• Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    AFAIK Ben Franklin preferred old women. And I mean old. Like over 70. Lots of letters to people telling them how widows are the best partners because they know what they’re doing. And that they’re more open to threesomes/foursomes.

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    Especially Jefferson. Not Franklin though. Benjamin Franklin in a letter to a young man listed 8 reasons why an older mistress was preferable to a younger one.

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    If this happens to an international tennis star, imagine what happens to young, poor girls with little support

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        Ok, cool. I’m asking out of genuine curiosity. How does this post make you feel? You’re in the overlap of the targeter and the targeted.

        As a show of good faith, let’s commiserate. I agree that our “founding fathers” weren’t good people by today’s standards, but I’m in the camp that their ideas of classical liberalism were fine. I feel shame that our country is built on genocide, slavery and exploitation, but at the same time, I want to hold our current leadership to a higher standard and ahem prosecute them. I understand that you don’t agree with classical liberalism, and that’s fine, I’m not looking to pick a fight. But I imagine you feel some confusion and conflict as I do?

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    I don’t care, get this misdirection off my feed worry about prosecuting the coconspiritors

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      And what pray tell is preventing those very prosecutions? You’re saying it’s leftists on the internet calling out systemic issues?

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      Those who do not learn from history something something, nvm probably not important to anything happening today.

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        That quote comes from a longer quote, here’s most of it I think “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to hear about those who do not learn from history are doomed to hear about those who do not learn from history are doomed to hear about those who do not learn from history are doomed to hear about those who do not learn from history are doomed to hear about…”

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          Is this how you’ve chosen to cope, by imagining that communists would also be pedophiles?

          Hey, Xi Jinping is still alive, how come he isn’t in the files?

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            Mao was a dictator, he’s exactly the type of person who would be in the files.

            A billionaire is just a capitalist dictator.

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              the biggest hallmark of a dictatorial regime is characterized by the suffering of the country’s people.

              china’s literacy; education & life expectancy rates went through the roof in china.

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          I’m willing to bet money that a thing that never happened would have happened…

          wtf even are you doing?