• Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    1 year 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]
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      1 year 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]
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        1 year ago

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

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 year 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:

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    • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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      1 year 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]
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        1 year 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
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          1 year ago

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

          • CTHlurker [he/him]
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            1 year 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]
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          1 year 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.