If it can be abstract I would snap away the acceptance of hierarchy as a method of social control, like historically speaking go back to the first people who decided that there should be a person in charge of all the things and have the people say “Naw, that’s fucked” and then that just not happen. Not that the idea of hierarchy not be in existence at all, because I think it would be more effective to have people recognize that it’s bullshit and intentionally build societies antithetical to hierarchy rather than to have society’s that are ignorant of its potential harm.
If it had to be a tangible thing that I could physically dissolve… Parasites? Would all parasites count or is that too broad? Cuz if we got rid of fleas and leeches and mosquitoes and ticks that would wipe out huge swaths of vectors of disease transmission. No black plague, no zika, no dengue fever. If we wanted to expand the definition of parasites even broader than the the bourgeoisie class might be included but I wouldn’t want to get my hopes up. XD
If it was an event, I would choose World War 2. I’m Bohemian (Gypsy) and my people were just as hated as Jews (I’m also like 10% Jewish). So snap Hitler out of history please.
Reagan probably. If my understanding of history is correct, its the only thing that doesn’t delete me but helps the most.
How would removing Reagan help?
If it’s about the Berlin Wall, it’s not as if it wasn’t inevitable no matter who was president.
He broke basically every single pro middle class policy in the US. Unions, pensions, social security, taxes on the rich, exploded the deficit, congressional partisanship, brutal " better dead than red" foreign policy, on and on. He constantly broke every political “taboo” that protected these middle class bulwarks, and it worked. Our country has been brutalized for 40 years and counting, and most of the ugliness can be traced back to his administration.
He single handedly did more destruction to our nation than any other president so far, and yes that includes Trump.
Ronald Reagan
Why him? Why not someone who did something of note?
A LOT of the current Republican policies are based on the stuff that happened during his administration.
Jimmy Carter losing to Ronald Reagan, shits just rolled downhill gathering size and pace from that unfortunate event.
I say this as an American, from the bottom of my heart I wish Christopher Columbus never existed.
There was a French explorer who “discovered” America four years before Columbus. So Columbus’ erasure wouldn’t even affect the one purpose he had.
The acts of Christophorus Columbus directly perpetrated by him range from holocaustic to apocalyptic in scale.
Christophorus
You missed the opportunity to call him Mr. Christoffelees.
It’s his non-anglicized name.
Mosquitos. I’m so fed up with those things.
I work in pest control and controlling mosquitos is a big part of what we do. What I’ve noticed over the years is some people, like myself, never get bitten while others, like my wife, are constantly attacked. I’ve never looked into why that is but I find it interesting. I haven’t had a mosquito bite in probably 3 or 4 years. Granted, I treat my home for them but I’m always working places that have them bad but I’m never bitten. Couples I work for often relay the same things to me about one being bit but not the other.
One interesting thing I’ve noticed about mosquitoes is that this phenomenon seems to depend on location. The local mosquitoes favor my husband. In other states or countries the situation is often reversed. When we visited Cuba the government was doing aggressive mosquito control due to Zika. I still got disproportionately attacked.
That is very interesting. I’ve heard people claim it’s to do with blood type but my wife and I share the same type. I like the idea that locale has something to do with it. Mosquitos be like, “oh let’s check out this new Asian joint that just popped up!”
Jesus would be funny. Honestly any key religious figure or even their betrayers (Judas) would just make for just a wildly different human race.
Would this delete the religion or make the religion undeniably false? I’m asking from the historical fact he existed as a human. If he definitely did not exist but it continued to exist idk if that would change much. If Christianity never existed in sure we would be speaking Arabic.
Or alternatively, Christianity only exists because in an attempt to prevent it, someone from the future snapped Jesus out of existence. But it turns out that Jesus was just some dude who liked to do nice things for people until one day he poofed out of existence in front of a crowd and everyone suddenly figured he must be a god.
