Buy a cheap pistol, go back in time, and shoot Gutenberg.
We'd still be living in medieval times.
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2025
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Go back to 2011ish and unleash WanaCry on a world that is not ready for for a global crypto locker.
Jeez. Wow. Just wow. Lol.
I read about a study that said Homo sapiens may have been down to as few as 40 breeding pairs at one point.
I’ve got way more ammo than that in my closet.
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Bring COVID and HIV to the USA in 1929.
Maybe Zika as well.
I'd kill Harambe. Wait a second...
Hmm I don't know. Probably go back to Germany 1940 and give them all the information needed to develop nuclear weapons first. You just know that Hitler would've pushed the red button a hundred times over if he had the chance.
The TV serie "The Man in the High Castle" interestingly explores how would be the world if the nazis would have won the war.
I'm heading far into the future - say 1000 years or perhaps 100 if communication would be an issue. I'm going to grab all sorts of portable devices and tools to take back with me, and I will maintain the remainder of my life without sharing my goodies. The world is screwed because they get no fruits of my intense labor, but that is fine since I hate them anyway. For that afternoon of work, I get to live a great life while everyone else must suffer in modernity.
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I'd kill my parents before I was born.
Easy now. You only have to kill one of them.
Where's the fun in that?
Let the Cuban missile crisis actually happen?
The biggest killer for indigenous people is said to be infections - bacteria and viruses. Collect some in this time - maybe a cold - and go back and presence will be enough.
It depends on how you interpret "screw over the world", but I guess "you hate everyone" implies humans. If you go back to the first humans from Africa, before spreading out, that may have the biggest impact - significant delay or suppression in development and spread, or eradication.
Go back 1000 years before Europe makes contact with the Americas. Infect everyone and let their populations get wiped out, but give time to recover so first contact with Europe doesn't go as poorly. Also give them horses much earlier.
Go back to the stone age and drop modern steel tools and weapons where a tribe could find them. That tribe would likely become dominant and perhaps change everything.
If I ever got sick from something like COVID, I'd just go back to medieval Europe and let it spread like wildfire. I guarantee this modern disease would absolutely wipe out a large majority of Europe and everywhere else it spreads in the world. And little to no effort besides waiting for if I ever get it (which I thankfully never have had and hope I never will).
Much more virulent diseases didn't wipe out Humanity I don't know why that one would.
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Lowkey, just travelling back may be enough with the amount of diseases we would carry with us
Give the ancient civilization ruled by the most evil ruler modern weaponry and explain how it works
Your plan fails and the proletariat rise up and seize the weapos. You return back to a world of gay space communism.
Kill all the chickens before humans had the chance to domesticate them
"so there's this dude named God..."
I could skip my next union meeting, I guess...
Tell Hitler to focus on Operation Sea Lion and to leave Russia alone
Go back to the Garden of Eden with a bucket, grab all the apples, then head back.
Kill Lincoln earlier during the Civil War.