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Missouri rule change would allow senators to challenge each other to a duel (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Alexander Hamilton called out Aaron Burr for defrauding new york city and died in a duel as a result. Aaron Burr was justified having won the duel and used the money to start J.P. Morgan bank and now we all have to pay $30 for being $0.01 overdrawn.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ackshtually, Burr founded what became the Chase part of it, and the duel was over five years after that.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

I love a good akkshually, well done

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hamilton was a federalist that started the Bank of New York

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

"Is that what you want our daughter to be? A big-government dual-loser?"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

This should be higher in the list. This is a repeat the past moment, not a bad guys killing each other moment.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Lol what? JP Morgan was started, unsurprisingly, by JP Morgan