Say that you suddenly wake up in the year 1875. You end up talking to someone and you want to convince them that you’re from the future. How do you do that?

  • Ludrol
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    3 days ago

    I would speak Polish and it would be enough proof with the right story to convince someone. I would be then immidietely killed for danger to the Russification and Germanisation efforts.

    (Poland didn’t exist in 1875)

    • GusTheBard@midwest.social
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      3 days ago

      Hey, Ludrol. “A bip a shap a slip a tap a eyshioni” [I am from the year 4877 and I speak Bippy, a language of the Bipp Republic of Darkness a country that won’t exist for another thousand years.

      • Ludrol
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        3 days ago

        It won’t work for Bipp Republic of Darkness in 2025 but for Poland in 1875 it would. Recently the January Uprising of 1863 has failed. The people will want to believe that Poland will exist in the future and that their sacrifice wasn’t/was* in vain. Due to emotional baggage of occupation it will work as people want hope and believe that they will win. I am not calling to logic but to emotions.

        Poland is a country with thousand years of history.


        *Depends if I will tak to Pozytywista or Romantyk

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          3 days ago

          I guess I don’t know enough European history. Which means that when I say “that makes a lot of sense. You have convinced me” it means very very little and you should not feel like you have won any debate.

          Just kidding. The Bipp Republic supports your methods.

    • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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      3 days ago

      Wouldn’t they just identify you as a subversive from 1875, instead of a liberated person from the future?