Comment on Probably accurate

• snooggums@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “They were roommates!”

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  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sometimes it’s a “Sappho and her friend” situation, but it sounds like this guy was just a straight crook.

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• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And…?

  My point was that the Founders would have been familiar with the idea of transgender. Also, most of them had studied the Classics, and would have known about Sappho and the initiation rituals of the Spartan warriors.

  Homosexualism* wasn’t invented in the 20th Century.

  *I can’t find the video, but I once heard William F. Buckley use that word and it’s lived in my head ever since.

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  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    … and your statement is totally false.

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    • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Were you there?

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