[Meme] What would you do, Anon?
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I'd go back and stop the creation of the public internet -- or the internet in general.
People aren't ready for it. They've abused and exploited it in the most malicious of ways.
I'd just gatekeep the hell out of it. The Internet was an amazing place before social media.
Completely sabotaging and preventing any kind of social media would also be a good choice. However, before technology made us "always" connected, and gave the ability to know anything at anytime I feel like people lived more. They had to go out and do things. Perhaps you could say they were even a bit nicer. Of course, that's not necessarily the internet's fault, it's ours. I think we simply forgot the part about moderation.
In the end though, a time-machine would be fundamentally useless. There's always going to be something that causes problems. The butterfly effect alone would make the world unrecognizable when you returned -- provided you still existed.
I'd stop communism and socialism from existing.
You'll have to go back to at least stop Protestantism. De Blasio's New York City looks the same as Jan Matthys' Munster Commune. The anabaptists threw out all the wealthy and productive people so the poor could have better housing.
Would have to get rid of everyone who started the French Revolution, too, in their cradles. And maybe make a stop to Venice just as its mercantile phase was about to start, and strangle that in its infancy, as well.
That is a popular opinion in r/unpopularopinions. Kaczynski was wrong. He didn't count on the left's need to out left each other.
The internet bringing the european and American commies together has allowed them to move left fast enough that it has become salient to normies. People who want to grill can't escape the constant barrage of political bullshit. ACCELERATE
I know this sounds insane, but it was Macromedia Flash that finally lowered the barrier of entry enough for the normies to start expressing themselves. Before Flash, it took a certain amount of skill.