{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "why timesassinate anyone, though?  Why not just go back a bit further and relentlessly cockblock their parents?  No murder...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/169994437253/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: why timesassinate anyone, though?  Why not just go back a bit further and relentlessly cockblock their parents?  No murder necessary, no outrage in response to the murder, and maybe less risk of another person just stepping up to replace them directly.</div>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"https://argumate.tumblr.com/post/169994176129/why-timesassinate-anyone-though-why-not-just-go\">argumate</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote><p>what if hitler is actually the son of some dude who went back in time to fuck hitler\u2019s mum to prevent the birth of hitler, would that be messed up or what</p></blockquote><p><p>I specifically wrote a 5-minute short script around this scenario in college that would work as the pilot for a series about \u201cThe College of Dark Arts &amp; Mad Sciences\u201d</p><p>Or maybe it was like a Sarah Connor thing, like I had to kill this guy\u2019s mom but I screwed it up and had to go back even further before she recognized me but as I went back she was younger and more naive and at some point it was easier to just impregnate her myself?</p><p>Uh</p><p>This was like 2004</p><p>Anyway the only other thing I remember was a visual joke where there was a summoning lab and there were outlines of the inhabitants of each cell and the cell with the tentacle monster outline was *surrounded* by blue light phones</p><p>that\u2019s definitely a rape joke, as part of the resolution of the \u201890s college rape crisis our rich campus put up these pre-cell emergency phones to summon help, on posts marked by blue lights</p><p>I mean \u201cdate rape\u201d at least pushed the Overton window enough to throw money at stranger rape, Whoopi\u2019s \u201crape-rape\u201c<br/></p><p>I mean you still occasionally heard of girls getting taken on the outer paths at night because that\u2019s still where everyone knew freshman girls ran (or stumbled) at night</p><p>This was like 2004</p></p>"}