Inb4 conservatives change from
"Mary was a teenager"
to
"The Founding Fathers were pedophiles too"
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Inb4 hell freezes over you mean ๐
Franklin would have, for sure, but I'm pretty sure the rest of them would have just kept raping their own slaves.
Not all. Pretty sure John Adams would not have been.
Hamilton and Jefferson would probably have written most of them though, about each other.
I don't think they would have been called the Epstein files though. It probably would have been called the Franklin files. All of this stuff seems like Ben Franklin's jam.
No I don't think Ben Franklin would have done it for espionage or spying purposes I think he would have just done it for the love of the game.
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How many MLs reading this are Americans?
Ben Franklin's letter from 1745 is pretty good evidence that he liked older women. We're not just talking 30's here either; he implies women in their 40's and older.
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/eros/praise-older-women
The misogyny is strong, but at least it's not pedophilia.