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  • toledosequel [none/use name]
    hexagon
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    3 years ago

    right, some Founders werent too grotesque, yet they went for Jefferson. just fucking baffling.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Paine, Burr, Franklin, Laurens, most of the cool proto-socialist dudes upstairs from Jefferson et al in the radical assemblies of the Provincial Conference (who forced the signing of the declaration of Independence by voting for Pennsylvania to unilaterally declare independence.)

      That said, Jefferson was probably in the upper third of founders morally simply for rising to the position of hypocrite. Most of the southern founders were absolute unrepentant monsters.