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highplainsdem

(63,990 posts) Sat Jul 11, 2026, 02:58 PM Saturday

Will Bunch: Some of this sounds familiar, not quite sure why

Some of this sounds familiar, not quite sure why
— Will Bunch (@willbunch.bsky.social) 2026-07-11T18:54:46.570Z

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Will Bunch: Some of this sounds familiar, not quite sure why (Original Post) highplainsdem Saturday OP

And we all know how that ended... SheltieLover Saturday #1

More than slightly. paleotn 17 hrs ago #2

SheltieLover

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1. And we all know how that ended...

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Sat Jul 11, 2026, 03:14 PM

Saturday

paleotn

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2. More than slightly.

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Sun Jul 12, 2026, 09:04 AM

17 hrs ago

Caligula was bad. Very bad. But some of the claims may just be propaganda written by his enemies. Same with Nero. Romans were bad about that and it clouds the historical record. Had Pompey and the Senate prevailed over Caesar, I'm sure later writers would have claimed Caesar had sex with goats regularly.

On the bright side, Rome survived those bad times and went on to its glory years with the Flavian and Nerva–Antonine dynasties, culminating with Marcus Aurelius.

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