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#Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus debate the false promise of the "Arsenal of Democracy, 2023." Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos

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🗓️ 23 October 2023

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#Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus debate the false promise of the "Arsenal of Democracy, 2023." Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/us/politics/transcript-biden-speech-israel-ukraine.html

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We're here together for a 10 minute empathy meditation.

0:10.5

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0:17.7

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0:18.7

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internet connection and Peloton all acts as membership required see one Peloton

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dot co-

0:29.8

UK this is the Friends of History debating societyting Society. I'm John Bachelor, Gaius, and I welcome

0:35.2

Macov-Lios Dramaticus. We are 91 AD, it is fall of Londinium, the Thames is turbulent, although there are lots of really good fish.

0:46.6

We're sitting here with a cup of wine, maybe, we're picking at some hors d'oeuvres, so we're going to

0:52.2

the theater later where we'll be entertained.

0:55.4

We're aqueous class, meaning we don't work.

0:57.6

We have Greeks that work for us.

0:59.4

Very good Greeks, who span through the empire.

1:02.4

They're good at accounting. We trust them and also we admire

1:06.0

their culture a little too much sometimes but we do. At the same time we're not so happy with our present Emperor Domition.

1:15.7

He's always campaigning for something, mostly for himself.

1:19.2

The Senate, however, is really unhappy with him and we stay away from Roman politics entirely.

1:25.4

We don't even like to talk about it. I'm just mentioning that we're not going to

1:29.6

talk about it. We enjoy talking about America 2,000 years from now. We can see that far, built on the

1:36.3

foundations of our Roman Empire. We believe in the might of Rome. The Roman army when it is defeated then reconstitutes itself and keeps coming until it vanquishes whoever is in its way.

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