• ancap shark
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      3 days ago

      Because almost nobody in Brazil would know Paul Revere

      • @threelonmusketeers
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        32 days ago

        But they would know Thomas Jefferson? If I were tasked to choose the most famous U.S. political figures, I might have chosen Washington or Lincoln…

        • @[email protected]
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          32 days ago

          I’m not from Brazil but from Germany and out of all the U.S. founding fathers Washington, Franklin and Jefferson were the ones I had heard of. Lincoln also, but he is not one of them, is he?

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            15 hours ago

            Lincoln is famous because he was the president during the US civil war and abolished slavery. This happened a century after us independence/founding.

          • @threelonmusketeers
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            32 days ago

            No, Lincoln wasn’t a founding father. He was just a famous president who came later.