• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I mean, set aside the slavery politics for just a minute, because that’s low hanging fruit.

    Imagine showing Thomas Jefferson the Hoover Dam. Imagine introducing Thomas Paine to the internet. Imagine George Washington’s face illuminated by a mushroom cloud. How fucking dumb do you think Benedict Arnold would feel if you dropped him onto the deck of a US Aircraft Carrier. How flabbergasted would James Madison feel if you explained that we literally call it the “White House”, because we never changed the color after the British burned it down. What do you think Patrick Henry would have to say about Social Security?

    FFS,

    • Schmoo@slrpnk.net
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      4 months ago

      Thomas Paine is the only one I could tolerate hanging out with. The rest are getting pushed back into the time machine and sent to the Devonian period.

      • OwOarchist@pawb.social
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        4 months ago

        The rest are getting pushed back into the time machine and sent to the Devonian period.

        Great. Now the sudden appearance of invasive modern bacteria just caused a mass extinction in the Devonian, the entire history of life on earth is changed, and the dominant life form is an amphibian of roughly chimpanzee intelligence.