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[–]thoam 19 points20 points ago

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to me it looks more like all but lincoln are looking back. maybe he should have done it?

[–]JWilkesBooth 5 points6 points ago

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Yes. He should have.

[–]orkid68 1 point2 points ago

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Redditor for 1 year. Well played

[–]SometimesIDrawStuff 6 points7 points ago

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Facing forward? You're always facing forward. What other direction can you face?

[–]MissCharmCity 3 points4 points ago

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Fun fact: Kennedy, another assassinated president, looks to the left on a 50 cent coin.

[–]anace -1 points0 points ago

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I think you've stumbled on to something big here. Clearly Oswald wasn't the real killer, it was someone that works in the Treasury Department.

[–]Manaconda -1 points0 points ago

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http://www.usmint.gov/faqs/circulating_coins/index.cfm#anchor14

TIL - I don't care about why Lincoln faces the other way. Was hoping for Illuminati presence.

[–]jreynolds72 0 points1 point ago

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Can you blame the guy?

[–]hydraincarnation 0 points1 point ago

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Whoa! Too soon, man, too soon.

[–]thebeefytaco 0 points1 point ago

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In countries with writing that goes left to right, the right side is considered "forward".

[–]phreakiboi 2 points3 points ago

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Why does it say looking "forward"? They're ALL looking forward. Considering it's cultural convention here in America to see time as moving "forward" by moving right on a timeline, Lincoln's the only one looking forward. And the joke still works with that (he got shot from behind................)

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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"Guys guys, get my good side." :3

[–]bagek -1 points0 points ago

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I heard that the other guys are facing away from Lincoln because he freed the slaves and they didnt like him for that. Also, that's why Lincoln's coin is colored close to brown and the others closer to white

[–]Dyrty 0 points1 point ago

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heard something like this too. i think we just became best friends.

[–]jmk4422 0 points1 point ago

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I hope to FSM you're joking but in case you aren't:

  1. Yes, both Washington (the quarter) and Jefferson (the nickle) owned slaves but FDR (the dime) did not.

  2. Lincoln didn't actually free the slaves; that was a political impossibility at the time. What he did was emancipate the slaves in the rebelling states. It's important to note that he did not emancipate the slaves in Union states. Slavery wasn't abolished until after Lincoln was dead. While Lincoln deserves his nickname, The Great Emancipator for edging the country in the right direction, it's a gross exaggeration to say he "freed the slaves".

  3. Pennies are made of copper (well, mostly zinc nowadays), but the point remains: copper looks coppery whereas silver and nickle (the stuff of dimes and quarters and nickles) look silver. Also, silver != white. And copper != black.

There is no conspiracy here.

[–]bagek 0 points1 point ago

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I just said I heard that from someone before. I never spent a single second researching any of it.

[–]jmk4422 0 points1 point ago

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I believe you.

[–]bagek 0 points1 point ago

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I don't believe it at all. I just heard someone say that.

[–]imjesusomg -3 points-2 points ago

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[–]Frydendahl 1 point2 points ago

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People like you need to realize the golden rule of social news sites: Every post is a repost of a repost.

[–]Sarutahiko 1 point2 points ago

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I haven't seen it and I laughed. Stop with this 'repost' shit. People that haven't seen it (and like it) will upvote it. People that have seen it and/or don't like it will downvote. If it's old-hat enough that there's nobody new to see it it will get downvoted to oblivion.

Just vote and move on.

[–]iPopeIxI 1 point2 points ago

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Being downvoted for speaking his mind. Sad. And I completely agree.

[–]arber0214 -1 points0 points ago

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You are doing it wrong. If he was facing the other way he would have been shot in the face. You just solved a crime scene though.

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[–][deleted] -3 points-2 points ago

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Seriously, can we be done with this one?