The pandemic. You know, I was casually traveling forward in time, taking it day by day, and then boom: pandemic time. Feels like I accelerated my travel since then.
Sorry, that was me. I didn’t get a full set of shots for common illnesses before I popped back to Wuhan 2019 for some lunch.
But where or when did you pick up the virus?
It’s a common flu-like illness when I come from, after it appeared out of nowhere back in 2020 it became endemic. Guess I had a mild case of it when I took my trip.
I’m not sure I get it, could someone please explain this one?
Hitler killed himself in a bunker in 1945. So the time traveler went back and killed Hitler right when Hitler was already done with all his evil and was going to kill himself.
He’s some lesser-known landscape artist from the 40s that people in this timeline really hate for some reason. I kind of dread looking up what he painted to get such a reaction.
The Hitler stuff is so annoying in this one. Societies without time travel keep complaining about killing Hitler… have you been to a timeline without Hitler? Count your Hitlers, people, really. Also I know the time traveler’s convention a few years ago won’t have punch, so I don’t want to go but want to go.
Psh - “timeline without Hitler” - amateurs.
Every society that finally gets time travel suddenly turn into baby murdering monsters.
Here’s an example of how an experienced time travel society handles the Hitler problem in a timeline:
We went in when he was just starting to be committed to his struggling art career and promoted the heck out of his shitty work to a Jewish art dealer with a single daughter, who in turn became his patron.
With a little matchmaking, he ended up falling in love with the daughter, eventually even converting to Judaism to marry her.
Their family didn’t have the easiest time with the rising antisemitism in Europe, and he ended up arrested at a protest for Jewish rights and spent some time in prison.
While in prison, he wrote the book Mein Kampf, a book about the struggles of being a Jewish family in Europe in the early 20th century. While not the best written book, its plain language resonated with a lot of people and changed many hearts and minds regarding tolerance and inclusivity. It’s since been published in several dozen languages and is a frequent citation for civil rights leaders in that timeline.
Anyone can kill a baby. But it takes a skilled hand to guide towards better outcomes.
(Just check in every so often to make sure he never gets political power - that always ends badly no matter what path you’ve put him on.)
