butterflies. I'm going to crawl out on a limb here, would eliminating the good people also rip out dark butterflies?
the consequences of removing:
Eleanor Roosevelt
JRR Tolkien
Wernhar von Braun
Albert Einstein
Arthur Fiedler
Norman Rockwell
Pablo Picasso
Will Kürlich Kerl
Banned
Why? I'm getting rid of the guy who founded the KKK, the guy who made Nicholas II of Russia side with the reactionaries, and the guy who came up with the idea of invading France through Belgium.
Von Braun is one of the "good people"? I like space travel as much as the next guy, but he knowlingly involved himself in a project that build missiles using slave labor. Worse than slaves, actually, because most slavers didn't actually try to work their slaves to death, whereas that was a Nazi goal. He's hardly ambigously "good".
On top of Maine’s list, mine would be as follows:
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter, Harry Hopkins, George Soros, Frantz Fanon, Malcolm X, Frank Marshall Davis, Leo Trotsky, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Ho Chi Minh, Mahatma Gandhi, Hassan Al-Banna, Ruhollah Khomeini, Haj Amin al-Husseini, Robert Mugabe, François Duvalier, Idi Amin, Tony Benn (former Labour MP) and Derek Robinson (aka Red Robbo).
Would be interesting to envision an ATL world where such people are not in the picture, would such a world be better compared to OTL or would other individuals take up roughly similar negative roles in world history?
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Screw you. He was an amazing president. Fought against the nazis and facism. It was the U.S. that won the war against Japan and in europe, whilste not wining did help and helped provide recourses to the Russian War effort.
Anyway no hitler, no Kim dynasty and no Woodwil Wilson.
Lenin. He was the face, voice and hand of the Bolshevik exile front in Western Europe. He personally authorised the bankrolling of every single Communist uprising in postwar Europe (spending billions of dollars-gold, at their 1919 valuation, from the former Empire's vaults). Without him, Bolshevism as we know it is stillborn.
FDR was not a socialist,he wasn't supposed to be,if he was,then say hello to President Landon!
Why Teddy? because of the Imperialism?
She never said FDR was a socialist, only that his policies coopted the socialists thereby preventing their possible rise to power in the United States.
And that's a bad thing why? If there's one country where Socialism wouldn't work,It's the US (IMHO)
I too agree that pure socialism would never fly in the U.S. either, but such is not a popular contention on this board.
The entire leadership of the NUM in the early 80's for sleepwalking into the Bear Trap that Thatcher had prepared for them. I know that the OP says one person but all of them in line to Scargill would have done the same stupid thing!!!
Among other things, the history of animation
The development of central Florida
The development of amusement parks
The way we look at fairy tales
Wasn't Disney willing to be a spy for Hoover?
Cryogenics, the rumor just won't die
Okay, gotta question your reasoning on these ones.
(I can guess your rationale for LBJ, but who would've been better on Vietnam who this would've put in power?)
Hah! I'll counter with F.A. Hayek and Milton Friedman, as the rust-belts of the US and UK eloquently testify
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