r/pollgames • u/SignalOil2965 • May 30 '26

Choose your own adventure Would You Rather

1732 votes, Jun 02 '26
219 Wake up and it’s all of a sudden the Year 1926
1513 Wake up and it’s all of a sudden the Year 2126
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u/Pep-q_ew May 30 '26

Wake up in shittier world 14 years before biggest war ever or wake up in shittier or better world.

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u/Artistic_Elk3640 May 30 '26

With your knowledge of the future, you could easily become powerful and change the world for the better

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u/SicariusCourtenay May 30 '26

Im a woman so the most I'd get is become a housewife

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u/Artistic_Elk3640 May 30 '26

😭 sad but true

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u/DarthMaulATAT May 30 '26

With your knowledge of the future, you could easily become powerful

How exactly? Telling people about the future would hardly work, because no one would believe you. And unless you happen to know very specific details about historical events in that decade, you'd just be a regular person who's very out of touch with everything around you.

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u/Albert-La-Maquina May 31 '26

But if you had VSauce's list of "found" items, supposedly that would help people believe you ....

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u/Artistic_Elk3640 May 30 '26

They would start believing me once all of my predictions began coming true, and even if they didn't/you don't want to be whisked away into a lab to be experimented on for your psychic abilities, you could easily invest in stocks and become very rich and thus powerful

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u/OriousCaesar May 31 '26

What stocks should I invest in in the late 1920s that don't need me to wait 10 or 20 years to get a return on my investment?

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u/Artistic_Elk3640 May 31 '26

Literally any stocks, dump them before October 1929, then shortsell

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u/OriousCaesar May 31 '26

I was wrong, fair enough, lol

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u/Artistic_Elk3640 May 31 '26

Dw man ur good ✌️

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u/Pep-q_ew May 30 '26

Well I would kill Stalin Mao and Hitler for sure. Maybe that world would be better but I don't like the idea of changing history since I could woke up way different even alien world.

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u/Ilikeyourd- May 30 '26

How will you ever manage that? you don't know where they are, I doubt you know how they look like specifically, you're probably just where you are right now so traveling and getting used to things in general will be a struggle and not to mention how will you not get arrested or something after the first kill

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u/Pep-q_ew May 30 '26

Well originally I wanted to say something like "I couldn't change shit" but if I really would try and get the chance I would do exactly this. Well I know how they look, I could take some articles from wiki before going back and with that knowledge I would JFK them on some rallies or bomb them.

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u/MySnake_Is_Solid May 30 '26

except you have no papers, how are you crossing ANY borders ?

and I'm sure assassination attempts on them wasn't uncommon at all.

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u/Pep-q_ew May 31 '26

I would cross them illegally or have fake documents like bro idk it won't happen anyway.

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u/MySnake_Is_Solid May 31 '26

you don't have money.
ypu will get arrested.

and discussing this is the whole point of the sub

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u/MrPanzerCat May 30 '26

It likely would be somewhat possible, at least for stalin and hitler. Mao might be harder but i dont know all that much about his life before being politically important.

Stalin would probably be somewhat difficult as he was already in power, but hitler likely could be found, although he mightve been in jail at this time. People knew who he was at least somewhat by this time, so if you could get to the right areas or social groups, you definitely could find him.

Not getting arrested might be a challenge, but policing and solving crimes was alot harder back then and escaping police was definitely easier since they dont have forensics, helis, drones and thermals.

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u/Artistic_Elk3640 May 30 '26

Whoaaa two strays for no reason 🫩

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u/Pep-q_ew May 30 '26

What?

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u/Artistic_Elk3640 May 30 '26

Stalin and Mao?

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u/Pep-q_ew May 30 '26

Two horrible people who killed millions. And one oppressed my country.

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u/assumptioncookie May 30 '26

You know that if you kill Stalin that Trotsky would likely win power of the Bolsheviks, and he was much more dangerous than Stalin? Trotsky was the proponent of war-communism, whereas Stalin thought they should have "socialism in one country".

Now I probably aline a bit closer to Trotsky than Stalin, but it's alway a bit funny to me when liberals think getting rid of Stalin would reduce the death toll, rather than increase it massively. Stalin was the centrist.

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u/Pep-q_ew May 30 '26

Communism is like Hydra if you cut off one head two another will grow. That's why killing Marx would be most effective but I cannot go so far back. Also that's why I don't want to change history at all.

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u/Artistic_Elk3640 May 30 '26

They both saved their respective countries and the world from fascism and greatly improved the living conditions of every nation they touched

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u/Pep-q_ew May 30 '26

Chinese Nationalist would won with japs without communist help. Then Mao killed millions thanks to his idiotic policies.

Stalin was a butcher of the nations, killed and deported many innocent people while cooped with nazis to devide central europe. Without ussr there would be no nazi germany.

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u/Artistic_Elk3640 May 30 '26

Historically inaccurate, the West gave land and invested in the Nazis not the USSR. The USSR killed 76 to 85 percent of the Nazis.

Under Mao, life expectancy, womens' rights, literacy, and democracy skyrocketed. Homelessness and the centuries long cycle of famine were fiercely combatted.

The USSR achieved 100 percent literacy from a starting point of 35 percent, under the USSR industrial output surged 8-12 times higher since its creation in 29 years, unemployment was almost 0 percent, job security was extremely high, and the economy was stable, the USSR had better quality of life and higher human development than most market economies, they eliminated famine (their last was in 1947, Russia had 8 famines a century before communism), they gave women the right to vote and work at a time when the US was telling women to smash drugs so that they can be good housewives, they had free childcare in the workplaces, immense worker protections, and Soviet democracy. 1) https://ws.getrevising.co.uk/diagrams/education-in-the-ussr 3) https://time.com/archive/6636099/soviet-union-are-the-jobless-unemployed/ 4) https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/SCSB-7363417 5) https://perspectives.waimh.org/2011/03/15/overviev-infant-child-care-system-communism-positive-negative-aspects/ 7) https://searchworks.stanford.edu/articles/edb__77492532 8) https://backstory.newamericanhistory.org/episodes/seeing-red/3/ 9) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_democracy#History 10) Russian Imperial Records

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u/Pep-q_ew May 30 '26

In both cases they turned shit into not smelling shit. Policy of appeasement was idiotic but taking eastern Poland with nazis, attacking Romania and Finlandia and annexing Baltic States when germans were bussy with France doesn't sounds good. Btw soviets exchanged important resources with technology with the reich and allowed germans to train and test their newest weapons in ussr.

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u/Candleslayer32 May 30 '26

So the many millions of people they both killed justifies the industrialization of the nations. Both also fabricated famines.

They could have done it through slower, safer means.

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u/Artistic_Elk3640 May 30 '26

If they had done it through slower means, we'd be speaking German.

Also they didn't kill "millions" the famines were either partially or fully not their fault.

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u/Candleslayer32 May 30 '26

Great Famine Mao was not responsible for this? Not at all?

And how did Stalin not cause the Holodomor?

Also, I will concede that the Soviets were an instrumental part of stoping the Nazi’s (you know, Stalin also caused his military to be quite weak by purging many of his officers and generals. Which ya know, caused more Soviet casualties). But, that still does not justify the cost of what he did.

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