Thomas Jefferson lived his whole life in the grip of the delusion he was a humble hardworking self-sufficient farmer when in fact he was a spoiled dilettante supported by an army of slaves All of subsequent American politics was shaped in the mold of this basic lie-to-selfhttps://twitter.com/exmachina00/status/1215568634162089984 …
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Jefferson never set foot on an actual battlefield in his life - the closest he came was running the fuck away when Benedict Arnold invaded Richmond in 1781 He was never at risk of "losing what he had" at the hands of the British, only his own debts
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>"Never at risk of losing what he had." >Having to deal with the British invading. Pick one.
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90% of historical figures of the past owned slaves. Are we really gonna hold them to modern standards? Jefferson help put the whole revolution together. He was great leader and we couldn't have won without him.
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I grow increasingly tempted to turn this old tweet into a real comic.https://twitter.com/YMuPr/status/1123842348008595456 …
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