Maybe this is the optimal timeline and it just doesn’t look that way because we’re still in the middle of it and not at the end.
Yes, the US nuking Japan was horrific - but maybe we’d have had a much more brutal WW2 with half a billion lives lost if not for mutually assured destruction keeping it in everyone’s pants.
Yes, Hitler was horrific, but maybe the world needed a wake up call for the importance of at least some form of diplomatic structure like the UN and things like human rights observers.
Yeah, Trump is scary as shit in what it might mean for Western democracy. But maybe this period we’re in right now serves to push us forward to more modern democratic principles and protections suited to the modern age and not 1776.
Sure, AI misinformation and deepfakes are concerning - but maybe the proliferation of BS to an ad nauseum degree ends up undermining existing misinformation ops around things like vaccine denial or conspiratorial thinking where people currently gravitating to “doing their own research” online become better inoculated to BS by sheer volume of exposure to things they increasingly find they can’t trust.
We only see the means, not the ends or their possible variations.
So even if there are time travelers, perhaps they are quite committed to what seems a mediocre timeline because the odds just happened to play out in such a way that our misery paved the way to their paradise.
Riddle me this. If he’s literally Hitler how come no one has used their hypothetical time machine to hypothetically eliminate him?
at some point, both factions gained access to the technology.
Secret third faction reveal at the end of season 2.
The Temporal Cold War.
Is this an original writing prompt? Because I’d read the hell out of that book.
You’ve never seen Terminator?
This is a very common trope.
I highly recommend the series “Travelers” for a great take on it.
There was a guy who tried to rush the stage at a rally back in 2016. I remember wondering if he was a time traveler.
Somehow him being killed makes things worse. Next question.
Him being killed makes Mike Pence, an equally evil but significantly less stupid candidate, president
Bc Trump’s true worst enemy is his own mouth.:-P
Plus if he did die, they would just move on to Desantis or someone far worse.
Maybe this is the optimal timeline and it just doesn’t look that way because we’re still in the middle of it and not at the end.
Yes, the US nuking Japan was horrific - but maybe we’d have had a much more brutal WW2 with half a billion lives lost if not for mutually assured destruction keeping it in everyone’s pants.
Yes, Hitler was horrific, but maybe the world needed a wake up call for the importance of at least some form of diplomatic structure like the UN and things like human rights observers.
Yeah, Trump is scary as shit in what it might mean for Western democracy. But maybe this period we’re in right now serves to push us forward to more modern democratic principles and protections suited to the modern age and not 1776.
Sure, AI misinformation and deepfakes are concerning - but maybe the proliferation of BS to an ad nauseum degree ends up undermining existing misinformation ops around things like vaccine denial or conspiratorial thinking where people currently gravitating to “doing their own research” online become better inoculated to BS by sheer volume of exposure to things they increasingly find they can’t trust.
We only see the means, not the ends or their possible variations.
So even if there are time travelers, perhaps they are quite committed to what seems a mediocre timeline because the odds just happened to play out in such a way that our misery paved the way to their paradise.