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When people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small, but barely anyone in the present really thinks that they can radically change the future by doing something small.

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Show me a baby Hitler and I'll make sure he gets into Venice Art Academy...

And Earnst Röhm starts NSDAP anyway. Göring gets radicalized by Himmler (and probably still orders Röhm executed). The Nuremberg laws still get passed aroung 1935. Heydrich and Eichmann still create the German genocide machine in 1941-1942.

Göring might be better at listening to his generals, prolonging the war. Göring may choose to expand west Revenge for the Versailles treaty rather than the pure hatred of Slavs and Rus....

Sadly, fascist uprisings are about shitty circumstances more than charismic strongman leaders. And when we raise kids to be good statespersons they get filtered out by the hidden oligarchs. See the DCCC response to Occasio-Cortez' primary victory.

What we can do is start La Résistance right now. Small things like defacing propaganda, disrupting communication and transportation of authorites and law enforcement. Start tiny. Watch for opportunities to use the chaos of overcomplexity to sabotage the bastards. Think it through, how they might catch you, and how you will mitigate their tail.

I've always believed that if time travel is real it'll generally take more than what people think to change the future in any significant way. Like if you were to use the visual of many branches on a tree or a river you'd likely see branches reconnect or run closely parallel fairly often.

A thing I think people don't consider is that we know what has happened so it is a lot more clear what changes you could cause by going to the past but unfortunately future is completely unknowable so any changes we make are very abstract

If I kill my grandfather, might never have grandchildren.

But maybe it's the other way around.

There is only kne way to find out.

But than again, there isn't really.

There are so many ways we can change things! Good or bad, its hard for us to believe we have that much impact on the world. But we do!

You can do many things to make the world better, though you might not see the effects directly.

Planting native species, and pulling up invasive ones, is a good way to be a member of your ecosystem. Plus as you learn more about native species, you can learn what parts of the plants you can eat! Maybe do some gardening of the tastier species, forage if you are able to, and you can supplement your diet nicely with free food. Lots of good things come from learning about local plants, and since you're reading this online its probably something you could start doing right now!

You can make your environment better, with posters or other art around your town. There are lots of ugly environments just begging to be made beautiful in the modern city. You can wheatpaste posters all over the place with important information, (local plant knowledge is important!) or in support of marginalized groups. If you cannot put up posters yourself, maybe make some, or spread ideas online (like this).

I wish anyone who reads this luck in their future-creating deeds. We only learn our own power through using it.

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