was reading Jefferson today and it's hard to not get annoyed with a man who was clearly intelligent just absolutely bomb on the question of slavery towards the end of his life
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No one is perfect.
jul 13, 2025, 12:59 am • 0 0 • view
He got really horrible in his last decade or so
jul 13, 2025, 8:15 am • 1 0 • view
Probably would hate Daveed Diggs playing him so fantastically in Hamilton.
jul 13, 2025, 1:39 am • 2 1 • view
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jul 13, 2025, 12:26 am • 33 1 • view
The loudest yelps for liberty, things of that nature
jul 13, 2025, 12:29 am • 4 1 • view
Wasn't he one of those people who becomes ever more vicious, bigoted, and nasty the older they get?
jul 13, 2025, 8:34 am • 0 0 • view
Thats why Adams is the GOAT, Jefferson was a foppish gentryman who had all the moral strength of a soggy piece of paper.
jul 13, 2025, 5:32 am • 4 0 • view
He started r*ping Sally Hemings when she was 12 years old.
jul 13, 2025, 5:32 pm • 2 0 • view
The way one of my professors spoke about it is that Jefferson is the worst hypocrite in the first founding. The man intentionally chose to be obtuse when it suited his interests, while being a visionary when it came to the rights in the abstract. Ah well, at least we got mac & cheese out of it.
jul 13, 2025, 1:33 am • 13 0 • view
And ice cream
jul 13, 2025, 2:00 am • 1 0 • view
That's the best way to describe Jefferson. There was virtually no principle he espoused that he didn't violate at some point in his life in a huge way.
jul 13, 2025, 4:44 am • 4 0 • view
Haiti terrified him, acc to Wood. Whatever the reason, slavery rotted his brain and by the end of his life he was deeply corrupted. 🎶 Slavery makes slaves of us all
jul 13, 2025, 6:49 am • 1 0 • view
Depressing to think THAT was when he and Adams made up... :-(
jul 13, 2025, 6:50 am • 1 0 • view
Brutal. Once one becomes an equity holder is something morally repugnant, they’re on the slippery slope of self-justification to functional evil.
jul 26, 2025, 1:40 am • 0 0 • view
When the child slaves are making the nails that are keeping you out of debtors' prison, you're also going to start dabbling in some pretty esoteric concepts of justice. It's also funny how this just reads like every Hobbsean argument about the criminal and the state.
jul 13, 2025, 1:20 am • 8 1 • view
The Haitian revolution fried a lot of American brains
jul 13, 2025, 12:30 am • 24 0 • view
Pretty sure this is the logic behind a lot of "liberal" zionists.
jul 13, 2025, 3:16 am • 1 0 • view
jul 13, 2025, 12:32 am • 68 0 • view
“We would free these slaves but then we’d all have to get jobs”
jul 13, 2025, 2:14 am • 6 0 • view
What book is this?
jul 13, 2025, 12:32 am • 6 0 • view
He would have loved twitter.com
jul 13, 2025, 12:45 am • 2 0 • view
It gets really grim when you learn about Sally Hemmings…
jul 13, 2025, 1:57 pm • 2 0 • view
Jefferson like his peers was an uncommon model of a coward in excess (he was smart enough to know better) - and he and his peers passed that bit of their character on to generations. Much of their living posteriority has no idea how deeply fear informs the irrationality of their bigotry.
jul 13, 2025, 6:20 am • 0 0 • view
Just sell the fucking plantation, you can more easily be a gentleman scientist in Philly
jul 13, 2025, 12:29 am • 21 0 • view
Yeah I mean he knew. Everything else is a scramble to make it fit together
jul 13, 2025, 12:26 am • 13 0 • view
Makes me wonder if he would've been an annoying contrarian if he'd been around today
jul 13, 2025, 12:28 am • 5 0 • view
Probably so, like so many opining ‘conservative’ commentators who qualify institutionalized violence as reasonable means to force others to assimilate social ideals, to accept what they consider indispensable ‘values’, all which favor their respective world views - ie, debate as pretext.
jul 13, 2025, 10:46 am • 1 0 • view
Dude was a racist
jul 13, 2025, 1:10 am • 0 0 • view
jul 13, 2025, 12:39 am • 0 0 • view
The fear of a modern “slave revolt” terrifies the white people I was raised around in Louisiana. There’s a palpable fear that black people will “rise up” and seek vengeance. It’s the reason the 2nd amendment is their no. 1 priority, and why most white southerners refuse to support Dem. candidates.
jul 13, 2025, 12:33 am • 13 2 • view
They conceive of themselves as the most moral it is possible for people to be. They know that they will, given the opportunity always choose to do harm. Therefore they conclude that since no one could do better than them, they cannot let anyone else have the chance to harm them. /1
jul 13, 2025, 6:35 pm • 0 0 • view
They do not comprehend that they are in error on all fronts. And that they are only demonstrating that they should never under any circumstances be trusted with anything. /2
jul 13, 2025, 6:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Read Roman Law - slavery always contorts rational thought because, deep down, they know it’s wrong.
jul 13, 2025, 1:20 am • 13 2 • view
upton sinclair undefeated
jul 13, 2025, 12:26 am • 27 0 • view
I mean, the founders of your country were right.
jul 13, 2025, 1:10 am • 0 0 • view
Can you clarify the question?
jul 13, 2025, 2:48 am • 0 0 • view
It's not a question, it's a reference to Sharon being Canadian.
jul 13, 2025, 3:03 am • 2 1 • view
Smart, rational guy, clearly one of the best minds of the Enlightenment, but holy cow did the man compartmentalize when it came to slavery. (And don't get me started on Sally Hemings)
jul 13, 2025, 12:36 am • 21 1 • view
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jul 13, 2025, 3:06 am • 0 0 • view