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Originally Posted by freebeard
Really? A copykat of the Youtube shooter?
Whom I won't name, like Ben Shapiro (or Scott Adams, I forget) to deny the infamy.
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Oh, the principle is much older than those guys: Herodotus, ca 425 BCE:
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On the golden one “from the Lacedaemonians” is written, claiming that it is their offering, but they do not speak correctly; this too is from Croesus, and one of the Delphians wrote the inscription wishing to please the Lacedaemonians. I know his name but will not mention it.
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