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[+] slakje@piefed.social 88 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 52 points 10 months ago* (3 children) A lot of people have commented on how Ben Franklin would love porn, trans women, modern voluntary sterilization, etc., but I'm just gonna come out with a hot take: Ben Franklin would fucking love cocaine. Really all modern stimulants. If there's a heaven he's up there doing lines off some chick's dick discussing her PhD dissertation. This is a man who would be fucking pissed that the nation he helped found has created Adderall shortages by restricting supplies. He'd demand healthcare be in the bill of rights for that reason alone. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children) If you brought Ben Franklin into the modern world you'd lose him within a couple hours then find him again in Goodsprings NV hungover and missing his pants. Edit: If you read NV as New Vegas and not Nevada you need to turn off the 500+ modded semi corrupt New Vegas install and go read Blood Meridian or something. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago (1 child) You can pry my 500+ modded semi corrupt TTW install from my cold, dead paws. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago Go read Blood Meridian profligate. permalink fedilink source parent [–] minimum@mander.xyz 2 points 10 months ago* (1 child) Wait a minute, Goodsprings is a real place? 😮 Does it often get attacked by boomers irl too? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 child) Boomers are the ones at Nelson. The convicts are the Powder Rangers. Go play New Vegas the psychoindoctrination hasn't settled in yet permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] minimum@mander.xyz 1 point 10 months ago (1 child) Damn, it's been some years. I forgot. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 point 10 months ago Clearly you are the rarest of Fallout players. The non-autistic or at least the non-hyperfixater. permalink fedilink source parent [–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 point 10 months ago (1 child) Oh no you're not putting that on everyone else. It's American's fault for just randomly deciding that everybody else should know where AR is. If you're going to two letter abbreviate places they at least have to be places that the international community has ever heard of, America is full of nowhere places that haven't turned up in popular media and no one from the international community has ever gone to. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 point 10 months ago Nevada has Las Vegas, Reno, Area 51, and half of the Hoover dam. I'm pretty damned sure most folks have at least vaguely heard of the state, also I'm making fun of Fallout fans seeing the abbreviation of NV and reading New Vegas and not Nevada. While Nevada isn't the most notable state it does pop up quite often in popular media thanks to Vegas. It's not like I'm referring to fucking Salmon Idaho or fucking Hebron Kentucky. Its basically the American version of Normandy or Gdańsk, culturally and historically relevant but firmly in the lower end of the top ten. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 child) Was he into stimulants, too!? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (1 child) The stimulants available to a north American of his time were wildly popular at the time in the british colonies and it's difficult to imagine him not partaking in either of them. Thst said, they were coffee and tea, both of which remain legal here to this day, and we even scrapped the extra tax on tea. Franklin died in 1790. Cocaine was first isolated in 1859 and it looks like coca wasn't really available in the global north until around that time. That said, upon the arrival of cocaine, the USA put that shit in everything. We loved the stuff permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago (1 child) Tobacco products were also very popular. Snuff being popular among rich people. Coca was used as a drug (documented) in 1568. Additionally laudanum and opium we’re also popular, but they aren’t stimulants afaik. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago I also forgot about mate because I'm a bad American and forgot about my continent's native stimulants. Tobacco was common but not in the way it was in the 20th century. It was more tasted than inhaled. But yeah I did a quick search and it looked like coca wasn't widely traded with the anglosphere until the 19th century permalink fedilink source parent [–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 10 months ago He also might break down crying at the fact that we eliminated smallpox. He did the variolation thing, but his son didn't and he died of smallpox. Franklin deeply regretted not having him do it. Then tell him that there's a whole movement of people who sees the tech that eliminated smallpox as a bad thing. That's where he's going to get deeply disappointed with us. permalink fedilink source parent [–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (1 child) Madison Cawthorn? The gun-toting sex-pest who got caught driving without a license Madison Cawthorn?! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TheBat@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago The same one who claimed he was invited to cocaine fueled Republican orgies. After that claim his political career tanked. I don't know why. permalink fedilink source parent [–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago Here's one for Thomas Jefferson https://youtu.be/20ghjoX2_GE permalink fedilink source parent
[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 52 points 10 months ago* (3 children) A lot of people have commented on how Ben Franklin would love porn, trans women, modern voluntary sterilization, etc., but I'm just gonna come out with a hot take: Ben Franklin would fucking love cocaine. Really all modern stimulants. If there's a heaven he's up there doing lines off some chick's dick discussing her PhD dissertation. This is a man who would be fucking pissed that the nation he helped found has created Adderall shortages by restricting supplies. He'd demand healthcare be in the bill of rights for that reason alone. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children) If you brought Ben Franklin into the modern world you'd lose him within a couple hours then find him again in Goodsprings NV hungover and missing his pants. Edit: If you read NV as New Vegas and not Nevada you need to turn off the 500+ modded semi corrupt New Vegas install and go read Blood Meridian or something. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago (1 child) You can pry my 500+ modded semi corrupt TTW install from my cold, dead paws. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago Go read Blood Meridian profligate. permalink fedilink source parent [–] minimum@mander.xyz 2 points 10 months ago* (1 child) Wait a minute, Goodsprings is a real place? 😮 Does it often get attacked by boomers irl too? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 child) Boomers are the ones at Nelson. The convicts are the Powder Rangers. Go play New Vegas the psychoindoctrination hasn't settled in yet permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] minimum@mander.xyz 1 point 10 months ago (1 child) Damn, it's been some years. I forgot. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 point 10 months ago Clearly you are the rarest of Fallout players. The non-autistic or at least the non-hyperfixater. permalink fedilink source parent [–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 point 10 months ago (1 child) Oh no you're not putting that on everyone else. It's American's fault for just randomly deciding that everybody else should know where AR is. If you're going to two letter abbreviate places they at least have to be places that the international community has ever heard of, America is full of nowhere places that haven't turned up in popular media and no one from the international community has ever gone to. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 point 10 months ago Nevada has Las Vegas, Reno, Area 51, and half of the Hoover dam. I'm pretty damned sure most folks have at least vaguely heard of the state, also I'm making fun of Fallout fans seeing the abbreviation of NV and reading New Vegas and not Nevada. While Nevada isn't the most notable state it does pop up quite often in popular media thanks to Vegas. It's not like I'm referring to fucking Salmon Idaho or fucking Hebron Kentucky. Its basically the American version of Normandy or Gdańsk, culturally and historically relevant but firmly in the lower end of the top ten. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 child) Was he into stimulants, too!? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (1 child) The stimulants available to a north American of his time were wildly popular at the time in the british colonies and it's difficult to imagine him not partaking in either of them. Thst said, they were coffee and tea, both of which remain legal here to this day, and we even scrapped the extra tax on tea. Franklin died in 1790. Cocaine was first isolated in 1859 and it looks like coca wasn't really available in the global north until around that time. That said, upon the arrival of cocaine, the USA put that shit in everything. We loved the stuff permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago (1 child) Tobacco products were also very popular. Snuff being popular among rich people. Coca was used as a drug (documented) in 1568. Additionally laudanum and opium we’re also popular, but they aren’t stimulants afaik. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago I also forgot about mate because I'm a bad American and forgot about my continent's native stimulants. Tobacco was common but not in the way it was in the 20th century. It was more tasted than inhaled. But yeah I did a quick search and it looked like coca wasn't widely traded with the anglosphere until the 19th century permalink fedilink source parent [–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 10 months ago He also might break down crying at the fact that we eliminated smallpox. He did the variolation thing, but his son didn't and he died of smallpox. Franklin deeply regretted not having him do it. Then tell him that there's a whole movement of people who sees the tech that eliminated smallpox as a bad thing. That's where he's going to get deeply disappointed with us. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children) If you brought Ben Franklin into the modern world you'd lose him within a couple hours then find him again in Goodsprings NV hungover and missing his pants. Edit: If you read NV as New Vegas and not Nevada you need to turn off the 500+ modded semi corrupt New Vegas install and go read Blood Meridian or something. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago (1 child) You can pry my 500+ modded semi corrupt TTW install from my cold, dead paws. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago Go read Blood Meridian profligate. permalink fedilink source parent [–] minimum@mander.xyz 2 points 10 months ago* (1 child) Wait a minute, Goodsprings is a real place? 😮 Does it often get attacked by boomers irl too? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 child) Boomers are the ones at Nelson. The convicts are the Powder Rangers. Go play New Vegas the psychoindoctrination hasn't settled in yet permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] minimum@mander.xyz 1 point 10 months ago (1 child) Damn, it's been some years. I forgot. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 point 10 months ago Clearly you are the rarest of Fallout players. The non-autistic or at least the non-hyperfixater. permalink fedilink source parent [–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 point 10 months ago (1 child) Oh no you're not putting that on everyone else. It's American's fault for just randomly deciding that everybody else should know where AR is. If you're going to two letter abbreviate places they at least have to be places that the international community has ever heard of, America is full of nowhere places that haven't turned up in popular media and no one from the international community has ever gone to. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 point 10 months ago Nevada has Las Vegas, Reno, Area 51, and half of the Hoover dam. I'm pretty damned sure most folks have at least vaguely heard of the state, also I'm making fun of Fallout fans seeing the abbreviation of NV and reading New Vegas and not Nevada. While Nevada isn't the most notable state it does pop up quite often in popular media thanks to Vegas. It's not like I'm referring to fucking Salmon Idaho or fucking Hebron Kentucky. Its basically the American version of Normandy or Gdańsk, culturally and historically relevant but firmly in the lower end of the top ten. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago (1 child) You can pry my 500+ modded semi corrupt TTW install from my cold, dead paws. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago Go read Blood Meridian profligate. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago Go read Blood Meridian profligate. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] minimum@mander.xyz 2 points 10 months ago* (1 child) Wait a minute, Goodsprings is a real place? 😮 Does it often get attacked by boomers irl too? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 child) Boomers are the ones at Nelson. The convicts are the Powder Rangers. Go play New Vegas the psychoindoctrination hasn't settled in yet permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] minimum@mander.xyz 1 point 10 months ago (1 child) Damn, it's been some years. I forgot. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 point 10 months ago Clearly you are the rarest of Fallout players. The non-autistic or at least the non-hyperfixater. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 child) Boomers are the ones at Nelson. The convicts are the Powder Rangers. Go play New Vegas the psychoindoctrination hasn't settled in yet permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] minimum@mander.xyz 1 point 10 months ago (1 child) Damn, it's been some years. I forgot. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 point 10 months ago Clearly you are the rarest of Fallout players. The non-autistic or at least the non-hyperfixater. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] minimum@mander.xyz 1 point 10 months ago (1 child) Damn, it's been some years. I forgot. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 point 10 months ago Clearly you are the rarest of Fallout players. The non-autistic or at least the non-hyperfixater. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 point 10 months ago Clearly you are the rarest of Fallout players. The non-autistic or at least the non-hyperfixater. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 point 10 months ago (1 child) Oh no you're not putting that on everyone else. It's American's fault for just randomly deciding that everybody else should know where AR is. If you're going to two letter abbreviate places they at least have to be places that the international community has ever heard of, America is full of nowhere places that haven't turned up in popular media and no one from the international community has ever gone to. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 point 10 months ago Nevada has Las Vegas, Reno, Area 51, and half of the Hoover dam. I'm pretty damned sure most folks have at least vaguely heard of the state, also I'm making fun of Fallout fans seeing the abbreviation of NV and reading New Vegas and not Nevada. While Nevada isn't the most notable state it does pop up quite often in popular media thanks to Vegas. It's not like I'm referring to fucking Salmon Idaho or fucking Hebron Kentucky. Its basically the American version of Normandy or Gdańsk, culturally and historically relevant but firmly in the lower end of the top ten. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 point 10 months ago Nevada has Las Vegas, Reno, Area 51, and half of the Hoover dam. I'm pretty damned sure most folks have at least vaguely heard of the state, also I'm making fun of Fallout fans seeing the abbreviation of NV and reading New Vegas and not Nevada. While Nevada isn't the most notable state it does pop up quite often in popular media thanks to Vegas. It's not like I'm referring to fucking Salmon Idaho or fucking Hebron Kentucky. Its basically the American version of Normandy or Gdańsk, culturally and historically relevant but firmly in the lower end of the top ten. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 child) Was he into stimulants, too!? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (1 child) The stimulants available to a north American of his time were wildly popular at the time in the british colonies and it's difficult to imagine him not partaking in either of them. Thst said, they were coffee and tea, both of which remain legal here to this day, and we even scrapped the extra tax on tea. Franklin died in 1790. Cocaine was first isolated in 1859 and it looks like coca wasn't really available in the global north until around that time. That said, upon the arrival of cocaine, the USA put that shit in everything. We loved the stuff permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago (1 child) Tobacco products were also very popular. Snuff being popular among rich people. Coca was used as a drug (documented) in 1568. Additionally laudanum and opium we’re also popular, but they aren’t stimulants afaik. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago I also forgot about mate because I'm a bad American and forgot about my continent's native stimulants. Tobacco was common but not in the way it was in the 20th century. It was more tasted than inhaled. But yeah I did a quick search and it looked like coca wasn't widely traded with the anglosphere until the 19th century permalink fedilink source parent
[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (1 child) The stimulants available to a north American of his time were wildly popular at the time in the british colonies and it's difficult to imagine him not partaking in either of them. Thst said, they were coffee and tea, both of which remain legal here to this day, and we even scrapped the extra tax on tea. Franklin died in 1790. Cocaine was first isolated in 1859 and it looks like coca wasn't really available in the global north until around that time. That said, upon the arrival of cocaine, the USA put that shit in everything. We loved the stuff permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago (1 child) Tobacco products were also very popular. Snuff being popular among rich people. Coca was used as a drug (documented) in 1568. Additionally laudanum and opium we’re also popular, but they aren’t stimulants afaik. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago I also forgot about mate because I'm a bad American and forgot about my continent's native stimulants. Tobacco was common but not in the way it was in the 20th century. It was more tasted than inhaled. But yeah I did a quick search and it looked like coca wasn't widely traded with the anglosphere until the 19th century permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago (1 child) Tobacco products were also very popular. Snuff being popular among rich people. Coca was used as a drug (documented) in 1568. Additionally laudanum and opium we’re also popular, but they aren’t stimulants afaik. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago I also forgot about mate because I'm a bad American and forgot about my continent's native stimulants. Tobacco was common but not in the way it was in the 20th century. It was more tasted than inhaled. But yeah I did a quick search and it looked like coca wasn't widely traded with the anglosphere until the 19th century permalink fedilink source parent
[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago I also forgot about mate because I'm a bad American and forgot about my continent's native stimulants. Tobacco was common but not in the way it was in the 20th century. It was more tasted than inhaled. But yeah I did a quick search and it looked like coca wasn't widely traded with the anglosphere until the 19th century permalink fedilink source parent
[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 10 months ago He also might break down crying at the fact that we eliminated smallpox. He did the variolation thing, but his son didn't and he died of smallpox. Franklin deeply regretted not having him do it. Then tell him that there's a whole movement of people who sees the tech that eliminated smallpox as a bad thing. That's where he's going to get deeply disappointed with us. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (1 child) Madison Cawthorn? The gun-toting sex-pest who got caught driving without a license Madison Cawthorn?! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TheBat@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago The same one who claimed he was invited to cocaine fueled Republican orgies. After that claim his political career tanked. I don't know why. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago The same one who claimed he was invited to cocaine fueled Republican orgies. After that claim his political career tanked. I don't know why. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago Here's one for Thomas Jefferson https://youtu.be/20ghjoX2_GE permalink fedilink source parent
