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Postby Equusia » Wed Dec 10, 2014 5:02 am

China remains democratic and the communists either work with the democratic nation or fail.
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Postby The Klishi Islands » Wed Dec 10, 2014 5:22 am

Nothing. It's been proven time and time again that no matter what you do in history, the Nazis win WW2. The South wins Gettysburg? Nazis win WW2. Spain wins the Spanish-American War? Nazis win WW2. Kill Hitler in 1933? Nazis win WW2. Spit on a happie in the 60's? Nazis win WW2.

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Postby -Shie- » Wed Dec 10, 2014 6:29 am

Toronina wrote:
-Shie- wrote:I would stop the first human birth.

So cause a paradox?

There's nothing paradoxical about the most necessary abortion.
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Postby Rhursbourg » Wed Dec 10, 2014 6:48 am

Make the Succession Laws for the English throne form the moment it was formed Absolute primogeniture
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Postby Dumb Ideologies » Wed Dec 10, 2014 6:50 am

The Klishi Islands wrote:Nothing. It's been proven time and time again that no matter what you do in history, the Nazis win WW2. The South wins Gettysburg? Nazis win WW2. Spain wins the Spanish-American War? Nazis win WW2. Kill Hitler in 1933? Nazis win WW2. Spit on a happie in the 60's? Nazis win WW2.

You can't win!


Unless you're a Nazi, in which case you can't lose.
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Postby Aeternabilis » Wed Dec 10, 2014 6:53 am

-Shie- wrote:
Toronina wrote:So cause a paradox?

There's nothing paradoxical about the most necessary abortion.

Edgy.
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Postby Ereria » Wed Dec 10, 2014 7:25 am

I would change that Ottomans lost the battle in Vienna.
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Postby United Marxist Nations » Wed Dec 10, 2014 7:27 am

I would try to get international community to make East Prussia into the Jewish state, and maybe a second in Jaffa.
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Postby United Marxist Nations » Wed Dec 10, 2014 7:27 am

Ereria wrote:I would change that Ottomans lost the battle in Vienna.

Why?
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Postby The Sotoan Union » Wed Dec 10, 2014 7:29 am

Can we make the Mongols go away. I'm going to make the Mongols go away.

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Postby Stalwart Allies » Wed Dec 10, 2014 7:30 am

America does not enter World War One, thereby preventing Hitler's rise to power and the second World War.

It might also prevent the rise of communism in russia, so the cold war would be avoided along with most of the unrest in the middle east. There would also be no North Korea and no Vietnam and Korean war.
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Postby Pope Joan » Wed Dec 10, 2014 7:32 am

I would have Wilberforce tour the USA and have a great effect upon the moral sense of the majority of our populace. The government would bit the bullet and reimburse slave owners but would forge ahead and abolish slavery in the 1830s.

Tragedy could be averted. Justice could certainly be achieved. The plantation owners would still retain their coveted wealth and status.
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Postby United Marxist Nations » Wed Dec 10, 2014 7:38 am

I have so many changes! I would allow the Spartacist revolution (Germany) to succeed.
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Postby Apparatchikstan » Wed Dec 10, 2014 7:41 am

I'd sit down with T. Roosevelt and try to convince him that creating the Progressive Party isn't a good idea. That his well meaning ideals will be corrupted by social darwinists at home and abroad to justify powermongering and atrocity that will color the century, and new ones to come.
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Postby Auxha » Wed Dec 10, 2014 9:37 am

I would make Neville Chamberlain realise the threat from Hitler earlier so that he took action sooner before Germany became as powerful.
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Postby United Kingdom of Poland » Wed Dec 10, 2014 9:51 am

Stalwart Allies wrote:America does not enter World War One, thereby preventing Hitler's rise to power and the second World War.

It might also prevent the rise of communism in russia, so the cold war would be avoided along with most of the unrest in the middle east. There would also be no North Korea and no Vietnam and Korean war.

America actually wasn't that important. Germany was basically forced to surrender when Austria Hungary surrendered and granted Italy access to a completely undefended southern Germany. Also the Communist revolution was already in full swing when America joined the party.

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Postby Greater-London » Wed Dec 10, 2014 10:04 am

Win the American war of Independence for the British. Potentially get a better deal for the Native Americans and turn the US into a kind of Canada on steroids.
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Postby Bubblekirby » Wed Dec 10, 2014 10:54 am

I'd prevent the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Postby Warpspace » Wed Dec 10, 2014 12:05 pm

Prevent the assassination of Lincoln by Booth, so Lincoln can see through his more peaceful methods of assimilating the South back into the Union that would likely affect race relations drastically today and probably change the character of the South.
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Postby Udinia » Wed Dec 10, 2014 12:18 pm

I'd make it so that capitalism was never thought of.
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Postby Chucky Arla » Wed Dec 10, 2014 12:26 pm

Prevent the partition of Ireland and ensure a united independent Ireland.
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Postby United Kingdom of Poland » Wed Dec 10, 2014 12:33 pm

Chucky Arla wrote:Prevent the partition of Ireland and ensure a united independent Ireland.

you do realize that wouldn't have solved anything right

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Postby Great Britain and Belgium » Wed Dec 10, 2014 12:49 pm

United Kingdom of Poland wrote:
Chucky Arla wrote:Prevent the partition of Ireland and ensure a united independent Ireland.

you do realize that wouldn't have solved anything right


Actually it would have solved The Troubles saving countless lives and severe damage to Anglo-Irish relations.
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Postby MERIZoC » Wed Dec 10, 2014 12:50 pm

The Sotoan Union wrote:Can we make the Mongols go away. I'm going to make the Mongols go away.

Noooooooo!

I'd save Genghis Khan from falling off his horse. :p
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Postby Janshah » Wed Dec 10, 2014 12:51 pm

At an early point in the philosophical development of mankind, prevent the development of the line of thought that short term gains are an acceptable alternative to long term stability. (But may need to do this several times to put it down every time it rears its head again..)

We'd be less technologically advanced for it, without the race to exploit resources as fast as possible driving us, but would also have a lower world population and a much better resource situation today, which goes a long way to solving most of the current big issues better than what our advanced society is managing lately.
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