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[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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[weirdquark]

The United States and Italy are bound together by a shared cultural and political heritage dating back thousands of years to Ancient Rome.

Me, someone who has been living with a Renaissance scholar for almost 20 years: Florence claimed the same thing to keep from being sacked by France, are we trying to appear more civilized? Because Florence also used art and Humanism and being a (totally dysfunctional) Republic instead of a monarchy, and we're kind of lacking in the showing off our superior knowledge of philosophy, Greek, and Latin here.

[sovay]

Because Florence also used art and Humanism and being a (totally dysfunctional) Republic instead of a monarchy, and we're kind of lacking in the showing off our superior knowledge of philosophy, Greek, and Latin here.

I really think it's just the nationalism. I don't believe the man in the White House values philosophy.

[cynthia1960]

For sure. Greek, Latin, and philosophy would have been classes 45 wouldn't have dared take.

[weirdquark]

Oh yeah, it's totally just the nationalism, I was just being snarky, we're not doing this like they did during the Renaissance.