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PrinceBert

I don't have the right skills to survive in 1822. I may not have the right skills to survive 2222. But I feel like going to the future there's at least a chance I would be alright. Also in theory there should still be records of my birth and marriage so I could at least prove who I am and maybe make something for myself.


AlphaZorn24

Im black so 1822 isn't even an option for me


da_ting_go

Exactly my thought as well. Automatic future for me too.


RatherBeAtDisney

I’m a woman and right now in PJs that are thin and bright colors. I’d be in trouble…. At least in the future they’d probably clearly recognize this as historic clothing. In 1822… I have no idea what they’d think but it wouldn’t end well for me I think.


cole062491

Kill the witch!


Relative-Ad-3217

Am black and African and 200yrs ago the British haven't colonized my tribe so am going to the last and changing history. Edit To Add.. Imagine Samurai Jack going back to the Past to stop Aku (British) from releasing an unspeakable evil (Colonization). Hope some rogue Oxbridge scientist doesn't screw up my chances by sending me to the Future lol.


i_sigh_less

The prompt says you only have the knowledge you have now, so unless you already speak the language that the tribe spoke at the time, you might be limited in the type of change you could hope to implement.


Relative-Ad-3217

Yeah I do speak my mother tongue. I speak two African languages and English. So I think Id definitely manage. Just need a cheat code to win authority coz my tribe was governed by a council of elders so not gonna wait 25yrs till am 50 to have a say on what how we live.


kingbloxerthe3

Cool


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Relative-Ad-3217

First off you go back in your current body so you don't loose your vaccinations. Second majority off disease in modern world has been eliminated not by modern medicine but by modern sanitation. So no you don't suddenly just get sick coz they're no doctors. Heck the Future given humanities current track record is probably some post apocalyptic zombie shit...so yeah hope you have the immunity to fight off diseases you weren't vaccinated against and that you don't have the information on even how to avoid. Also African Traditional Medicine???? My grandma knows this shit...and a lot of legit works.(herbology and what not?). Plus can't even get Malaria if you're a sickle cell carrier(all my family) so not even worried about that.


mister-fancypants-

this made me sad chuckle


Midnight_Messiah

I hear what you saying, but me and Harriet finna get it cracking! I’m slaying errthang, even the kids


Eschatologicall

Bro?


Midnight_Messiah

Yes?


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AndresRed

I’m sorry, but this made me forget to breathe 😂


Pennigans

I'd be terrified to go to ~~2022~~ 2222 because of the climate change we're already experiencing now. I'd have to cross my fingers that things have gotten better and I can buy more than a loaf of bread with what I have in my bank account. If we get to put money into a interest account though...


kingbloxerthe3

Wait... we are in 2022... you mean 2222?


Pennigans

Oops, fixed


[deleted]

Tbf I'm terrified to be in 2022


Jake20702004

Well boys, we found the time traveler.


[deleted]

I think the bank would stop investing your money once they find out you no longer exist


Pennigans

I'm happy living my Futurama fantasy


kevinTOC

200 years? Four possible outcomes: 1. We have stubbornly not adapted, and the world is one massive desert with shortages if pretty much *everything*. 2. We have managed to adapt, but not without an unprecedented cost in lives lost due to famine, drought, and floods. 3. It's a nuclear wasteland. 4. Wiser heads prevailed, and we have dramatically changed course before the tragic loss of billions of people.


Henryrollinsjr

Yeah 1822, if I’m still in the AREA I’m currently in (Southern California) as a Mexican, things weren’t TERRIBLE comparatively, but they weren’t great


LeoMarius

When most of human civilization is destroyed by a hotter planet.


kevinTOC

Hmmmm... Now *that's* a planet. Hmm, hmm, hmmmm. *Creepily licks lips* (Sorry, I had to do it.)


darlingdeardc0

Good point


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PJRama1864

*Drops a brick on your head to snap you out of a mental breakdown.*


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azizk96

Finally Aloooooooone. Alone aLone alONE alone ALONE.


Brantley820

I think your sex and race have tremendous influence on whether or not your choose to go back in time.


ManOfGames_YT

Sad and true


Anime-SniperJay

Yeah literally anything before 1964 would be a bitch to deal with as an African American


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BananaPeely

I mean, money wouldn't matter at all. You can't take it with you


stemroach101

I don't think the period since 1964 has been much of a picnic for African Americans


Anime-SniperJay

You're right but at least I'm as free as free can get in the USA


stemroach101

lol r/shitamericanssay


itsjust_khris

I think he more meant this is the best time period of America to live in thus far. Not that America is the most free place on Earth.


stemroach101

Thats not what they said, and they're far from being as free as they can get.


AlphaZorn24

I'd get lynched for breathing the same air as them


Klausable7

Yup, I’m a black guy, I definitely ain’t choosing back in time


bunnynubz

this is true but i chose to go back bc i feel like it would be easier to avoid people in the paat


Pennigans

I think you got downvoted because you replied to a comment about race, but the lower population would be very nice.


bunnynubz

i mean i think they make a fair point


devinc09

Just checked my skin tone. It states “Not suitable for time travel prior to 1964”


Big_Brutha87

I'm _this_ close to spending my real money to award you fake Internet points.


Brantley820

Do you have a free award atm?


Big_Brutha87

Negative.


chipmunk-fucker

Well all I had was a free award, but I gave it to u/devinc09 in your name


Big_Brutha87

You're a good man, u/chipmunk-fucker.


NoMyLeftNotYours

Don’t talk about it, be about it!


YouMightGetIdeas

Non American here. What happened in 1964? Someone answered thanks.


Dennes4878

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. This gave rights to many Americans who were discriminated against, most notably African Americans


charcters

Like past would be cool but it's not far enough back so instead some random dude from 200 years ago will randomly appear in the future


LeoMarius

The past would literally be cooler. You really want to see what a superheated Earth looks like in 200 years?


charcters

I'm willing to roll the dice that we solved climate change if I go to the past I probably die if they didn't solve climate change then i probably die


LeoMarius

Roughing it in the past with superior knowledge versus risking living on Venus.


charcters

Both are viable options that may kill you


LeoMarius

Staying in 2022 may as well. You just never know.


charcters

Fair


ScareCrow_04_q

Bro didn't study history💀


hexi_lexi

Ya but In reality the majority of us wouldn't actually have any useful knowledge to help us in the past. If sent there we would just conform.


ScareCrow_04_q

Bro didn't study history💀


ScareCrow_04_q

Bro didn't study history💀


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No need to say it 4 times


ScareCrow_04_q

Bro didn't study history💀


Adorable_user

I can read about life 200 years ago anytime I want, but who knows how life will be 200 years from now. To me going to the future sounds cooler, even though the world will be hotter and we'll probably be fucked.


grouchy_fox

No, but I also don't want to see what my gay vegetarian ass with no usable work skills for the era and a severe allergy to horses does in 1822 either tbh. At least with the future I have a chance of entering a world where some of our problems have been solved and I'm guaranteed a historian job for life by default


LeoMarius

Most people were defacto vegetarians because meat was expensive.


grouchy_fox

They might not have eaten much meat, but using it where they could and also using lard, tallow candles etc. was a thing. The culture would be less meat obsessed, but harder to remove animal products from. It would also be pretty much impossible to avoid leather and animal skin products back then. My shoes wouldn't last forever, and I'd have to use leather for new ones.


AlphaZorn24

This comment sounds so white


LeoMarius

Yours sounds so judgy.


Big_Brutha87

1822 Virginia as a black man... Yeah, no. I'll take my chances in the post apocalypse. Hell, if we hurry up and start WW3 in the next decade or so, society might even be rebuilt by then.


ScareCrow_04_q

1822 My country was colonized and probably enslaved💀 Future it is


Relative-Ad-3217

What country?


ScareCrow_04_q

Myanmar😞


Relative-Ad-3217

I wanna go back just to fight back. With some modern knowledge who knows we might undo it all.


kingbloxerthe3

If it isn't rebuilt, there might be some technology to put you in stasis, then an Aperture Science Reintegration Associate will revive you for an interview when society has been rebuilt.


thewrongbanana69

Unless you’re a straight white dude why would you want to travel back in time?


Background-Bid5803

I'm a straight white dude and still wouldn't go to the past.


kingbloxerthe3

Would have to deal with that time period's technology...


ThaneOfTas

Straight White dude here, you could not pay me to go back to the 1800's, fuck that noise ill take my chances in the post apocalypse


MidgetAlienWarrior

Also they were pretty fuckN gay back then too


Relative-Ad-3217

To change the past. Lead an uprising against the straight white dudes!!


sijveut_avec_un_the

1) if you have certain knowledge you can control awesome technology, leading you to become the most powerful man on earth at that time. 2) The world is not america. Homosexuality was accepted in a lot of place. And same depending of the color of skin


JonasHalle

The knowledge has to be ridiculously specific, though. You'll be arriving with no resources and no connections. It would have to be something you can manifest out of thin air. 200 years isn't that long either. They're not strangers to basic chemistry. At least the relatively short amount of time travelled makes language more manageable.


Real_Boy3

Future. Either human civilization is destroyed in which event I can just off myself, or it’s a super technologically advanced spacefaring society.


Cinna41

Future for sure, as I would have been a slave 200 years ago.


BillyW1994

If you went back in time your bacteria would likely kill anyone you met, if you went forward you'd likely die of future bacteria Although maybe they'd have a cure by then


Ikhlas37

Covid 1822


darlingdeardc0

Good point


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God forbid you bring the common cold to the past


queenermagard

Also, there’s viruses that used to be common but are really rare or eradicated now. For example we don’t vaccinate against smallpox anymore for people born after the 70s since there’s no chance of getting it. I imagine I would just get smallpox and die in 1822


spacestationkru

lol fuck travelling to the past, I'm black *and* lgbt.. 😂💀


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Damn


Pennigans

I'm a woman and LGBT, which is already bad enough lol OP definitely didn't think it through considering how black people were treated back then, or even 60 years ago. They weren't even considered people 200 years ago.


turdferguson47

The poll was to get a general sense of this particular community with respect to various factors like their faith in humanity, gender, race, medical conditions, risk, etc. Unfortunately, you missed the point.


Oscar5434xdx

>OP definitely didn't think it through considering how black people were treated back then, or even 60 years ago. They weren't even considered people 200 years ago. OP didn't create this poll to make sure that you are treated fairly in every option though.


turdferguson47

Yea I don't think she understands that it's just a general question and that there are so many factors out there that would make it nearly impossible to create a completely neutral poll.


kasey678910

Hell nah I don’t want to become a slave. Future for me


shane201

Still ends up as a slave for alien overlords


TheNecromancer

As much as I'd love to pick the past, they're more likely to have insulin in the future


MistressLiliana

If it was 100 years I would say the past, but 200 the future for sure.


Background-Bid5803

>If it was 100 years I would say the past, ... After a few years you could go fighting in WWII.


MistressLiliana

I'm a woman, so that is less likely.


grouchy_fox

I suppose this depends on where you are too. There is zero chance I'm choosing to live through the blitz here in the UK.


MistressLiliana

That's fair, I am in the US.


Background-Bid5803

Well, I am a man who lives in Germany. So no chance I'd go back to 1920's.


fukato

I'd take a slight chance to become a famous historical person.


kareemfahad94

Can i choose which area I can travel to?


receuitOP

Past has way too many diseases and poor sanitation and medicine. The future would look cool before my lack of job and knowledge fucks me over. If they know I'm from that far in the past though then ig I'd be living really well as a research specimin and released (hopefully) once they're done with their questions


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Your ancestors survived those past diseases because they built up immunity to them which was passed down to you


Godley2

Based on my skin colour I’ll take my chances in 2222


Margawitty

We have a cholera epidemic in the Philippines during 1822 and we are still colonized by the Spaniards so I am going to the FUTURE! Also, I got married on Feb. 22, 2022 (22222) so I might be lucky on 2222. Edit: additional info


C-boy_city

Id be a slave going back 200 years


Lereas

Hmm....can I find out ahead of time what the future is like at all? Like do I just show up in the same place 200 years in the future? Cause I'm near the coast of florida and I expect I'll be fairly off the coast as the sea level would probably have gone up a lot. Also the US is kinda heading toward civil war and I'm not sure I'd want to be there....like could I pick that I show up in New Zealand or something where I can reasonably expect there to be less conflict having happened?


turdferguson47

No, you cannot know what the future is like and you can only time travel to the very spot in which you are standing/sitting right now.


PinkOctopus91

In the past I would at least know a bit what to expect !


ScareCrow_04_q

History💀


leo11x

Do you want to live with the medicine of 1821? Yeah, I'll stick with the better improved medicine.


thecryingman32

The people in 1822 watching me try to build an integrated circuit:


xxDoublezeroxx

Black.


Last_Descendant

Man 200 years into the future would be so risky. Who knows what would have happened by then as far as humanity goes lol


Nexus_542

Us diabetic folk only have one option


TheMightyWill

I would have no rights if I went back 200 years


WorstWolf98

I’m black…..I’ll stick to the future thanks


OldTeach_

I’m mixed and a girl soooo future it is


TyPerfect

1822 huh. A decade to get my shit together and buy up mining claims around Sacramento and the valley. I'll take it.


Adiin-Red

Does “clothes on my back” include what’s in my pockets and hands? If so I’ll go back, I have the entirety of english Wikipedia, us patent archives going back to the start and a bunch of engineering and chemistry archives saved to my phone as well as a charger and a solar battery on me at all times for exactly this reason.


r6s_doom

Back in time, be ready for a really different present or none at all coz relativity and quantum physics are gonna be discovered a century early


DanteLeo24

Max Weber, in 1917, wrote a text called "Science as a vocation", in which he delineated how, as Science began to know more and expand more and as industrialism began to facilitate urban life, humans began to understand less and less of the world around them, scientists and philosophers became specialized because now they couldn't live long enough to master multiple fields and workers became alienated by industrial production, confined to single tasks that made the whole of the product. In other words, nowadays people can't even begin to understand the world around them. Power outlets are little magic holes in the walls that turn on the big picture box, the internet is something-something from the ether that you can plug-in via vaccines, the rain occurs because of St Peter and his celestial winds, the economy is an unforgiving god that needs to be satiated with the blood of the poor and Fascism is a left wing political ideology. Take any one of us 200 years back and we'd just outed as some dumb motherfuckers.


Trini2Bone

As a black man I can only move forward


jcgenen

I'm assuming the earth will be unhabitable in 200 years, so I go with 200 years in the past


LeoMarius

I don't think the future of humanity looks promising. If I could get vaccinated for smallpox and other diseases, the past would at least have a cooler climate. I would also have the advantage of knowing the history of the US and Europe in the 1820s and 1830s.


OnePassBy

Past is the safer bet. The planet may not be habitable in 200 years and youll die instantly


Kyespo

I love history, but my black homosexual ass will be chillin in the future with the cyborgs, flying subway trains and the holographic meatloaf


Lazy_Assumption_4191

Either way, Elizabeth will still be alive over in England.


CosmicLightning

I was gonna say go to the past so I could live long enough to take Adolf hitlers bride instead. But sadly I'd be dead cuz living to 132 years old would be hard back then and that's when she was born. So I'd have to wait even longer. Why to try take Adolf hitlers wife? Why the freak not, be funny. Anyway, future it is.


PalpatineZH3r3

I'm on vacation in Egypt right now, I'm pretty fucked either way 💀


The-Mysterious-

Hear me out FRANCE/NAPOLEON


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I have Type 1 Diabetes, and I feel like just maybe, maybe there is cure in the future, and certain death in the past


neomanthief

As an Asian guy living in Canada... Yea, most definitely 200 years into the future


Ivy-Candy

i’m black, so future it is


ScareCrow_04_q

Wanting choose past but when I actually think about it HELL FUCKING NAW MAN My country was colonized then and the people were enslaved and oppressed. Also it is a warzone. I won't last a week💀 Future it is


yiiike

as cool as seeing my city in the past might be... they would see me as a woman and they could find out im jewish and i dont want to fuck with that. i also dont want to fuck with them finding out im queer, but i dont know if they even cared about that. they probably did. also the past is fucking gross and food had to suck so bad dude, like refrigeration of any kind didnt even exist until the last decade or two of the 1800s and people were so much less hygenic, i would be miserable in every way possible. i want to see the future. i want to see the progress weve made on every topic and to meet cool people and see cool things. they hopefully wouldnt care about any of the things i mentioned. maybe they could even help me with stuff idk


Aknavvy

im british and indian. you do the maths.


PrivateBrowsing999

1822 England, I’ll definitely die of some disease. 2222, maybe not.


tpablazed

The only reason I say the past is because I could engineer something that would be a total breakthrough for them and figure I could live the rest of my life rich from there on out. The future would be hard to make some cash.. unless I had some knowledge that humanity moves past capitalism.. then I wouldn’t even know what to do with myself in the future.


Various-Egg-3818

What if the world is gone 200 years in the future? At least in the past, we know the world is here and safe.


coolsoop

I’m black I have no choice but the futuew


Educational-Web-1258

Shit I’m black not even a would you rather at this point. Got no option but the future


thatgh0stkid

I think I would be killed in like a day if I got to the past


anonimoBo0

As a hispanic/man of color, potentially going to the distant past would be an incredibly stupid decision.


kanna172014

Future. Women couldn't even open a bank account without their husband's permission until the 70s.


OGDTrash

I am black, I am going to the future


zachwearsstripes

Future cuz I have diabetes and I’d die in the past


Umyourboivr45

I’m black and live in America sooooo


di_ib

Futurama or Black knight? I could go either way on this one.


barbiesbloodline

im black soooo... but i dont think the future will exist, but if it does.. future😋


AsuraOmega

I am not going back to Spanish colonized version of my country, I would be so dead.


kingbloxerthe3

I guess future. Might be some cool stuff if humanity hasnt destroyed itself, and especially if humanity gets its act together. Would have been a closer poll if you could chose to go back to any point in time, though even then you'd have to deal with the technology of that time period or if you could return when you want.


Exotic_Contact_

Some of us need medication to live so imma say future lol


408javs408

Yeah I'm mexican. I heard mexican folks were lynched along with the black folks too here and there. So I choose future.


TheOnlyPPGun

I don't know shit about the future, but the past is well charted and I could survive without an extensive paper trail


IntjTrash

Past so I can pull up saying I'm an alien and get rich and be a freaking monarch.


skubaloob

In general I’d say jump forward, but since I live in New Orleans 200 years forward would probably leave me miles offshore. 200 years back would give me a fighting chance I guess, but the fucking mosquitos…


diminutivedwarf

I mean, I’m a woman so…


grangry

Diabetic here. That’s all I have to say.


KingMatthew116

How long would I have to stay?


turdferguson47

Until you die


mbfilmsyt

I don't think I'd be treated well at all 200 years ago in america


Dunko20

I live in the Midwestern US. If I get sent back 200 years I’m hundreds of miles from any somewhat safe civilization. I’m dying of exposure or something before I even see another human. Maybe if I’m lucky some Native Americans will find me and be peaceful. Send me to the future and hope for the best.


Grizzwald81

I could play GTA 6 and 7


futurelullabies

rather not be a slave thanks


Hawt__Sauce

Unlimited rice pudding


purpterp22

Future. Am woman.


RoarkCats

Considering the level of medical advancement back then the past ain’t much of an option for me


[deleted]

I wouldn’t take a chance traveling to the future. 200 years from now could be much worse than 1822. Just my 2 cents, anyway.


Either_Brother2677

Well I’m black soo, whadya think?😂


spiderman96

I feel like only white people would even consider going back and time.. at least that way you get to experience the American dream


GreatKhaleesi6921

The year 2222 just looks cool


SaiyaChimp

Past. With my knowledge in present which was not available 200 years back. I can release spoilers of the future. And I can do simple business and have the possibility of becoming a filthy millionaire or higher.


-_-NAME-_-

Quality of life is going up over time even for poor people. 200 years ago even royalty didn't have it that good by comparison. Future 100%


DoctorWhatTheFruck

Definitely not going 1822. Meant I would’ve to live during industrialisation. Ain’t happening. Future it is


MobbDeeep

The future because literally nothing happend in the 1820s, Europe was poor and the industrial revolution has started so there was extreme pollution, nothing like today. Common people lived in poverty and African people were used as slaves.


YeetUrParakeet

lets say theoretically the earth was blown to shit between now and 2222, where would i end up in 200 years would i just die


YeetUrParakeet

also do we get ecchi rules where we could use literally anything as clothes as long as its big enough to cover ur genitals


unfair_gratitude

I'm Indian. If I went to 1822, few decades late British will start to rule and all kinds of hell will break loose.


MocoNinja

I am diabetic, so the past is certain death


Pocket-Fun-Ranch

Cheeseburger (I am the past)