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whatthehey

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3. WTF are Solons?
Tue May 10, 2016, 01:36 PM
May 2016

I mean yes I'm reasonably au fait with the archaic Athenian lawgiver, but not sure that's a thing in normal American political vernacular, or what it's supposed to refer to if it's a self-conscious neologism (old guys? wise guys? legalists?). Slang terms need to make sense to get currency And I had a decent classical education, so Christ known what folks who think presocratic is a geological era imagine this means...

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