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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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The butterfly effects would add up and and any zygote formed would not be the hitler-as-we-know anymore, since it would be a different combination of sperm and eggs.

Who needs guns when you got a time machine? Don't like your highschool bully, just bump into their parents back in time. Or you know, "bump" ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) into their parents.

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[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

But fuck Hitler's mom just to be safe

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 4 points 5 hours ago

Plot twist: Hitler was actually your son and become like that because of a missing fatherly figure

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

This is how we get the red alert timeline. Killing Hitler only makes a stronger enemy

[–] TastyWheat@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

"Heetler.... ees... out of de way."

/cue Hell March

[–] Mallspice@lemm.ee 6 points 13 hours ago

Unpopular opinion.

Humanity is going to generate tyrants until we vaccinate everyone with a sense of morality and even then, we’re going to have problems with dark empaths starting shit as long as we think child soldiers can be saved.

[–] philpo@feddit.org 11 points 18 hours ago

Dude, don't you think we tried that? The first time we got Schickelcutlerstalin for some reason who killed everyone with his out off-control biological weapons. Then for some fucking reason we got a fucking snake hitler!

And now we are all out of time-travel juice and locked down in a reality where hitler lived AND an orange is also hitler. Well, I had a little bit left,but a giant testicle came along, kicked me in my testicles,shouted "you want fucking Mother Theresa torturing everyone to death" and disappeared.

Now I am stuck here. Fuck.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago

The real criticism of this plan is that whether you assassinate Hitler or just prevent his birth, it doesn't solve the societal problems that led to the world wars. Hitler wouldn't have happened, but the Germans would still feel snubbed by the outcome of the Great War

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 3 points 15 hours ago

What’s even the point man, the world will still find a way to shit on us

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We have our own hitlers living now. I think we should care about them first before thinking on time traveling

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe someone did send a time traveler. But idk why they sent a kid with zero training and no scope lmao. It was so fucking close.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 21 hours ago

Everyone is always assuming that these time travelers have good intentions...

[–] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Then get hit with the plot twist that it was your "bumping" that actually conceived Hitler

[–] Lemming6969@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

This is the correct answer in any single chain deterministic universe... It always happened just like that.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 3 points 20 hours ago

Oh man, this happened with my wife too, just bumped into her and next thing you know she's pregnant. I can't believe how fertile I am sometimes.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

cuckolds Hitler's dad

discovers that paradoxes don't exist the hard way

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[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Knowing what his father was like, it's very likely that they'd still produce a horrible kid.

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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 3 points 21 hours ago

Someone should go back in time and convince monke to stay in tree

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 46 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Let's say you're right and you've prevented the birth of Adolf or altered him to send him to another life trajectory. Who is to say that there wouldn't be another mad person, naturally a man, who would rise to power and commit similar if not even worse crimes. It's not only the person that made the fuehrer possible, it's also everything happening in the world, especially politics at the time. So you've bumped Adolf but you've created Anton who was similarly radicalized but he wasn't a landscape painter, he was a physics major and he made Germany develop nuclear weapons much faster. So now you have to go back and disturb Anton's conception. Which brings about fuehrer Armin and so forth. You might be stuck in a time loop you'll never be able to stop because you can't control all the variables.

El. Psy. Congroo.

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

They told me to "get rid of hitler" and I technically acomplished the mission. 🤷‍♂️

[–] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 20 hours ago

Butterfly effect is as likely to make him more dangerous as it is to make him less

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