3. TIL that after George Washington read the Declaration of Independence on July 9,...

TIL that after George Washington read the Declaration of Independence on July 9, 1776, the crowd was so moved that they toppled the statue of George III, decapitated it, and then later melted the body to make bullets. the head eventually made it's way back to England.

As someone mentioned, George Washington was a slave owner, which definitely makes you a tyrant in most people's book

Makes ME a tyrant? That's a hell of a jump. Let's tear down any statues of George Washington; I'd be fucking pumped to do that. Let's dynamite the Washington memorial, chisel that ugly ass face off of Six Grandfathers.

You make a lot of assumptions about my heritage, but you don't know what you're talking about.

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You fought "tyrants" to defend your right to enslave and mass murder
people, if you think you were the heroes in this story, no wonder your
country is rotten to its core

Getting the distinct impression that you misunderstood my comment.

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