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by lutusp 4667 days ago
> Maybe it happened, sort of. I mean our timeline being the result of killing Megahitler and replacing him with the Hitler we know and find him totally evil only because we can't compare him to Megahitler.

That might be a little tongue in cheek, but in fact, Hitler made a number of very bad decisions, like invading Russia, that a MegaHitler might have avoided. The history of that time could have been much worse with someone a little less nutty in charge.

I bet someone from the so-called "History Channel" is reading this and planning to turn it into a pseudo-historical TV series.