If you could change history

[Anachronous Rex]

Why not just turn the island into Jurassic Park?

Because life finds a way.

http://youtu.be/dwimhjXkS88?t=31s

[Dakini]

I know. That was really random.

No kidding. How shitty would it be if we had to call these little cuties "those cats from that one place east of Mesopotamia and south of the Caspian" instead of Persians?

Maybe he's seen 300 too many times and thinks this is an accurate representation of the world?

[Anachronous Rex]

No kidding. How shitty would it be if we had to call these little cuties "those cats from that one place east of Mesopotamia and south of the Caspian" instead of Persians?

Maybe he's seen 300 too many times and thinks this is an accurate representation of the world?

Either that or he is against religious tolerance, multiculturalism, free trade, mail, and roads.

[Great Nepal]

Why? Who says I have to come back to this time when it will be better back then provided I dont get killed first.

Thy staying in the 19th century wasn't my objection.

Oh, so you were objecting to other thing.
Cant say I blame you, I mean I am not sure if it would be interest of humanity to have highly xenophobic, aggressive empire lead by constantly struggling politicians and royalty to gain access to south Asia and weapons two hundred years ahead of time.

[Fintanland]

Either that or he is against religious tolerance, multiculturalism, free trade, mail, and roads.

Given this is NationStates, this is actually the more likely explanation...

[Nazis in Space]

• 1934: Italy fails at intimidating the ref, and Austria makes it to the world cup final, where either it, or Czechoslovakia win the title

[The Andromeda Islands]

let Hitler get accepted into the art academy that rejected him and make sure he never rose to power to become leader.

Hitler as a contemporary of Monet as opposed to being leader of the Third Reich?

This!

[New Naephak]

Killed Stalin, saved Lenin. Whole lotta bullshit coulda been avoided.

[Fintanland]

Killed Stalin, saved Lenin. Whole lotta bullshit coulda been avoided.

Lenin was no saint, either. True, he warned of Stalin in his political testament (and rightly so), and would perhaps have been less paranoid (although you never know how power would have warped him), but also quite brutal with his enemies.

[Freiheit Reich]

Agree, people can 'vote with their dollars' and most businesses wouldn't discriminate because it would kill their business due to bad press.

Hahaha.

Have you heard of the South?

That was the 1960's. Times have changed. Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia are filled with yankee transplants. Attitudes towards race are not as strong as they were. Some small towns might have a few businesses discriminate but likely a cometitor will happily welcome blacks. If atttitides are united against blacks than the blacks will move to a more welcoming town and both sides will be happier.

People should integrate by choice, not by govt. force. Not everybody wants to live in a rainbow village.

[Fintanland]

That was the 1960's. Times have changed. Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia are filled with yankee transplants. Attitudes towards race are not as strong as they were. Some small towns might have a few businesses discriminate but likely a cometitor will happily welcome blacks. If atttitides are united against blacks than the blacks will move to a more welcoming town and both sides will be happier.

People should integrate by choice, not by govt. force. Not everybody wants to live in a rainbow village.

Government force was the only thing forcing integration in the south. Sometimes literally, with soldiers having to de-segregate schools forcefully.

[Divair]

Killed Stalin, saved Lenin. Whole lotta bullshit coulda been avoided.

Lenin was no saint, either. True, he warned of Stalin in his political testament (and rightly so), and would perhaps have been less paranoid (although you never know how power would have warped him), but also quite brutal with his enemies.

Still a ton better than Stalin.

[Fintanland]

Still a ton better than Stalin.

In a way, yes. He was just a ruthless dictator, but not as paranoid or heavy-handed. Certainly preferable for his subjects.

[Dolphin with an AK-47]

Not let the Federal Reserve take over America.

[Freiheit Reich]

That was the 1960's. Times have changed. Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia are filled with yankee transplants. Attitudes towards race are not as strong as they were. Some small towns might have a few businesses discriminate but likely a cometitor will happily welcome blacks. If atttitides are united against blacks than the blacks will move to a more welcoming town and both sides will be happier.

People should integrate by choice, not by govt. force. Not everybody wants to live in a rainbow village.

Government force was the only thing forcing integration in the south. Sometimes literally, with soldiers having to de-segregate schools forcefully.

I said earlier the govt. can and should have a policy of EQUAL (which also means not giving black people special treatment) treatment. This means schools should also be desegregated (but based on a student's distance from school-desegregation by busing is wrong). I believe the govt. shouild ignore race period. No asking of race on job applications of student forms. No more minority history months which marginalize others. No more discussion of civil rights battles in schools because this stirs up bad memories of race division in the USA, no more MLK Day (same as last reason). The goal is to have a colorblind society and it needs to start with the govt. ignoring race. My policy is even less racist than liberals, shocked?!

The desegregation goes for any business that accepts govt. contracts as well. The govt. will refuse to do business with a place that discriminates.

Govt. should not force restaurants to get rid of separate seating for coloreds, let the business decide for itself. In time, less and less places will discriminate.

[Divair]

Still a ton better than Stalin.

In a way, yes. He was just a ruthless dictator, but not as paranoid or heavy-handed. Certainly preferable for his subjects.

He would have been Stalin Lite, basically.

[Conscentia]

In a way, yes. He was just a ruthless dictator, but not as paranoid or heavy-handed. Certainly preferable for his subjects.

He would have been Stalin Lite, basically.

Stalin Lite would be more like Kim Il Sung.

[Death Metal]

Attitudes towards race are not as strong as they were.

Unless "Gringo maricon" now means "Live long and prosper" in Spanish, you are 1000% wrong.

[Serrland]

Might be sort of fun to go way the hell back to whenever people got their obsession with gold and try to convince them that "hey, guys, this gold stuff isn't all it's chalked up to be. But you know what is great? Limestone. So much better than gold. Mine it and cherish it!"

Just because it'd be fascinating to see how human history would have played out had gold not become king.

[Fintanland]

Might be sort of fun to go way the hell back to whenever people got their obsession with gold and try to convince them that "hey, guys, this gold stuff isn't all it's chalked up to be. But you know what is great? Limestone. So much better than gold. Mine it and cherish it!"

Just because it'd be fascinating to see how human history would have played out had gold not become king.

Limestone is not as durable as gold, though. Gold was chosen, among other things, because it does not rust, is easy to mark and is relatively rare.

[Serrland]

Might be sort of fun to go way the hell back to whenever people got their obsession with gold and try to convince them that "hey, guys, this gold stuff isn't all it's chalked up to be. But you know what is great? Limestone. So much better than gold. Mine it and cherish it!"

Just because it'd be fascinating to see how human history would have played out had gold not become king.

Limestone is not as durable as gold, though. Gold was chosen, among other things, because it does not rust, is easy to mark and is relatively rare.

Exactly. Limestone is everywhere, and not particularly great for anything. No sense replacing gold with another rare and shiny material in this scenario - we'd just have the same thing but with a different metal then!

[Fintanland]

Exactly. Limestone is everywhere, and not particularly great for anything. No sense replacing gold with another rare and shiny material in this scenario - we'd just have the same thing but with a different metal then!

You would cause massive inflation that way. People would blow up entire mountains! The Alps are MADE of limestone! Madness! Utter madnes!

[Serrland]

Exactly. Limestone is everywhere, and not particularly great for anything. No sense replacing gold with another rare and shiny material in this scenario - we'd just have the same thing but with a different metal then!

You would cause massive inflation that way. People would blow up entire mountains! The Alps are MADE of limestone! Madness! Utter madnes!

Or, people would find something other than stone and metal to attach value to. Rare feathers, maybe? Seashells? Could make for a fascinating world.

[The Realm of God]

You would cause massive inflation that way. People would blow up entire mountains! The Alps are MADE of limestone! Madness! Utter madnes!

Or, people would find something other than stone and metal to attach value to. Rare feathers, maybe? Seashells? Could make for a fascinating world.

Serrland, how do you use the three seashells? *nods*

[Fintanland]

Or, people would find something other than stone and metal to attach value to. Rare feathers, maybe? Seashells? Could make for a fascinating world.

Oh, they did. As the wikipedia article on the topic put it (paraphrasing): "Throughout history, humans have used different types of objects, such as precious metals, stones, knives, feathers, and human beings as currency".