This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I am Gaius. Dramaticus is here, and we are entertained

enormously by the rise of yet another Gracchus brother. This one, unbeknownst to everyone with

orange hair, is doing the job of being a tribune of the people, the plebs.

And it's very upsetting to the Senate.

We enjoy it from a distance of, well, we're in the first century.

It's happening in the 21st, but we recognize it.

Now, the first two Gracchus brothers, when they introduced their reforms,

chiefly to do with property.

They were torn apart by the mob run by the Senate.

Right.

This Gracchus brother so far has escaped one, two, how many assassinations?

Germanicus, we don't know.

Well, there'll be more.

Regicide is what comes to mind in the Senate's imagination of a Gracchus by their,

oh my God, he's going to give away my estates.

What else will he give away?

But right now, Orange Gracchus is enjoying himself.

I don't know that the Senate has quite caught up to his methodology.

They certainly despise him like a Gracchus.

I just don't know whether they recognize it.

I read in this book that we're both enjoying from Sean McMeekin,

that Babouf, after he originally came out with his Revolution of the Equals,

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