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Do I have the power to change things on a large scale? Cuz like, I was already an adult by 2011, and I still just sorta watched as shit went to shit. I did 'my part', and I warned people when I could about alarming trends they were unwittingly contributing to, but no one cared, and to be honest, unless one can actually hit the powerful folks, there is very little an individual can do.
If I have power to change things, to actually affect the powerful people, then I'm going to Y2K and I have a few ideas:
Oh and
I can't exactly do much about Climate Change with the time given. For that I'd need the same power-scale but to go back to the 60s, when the first scientists took notice of the trend but had their research suppressed by big oil.
9/11 was convenient, but 90% of what happened was already happening at the time.
Bush was planning on invading Iraq as soon as he got elected. The housing crisis was set in motion by Clinton, and exacerbated by Bush. LA had already built the blueprint for a militarized police state with the Olympics in 84.
This shit was coming.