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zoux posted:I'm so loving over Thomas Jefferson. I'll never understand why people still praise the founding fathers. Oh boy a bunch of whiney tax dodging, slave rapists founded our country LETS CELEBRATE THEM FOREVER!
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zoux posted:Thomas Jefferson, reading about the Terror in the newspaper: "This is a good thing that I like." Thomas Jefferson, reading about the Haitian Revolution: "Oh no those poor white slavelords, we must give them refuge and succor from the savage Negros."
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zoux posted:Thomas Jefferson, reading about the Terror in the newspaper: "This is a good thing that I like." middle class professionals voiding their own debts by chopping the heads off some nobles? yeah that sounds like his jam. but yeah im increasingly lolling at invocations of THE FOUNDING FATHER-FRAMERS the older i get. sure lemme take five minutes out of my day to give and entire gently caress about what some dumbasses from the times when people drank poison to cure head colds think about anything. e. to their credit theyd probably be appalled that we're treating their ~*intentions*~ as inviolate some 200+ years later paranoid randroid fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Jul 21, 2014 |
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"hey john adams how should the state best balance the rights of digital media creators with the need for-" "WHAT THE HELL IS A DIGITAL, SIRRAH?"
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Raskolnikov38 posted:I'll never understand why people still praise the founding fathers. Oh boy a bunch of whiney tax dodging, slave rapists founded our country LETS CELEBRATE THEM FOREVER! Ben Franklin is a pretty awesome dude though, or did I miss something in history class?
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Solkanar512 posted:Ben Franklin is a pretty awesome dude though, or did I miss something in history class? Ben Franklin believed that gender and sex were the same thing. *spits*
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Solkanar512 posted:Ben Franklin is a pretty awesome dude though, or did I miss something in history class? I think he did own a few slaves during his early career and I forget if he manumitted them or sold them, but he did eventually shift to a pretty strong abolitionist stance, which is surely more than you can say for Tommy J. and many (though not all) other slaveholders of the period. Though he doesn't always get included in the category of "founding father," but Thomas Paine was a pretty consistently good thinker, though personally he was apparently such an obnoxious pain in the rear end America almost didn't bother to stop the French from executing him during the Terror. Monroe, the only friend he really had, intervened at, well, the 13th hour actually, since Paine should have been dead already but due to a clerical/logistical fuckup they forgot to bring him out to that morning's round of decapitations.
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Solkanar512 posted:Ben Franklin is a pretty awesome dude though, or did I miss something in history class? a poon hound of the highest magnitude along with Casanova, Biggie Smalls, and Genghis Khan
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XyloJW posted:Ben Franklin believed that gender and sex were the same thing. *spits* Dude had himself a whole lot of gender, in that case.
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ReidRansom posted:Dude had himself a whole lot of gender, in that case. god drat
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Jul 21, 2014 18:40
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Benjamin Franklin is the patron saint of the Philadelphia metro area
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ReidRansom posted:Dude had himself a whole lot of gender, in that case. Heyooooo 
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Nintendo Kid posted:Benjamin Franklin is the patron saint of the Philadelphia metro area So lots of worship by banging?
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Jul 21, 2014 18:52
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the american founding fathers had one great crime: founding america
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DemeaninDemon posted:So lots of worship by banging? Correct. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPycHMBwAoA
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Jul 21, 2014 18:58
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In the dark all cats are gray. (paraphrase)
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I figured some part of the South would give apartheid another shot eventually.
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Sundown towns are one of my constitutionally protected rights
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ReindeerF posted:Words with TWO Goddamn apostrophes. Try that, Yankees! Ages ago, but... Y'all'd've Checkmate
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Jul 22, 2014 00:54
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Four words, three contractions, two syllables.
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mooyashi posted:Ages ago, but... "Y'all'd've not got nowhere if'n it 'usn't've fer..." 
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paranoid randroid posted:"hey john adams how should the state best balance the rights of digital media creators with the need for-" I like to think that if we brought a bunch of "founding fathers" to modern times they wouldn't give a poo poo about guns or abortion, but they would be super pissed about something goofy and trivial, like the size of our doorways or the fact that the local vet won't take your rotting tooth out. Of course they'd actually be pissed because women can vote and we have a black man as president.
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A GIANT PARSNIP posted:I like to think that if we brought a bunch of "founding fathers" to modern times they wouldn't give a poo poo about guns or abortion, but they would be super pissed about something goofy and trivial, like the size of our doorways or the fact that the local vet won't take your rotting tooth out. theyd probably freak out over how many windows our buildings have and think we are decadent weirdos
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Jul 22, 2014 02:20
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Ben Franklin would probably be pretty excited about modern medicine.
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DemeaninDemon posted:Ben Franklin would probably be pretty excited about modern medicine. And indoor plumbing.
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I don't think there's anything he wouldn't be excited about.
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also strip clubs, nudie mags, microbreweries, and dubstep.
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DemeaninDemon posted:Ben Franklin would probably be pretty excited about modern medicine. Well done
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I wonder what they'd think about the fact that we literally set the Cuyahoga River on fire in the 70's, or that a town in Pennsylvania has been on fire for 50 years.
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Ben's hand-penned epitaph: "The Body of B. Franklin Printer; Like the Cover of an old Book, Its Contents torn out, And stript of its Lettering and Gilding, Lies here, Food for Worms. But the Work shall not be wholly lost: For it will, as he believ'd, appear once more, In a new & more perfect Edition, Corrected and Amended By the Author."
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Nintendo Kid posted:I don't think there's anything he wouldn't be excited about.   he's going for it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRMG1YxDjsU
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A GIANT PARSNIP posted:Of course they'd actually be pissed because women can vote and we have a black man as president. Holy poo poo, you guys let the loving slaves revolt? To arms, everyone.
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i bet the founding fathers would own plenty of guns and be passionate about guns
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No granny porn on the monitor, not real Franklin.
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I feel like the wide use and acceptance of the term "selfie" has normalized and legitimized what should be seen as a deviant or at least childish behavior. 
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zoux posted:I feel like the wide use and acceptance of the term "selfie" has normalized and legitimized what should be seen as a deviant or at least childish behavior. Iunno, taking pictures of yourself may serve some purpose. poo poo like this, though, yeah. Just take a drat picture that DOESN'T include yourself, it'll look better. Everyone you're sharing it with knows what you look like and anyone they share it with doesn't care.
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zoux posted:I feel like the wide use and acceptance of the term "selfie" has normalized and legitimized what should be seen as a deviant or at least childish behavior. whereas getting somebody else to take time out of their own experience to take a photo of you is less narcissistic and emblematic of the downfall of modern society, because
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Yeah because people would get other people to take pictures of themselves literally hundreds of times per day.
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Maybe we don't need anyone, ourselves or others, to document our smiling presence in places meant for somber reflection.
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mooyashi posted:Four words, three contractions, two syllables. zoux posted:I feel like the wide use and acceptance of the term "selfie" has normalized and legitimized what should be seen as a deviant or at least childish behavior.
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