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John Byrne
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LINKWhat about that other reality where he wasn’t rejected?
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Peter Martin
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"Yet few realize he also pursued a career in painting."
I think their definition of few is not the same as mine.
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Evan S. Kurtz
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"What about the reality where Hitler cured cancer, Morty? The answer is, 'Don't think about it.'" - Rick Sanchez.
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Vinny Valenti
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I don't exist in that reality. My gandfather was an American soldier in WWII when he met my Hungarian grandmother in a labor camp in Eastern Europe.
I semi-joke that I owe my life to Hitler.
Edited by Vinny Valenti on 05 April 2026 at 7:46pm
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John Byrne
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And I owe mine to the atomic bomb.
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Steve Coates
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My children owe their existence to two people moving far from home, a chance encounter in a swimming pool, specific gametes meeting, hospital doctors and care and our (my wife and I) delusions of their beauty, (otherwise we might have drowned them at birth). :-)
And EVERYTHING which occurred previously.
The big things are easy to recognize, its the little things which confound me. What is the smallest thing to make me what I am and what was the chance of it occurring? What about you? What about Hitler?
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John Byrne
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A girl I dated at ACA asked if I believed in Fate. I said no. It was just too overwhelming a prospect that the whole universe had conspired to create a sequence of events that led to she and I meeting. It’s all coincidence, and only that if we are looking at it from inside.
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Dave Kopperman
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Norman Spinrad's "The Iron Dream" has Hitler become a well-regarded science-fiction writer. Which isn't interesting on its own as much as the way Spinrad presents it - a metafictional essay from that alternate world about Hitler's final novel, "Lord of the Swastika". The novel is included in full, though I confess I couldn't get through it, as it ironically succeeds at being the kind of sci-fi that Hitler would credibly write.
Of course, the essay reveals that the USSR has overtaken Europe in this alternate timeline, and all the usual stuff. But to me the heart of the thing is the multi-pronged satire; on the nature of sci-fi fans, who love all the Nazi stuff in the novel so much that they cosplay as SS officers at conventions, on the obliviousness of critics, and possibly on the pro-military thrust in some fellow authors.
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Bill Collins
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There's a whole lot of things that wouldn't have happened
if it wasn't for Hitler, the technology to get us into
space, medical advances etc, my favourite band formed by
two schoolboys whose parents were immigrants to Canada from
Eastern Europe, one set of parents concentracion camp
survivors.
My decision to get an after school job, led me to meet my
wife, her decision to get an after school job led her to
meet me.
Life is a series of paths taken or not taken that lead us
to where we are now.
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