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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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)
The way we remember Ben Franklin is basically just Danny Devito but slightly hornier.
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: 
Franklin would be out there claiming to be an "octoroon" to nail more French dilletantes
Not enough publicity tears 😢
Another photo of him doing whiteface smdh.
Didn't Ben Franklin learn Arabic through his own copy of the Quran, or am I thinking of a different guy?
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.
It was Rashida Tlaib, but I think it's an english translation of the Quran!
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.
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.
Handmaids Tale. A story famously about the desecration of statues of famous white American men
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"Wow it's just like [entertainment] but the people I don't like are the bad guys!"
Didn't the founding fathers own slaves?
At least Ben Franklin had an abolitionist arc later in life. I don't think the intent of putting a makeshift keffiyeh is to desecrate the statue. The protesters are clearly trying to be respectful and win over "moderates" here!
It's a good look too!
Not all of them, but most of them did. Shoutout to Thomas Paine for not being morally bankrupt.
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
A lot of their writings are them constantly talking shit on the other guys.
tldr, generic radlibs
Not all of them but basically all the ones who made the history books did
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
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
I love how she's the self proclaimed voice of Jewish people.
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Franklin isn't holy or sacred whatever how the hell can you desecrate him.
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A pro-Palestine group putting a kufiyah on a statue is honoring it, if anything.
The American Civic religion certainly has its share of consecrated figures
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
Truly Kafkaesque, I assume.
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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.
desecrated his statue
With a very removable bit of desecration that isn't at all permanent. Are these people capable of thinking?
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
If anything it's an act of preservation of the statue.
We need to stop liberals from using similes until we figure out what’s going on.
He was a slaver. So forgive me if I don't give a shit what people do to his statue.
Philly comrades stay winning. Maybe I'll hop on the subway and go turn it into a bust with a sledge hammer.
Meghan McCain having a career is like The Man in the High Castle or some other book she's never read
Sometimes I forget that liberals literally care about statues more than any number of human lives.
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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based anti-Philadelphia nerd action
Clown to clown conversation
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Lol
cracker talking about a dead cracker
Hamilton revived the founding fathers cult of personality for the next generation
Sunday morning!
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