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And not just Benjamin Franklin, either. That whole group of dudes. The ones the filmmaker Ken Burns has devoted his entire life to immortalizing - and rightly so. @marymcnamara.bsky.social

I am, in my heart of hearts, convinced that if you brought Benny Franks to the modern day most of your time together would be spent explaining yoga pants. His new found knowledge transforms America from an isolationist backwater to a textile producing powerhouse, forever altering history.

Or Haribo sugar free, for a different kind of revelation

he would boof them at hellfire club and come up with a witty aphorism about it

rookie mistake! you first gotta travel forward in time to procure a better time machine from the future then you fight an extended time war to stabilize causality against all the time-hopping everyone is doing only then can you do the gummy bears thing

I think that he would actually handle it better than any of the other founding fathers. You give that shit to Alexander Hamilton though? He wouldn't survive.

Take some penicillin with you, is you please. It's great for the syph and the clap!

breaks his thumb swiping right on EV-ER-Y-ONE

Would invent so much wild shit

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