• @[email protected]
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    192 months ago

    True (even though some try with all their might to turn back to the “great old times”).

      • @PugJesusOPM
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        122 months ago

        Get out of here Caligula

        • @bamfic
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          32 months ago

          Combover Caligula

        • @InverseParallax
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          22 months ago

          God-damn, as an American, that just killed the humor vibe right there. :(

          • @PugJesusOPM
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            32 months ago

            Don’t worry, Caligula didn’t win in the end.

              • @PugJesusOPM
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                42 months ago

                Caligula was succeeded by Claudius, whose reign was noble and fair. The golden age of the Five Good Emperors was yet to come. It ain’t over until we stop fighting. o7

                • @pressanykeynow
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                  12 months ago

                  Claudius, whose reign was noble and fair.

                  For the rich you mean? Probably wasn’t much different for commoners and slaves.

                  • @PugJesusOPM
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                    32 months ago

                    Claudius opened up citizenship to the majority of the population of the Empire, granted slaves some of their first rights under Roman law, exempted hard-pressed local communities from taxes, built massive amounts of infrastructure for the usage of the public, repealed taxes on food, stabilized the grain supply to the city of Rome, expanded the Imperial bureaucracy of freedmen, and actually executed a large number of the wealthy elite for their plotting.