Negative.
This country was founded by the colonies' Uber rich, because they didn't want to pay taxes. Mission accomplished.
this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2023
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Seriously only a handful of the founding fathers were based, or even liberal.
The most powerful founding fathers were obscenely wealthy slave owners who used their power in government to keep the wealthy on top, reduce taxes, and even personally stop attempts to end slavery.
You have no fucking clue what a 250 year old aristocrat would think of modern US. This is some millennial boomer esq shit right here.
I feel like Ben Franklin would be pretty down with things.
Gotta agree. This country is a rich landowner's wet-dream.
What moldy brainlet saw this and thought it relates to them?
I live in NYC. I'm nowhere near England, as far as I can tell. I would love to visit England one day, though. Much love to any Londoners or English people reading this.
The US has daddy issues.
Some of us are, but most of us aren't. DC citizens have been doing it for so long they put it on their license plates.
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A sepia-tone picture of 3 of the founding fathers of America: Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the former two of which are seated and the third is standing around a small circular table covered in paperwork, quills and ink.
Over the image is the text:
"We are now living in a country
our founding fathers fought to escape"
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Only if you live in DC or Puerto Rico (or other US territories)
Not really sure what uniting cause beyond "No taxation without representation" you think the Founding Fathers held in common.
Terrible take. This isn't a monarchy.
Yet.
Its a geriocracy
You think that's why we left?
One of the reasons, yeah. Enlightenment thinkers were straight horny for the classical and merchant republics.
Now if you look at those republics from a modern lens you go "Oh, that's where the damage came from" but compared to divine right monarchies mid-colonization the Founding Fathers were woke af.
That all said, all slave owners in history were objectively evil. There is not a single one that didn't know it too.
fuck the founding fathers
No, fuck the people that take the founding fathers as infallible - when it suits their argument. The FF did what they did, and at the time it was groundbreaking, but they didn't count on populist stupidity taking what they wrote and amplifying the worst parts of it ad nauseam.
And DEFINITELY couldn't have predicted the route modern technology would take us
They'd have thought it was sweet as fuck until they realized we knew disaster was coming and did fuck all to stop it.
Not even the things that would still make us money.
I think they call that necrophilia and is generally frowned upon
Them powdered wigs get me excited in my britches
You must be british
Theocratic oligarchies suck, deal with it
duh. saying i’m not a fan of the founding american government doesn’t mean i’m pro 1700’s british monarchy
Okay redcoat