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#37 - woote (03/21/2015) [-]
I made this just for the occasion.
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#250 to #37 - fedexman (03/22/2015) [-]
Perfect.
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#225 to #37 - lolmanchan (03/22/2015) [-]
I thought that said Alan Jackson for some reason.
I thought that said Alan Jackson for some reason.
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User avatar #1 - swisscheezit (03/21/2015) [-]
Why the twenty?
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#2 to #1 - anon (03/21/2015) [-]
because everyone else was a founding father, but Andrew Jackson was a racist dick.
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#23 to #2 - LocoJoe (03/21/2015) [-]
Keep crying bitch *****
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#4 to #2 - rossmendez (03/21/2015) [-]
Grant and Lincoln weren't founding fathers.
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User avatar #11 to #4 - needsauceadmisblan (03/21/2015) [-]
they weren't but lincoln freed dem slaves and won the civil war that his election itself created. and grant was right after him helping sew the nation together, as wel he was the acting general for the army at the time so he won on that front.
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#18 to #11 - rossmendez (03/21/2015) [-]
It doesn't change the fact that why they did caused Global Warming with all the gunpowder fumes in the sky.
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User avatar #19 to #18 - needsauceadmisblan (03/21/2015) [-]
look just because they did them then use it doesnt mean that they wanted to the south went and said im gonna kill you and tried to kill everyone.
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User avatar #93 to #19 - meganinja (03/21/2015) [-]
Not saying that I agree with the South, but they just wanted to be left alone.
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User avatar #91 to #19 - meganinja (03/21/2015) [-]
>South gets invaded by the Union
>"They were trying to kill everybody"
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#20 to #19 - rossmendez (03/21/2015) [-]
Your words have that Southwest feel, it's like opening up a new pack of bacon bits on Sunday Morning.
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User avatar #107 to #1 - tastycrisps (03/21/2015) [-]
Andrew Jackson is the face currently on our currency. He was single handedly behind the trail of tears.

Not the best for america's name to honor a pres who basically committed a genocide.
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User avatar #6 to #1 - needsauceadmisblan (03/21/2015) [-]
cuz you aren't getting rid of washington, lincoln freed the slaves no ones going to want to have him replaced, the tens to small for woman to be respected on Alexander Hamilton was a founding father you kinda have to have them on the money , and the 20s something they seem to like as its the most common bigish bill. besides women are already on the dollar coins don't they know this? susan b anthony and that one native lady who help luis and clark on there trip whos name i dont know.
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#10 to #6 - swisscheezit (03/21/2015) [-]
That would be Sacagawea
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User avatar #12 to #10 - needsauceadmisblan (03/21/2015) [-]
thank you.
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User avatar #65 to #6 - magicmatchsticks (03/21/2015) [-]
Andrew Jackson is just as important as Lincoln, instead of fighting a revolution he suppressed them before they happened, kept us from taking significant losses in many battles in War of 1812, secured millions of acres of land out west. If they want to replace him they better find a women who's even more accomplished. Only then will it be acceptable.
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User avatar #66 to #65 - needsauceadmisblan (03/21/2015) [-]
**** your right i forgot about the purchase, the war and rebelloins didnt the era of good feelings come after he left office?
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User avatar #71 to #66 - magicmatchsticks (03/21/2015) [-]
the era of good feelings ended before he came into office

i forgot, he also fought in the revolution and took spain from florida, as well as being the only president ever to reduce the national debt to $0
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User avatar #108 to #71 - axeul (03/21/2015) [-]
>spain from florida
Easy mistake to make but made me laugh hard
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User avatar #111 to #108 - magicmatchsticks (03/21/2015) [-]
... ****

i really did just say that didn't i
that would have been a really interesting turn for our country's history.
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User avatar #72 to #71 - needsauceadmisblan (03/21/2015) [-]
its been a good 5-7 months scence we covered him in history class.
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User avatar #223 to #66 - heartlessrobot ONLINE (03/22/2015) [-]
He also reduced the national debt to zero.
Without any long-term damage.
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User avatar #90 to #6 - meganinja (03/21/2015) [-]
If anybody it should be Grant that gets taken off. Sure, he 'won' the Civil War but in office he was so ******* corrupt you couldn't breathe without bribing somebody first.
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User avatar #116 to #1 - akkere ONLINE (03/21/2015) [-]
History vs. Andrew Jackson - James Fester
Andrew Jackson's the most historically controversial figure (even though pretty much everyone on the slips has skeletons in their closet). For every good he's done, he's got quite a bit of bad. He ended our dependence on the national bank, but his incompetent understanding of economics caused the nation to enter an economic crisis such that we had to bring the national bank back up. He drove the natives to away from their homes and caused a great deal of pain and distress, but he believed it was the only way to stop an even worse massacre via the rising desire for expansion. Etcetera, etcetera.
This video shows a bit of a neutral perspective on some of the major points of his presidency.
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User avatar #117 to #116 - akkere ONLINE (03/21/2015) [-]
Andrew Jackson's one of* the most historically controversial figures, I should've wrote. Sorry.
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User avatar #58 to #1 - mumbomcb (03/21/2015) [-]
Not sure if anyone's mentioned this yet, but Andrew Jackson also opposed the very idea of paper money. Kinda ironic to have him on the $20, huh?
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#61 - deadmice (03/21/2015) [-]
Here in Britain, there's a woman on ALL of our money.
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User avatar #252 to #61 - russiaexplain (03/22/2015) [-]
Are there feminists in the UK? sorry if it's a stupid question
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User avatar #259 to #252 - questionableferret (03/22/2015) [-]
It's phrased like a stupid question, because ofc there are feminists in most places, but what I think you mean isn't a stupid question, because the kind of feminists in the UK are either different, quieter, or far less numerous than the ones in the U.S., and that could be for a number of various reasons.

There are, I guess, but I've never encountered anyone even nearly as militant as the stories that come out of the US. In the UK schools generally are a lot more reserved and kids have a lot less room to express their individuality. Uniforms, rules, etc. It doesn't stop bullying but it does keep people a lot better behaved than the stories from across the pond indicate the US is like.

Plus, the UK is a lot less tense about racial and gender issues than the US is. We've already had a female Prime Minister (and she managed to become the second most famous one in the past 100 years with her divisive policies) and whilst there are still issues with race and gender most people seem to be generally a lot cooler about the whole thing. There's been a big influx of people from the Middle East lately and that has caused tension and forced a lot of the closet bigots out into the open in a very big way but generally the people of the UK are just far too easygoing to get caught up in all that **** .

Honestly, that may be biting us in the arse at the moment because we generally don't get up in arms about stuff and just let things be, but that has caused kind of the opposite problem that the US political system is facing atm. In the US both parties are just different kinds of poison and both parties have fiercely deluded morons voting desperately to keep them in power. In the UK most parties are different kinds of poison and people are well aware of this and just don't bother voting for anyone, pretty sure they're gonna be screwed no matter how the dice rolls.

It's why we have such good comedy shows in the UK. You need to be funny in order to deal with the concentrated misery and apathy that penetrates our streets. Here, have a nice big dollop of UK Self-Loathing, courtesy of me:


www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM8EVIbNxk4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfwgEVug5Z0
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User avatar #261 to #259 - russiaexplain (03/22/2015) [-]
Thanks for taking the time to explain this to me and anyone browsing the comments.
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User avatar #262 to #261 - questionableferret (03/22/2015) [-]
No problem, mate. Enjoy the cynical humour of the world's funniest man.
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User avatar #102 to #61 - LocoJoe (03/21/2015) [-]
And your capital has been run over my mudslimes. Coincidence?
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User avatar #130 to #102 - deadmice (03/21/2015) [-]
No, we just have our ******* queen on our notes.
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#219 to #130 - hongkonglongdong (03/22/2015) [-]
Also Fry.
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User avatar #222 to #102 - bossmanholms ONLINE (03/22/2015) [-]
Britain has one of the strongest currencies at the moment.
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User avatar #215 to #104 - chrispoot (03/22/2015) [-]
mange olje krøner er mange bra kræner
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#63 - infernoimmortal (03/21/2015) [-]
But then it would only be worth 15$..
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User avatar #122 to #63 - APURPLEPYTHON (03/21/2015) [-]
pst... thats a myth.
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User avatar #75 to #63 - whichever (03/21/2015) [-]
$14*
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User avatar #87 to #75 - meganinja (03/21/2015) [-]
$15* Feminists claim 75 to 77 percent.
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User avatar #98 to #87 - whichever (03/21/2015) [-]
I thought it was 70%
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User avatar #99 to #98 - meganinja (03/21/2015) [-]
the current quoted figure is 77 percent, but some people claim different stuff. It's wrong either way in the end.
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#151 to #63 - garymotherfingoak ONLINE (03/21/2015) [-]
jk that was pretty fukn clevr m7
jk that was pretty fukn clevr m7
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#96 - LordPickle (03/21/2015) [-]
They tried that **** over here in the UK as well, petitioning to put Jane Austin on the £10 note; removing Charles Darwin in the process. Reason why?

"Not enough females on on the UK currency"

>mfw our currency has the face of one of the most powerful ******* women in the world on it
>mfw removing the father of evolution in place for a ****** author
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User avatar #55 - Brass ONLINE (03/21/2015) [-]
It has nothing to do with the people on the bills being men, but rather the stuff they did make them the most important people in United States' history even though there is room to debate that some are more important than others
$1 - George Washington: Father of the Country, First President, etc.
$2 - Thomas Jefferson: wrote the Declaration of Independence, Third President, etc.
$5 - Abraham Lincoln: led through the Civil War and helped end slavery, etc.
$10 - Alexander Hamilton: shaped the banking system in the United States.
$20 - Andrew Jackson: expanded the voting rights of people in the United States.
$50 - Ulysses S. Grant: general that won the Civil War and eighteenth president.
$100 - Benjamin Franklin: inventor, created the post-office and held the country together during the Revolution.
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#89 to #55 - hurzg (03/21/2015) [-]
What about Grace Hopper?
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#67 to #55 - anon (03/21/2015) [-]
Gotta say, Andrew Jackson was a ****** person
Trail of Tears? I mean, seriously...
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User avatar #79 to #67 - magicmatchsticks (03/21/2015) [-]
The trail of tears was one of the worst things that America has ever done. However, Van Buren executed it, though Jackson may have planned it.

But remember this- most of the american people would have been perfectly happy with just killing every indian on sight. The trail of tears, however horrible, was gentle compared to what most frontiersmen were prepared to do. Jackson was perfectly capable of doing so much worse, and it would have made many frontier areas- like where Jackson was from- very happy. The fact that he didn't- as well as that he adopted a native american child, whom he raised as his only son and loved- speaks much to the fact that he had humanity, even if he was still the meanest, ugliest sunovabitch ever elected president.
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User avatar #270 to #79 - compared (03/22/2015) [-]
Thanks for using a comparison, hope you have a wonderful day!
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User avatar #78 to #67 - honzo (03/21/2015) [-]
understand that things like that were okay back then. it's a bit unfair to call people doing socially accepted things ****** by today's standards.
i could easily call almost the entirety of america before the civil war ****** because they owned slaves, but owning slaves was looked up upon back then because black people weren't "people" then.
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#74 - anon (03/21/2015) [-]
They should keep Jackson, but put Rosa Parks on the back.
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#92 to #74 - doyoufagsevenlift (03/21/2015) [-]
That's not very tolerant of you, silly goy!
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User avatar #205 to #74 - heartlessrobot ONLINE (03/22/2015) [-]
Put her on a $12 instead of the $20, see how many people get pissed.
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#41 - magicmatchsticks (03/21/2015) [-]
andrew jackson thread
i have waited many years for this moment
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User avatar #86 to #50 - altairibnlaahad (03/21/2015) [-]
Also the only president to completely eliminate the National Debt.
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User avatar #210 to #86 - heartlessrobot ONLINE (03/22/2015) [-]
And, unlike Reagan, his actions DIDN'T **** over the economy in the long run.
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#126 - venomousvalentine ONLINE (03/21/2015) [-]
Um... I don't have a problem with a woman on the 20 dollar bill, but what woman is influential enough to deserve to be put on a 20$ bill?
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#146 to #126 - anon (03/21/2015) [-]
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#149 to #146 - thebeatlesfan (03/21/2015) [-]
YOU GET A 20, AND YOU GET A 20...
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User avatar #127 to #126 - trolololer (03/21/2015) [-]
The petition actually called to put Harriet Tubman on the bill.
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#136 to #127 - anon (03/21/2015) [-]
Huh...well, if any woman in US history deserves to be on a bill, it'd be her. I actually read somewhere that Jackson's on the $20 out of spite - he HATED paper currency he had a point though - switching from paper currency to coins exclusively would save us billions every year, because paper money degrades quickly and has to be taken out of circulation after a couple of years, while coins can last for decades.
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User avatar #129 to #127 - venomousvalentine ONLINE (03/21/2015) [-]
Thats a good idea.
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User avatar #140 to #127 - jimmytwoshoes (03/21/2015) [-]
Thats not a horrible idea i suppose... but have fun getting that actually changed
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#200 to #127 - heartlessrobot ONLINE (03/22/2015) [-]
Eh, I don't think she's worth the $20, maybe put her on a new $12 bill. Please get the joke.
Eh, I don't think she's worth the $20, maybe put her on a new $12 bill.
Please get the joke.
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#56 - realitytangent (03/21/2015) [-]
I think we should replace the presidents on the bills with famous american scientists.
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User avatar #70 to #56 - Greevon (03/21/2015) [-]
I think we should do both. The only presidents on bills are ones that deserve it anyway, so why take them off?
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User avatar #125 to #70 - itstuesday (03/21/2015) [-]
ben "jammin" Franklin
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#160 - domny (03/21/2015) [-]
Yes, let's waste the time and tax money to do that.
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User avatar #164 to #160 - mutzaki ONLINE (03/21/2015) [-]
Instead, you should focus on getting rid of the penny and probably nickel, and then also make the dollar into a coin.
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User avatar #166 to #160 - helenwheels (03/21/2015) [-]
You realize they print new money everyday, right?
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User avatar #167 to #166 - domny (03/21/2015) [-]
Yes.
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User avatar #169 to #167 - helenwheels (03/21/2015) [-]
So why do you tjink it would cost more to start printing 20's with a new face?
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User avatar #170 to #169 - domny (03/21/2015) [-]
design, printer, organisation.
its not a lot but its a complete waste for unescesary re-design of functional design.
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User avatar #226 to #170 - helenwheels (03/22/2015) [-]
So the US can issue specialized quarters for every state. But it can't change the design of one bill? This is such a stupiedly small Thing to complain about. A tottally harmless request. A
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User avatar #228 to #226 - domny (03/22/2015) [-]
It's not harmless if it costs money.

I'm assuming you're female and that's why you want that cus equality and **** .
But.
If there'd be a women on the dollar things wouldn't become more equal, noone would change the way the think about women and your soggy knees wouldn't heal either.
Also there's supposed to be important people on the dollar. They happen to be male. Too bad.
Waste of money.
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User avatar #237 to #228 - helenwheels (03/22/2015) [-]
Lots of successful people are male. Most successful people are male not all, but moste. And I'm going to be real with you. I don't give a **** .
What I don't understand it why anyone would give enough of a **** to stand against it.. Whdn you say it would cost money you are litterally talking about 1000 extra dollars. Like I said the money can be spent to make quarters fun but not to be even slightly inclusive.
Your life and my life would not be affected by it, even slightly by it and the money aspect of it is so small its laughable.

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User avatar #242 to #237 - domny (03/22/2015) [-]
wellp whatever mang
im just really into goverment doing useless stuff aight
sure there's bigger problems but its not like i went out on a protest now did i?
i made a comment saying its a waste of money.
thats it.
where's the problem is it so important to you that a woman is on a dollar?
what's the deal? wouldn't you rather have efforts to make life easier for everone?
its only that it costs money but there's a person out there telling people that the dollar thing is a problem. they're waisting their time now aswell. meanwhile they could do some actual steps towards equality. like you know. actual equality and not just whining about "under-represantation".
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User avatar #245 to #242 - helenwheels (03/22/2015) [-]
Where you into the government waisting money on fiftty new quarter designs? ******* where you? No. Because the designing of money is litteraly so ******* small that it can be done fifty times with litteraly zero effect to anything.
I also feel lik you should know, the money is printed and managed by a private corporation. So the laughably small amont of money your bitching about isnt even from your taxes.
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#246 to #245 - domny (03/22/2015) [-]
and you're bitching about no womens on me dollar pls, how am i suppose to get job lik dis??! ;( calm the **** down you thundercunt its either waste almost nothing on almost nothing or just waste nothing on nothing. now **** off, jesus christ, you're getting annoying.
and you're bitching about no womens on me dollar pls, how am i suppose to get job lik dis??! ;(
calm the **** down you thundercunt its either waste almost nothing on almost nothing or just waste nothing on nothing.
now **** off, jesus christ, you're getting annoying.
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User avatar #248 to #246 - helenwheels (03/22/2015) [-]
I've said it before.
I don't ******* care.
What concerns me, is that you do. Because the only reason you do is because you are genuanly irked by the idea of haveing a woman on the dollar.
The only thing I care about is your ****** I'm guessing 15 year old boy additude thag would complain about something so small because your so convinced that women are evil because you learned about the world from funnyjunk.
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#253 to #248 - domny (03/22/2015) [-]
if you could magically change all currencies on the world to have women on them and i was the only one who could stop you - with a snap of my fingers.

i would let you.

srsly why would i have a problem with women wtf is wrong with you
seems like you're assuming i have a problem with women tho
i wonder where that comes from

its just that i dont see the point in doing it as long as it would take any effort at all.
why throw the cash out of the window. we wouldn't really feel it, its probably less than 1 cent for everyone. but the thing is. why. they could just buy me a new computer, like that at least one person would be genuely happy.
and dont pretend anyone would srsly care about who the **** is on the dollar.
i dont, you dont. noone does. you just think i do. but i care about my <1 ******* cent worth of nothing.
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User avatar #255 to #253 - helenwheels (03/22/2015) [-]
Because the amount of effort your talking about is so small I figured that would be the only ******* reason.
You still havent adressed the fact that the us issued fifty quarter desines for each of the states. Why is that okay with you.
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#256 to #255 - domny (03/22/2015) [-]
its not i think its ******* stupid and i thought that was obvious.
you're trying really hard to make me out to be a bad guy ain't ya?
just to be clear, im for equality.
i made a joke about soggy knees earlies becaues this seems like the kind of "problem" someone cares about that has nothing to do with equality and its just super nit picky crap.
if i'd get to decide men and women would all be equal in the workforce, everywhere in all jobs, same in schools same in arts same in politics.
but they're not and changing some random picture of a guy into a woman isn't gonna help.
if you still dont trust me on this how bout that:
im in a "reverse" relationship, where i cook, i do the housework she do the money. i work too, but as a graphic designer so its not really as relyable, point being i dont want to opress women and make them seem like they cant do anything important.
i believe a good person can do good. may that be a woman a man, a cracker a ****** , a crippe, a ******* dog, i always judge people by who they are and not who they share similiarity with. or gender for that matter.

now that this is out of the way, anything else you wanna throw at me?
maybe go and call me a racist pig for chosing to type with white letters?
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User avatar #264 to #169 - fiahhawt ONLINE (03/22/2015) [-]
Getting the old bills out of circulation
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#101 - lordlolland (03/21/2015) [-]
Barbara Bush is already on the $1 bill, isn't that enough?
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User avatar #148 - fyaq (03/21/2015) [-]
How do women even know who's on the 20 dollar bill?

Wage gap makes it impossible for them to even see one.
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User avatar #40 - secondfunction ONLINE (03/21/2015) [-]
You know what would be a better us of the guvment's time? Solving the debt crisis. I don't care if they put a woman on money, I'm just saying they need to get there priorities in line.
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User avatar #83 to #40 - magicmatchsticks (03/21/2015) [-]
Jackson solved the debt crisis. Only president in history to have a national debt of $0.

Yet more reasons not to replace him
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#243 - Stevethewizard (03/22/2015) [-]
(Not at all) Fun Fact: Andrew Jackson was the president responsible for signing into law the majority of the bills responsible for forcing Native Americans onto reservations. Some Native Americans still refuse to carry any $20 bills because of the fact they depict a man they feel is responsible for the death of thousands.
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#258 to #243 - anon (03/22/2015) [-]
(Feel good) Fun Fact: Andrew Jackson adopted a native american child.
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User avatar #97 - allenbahrain (03/21/2015) [-]
Maybe create a $0.77 note And a 0.77 penny
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User avatar #38 - charagrin (03/21/2015) [-]
Put a Founding Mother on one. Oh...wait....
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#73 - anon (03/21/2015) [-]
what woman? one who lies about being sexually assaulted probably
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User avatar #21 - jamesten ONLINE (03/21/2015) [-]
Andrew Jackson paid off all of the u.s. debts
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#5 - Sperit (03/21/2015) [-]
What about Susan B Anthony?
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#7 to #5 - funpunk ONLINE (03/21/2015) [-]
**funpunk used "*roll picture*"**
**funpunk rolled image** She's already got a coin.
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User avatar #8 to #7 - Sperit (03/21/2015) [-]
So does Abraham Lincoln
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#88 to #5 - gerfox (03/21/2015) [-]
Eleanor Roosevelt and Rosa Parks are other good suggestions.
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