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Bluesky Social is a microblogging social platform being developed in conjunction with the decentralized AT Protocol. Previously invite-only, the flagship Beta app went public in February 2024. All are welcome!

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Reminder that there is no official religion in the United States (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

I love that Thomas Paine was a founding father. He showed up on the run from the monarchy, tried to make us more woke and get us to be more like the iriquois confederacy, told us to be nicer to indigenous and black people, then fucked off because we clearly weren't serious about the freedom and "all men are created equal" things.

Thomas Paine is one of the few people alongside Benjamin Franklin that your history teacher severely undersold to you