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Post by UK on Sept 23, 2010 15:48:48 GMT -5
You have the power to change bits of your country's history. What would you change, when, a bit of background, and why you'd change it.
Anything from serious to lulzy.
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Post by Indonesia on Sept 24, 2010 1:47:37 GMT -5
Basically, I wish that we'd have freedom from the Dutch a bit later...
I'd like to learn how to speak Dutch
but then again... LET FREEDOM RING!!!
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Post by UK on Sept 24, 2010 14:58:16 GMT -5
And country-wise?
Or is that country-wise? Dutch as a second language or something?
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Post by Indonesia on Sept 24, 2010 23:39:00 GMT -5
That is country-wise. e_e"
Apparently Dutch isn't a second language. Dutch affected bits of Indonesian.
Since the Dutch also affected South Africa, Indonesians could communicate with em easily... and ofcourse then comes the Malaysians...
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Post by USAlex on Oct 22, 2010 2:00:26 GMT -5
1) Trail of Tears, should'a never happened. Jackson may have had some flair, may have been a good president in other ways, but the jerk didn't listen to the Supreme Court (or the Constitution for that matter). Plus, it was inhumane. Might as well throw in all the other horrible stuff that happened to Native Americans.
2) Slavery. I don't really know how we would have avoided that one...but imagine if it had never happened. No slaves, no civil war. Although, if we hadn't gone through that there would be no 14th amendment. And no Martin Luther King Jr. And we wouldn't have gotten what many historians consider crucial military experience, as horrible as that sounds.
3.) nuclear weapons. I'm actually not sure about this one. If I could guarantee that no one would ever invent them, then I would not have wanted the United States to invent them. However, if it was inevitable, why not be first?
4.) George W. Bush and Cheney.
5.) Bush's second term. -facepalm-
6.) 9/11. If that could have never happened, I would make it never happen.
7.) JFK's assassination. Lincoln's assassination. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. All those goddamn assassinations.
8.) Cold War…I would cut out all the paranoia and McCarthyism and hypocrisy. Would have still opposed the USSR though, just in a cleverer way.
9.) General MacArthur’s stupidity that led us to un-winning the Korean War.
10.) All the war crimes that have ever happened shouldn’t have happened, obviously.
11.) The semi-privatization of the Federal Reserve. Read about the Federal Reserve. Most messed up government agency ever, and that says something.
12.) I would have given more funding to NASA.
13.) After WWI, President Wilson wanted to make the League of Nations. If I could change the fact that that didn’t happen, maybe WWII would have been less likely, and we all know we could have done without that war. He also was originally against the heavy economic penalties the Treaty of Versailles would put on Germany, and had he kept being against those WWII might have also been less likely. Unfortunately, he got the influenza that was rampant at the time and perhaps was going a bit loopy.
14.) I would have kept the draft. But I would have made it a “your choice—military or volunteer work” type draft. I think that this would make people think more about entering into wars.
15.) The Japanese Internment camps during WWII.
16.) Segregation, lynching, the KKK, and all hate crimes.
17.) the Bay of Pigs invasion should have either been done right, or not at all.
18.) Somehow or another, they should have balanced the budget so we didn’t have this stupid debt. There was actually a surplus in Clinton’s term! We should have done whatever we were doing then to keep that going.
19.) Not giving women the right to vote from the beginning.
20.) Prohibition. That was dumb.
21.) I could go on…
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