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How Will YOU Save America?
Where did it all start going wrong?
You look at what’s happened to our beloved country and despair of ever seeing America recover from the rot and decay that infests its once-proud institutions. You wonder if we’ll ever achieve the same prominence on the world stage. You mourn the loss of real civilizational progress that marked the United States and made us a world superpower.
You’d like to enjoy the decline, but even joy has been stripped from you. The future’s so blight you’re kind of dismayed.
Here’s the set-up, bub.
You’ve just stolen my time machine*, and now have the opportunity to go back in time and change the outcome of one historical event in the past in order to SAVE AMERICA in the present and the future.
Where/When do you go, what event do you change, and how does this fix everything?
Or, to put it another way, what’s the key moment in history that set us on this dread course, and how would a different outcome change things?
I myself have been traveling through time for several decades but only in one direction.
And at a constant rate.
Not sure. The good times seem to pass faster.
And things definitely seem to speed up close to the end.
I thought that was time-share travellers.
You only get the Tardis on alternate weekends.
It’s not the machine, it’s the time. There’s a beach in 1878 with Emilio Galliotti singing In Cima al Mundo at sunset that’s just beautiful and my friends and I go to each week end. We don’t go all at once anymore because last time we did that we all started singing along with Emilio and and WWI broke out.
Time travel is possible, but it’s so utterly disruptive that every time someone is about to invent a working time machine a time traveler arrives from a future dystopian timeline and kills them before they can finish it.
Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Looking back from the future is hazy. They have to have extent records of your success. With proper security you can survive and prevail. I’ve finished my time machine three times, and this last time it took. (It involves a colander and a car battery. You see a guy walking down the sidewalk with burns on his forehead and you know he’s a traveller.)
Or just more proof the left shouldn’t have emptied out the loony bins.
It’s an elaborate suicide, right?
Plot twist: the future-dystopian-timeline traveler is THEMSELF after they realize all the damage it caused!
We have loony time travellers, too. Elon Musk. Does that sound like a real name?
It sounds like a brand of cologne.
And then there is his child’s name, X Æ A-12 Musk.
Yes, crazy name, and he didn’t even make it gender specific.
Does anyone know how that is suppose to be pronounced?
“Junior”
I thought it looked more like “Mini-Me.” :-)
Let me check my Trans-temporal Thesaurus.
Written by Dr. Streetmentioner?
I’m not familiar. Dr. what??
Fictional character from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy who wrote an amazingly long and complicated book about proper time-travel grammar.
Will have written.
I remember the book, but I didn’t remember the name. So I will have been going to be having have read it, and I won’t remember the author.
Book II of the series.
And right on!
Latin can handle this. Past imperfect future tense. The Romans must have known something we don’t.