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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The Founding Fathers fetishism so casually overrides peoples' disgust for incest and pedophilia.

It's genuinely depressing. America is a failed state.

[–] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day ago

Not incest. She was his wife's half-sister, not his.

But that's okay, whatever little bit of disgust that saved should be made up for by the fact she was their slave.

[–] lowered_lifted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's extra depressing because these fucking stupid CHUDs licking slaver boot don't seem to know that Jefferson never said or wrote that quote.

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"You can't believe everything you read on the Internet."

-Mark Twain

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It was actually Samuel Clemens who said that.

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago

I believe it. I saw it on the Internet just now.