{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "On the one hand, I tend to think that the historical contributions of individuals tend to average-out over time, but on the...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/169993758788/", "html": "<p><a href=\"https://argumate.tumblr.com/post/169993598229/quasi-normalcy-on-the-one-hand-i-tend-to-think\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">argumate</a>:</p><blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http://quasi-normalcy.tumblr.com/post/169993347995/on-the-one-hand-i-tend-to-think-that-the\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">quasi-normalcy</a>:</p>\n<blockquote><p>On the one hand, I tend to think that the historical contributions of individuals tend to average-out over time, but on the other hand, I suspect that if someone were to go back in time to the 1980s and quietly strangle Osama Bin Laden to death with a length of piano wire before anyone had heard of him, the history of the 21st century up to this point would look radically different.</p></blockquote>\n<p>yeah no kidding I tried that with the frickin\u2019 Archduke and I still haven\u2019t heard the end of it</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>I mean realtalk if you changed history by\u00a0in the middle of the Soviet-Afghan war killing the pious mastermind resistance leader black sheep of the billionaire family who built Saudi, everyone would think you\u2019d done it because you were a Russian sympathizer who hated America<br/></p>"}