I think there is a lot to discuss here.
I’m going to visit the Cincinnati Zoo in 2016 and stop this one kid kid from falling into a gorilla enclosure.
Edit: fixed spelling error
Cincinnati. 2 n’s 1 t
Thank you. Maybe that’s why I failed the first time. I must’ve went to the wrong city.
Cccinnciiiiinattttttiiiiiiii!
Cinncinati, got it!
Be really obnoxious about the ballot format in the Florida 2000 election until they either fix it or news outlets do a good job educating people about how to correctly vote for Gore
Better yet, help Elián González make it to Florida with his mom. That saga made Democrats lose a lot of votes in Florida in that election.
It’s all Chad’s fault. We should just hang him
No! That’s how we got here!
Find Elon musk and tell him that only betas use ketamine, and real epic cyberlords smoke fent
Pretty sure that’s how we got here in the first place.
Considering I’d just be some guy, I’d invest all of my money in Nvidia and Bitcoin then when I get back and have millions, I’d spend it on passing wealth taxes and raising the minimum wage.
This 1. Buy bitcoin 2. Bribe, but for good
Yeah, a focus on altruism, but make investments to be more effective at it. Hey, you could even get ahead of the game and start a crypto exchange!
Do I just get one shot or can I keep trying until I get it right?
Basically anything that reduces Republican power in the US is probably a win overall.
If it’s just a single shot, then preventing the Brooks Brothers Riot would be the best use of your time.
All it would take is an industrial sized can of pepper spray. Just like the kind police regularly use on leftwing protesters.
So, the Republican shift toward the far right was already in full swing by the 2000s. You’d need to go back to at least Reagan to head that off. Trickle down economics, Two Santas, etc. was already decades in the making. My dad had already been fully brainwashed by talk radio in the 90s.
But on the flip side, the Democratic establishment has made it painfully clear even to this day that their only priority has always been to maintain the status quo for the privileged NIMBY class. The Republican party didn’t need to do anything to keep unaffordability rising, they all want to maintain the housing market bubble to protect the wealth of boomers.
- Do what I could to stop the passing of the SCOTUS Citizen’s United ruling
- Write a letter to then Senator Obama that there’s a major recession coming and that holding the banks accountable and buoying the lower and middle class is a better option than a bailout of the private sector
- Warn about various impending natural disasters around the world to try to save as many folks as I could
The guy that made LED headlight tech for cars would disappear, that’s for sure.
Well if you allowed one more year, I really feel that stopping the Columbine shooting would have an exponential improvement on the quality of the timeline.
Prohibit social media.
I’d make sure a lot of people causing big trouble today wouldn’t be able to cause that trouble if you catch my drift.
Build a multinational resistance of ‘extremist terrorists’ willing to kill and be arrested, team with Anonymous, and wait for Luigi Mangione to be ready to join us.
Because, as the US and UK governments would have us believe, the term ‘terrorist’ means someone who threatens not the lives of the innocent, but the possessions of the financially rich, morally corrupt and politically powerful.
I dont know how much I’d be able to actually do, but I could whore bitcoin hard and use the money charitably.
Diplomacy.
After 9/11, when the world weighed an invasion of Afghanistan, America could have skipped the invasion, taken the Al Qaeda leadership the Taliban offered up, and continued to seek O/UBL. A forensic investigation and specific arrests, extradition, trials, and convictions would have been much better than a disastrous 20 year war that accomplished two things: enriching military contractors and the impoverishment of a central Asian nation.
Diplomacy.
Deposing Saddam Hussein with the same type of pressure that, later, led to the ousters of Hosni Mubarak, Ben Ali, and Bashar al Assad. Some might say that 2003 created the pretext for the Arab Spring. I’d counter that time and tide created the conditions. Operation Iraqi Freedom was a pipe dream and an extension on the GWoT piggy bank.
Diplomacy.
Building a better, more sustainable future demands a move away from fossil fuels. Making driving, urban sprawl, warfare, agribiz, and Amazon packages into a socially toxic soup of ideas would have done wonders for green initiatives. Instead a turn away from the largest industries of the time was — and still is — regarded as heresy.
I mean, I’m still just one person, so uhhhh guess I’m taking out a lot of people before they get security detail.
