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[–] 86 points 2 years ago (11 children)

If someone gave Ben Franklin a Keffiyeh he'd wear the thing around, incorrectly, for the next year. But blah blah blah desecration

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  • [–] [S] 81 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    He seems like he'd be pulling off those Trudeau publicity stunts constantly. You may not like it but this is what a modern Ben Franklin would be like:

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Didn't Ben Franklin learn Arabic through his own copy of the Quran, or am I thinking of a different guy?

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Think that was Jefferson. Supposedly he was big into studying religions, and I seem to remember the first Muslim in Congress being sworn in on the same Quran.

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  • [–] [S] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It was Rashida Tlaib, but I think it's an english translation of the Quran!

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  • [–] 80 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Handmaids Tale. A story famously about the desecration of statues of famous white American men

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    [–] 58 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    so-true "Wow it's just like [entertainment] but the people I don't like are the bad guys!"

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  • [+] 48 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)
  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Not all of them, but most of them did. Shoutout to Thomas Paine for not being morally bankrupt.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The term founding fathers is an unfortunate one. It was a varied group of people with different beliefs and levels of participation. American history always makes it sound like one group of besties who hung out all the time and agreed on everything. I don't think that's what you or dirt were doing but I hear it a lot

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago

    I wonder how she feels about the roe v wade shit via a vis comparing to things to hand maids tale

    Yah but no a small protest is definitely the same thing

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago

    Desecrated

    Because the Founding Fathers are a pantheon for the American civic religion? (Answering myself, unironically yes!)

    Meanwhile they'll protect the acts of burning Qurans and rendering the Prophet in insulting ways as free speech, and not inciting public religious conflict

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago

    I love how she's the self proclaimed voice of Jewish people.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (1 child)
    1. Franklin isn't holy or sacred whatever how the hell can you desecrate him.

    2. A pro-Palestine group putting a kufiyah on a statue is honoring it, if anything.

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  • [+] 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
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    [–] 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Do the lead pipes in washington rot the memory? Do these people not remember the years between 1995 and 2014 when muslims were the designated targets? Why does Marxism curse me with this recollection of the very recent past.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    desecrated his statue

    With a very removable bit of desecration that isn't at all permanent. Are these people capable of thinking?

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    We need to stop liberals from using similes until we figure out what’s going on.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Philly comrades stay winning. Maybe I'll hop on the subway and go turn it into a bust with a sledge hammer.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    He was a slaver. So forgive me if I don't give a shit what people do to his statue.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    Meghan McCain having a career is like The Man in the High Castle or some other book she's never read

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    Sometimes I forget that liberals literally care about statues more than any number of human lives.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I can't help imagining that if that faildaughter ever wrote a resume it'd just be the words "MY FATHER" in massive font on each page.

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    based anti-Philadelphia nerd action

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Clown to clown conversation

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    cracker talking about a dead cracker

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Hamilton revived the founding fathers cult of personality for the next generation

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Sunday morning!

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago
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