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    https://www.snopes.com/articles/466491/ages-founding-fathers-july-4-1776/

    The signers of the Declaration of Independence. Lots of young 'uns in there.

    Adams, John MA 40

    Adams, Samuel 53

    Bartlett, Josiah 46

    Braxton, Carter 39

    Carroll, Charles 38

    Chase, Samuel 35

    Clark, Abraham 50

    Clymer, George 37

    Ellery, William 48

    Floyd, William 41

    Franklin, Benjamin 70

    Gerry, Elbridge 32

    Gwinnett, Button 41

    Hall, Lyman 52

    Hancock, John 40

    Harrison, Benjamin 50

    Hart, John 65

    Hewes, Joseph 46

    Heyward Jr., Thomas 30

    Hooper, William 34

    Hopkins, Stephen 69

    Hopkinson, Francis 38

    Huntington, Samuel 45

    Jefferson, Thomas 33

    Lee, Francis Lightfoot 41

    Lee, Richard Henry 44

    Lewis, Francis 63

    Livingston, Philip 60

    Lynch Jr., Thomas 26

    McKean, Thomas 42

    Middleton, Arthur 34

    Morris, Lewis 50

    Morris, Robert 42

    Morton, John 52

    Nelson Jr., Thomas 37

    Paca, William 35

    Paine, Robert Treat 45

    Penn, John 36

    Read, George 42

    Rodney, Caesar. 47

    Ross, George 46

    Rush, Benjamin 30

    Rutledge, Edward 26

    Sherman, Roger 55

    Smith, James 57

    Stockton, Richard 45

    Stone, Thomas MD 33

    Taylor, George PA 60

    Thornton, Matthew 62

    Walton, George 35

    Whipple, William 46

    Williams, William 45

    Wilson, James 33

    Witherspoon, John 53

    Wolcott, Oliver 49

    Wythe, George VA 50

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        I’d be pretty interesting to have access to age demographics for social media. I assume Reddit leans younger than Lemmy, but I’m in my early 20s and so are a few of my friends, and we use Lemmy a lot more.

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    “1791 was the year it happened. I was 24, younger than you are now, but times were different then. I was a man at that age: the master of a large plantation just south of New Orleans.”

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        Could a reply be any more perfect?!

        Louis: Hot as balls, forever young, immortal, never grow sick, never die, best friend is a literal rock star, has to eat a poodle now and again.

        “Woe is me!”

        I’m in the woods and swamps a lot. Always think of this line:

        “Then on a diet of the blood of snakes, toads, and all the putrid life of the Mississippi…”

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      Yeah. The Declaration of Independence was a Reddit post. The Constitution is the result of a bunch of 30 year old men arguing over what should and shouldn’t be in there, and one guy hopelessly transcribing their argument and hoping they’ll sign it because he’ll be buggered if he’ll copy all that out again.

      (“The Vice President shall be the leader of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.” Yes, that’s how having an odd number of voters works…)

      It is good to know though that white Internet libertarians predate the Internet by about 2 centuries.