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Fossidarity wrote
This was almost surely not a single person but a long process of domestication..
yaaqov wrote
So, like, no America?
ziq wrote
Was a joke.
rot wrote
thats what i was thinking, their'd be no civilian targets it'd just be the pentagon and capital
rot wrote
not colonized at least. visited. maybe a small settlement without the conquering
rot wrote
would there be a stalin without lenin?
mofongo wrote
Another option along this line, the natives that Columbus first contacted. A few fire arrows at a highly flammable ship, puff, no colonization. For a few centuries at least. Everyone on Spain would be, "we told you so" to the king and queen.
SmilingBob wrote
How has nobody said Hitler yet???
GaldraChevaliere wrote
Constantine because he'd quit this whole "christian emperor" business and tell the legions to fuck off out of everyone's business, so missionaries would never get state backing, so Charlemagne would never try his own christian emperor business and Padraig and Ninian would fuck off of out of Prydain and Eire, so Penda of Mercia wouldn't have to put up with his christian vassals' shit, so his son wouldn't convert and fuck it up when he died, so the normans' jobs would be harder even four centuries onward, so England would never be formed and would never have the religious impulse to colonize everyone they met.
Fuck, this is starting to sound like those wanky alt-history threads.
celebratedrecluse wrote
Na I'm pretty sure it's just Steve
celebratedrecluse wrote
But if there are no civilian targets, what's the point of the false flag anyway? :^)
An_Old_Big_Tree wrote
I hadn't heard of this! Do you know any resources on this?
An_Old_Big_Tree wrote
Probably any de facto dictator who actually has the power to change things radically. I don't know of any for sure. The trick would be that they have to become anarchist after getting the power, I suppose.
Or just any current or recent family member. It'd be nice to have some support or precedent.
PerfectSociety wrote
Damn it, Steve...
An_Old_Big_Tree wrote
GuadianOfKnowledge wrote
For sure it is Decebal. Decebal was King of Dacians.
Magma5 wrote
Stalin seemed to be a decent person but broke when his first wife died
rot wrote
conseil wrote
Proof that John Brown didn't go far enough.
conseil wrote
That's an interesting theory; do you have anything backing that?
An_Old_Big_Tree wrote
He did cross my mind as I was writing that, actually :)
celebratedrecluse wrote
24/7 was an inside job
Asshat_Anarchist wrote
Or similarly. Lenin, he actually attempted to implement a leftist society and I feel like if it weren't for him we wouldn't have to deal with the vanguard. Marxism probably would have spread much faster had it not been mostly backed by authoritarians.
ziq wrote
Whoever invented civilization.