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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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[gwynnega]

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

[sara]

Specifically the court of Emperor Nero.

[starlady]

Trump is Commodus or Caligula, hands down. But also, YIKES

[moon_custafer]

He even even got the “bound together” bit.
https://i.etsystatic.com/13060078/r/il/28edb1/1439423495/il_794xN.1439423495_q951.jpg

[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.

[vass]

Yup.

[cmcmck]

The US really is that desperate to have an actual history that isn't native American then?

We have the third largest Roman town in Roman Britain, Viriconium/Wroxeter- Housman's Uricon- five miles away...............

[brigdh]

EXACTLY.

[vintagewitch]

lolsob