And so it begins…

  • @minnow
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    548 days ago

    You know how long Caesar was dictator for life before he was assassinated? Less than a year.

    But the damage was done, and Rome had a civil war over whether it would go back to being a Republic like it had been or if it would have an autocratic ruler. Obviously, the latter won out.

    A lesson from history.

    • @[email protected]
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      298 days ago

      Let’s not lump Trump in with Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar was a war hero and a capable leader who’s final crimes were giving out citizenship and housing.

      Trump’s final crimes will be giving all our state secrets to every other government in the world and obliterating our infrastructure.

        • @[email protected]
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          27 days ago

          He was elected as Dictator many times on a yearly basis and sometimes multiple times a year. He was so vastly popular the citizenry they killed the assassin’s, hunted down an heir and put him in power.

          Julius Ceasar and his follow on Agustus were insanely capable leaders that did great things for their country. The empire was so great and lasted twice the time America has, it’s fall caused the Dark Ages.

          Rome is a bad example here because technically the Dictatorship was good for them. Rome fell due to corruption that came in via enabling the Christian church to operate freely. Now that is a much better analog here that we enabled religious organizations to become tax free political action committees and uncapped their ability to influence government. This meant the evangelical grifters became the most powerful political entities in America.

    • @gdog05
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      198 days ago

      We have so many lessons from history to pull from right now that you would need multiple professors to explain them all and yet they were all ignored.

      • @jj4211
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        17 days ago

        Professors? You must mean those librul elites. I do my own research!

    • Billiam
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      107 days ago

      You know how long Caesar was dictator for life before he was assassinated? Less than a year.

      So you’re saying he was dictator for life? 😂