Reagan probably. If my understanding of history is correct, its the only thing that doesn’t delete me but helps the most.
How would removing Reagan help?
If it’s about the Berlin Wall, it’s not as if it wasn’t inevitable no matter who was president.
He broke basically every single pro middle class policy in the US. Unions, pensions, social security, taxes on the rich, exploded the deficit, congressional partisanship, brutal " better dead than red" foreign policy, on and on. He constantly broke every political “taboo” that protected these middle class bulwarks, and it worked. Our country has been brutalized for 40 years and counting, and most of the ugliness can be traced back to his administration.
He single handedly did more destruction to our nation than any other president so far, and yes that includes Trump.
Not to mention the completely failed War on Drugs which is still ongoing wasting trillions of taxpayer dollars providing jobs to the police to arrest minorities with laws aggressively passed to target them, and actively trying to to prevent more advanced research into “controversial” topics like HIV/AIDS and stem cells instead of actually trying to find treatments.
He may not have started some of these, or kept them going, but he expanded them and created a cult following for their continued implementation.
The Thanos Snap has sooo many problems associated with it. It’s developed by an evil multinational that doesn’t listen to its users and keeps trying to force itself on the universe.
People should use the Thanos Flatpak instead…
Ronald Reagan
I’d even settle for Newt…
Came here to say this
Why him? Why not someone who did something of note?
A LOT of the current Republican policies are based on the stuff that happened during his administration.
I say this as an American, from the bottom of my heart I wish Christopher Columbus never existed.
There was a French explorer who “discovered” America four years before Columbus. So Columbus’ erasure wouldn’t even affect the one purpose he had.
The acts of Christophorus Columbus directly perpetrated by him range from holocaustic to apocalyptic in scale.
Christophorus
You missed the opportunity to call him Mr. Christoffelees.
It’s his non-anglicized name.
Oh… I thought it was a pun on phosphorus used as a jab.
Well there goes me but at least my native ancestors would have had a chance to thrive.
I’m a white dude that’s obsessed with Mesoamerican history. Holy fuck I would prefer the civilization your ancestors would come up with than what my idiot dirt farmer progenitors from Europe ended up creating.
I’ve good news, the continent’s fate was sealed long before that because colonialism was never going to stop.
Jack Welch’s whole business philosophy.
Before him, it was more or less understood that business owners had a responsibility to do what was best for their customers, their employees, their communities, and their company’s long-term sustainability; the companies that didn’t (or didn’t at least make it look like they were) were looked down upon.
Welch was the first one to popularize the notion that short-term shareholder value was the CEO’s highest priority. He normalized companies’ c-suites being cutthroat, craven capitalists.
To be sure, not everything that’s wrong with the world today can be laid at his feet. But late-stage capitalism can.
It was more Milton Freedman’s philosophy. Welch was teacher’s pet who implemented it to the fullest extent.
Jimmy Carter losing to Ronald Reagan, shits just rolled downhill gathering size and pace from that unfortunate event.
Hate.
If it has to be something tangible, then idk, pickles maybe.
I choose this poster, for wanting to take away my beloved pickles.
What about hate for pickles?
If hate for pickles was snapped away, then I suppose I wouldn’t be minding so much when errant pickle juice gets on my food.
It’s not a disagreeable compromise.
We would just replace hate with something else.
“I love you so much that I’m stabbing you with this sword so that you are spiritually preserved at your current status for all of eternity”, something like that.
That’s basically the “plot” to the song Miss Murder.
Greed or dishonesty are other abstract ones to consider. Worried that removing dishonesty could cause some harms, but I guess anything in the thread probably could.
Im thanos snapping Ea Nasir, he sold me inferior quality copper for way too much money >:c
It’d have to be something fairly pivotal, but nothing so important or so far back that it prevents myself from existing amidst the swirl of history. I think I’d take the risk and say Reagan never became president. That would domino Reaganomics out of history, and remove the precedent of celebrities becoming president.
I’d have gone for Nixon, personally.
Like I said, if you go too far back, you might remove yourself from history. Reagan is close enough to my birth that I’ll risk it, but Nixon would definitely unmake me.
Ronald Reagan.
Also, while I’ve got control of the wishfish, I need it to happen paradoxically. I need him to both get turned to ash at the end of his life, so he knows why he deserves it, and before he’s able to collude with Iran.
Jesus would be funny. Honestly any key religious figure or even their betrayers (Judas) would just make for just a wildly different human race.
Would this delete the religion or make the religion undeniably false? I’m asking from the historical fact he existed as a human. If he definitely did not exist but it continued to exist idk if that would change much. If Christianity never existed in sure we would be speaking Arabic.
Or alternatively, Christianity only exists because in an attempt to prevent it, someone from the future snapped Jesus out of existence. But it turns out that Jesus was just some dude who liked to do nice things for people until one day he poofed out of existence in front of a crowd and everyone suddenly figured he must be a god.
lol! That’s a fun alternative which is kind of already the story! Minus the son of man part
Judas’ betrayal was a canon event for christianity, so I’m pretty sure Jesus would just snap him back to life.
I’m sure it’s been done, a novel where this exact thing happens would be kinda interesting.
Save the snap. Use it as leverage to shape the future by threatening tyrants into standing down, for I have no idea what might happen absent of a historical event happening.
Now. Who to start with? Bibi? Putin? MBS? Closer to home?
You do realize they’re going to ask you for a demonstration of your power before they’ll ever kowtow
They don’t have to know you can only do it once.
Right. If it’s not a proven power (as though aliens or a god gave you this power in view of everyone), then you can simply come to these dictators and warn them not to test your power. Similar to Pascal’s Wager, they would be wise to consider. Though you may be bluffing, of course. Then you use it. Then since nobody else knows you can’t repeat it, one public demonstration would be enough to convince future tyrants.
Every republican since Nixon.
Update: enjoying my cake 🍰
Myself
Honestly, this was my first thought too. I wouldn’t mind getting off the wheel with absolutely no consequences.
Trump winning 2016. He needs to loose, so he never attempts again.
Too recent. Let Gore win back in 2000.
