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.
"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."
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.