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