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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

thinking once again about The Most Wrong Tweet Ever

Tweet from Casey Neistat:

If you could be born at any time in history, when would it be?

for me 1900; fight in WW1, roaring 20s, great depression, fight in WW2, then experience the 50s + 60s in my 50s and 60s, enjoy my twilight years with the modern conveniences of the 70s and die in the 80s before all this internet bullshit begins.

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social

rewatched All Quiet on the Western Front and man, that film really does justice to the fact that those kids in the trenches lived like, some of the top 1% worst lives of any people in history

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

“If I could choose to live any life in world history I would choose to fight in the two deadliest wars ever. I’d survive both of course. For some reason i would also like to personally experience the Great Depression” yes I have been thinking about this for 5 years

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Wallenstein Appreciator @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Some interesting implications here. For one thing, unless his country is either hard up, disorganized, or both, he would probably not join at the age of 14. So chances are this fictional boy is something like Serbian, Russian, or Turkish. And the 20th century, well,

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Are you telling me this quitter didn’t even want to fight in Vietnam

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B.J. Gunts @bjgunts.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

The year is 1918. I survive childhood but succumb to the Spanish Flu shortly before shipping off to Europe.

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R.C. Brougham @captainruck.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

love dudes like this, they spend all day as computer jockeys but they're convinced if they were just born into the right time they would somehow have been supersoldiers

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Keith @kdb150.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I remember reading All Quiet in high school, and the description of what mortars did when they hit is something that has always stuck with me. No thanks.

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JAC 🐔 @jaconthebrazos.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Have kids during the great depression and have them live through a war. He totally missed a massive pandemic. I had a great aunt that died of flu. My grandma had two siblings die from household fires in the 30s. The baby was given away bc they couldn't afford him. My Grandparents didn't go to HS.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

yeah lol other than the “of course I’d not just survive the wars, but be left without physical or psychological damage” the omitting of the/his 30s is hilarious.

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GS @fundhuman.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Also could have gotten a myriad of diseases that at the time couldn’t be cured

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Hatin’ Ass Brian @hatinassbrian.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

The notoriously convenient 1970s

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David Hamilton @davidhamilton.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Decided to check the survival numbers for this scenario Born 1900 5% chance of stillbirth 15% chance to die before age 5 14% chance of dying serving in WWI 1% for Spanish flu 12.5% in WWII So a 60% chance of surviving all these things

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Jonathan Henderson @hoender.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Also he rates “internet shit” as being worse than fighting in WW1 as an underage soldier. Huh.

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Dak @daktangle.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Let's not forget the flu epidemic. He's dying before 25.

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nowhere 🏳️‍🌈 @nowhere.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

If you're giving yourself this amount of fantasy good fortune, you can choose pretty much any time period

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Adam Rowe @airowe.online · 17/05/2025

Don’t forget polio and the Spanish flu

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Patrick Bryant @patrickbryant.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

"Life expectancy for a man born in the U.S. in 1900 was 46, but I am confident that despite fighting in two wars--including one in my 40s, like the heartiest soldiers--I will die peacefully in my 80s, presumably from a massive cocaine overdose."

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Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Also he would probably hate the 60s and 70s

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former dog @warybear.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

It’s the war version of saying you wished you were born at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution so you could work in a bunch of different factories.

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I'd simply fight in WWI and return a hero with two medals, half a face and no legs, die of substance abuse before the Great Depression hits and be bombed in my grave by the luftwafe

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Sir O.D. Bastard, OBE @captainannoying.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

i would choose to be born in 1949. young enough to avoid WW2/korea; old enough to avoid vietnam; get to enjoy the fruits of one of the greatest economic booms in human history; and then right as i hit the prime of my career, i get to rig things so that nobody else can be as rich as me

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Spike Bones @spikebones.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

"Yes, I think I am Mad Jack Churchill. No, I don't think that's a bad thing." - these dumbfucks

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WhereTheTweetsHaveNoName @mayhemmayhap.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

"The impossibility of death in the mind of someone living", part 2025

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Nick R. Bocker @snackymatthews.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Guy who owes his entire existence to the internet: wish I was around before the internet

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primo reply guy @kevinrohr.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

lol well it is pretty astounding

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Asher Desai @asherdesai.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

If he was lucky he would have died as a child of some absurd illness we’ve since eradicated

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zneeley25.bsky.social @zneeley25.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Dwarfed by those but also I bet people in their 60s in the 60s hated the 60s

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Ronit Aviva Dancis @ronitadancis.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

My grandfather saw combat in both WW1 & 2. Roaring 20s: waking up his wife yelling bc his untreated PTSD. (Supposedly survived a WW1 battle by hiding under a pile of corpses). Lost relatives in Holocaust. Clinically depressed last 20+ years of his life, possibly suicidal. This idiot has no idea.

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Eepy Rose @eepyrose.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

It's like he thinks about his potential life being born in 1900 as having an interesting plot with a happy ending.

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David McGlinchey @davemcg.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

None of it makes sense until he gets to skipping the Internet. That resonates.

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Kallun @kallun.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Let's not forget the fact he's spending his childhood in a coal mine or a factory, but I'm sure he simply wouldn't get injured or develop long-term conditions from that either.

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WTFisHappening, MD @ellemaria.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

🤣

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Nathan Owens @nathanowens.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Bold to brag about how much you’d enjoy racism

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Jeffy Hirschbeck @frusengladje.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Nobody fought in WWI, they just got killed

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I’d personally choose the Black Plague, which I’d survive, naturally, and then I’d get to enjoy the fun nursery rhyme about it as a traveling minstrel, which means I’d eat and sleep in a new palace every night.

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Nathan R @natriggs76.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

This is like saying I would like to be a Roman soldier at Canae

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JARED GOFF @icedbrew2.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Yeah I went there

ChatGPT life expectancy of someone born in 1900

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JARED GOFF @icedbrew2.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Didn’t even mention prohibition.

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vrupu @vrupu.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

It’s great he provides a great example of “internet bullshit” right there.

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Michael Buckelew @michaelbuckelew.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Give me right now on a remote island but with satellite internet and some video games.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/05/2025

“you know what sounds like a great experience? mustard gas!”

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mursepg.bsky.social @mursepg.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

And the first one doesn't even have a "good" side. Literal pointless death for imperial ambition. Even though my grandfather fought the NAZIs, as righteous a war probably can be, he didn't talk about it for fourty years. It was not a good time.

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Uneasy Writer @uneasywriter.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

My grandparents experienced both world wars and the Great Depression and did not recommend them.

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dexfarkin.bsky.social @dexfarkin.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

This is someone who watched a bunch of Boardwalk Empire and figured they'd ace that scene.

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