Triple-check my persona

[sovay]

spatch, reading a tweet from the White House: "'The United States and Italy are bound together by a shared cultural and political heritage dating back thousands of years to Ancient Rome.'"

Me, a classicist: "Oh! That'd be the fascism!"

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[sovay]

I, on the other hand, immediately had a visual of Trump as Nero.

Given the penchant for plastering self-promotion, I'd go with Commodus. But it's true that with Nero you get a burning world.