Who was the greatest American who ever lived?
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>>845424
George Washington.
>>845455
>greatest american
>wasn't born in america
Alexander Hamilton is the only correct answer
Andrew "the bankslayer" Jackson
>>845463
thanks for pointing this out, sir Anon.
>>845470
Shoo shoo, you Federalist shill.
>>845424
Jefferson
Check em.
Either some industrialist like Henry Ford or one of the founding fathers.
>>845551
>Unironic anti-federalist
Plebian detected
>>845424
William James, even though I have massive respect for Benny.
>>845588
>Henry Ford
>Sucker of Hitler's dick
Nazis are not true Americans. Mr. Ford's candidacy is hereby null and void.
>>845570
>Most Americans don't realize many of our founding fathers spoke in British accents.
Maybe where you come from, Bubba, but here they hammer it in our heads that the founding fathers were originally British.
>>845696
The south and rural areas are more aware of it than others would be
>>845605
>Sucker of Hitler's Dick
>Also getting his dick sucked by Hitler
More like a homo 69 sort of situation.
Washington.
Nelson Mandela
There needs to be more diversity in this thread. Why couldn't a Muslim American be the greatest American? Or a woman? Or *gasp* a BLACK MUSLIM WOMAN?
/thread
t. American
>>845742
*clapping intensifies*
>>845731
Pathetic strawman
>>/out/
>>845424
Nicola Thomas Tesla Edison
>>845424
Tesla
>>845496
Andrew "the French connection" Jackson
>>846888
fuck off retard
>"UNITED"
>>845799
Andrew "the Injun Slayin" Jackson
>>845424
Thomas Jefferson. No close second, even though he owned slaves (inb4 edginess).
>>846918
>"STATES"
>>847201
He literaly stole everything from that well known Serb, Nikola Tesla. He was slave owner and money opsesed fucker that used others to achive his goals. He fucked Tesla over.
Greatest people on planet were never driven by money and luxury, to be the greatest you got to have that "something" and Thomas never had it.
>>845570
>British accents
This is so broad a category as to not signify much at all, only that the Midwestern variety of English did not exist then. Nor does it reference the possibility that accents were different at those times.
MLK
Teddy
>>847253
nigga.....Tesla was born in 1856
MLK. He invented civil rights and equality
Me
>Americans
>great
>ever
>>845455
Looks like artwork straight outta Bioshock Infinite
John Brown
>>850464
needs more angels, mechanical birds and machine guns
Benedict Arnold
>donates his own money for the revolutionary cause
>gets cucked for promotion by other generals
>cucked by the continental congress
>decides to switch sides after enduring years of personal humiliations
>HURR DURR FUCKING TRAITOR
I would have done the same in his place
>>851419
Mark Twain.
>>851454
seconded
>>845570
>It is amusing though. Most Americans don't realize many of our founding fathers spoke in British accents.
From what I've read, the Standard American accent has diverged far less from 18th century English than Received Pronunciation has.
>>851629
Both are pretty far off. British West Country English is the closest modern dialect to how English was back then. But the "r" was always pronounced, as in modern American.
>>847378
you can see the second shooter in the reflection. top left, trust me.
>>847939
>magnificent human being
amend this to "showcased impressive elements of humanity" and we're good. Sleeping around while married and professing a christian faith isn't kosher, but it's that weird sort of understandable hypocrisy that gives him depth.
Guys who are all good or all bad don't show off too much about what being human is. Look at Napoleon.
>>851774
To finish the sentiment:
Napoleon isn't interesting because he won and won and won. Like Caesar, he had his downfall.
>>851774
I never think less of a man who sleeps around, even in blatant hypocrisy.
It boils down to whether he ultimately treats his wife/gf well.
Hypocrites for that matter don't really bother me. Most, if not all of us, have our public and private personas.
I'm serious
>>851828
that's what I'm talking about
it makes you sit and think about who the guy was
you know, when a guy lives this double life you wonder about how it makes him tick. What made him go do the big things he did.
it's like the mafia hitmen with a family on the side who don't know what he does for work
it's not meant to be negative. I'm trying to remember the name of the guy, but he wrote some brutally honest books and short stories and was a wife beater and alcoholic. If he was some cleancut guy his work wouldn't have the same honesty to it, which is what makes it so powerful.
Donald Trump
>>845424
>>851880
>he wrote some brutally honest books and short stories and was a wife beater and alcoholic
Bukowski? Then again that's a hilariously wide set of criteria for authors.
>>851991
It is, but that's the name I was looking for
>>852002
Happy to help.
hillary clinton
>>845424
me desu
