Other than Save Sara Connor, everyone has this wrong.
Faking an identity is easy. Back then it was all paper, and for Americans, SSNs were only just barely standard. Say you grew up in some rural bumblefuck place and sign up for everything fresh. Full Tara Westover story would work.
Next, find your grandparents. Convince them you know them from something through a friend they’ve mentioned to you and crash on their couch long enough to get a basic job, then apartment, car, and grow a moustache. Which should take about 3-4 weeks. Restist your mom’s advances and attempts to take you to a high school dance.
Next, get to the west coast and start selling and buying up real estate. Buy and sell Hollywood back to itself until 1988. Then start buying real estate in New York. On the side, buy stock in all the classic tech companies, Nintendo, and in the military industrial complex. By 1993, you’d be a millionaire. From there, do whatever you want. Buy early and sell AOL stock. Blackberry. GE.
Then do good things in the world. Pull the fire alarms in the WTC at 8:45am on 9/11. Get a certain orange therapy so he stays with Ivanna for the kids. Invent Paypal first and steal the other half of it from Peter Thiel. Convince Woz, Gates, and Jobs that the future is in open source software. Find Linus Torvalds and mail him a billion euros. The morning before the Citizens United decision, bribe Clarence Thomas to abstain and pull the fire alarm. Mail Bernie Sanders $52 every week, anonymously. Get the pilots of Pam Am 103 super hammered the night before so the fight gets cancelled. Organize a London public transit boycott for 7/6/2005 lasting 3 days. Find the people that cancelled Firefly and murder them, wear their faces as a mask, and make sure the series goes at least 5 seasons.
You know, chill stuff like that.
Full Tara Westover story would work.
Who is Tara Westover? Nevermind, I’ll just Google i- FUCK.
Yeah, wild, isn’t it?
I grew up in a place not too dissimilar from how she grew up, with plenty of fundy LDS nearby. My wife read her book and was telling me about it, and the whole time I was thinking “Oh, good for her. Wait… do I know this person? I don’t know anyone named Tara…” Anyway, the world isn’t as wrote and straightforward as people think.
I have to say, this plan is well thought out.
Cease to exist
Buy stock in all the obvious companys
Be me
Wake up in 1983
Realize I’ve got the opportunity of a lifetime
Reach into my wallet: Empty
Check my bank account: Empty
Check couch cushions: $1.47
Feel kinda hungry.
Remember what you can buy at Taco Bell for $1.47 in 1983.
Have lunch.
Go get a job at Blockbuster.
Kick back for the next twenty years.
I’d miss my wife.
Shift in the womb. Maybe kick a little to let my mom know to eat something for the both of us.
Find evidence of Trump’s crimes and try to get him convicted, or at least discredited, before people even think about electing him
It’s funny that this has become the new “kill Hitler” move.
Great idea until you realize that the architects of project 2025 would have found a replacement that would be smarter and more capable to bring Fascism to America. It would actually make things worse.
smarter and more capable
I don’t think you understand the part he plays. A smarter replacement may not have been so easily manipulated to follow their plans.
They still would need a charismatic leader in a position of power to do anything.
If time travel exists, this is the optimal timeline.
What is my living situation? Do I have money? If I have the resources I’m gonna be planning a roadtrip to remove a bunch of future problems from the timeline.
You must be fun at city councils
I was born in 1983, so everything?
Begin existing somehow because i wasn’t born for about a decade
First I’d bask in all the social and financial safety nets that Reagan and the Bushes hadn’t been able to destroy yet. Watch some pro-union TV ads. Then try to meet Mr Rogers and Ramblin’ Rod.
Then I’d probably try to invent rechargeable lithium tetrahydride batteries a couple years ahead of time, use the money to invest in MS and Oracle, and funnel the profits to Enron and Bernie Madoff before their bottoms drop out. Once I’m too rich to jail, I’d have some other people I’d want to “meet”… while armed.
Do you know how to invent rechargeable lithium tetrahydride batteries right now?
I know the chemistry and I know some of the universities working on it in the 70s and 80s. I don’t know how I’d get in the door with no credentials. I like to think I could talk myself into Oxford… it’s delusional, but I like to think it.
I think things sometimes too. Its comforting.
Your mom does
Oh no I’m back in the nutsack. A shitty situation to be aware of things
Buy some stock.
Buy Apple
Or oranges, produce used to be mad affordable
I guess I don’t know the rules around this time traveling adventure, but hopefully you’re in it for the long haul.
I’d buy Microsoft myself. Perhaps sometime around the very late 90’s sell it then buy Apple.
80s? Get as big of a loan as you can from anywhere you can, then buy Hasboro, Nike, Disney, McDonald’s, Walmart. Then sell off Hasboro in the 90s to buy Apple or Cisco, sell McD’s and Nike in the 00s to buy Sandisk or Nvidia, and sell Disney in the 10s to buy Tesla, and enjoy your fuck off money from there out.
Immediately make a list of everything that will happen in the future that I can bet on or invest in.
None of that would be reliable anymore, unless you can bet on geological events. Your presence would have a ripple effect that alters events more and more as time goes on. Every interaction with you knocks people off their original timeline, and every person they interact with is knocked off their timeline. This begins localized around you but quickly spreads until even uncontested tribes are no longer on their original timeline. The timelines diverge more and more as time goes on. Something as volatile as sporting events become hard to predict very quickly. The stock market probably follows similar trends for a few years but becomes more difficult to predict, your knowledge of successful products is probably still helpful. After 10 years no babies originally born in that year will be born, the chances of the same egg meeting the same sperm is incredibly unlikely. The world is unrecognizable.
Marty McFly has entered the chat.
Ohhh so THATS why all the airlines were shorted
Stop my parents from meeting.
Save Sarah Connor
Best answer by far.
You’ll have to wait for the terminator to move on her before you zero him.
