• PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
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    2 hours ago

    No one can be this stupid, surely?

    the quote has been deliberately misrepresented

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

    which could be inferred to be a reference to the large number of italian americans especially on the east coast and their effect on the US culture and the fact that much of the US political system is inspired by southern european governments. Ancient Rome had a senate too

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      Also that the Roman legislation principles is the foundation for all modern counties with a court, parlament and executive power. The American fumbling fathers event went so far as to copy many parts of it. Hence the name senate for instance. And much of the architecture was inspired or copied from Palladio. So toy get that neoclassical look that is the hallmark of DC