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[-] Frank@hexbear.net 86 points 2 years ago

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

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 88 points 2 years ago

He would 1000% use it to pick up women claiming he was a world traveler who has seen exotic sights (and wants to see one more exotic sight nudge nudge wink wink)

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

The way we remember Ben Franklin is basically just Danny Devito but slightly hornier.

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 81 points 2 years ago

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:

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 45 points 2 years ago

Franklin would be out there claiming to be an "octoroon" to nail more French dilletantes

[-] MarmaladeMermaid@lemm.ee 29 points 2 years ago

Not enough publicity tears 😢

[-] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 years ago

Another photo of him doing whiteface smdh.

[-] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago

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

[-] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

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

[-] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

This was what I was thinking of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran_oath_controversy_of_the_110th_United_States_Congress

Apparently the Jefferson Qu'ran thing came later and he was sworn in using a "regular" Qu'ran.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

Apparently he created an edit of the bible that took out all the miracles and just focused on the stuff that could be applied to secular thought.

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 80 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] Cascadia_@hexbear.net 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!"

[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 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

[-] muddi@hexbear.net 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

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 40 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Maoo@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago
  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.

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

The American Civic religion certainly has its share of consecrated figures

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 2 years ago

Do you think that she used "A handmaid's tale" because she was mocked for using 1984 too much, but doesn't know any other dystopian novels apart from those two?

I do now. I've been asking myself how this relates to a handmaids tale all day but I think you nailed it. It was kind of like the Brothers Karamazov, probably, I've never read it

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 2 years ago

Truly Kafkaesque, I assume.

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[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 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.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago

desecrated his statue

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

[-] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

this isn't even the level of desecration drunk people will do as a laugh

that statue is less desecrated on average as they have shielded it from pigeon shit

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

If anything it's an act of preservation of the statue.

[-] AsLeftAsTheyCome@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago

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

[-] anonochronomus@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago

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

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Well, don't do that... especially now that you've posted about it!

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[-] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 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.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 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

[-] rubpoll@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

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

[-] privatized_sun@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

based anti-Philadelphia nerd action

[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 2 years ago

Clown to clown conversation

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago
[-] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

cracker talking about a dead cracker

[-] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Sunday morning!

[-] HexbearGPT@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago
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