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annoyinglandmagazine · 1 year ago

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FINE, you get another go at the time machine and the ability to prevent one birth (or commit a murder up to you), don't worry about the butterfly effect, we want the butterfly effect that's part of the point. Your actions will prevent them from ever rising to prominence. Original poll here There may be a face off poll at the end. Hitler still isn't an option because we'd all chose to kill him.

Am gonna go Pontius Pilate and say my hands are cleaned of this one. All of the below are nominees.

#So Hitler’s not an option so I propose Cromwell (prepare for a history nerd rant a bit)#not for that banning Christmas stuff or because I like the monarchy #But because he successfully ‘cleared’ huge parts of Ireland of the native Irish to make room for colonisers (just look at the map)#and yes this involved massacres and what would now be considered war crimes #It was attempted ethnic cleansing and had a huge impact for the rest of our history #Drogheda was an example of one of larger massacres of mostly civilians #I feel like a lot of the historical awareness in relation to him (particularly in England) focuses on his role in parliament #This tends to go forgotten when it really shouldn’t #It’s estimated he killed somewhere between 200000 and 600000 in a population of 2 million #And shipped 50000 abroad as indentured servants (NOT as slaves #the indenture expired and did not include children for one thing)#Cannot emphasise the slave/indenture difference enough. Neither were right or moral but it’s on very different scales and can’t be equated

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