Fuck grocery shopping, buy a house.
In the 40s, after you kill Hitler
In the 2016 show 11.22.63, Jake Epping, a recently divorced English teacher from Maine discovers that his friend’s diner had a portal that allows him to travel back to 1963.
Jake uses this portal to travel back in time to try to save Kenedy from being assassinated. His friend had done the same, though it was stated in passing that he also used it to by meat on the cheap for his burgers at the diner.
This is to say that the diner owner had it right. Fuck Kennedy, I’m getting those 1963 groceries with the good fats.
Pudding pops.
Why go back in time if there’s plenty of fascists to kill right here and now?
You mean fascists in the 3 comma club with their own private militaries and goons in government, chilling inside their doomsday bunkers?
You mean actual fascists and not just people you disagree with… right? Right???
I’m not a fascist
Oh no you didn’t!
I vividly remember my mother griping about how expensive everything had become and asking how anybody was supposed to afford that. Some things just never change.
That is one of the set ups in 11/22/63. A guy was buying all the food for his diner by going back in time.
I want to be able to shop in a mall in the 90s. Maybe also a 90s toys r us.
Mid 2000s toysrus was better for video games.
Doesn’t work in my country, because there were different currencies during the 80s (current one would have no value) and it was a period oh high economic instability and poverty
Have you been watching Supermarket Sweep?
Which of these costs more than $1: Jiffy Pop, Pledge, or Rice a Roni, the San Francisco treat?
I’ll take Rice a Roni, bob!
Unfortunately this is how fascism starts.
We can fix the system, but instead fascists use the excuse of poverty or a broken system to gain power.
Literally how hitler became popular in Germany. He basically said “your lives are shit, this country should be ashamed of how poor it’s gotten, but I’m here now to improve everyones lives, and blame it on someone who isn’t you”.
And people said “Yeah, that guy isn’t afraid to tell the truth!”
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
The only reason not to kill baby Hitler is because his administration was somewhat incompetent… Someone far more skilled could rise up if he isn’t the one to do it and commit even more atrocities.
Otherwise, baby hitler getting thrown off the building. Every time.
And the chance that it will erase yourself from the timeline is very high.
Changing huge events like this will have all kinds of secodary and ripple effects creating a world fundamentaly different from the one we know. Nobody knows how good or bad such a world would be.
“What i want to hear” always wins over truth, even if the former makes absolutely no sense.
I mean…to be fair, he did achieve all his promises. He got people back to work, making living wages.
There’s just this HUGE astrict next to that statement that he did so by murdering millions of people, thus creating a demand for jobs. He also only counted German born white heterosexual males. Sure, unemployment was virtually nonexistant, but women, gays, mentally challenged, other races all were not included in the employment pool.
And the jobs they held were manufacturing war efforts. Whether that was building tanks, making food rations, drilling for oil, it all paid a living wage, and they got to blame someone who wasn’t them.
You ALWAYS have to look for the astrict. It’s like the terms and conditions of the monkeys paw.
*asterisk
Dammit. I typed that, and then said “no…that don’t look right…”
Then I typed “asterict”, and said “That don’t look right either…”
They did it by both stealing from the people who weren’t them and financial fraud.
There was some groovy shopping music.
People always seem to think killing hitler would help, but part of the reason no one assassinated him is because the allies wanted hitler alive to continue making terrible decisions.
Imagine how much worse the first trump regime would’ve been if trump wasn’t making any of the decisions - we don’t have to imagine because we’re living it now.
If it wasn’t Hitler it would have been someone else. I don’t know why everyone thinks one person was solely responsible for all of it.
Why?
I would back in time and make my grandma do a full check-up to early discover his brain cancer before become malignant.
Also would try to learn japanese and go back in 2019 and try to force Miura to do a heart check-up
grandma
his brain cancer
…what?
Maybe, they transitioned before the diagnosis?
But, it was the ‘80s…
