To Anyone Who Remembers Mandela Dying In The 1980s - What Else About Your Life Is Completely Different From Everyone Else's?

These are very valid questions and observations.

As you say, had Nelson Mandela genuinely died in the 1980s, then the course of the world would have changed. So people from the timeline when Mandela supposedly died in the 1980s would have had a noticably different experience than the one which we had in the timeline where he died in 2013.

In other words, Mandela dying before the end of apartheid would have had important consequences for the world, which someone skipping into a timeline where he didn't die (or vice versa) would have definitely noticed the lack of.

It therefore makes no sense to think that Mandela died in the 1980s, yet everything still went the same way as it did had he died in 2013.

It is really absurd to think that small, trivial things like the spelling of "McDonald's" have changed, when misconceptions or misremembering can very easily explain these supposed "changes".

On the other hand, thinking you have skipped realities where something major has changed, like the death of Mandela, despite the fact that everything else in the course of history has progressed in the same way, is ludicrous and, frankly, quite stupid.

And this is why the vast majority of supposed Mandela Effect changed are all trivial and relatively insignificant - names of celebrities, deaths of celebrities, trademarks, etc.

The Mandela thing is the only big one, and we have now proven, in this thread, through our flawless logic, that it's impossible that Mandela died in the 1980s, yet the rest of history progressed in the same way both in the timelines in which he supposedly died, and in this timeline.

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