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Melania Trump presides over UN Security Council as US attacks Iran (www.usatoday.com)

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 238 points 8 months ago (11 children)

In Rome, Caligula made his horse a senator. In America, this happened.

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[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 94 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I'll take the horse.

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[–] waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 30 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Horse? I thought you said whores

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Fine. Then I'll take the whores.

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[–] waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 28 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Here ya go

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[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 8 months ago

They said whores, not horse.

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[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 2 points 8 months ago

Loose? In a hospital?

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[–] ChexMax@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Bubba was unavailable

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[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 14 points 8 months ago

Made his whore a senator?

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[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Scholars argue this didnt happen and was written as comedic insult by one of his detractors.

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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Scholars argue a lot of things. Though it's true that a lot of the work of Roman historians is really one faction slandering another. But the behavior of some of the emperors was so grotesquely evil that it's hard to separate the truth from the lies.

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[–] hector@lemmy.today 5 points 8 months ago

Both the greeks and romans and their forebearers all practiced just obvious bias in their writing. About a rival they might describe him as the most famous pederast of the land.

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