In my view, it would be naive to assume that killing Hitler before he became Chancellor would guarantee the prevention of the atrocities that followed, and it might even pose the risk of something worse happening. Events don't occur in a vacuum. It's similar to how dropping nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were horrific events in themselves, but who's to say those events aren't the reason nukes have never been used in warfare since? Preventing those bombings might have saved the people in those cities, but it also might have significantly lowered the bar for using nukes, increasing the chance of a true nuclear holocaust during the Cold War, for example.
So maybe time travel is possible, and someone did try to change history by killing Hitler, but then realized the outcome was even worse. Now, they needed an additional assassin to deal with the first one.
Eh, it gives me some faith to still see the occasional individual making sense in the comment sections. I've blocked close to 800 people on Lemmy, and on average, I probably block 10 more each day. It feels like it's not making much of a difference, but it must have some impact. If the number of users here were on par with Reddit, I'd just be wasting my time. However, considering Lemmy's low user base and the fact that most comments are written by a small percentage of users, I still have faith that blocking those who are just making noise has to improve the signal.
For me, it serves two purposes: less content to browse, which means less time spent here, and the opportunity to engage in thoughtful conversations with the remaining sensible users, rather than partaking in a shouting match with everyone.
Lemmy is effectively the left-wing equivalent of Gab or Truth Social. There's a ton of extremists here, but they don't see themselves as such because they believe their extremism is justified and that they're on the right side of history. Ironically, that's what all extremists think. Moments like this are the true test of one's intellectual honesty. A rational, independent thinker should be able to condemn this kind of behavior even when it's targeted towards their "enemies."
They're not against fascism. They're against fascism from the opposing side. The level of hypocricy demonstrated in these comment sections is mind boggling.
There are a handful of instances here that reliably attract extremists. lemmygrad, hexbear, lemmy.ml, infosec.pub and blahaj to name a few. I don't think I've ever blocked as many people as I have today. Even disabled my content filters to see those threads so I could do some housekeeping.
That's not the point. If you're swinging around a semi-automatic pistol with an empty magazine, nobody will know. However, with a revolver, you need to load it with real-looking bullets for close-up shots. Of course, at a distance, you can use lesser-quality prop guns.
It's probably because of the impact driver. The bit seats back into the bottom of the slot between every impact. This doesn't happen with normal drivers.
You can. I know a guy who eats a birch log every year. He literally sits on the couch pulling splinters from the log and chews on them while watching tv. He also grinds his egg shells and mixes with oatmeal.
In my view, it would be naive to assume that killing Hitler before he became Chancellor would guarantee the prevention of the atrocities that followed, and it might even pose the risk of something worse happening. Events don't occur in a vacuum. It's similar to how dropping nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were horrific events in themselves, but who's to say those events aren't the reason nukes have never been used in warfare since? Preventing those bombings might have saved the people in those cities, but it also might have significantly lowered the bar for using nukes, increasing the chance of a true nuclear holocaust during the Cold War, for example.
So maybe time travel is possible, and someone did try to change history by killing Hitler, but then realized the outcome was even worse. Now, they needed an additional assassin to deal with the first one.