My vote is for Jesus.
Jesus
Indistinguishable, if the vote is close, I’m going to request that you post a clarification. I find it indistinguishable whether you intended “Jesus” as a (profane) expletive about the game set-up, or whether it is your vote for this round.
My best guess is that you intended “Jesus” to serve double duty, as vote and as expletive. But for heaven’s sake! These are no longer the days of 1200-baud modems or $1-per-byte storage! You could have just wasted the bandwidth and written “Jesus! (Jesus)” or some such.
I hope you don’t take offense, Indistinguishable, but … Geez!
Rereading OP, I see that even though we each seem to be allowed but a single vote, 3 will be eliminated. Present unofficial standings are:
Jesus 17(*)
Hitler 4
Isabella 1
Mani 1
Mohammed 1
Paul 1
Urban 1
So destined for elimination are Jesus, Hitler, and one other. To influence the third ouster, I’ll change my vote from Jesus to Paul/Saul of Tarsus.
(* 17 assuming Indistinguishable’s expletive was also a vote.)
St Paul again. Took the positives of Jesus’ message and screwed them up bigtime.
I Vote for
28. Orville and Wilbur Wright-Scientists, Inventor of Airplane
If they didnt invent the airplane, someone else would have made one before the decade was over
May I ask why? The Crusades, or something else?
LOL WUT. It’s Guglielmo. And he wasn’t a scientist.
And my vote is for Jesus.
Jesus.
mohammed
Jesus. Just to see how many times Curtis will restart the poll.
Even Jesus only got one resurrection.
When they tried to off him 1981 years ago, two others joined him on Gol’gotha. And two will be off’ed with him here tomorrow, if I understand the rules. I’m hoping some Jesus voters will switch to St. Paul and either Urban or Constantine. Then we’ll give a good 1-2-3 knock-out punch to Christianity (though 1900-some years too late).
I’m going to offer my own spin on my recommendation. I will play “what if?” as in, “What if that person hadn’t existed?” Some historical figures were just fulfilling an historical inevitability: given the increased interest in mercantilism in the fifteenth century, coupled with improvements in nautical technology, Columbus’s role would almost certainly have been filled by someone within a few decades. So he did a big thing, sure: someone was gonna do it, even if Columbus hadn’t existed. Sort of the same thing with Stalin: there were enough evil assholes in the early USSR that if Stalin hadn’t existed, most likely another murderous power-hungry asshole would’ve filled his role.
Hitler, though. Hitler took some pretty rank anti-semitism and bitterness in Germany and really worked that shit. If he hadn’t existed, World War II might still have happened–but I seriously doubt the Holocaust would’ve happened.
So he gets my vote.
I don’t think it was as inevitable as you’re saying. The Europeans, after all, weren’t looking for the Americas. They were looking for a route to East Asia. The main effort was put into trying to sail south around Africa. The alternative of sailing out west across the ocean was seen as an unlikely longshot.
Columbus took off right around the time that the southern route was becoming established. If his voyage had been delayed for even a few years, it would have been seen as unnecessary - the route to Asia was clearly to the south not the west. And as that route became more regularly traveled people would have increasingly accurate information about the distances involved - which would give evidence of how long a direct transoceanic route was (if you could sail directly west from Lisbon to Tokyo, it would be over eleven thousand miles). It might have been a century or more before anyone tried such an unlikely voyage (and discovered some unknown continents were in the way).
I vote for George W. Bush- wait a minute, not on list. OK, Reagan. Darn it, he’s not there either. Then the third greatest evil, Hitler.
I suppose it’s distantly possible it might’ve been a century–but exploration was getting really big around then, and I think it’s pretty certain that someone would’ve gone west, even if just from Iceland. They might’ve landed somewhere besides the Caribbean, but I think it would’ve happened pretty soon.
What the…? You think Ronald Reagan and George W Bush was worse than Hitler. How much has partisanship blinded you? Considering Adolf’s on the way to doom I’ll change the vote to Mohammed.
Why don’t you try and recruit some Hitler voters to St. Paul? I look forward to reading your slogan.
Curtis, considering how you’re taking this so completely unseriously–not voting according to the rules, but rather trying to game your own game–can you be surprised at all that nobody else is taking it seriously?
In the spirit of rank cheating, I’m changing my vote away from Hitler, to Paul. Not because I think Paul was worse than Hitler, but because I can see that I’m not supposed to play according to the rules of the game. I encourage other folks who voted for Hitler to change their vote for the same reason.