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When people are way too smug about their wrong answer.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They were pretty cool enlightenment thinkers who created the first constitutional republic and were able to muscle out the British Empire. It’s pretty remarkable.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What they did is remarkable, but they are often treated more like oracles and the constitution like some perfect golden tablets someone dug up in their yard (despite needing significant changes right after it was ratified).

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lots of US people will explain to you that the constitution and its amendments are immutable. And when you ask them to repeat that slowly, they'll just say it louder because you're the slow one.

[–] ICastFist 2 points 1 year ago

I wonder if there's some sort of irony in there about immutable, "perfect" laws

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I know. Now if anyone used their actual intellectual accomplishments as arguments instead of the simple fact that they existed, that might be interesting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Their intellectual accomplishments: rad Personal lives : depends who you're talking about

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Depends on who you’re talking about and what part of their life you’re looking at.

Is it the George Washington who chopped the cherry tree, the George Washington who dressed his slaves in potato sacks, or the George Washington who declined to be king and set the standard of the presidency? There are a lot of George’s in there who are deserving of vastly different levels of reverence.