• ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
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    I’d give the people of hispaniola a few modern guns and ammunition around 1491 as well as a description of christopher columbus, his ships, and weaponry with full detail of what will happen if a single spaniard escapes.

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    Oh I’d just serve him a beverage consisting of vodka, tomato juice, clam juice, and hot sauce. After explaining the three ingredients he has no access to I’d tell him the name of the beverage before saying that he’ll kinda have it coming

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    Turns out he’s allergic to oranges dies you take his place to preserve the time line but forgot he gets stabbed 23 times the next day.

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      What’s Germany? What’s America? What’s Coca-Cola? What’s an embargo? What’s Naziism?

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        What’s Germany?

        Well, that one he knows at least! He fought with the Germanic tribes, who he notes came from a land called Germania.

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            Not really. The existence of a unified German nation-state is less than two centuries old. Sure, there was a place called “Germania” by the Romans but it was just a name for a place and the categorisation of all Germanic tribes as essentially one barbaric people was just racism on the part of the Romans.

            Just like even though the word “America” is twice as old as the United States, and just because that label was adopted by that country doesn’t mean the country is as old as the label.

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                The Holy Roman Empire was not a contemporary of Julius Caesar nor was it united. If your subdivisions are fighting wars with each other then I don’t consider that a proper “country”.

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                  I think I’m taking this too seriously for historymemes, but if someone from the future came to tell me something was invented by “Slavia”, I’d probably assume it was a country northeast of what I know as Austria, even though those countries are currently at war with each other. I can imagine a future in thousands of years where they’re politically and culturally united, even though I can’t imagine one in twenty years.

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                Don’t go bringing that crackpot Edward Gettier into this. Caesar would know the Germans (those who hail from Germania) as a disorganized, unorganized group of tribes with a common heritage. That’s a justified true belief, or at least as justified and true as one could expect of him. His beliefs would not cover a unified German nation, at which point there can’t be a belief part of a JTB.

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    Personally, I’d love to learn enough of the latin he spoke to be able to present him with a bottle of Cesar salad dressing and then tell him how many millions of people think of it when they hear his name.

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    “Where’s my Orange Julius”

    DAMMIT WHAT DO YOU MEAN SOMEONE ALREADY MADE THAT COMMENT

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    I’d give the ottoman empire (and by association the axis) modern weapons in WW1

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        Oh yh but this would be an interesting outcome without the Central powers losing the treaty of Versailles wouldn’t have been signed that means Hitler wouldn’t have as much support (the ottoman empire would up the same we were already dieing, bit this time entand won’t be involved)

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          The Austro-Hungarian Empire would not have split and the US would never have gotten the postwar economic boost that made it a great power. The Cold War would have been tripolar, with Germany dominating Europe and probably the world.

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    You fool, now he will want more! And if you don’t get him his sugary fix, it won’t be a Fantastic day for you.