• Frank [he/him, he/him]
    hexbear
    86
    7 months 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 [he/him]
      hexbear
      88
      7 months 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 [he/him, he/him]
        hexbear
        13
        7 months ago

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

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
      hexagon
      hexbear
      81
      7 months 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:

      Show

    • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
      hexbear
      31
      7 months ago

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

      • CTHlurker [he/him]
        hexbear
        20
        7 months 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 [he/him]
          hexagon
          hexbear
          17
          7 months ago

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

          • CTHlurker [he/him]
            hexbear
            13
            7 months 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 [he/him, he/him]
          hexbear
          8
          7 months 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.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
      hexbear
      5
      edit-2
      7 months ago

      In conservative Handmaids Tale, all women will be strippers, but also devout Muslims wearing burkas, and also college students with blue hair. And it’s directed by an extremely horny sex pest who married his wife he’s known for 14 years when she turned 18

      • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
        hexbear
        3
        7 months ago

        all women will be strippers, but also devout Muslims wearing burkas, and also college students with blue hair.

        The trifecta

  • Cascadia_ [they/them]
    hexbear
    58
    edit-2
    7 months ago

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

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
      hexagon
      hexbear
      69
      edit-2
      7 months ago

      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!

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
      hexbear
      54
      7 months ago

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

      • GriffithDidNothingWrong [comrade/them]
        hexbear
        39
        7 months ago

        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

  • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
    hexbear
    45
    7 months 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 [he/him]
    hexbear
    42
    7 months 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

  • Maoo [none/use name]
    hexbear
    38
    7 months 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.

  • @DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
    hexbear
    36
    7 months 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?

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
    hexbear
    34
    edit-2
    7 months 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 [he/him, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    28
    7 months ago

    desecrated his statue

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

  • anonochronomus [comrade/them]
    hexbear
    23
    7 months ago

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

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    22
    7 months ago

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