1. It was not what he did before declaring himself ‘Emperor for life’, because Caesar never declared himself Emperor.

2. The initiation of the civil war was not because Caesar decided to deploy troops as a matter of suppressing popular dissent, but because the Senate, at the behest of the ultraconservative Cato the Younger, was hell-bent on having the reformer Caesar executed for behavior of his that the Senate had already sanctioned, and preventing the democratic popular assemblies from saving him.

3. Caesar, quite famously, did not repress his political enemies, even during the civil war; those political enemies who remained in territory he controlled were left unharmed and unimpeded; those who fought against him were unconditionally pardoned. Many of them went on to stab him several years later, so it’s not like he was pardoning just the harmless ones.

4. Caesar’s appointment as dictator in perpetuity was not preceded by military crackdowns.

Other way around, I believe. Pertinax is commonly pointed to as one of the best potential Emperors, and I think Kyrgizion is saying that Pertinax is one of the few good ones that they killed, not one of the many terrible ones.

STTL, Emperor Pertinax!

No.

The US has been saying since the 80s that Cuba is a sponsor of state terrorism.

Angola stuff, I think. Not that our hands were clean in that conflict.

“Wherever will I get my CCP disinformation now”

But hey, don’t worry, Rednote has you covered - you can indulge in all your conservative-approved social media under the paternalistic gaze of the PRC

That’s it, I support the Quebecois now! They’ll understand the value of a good guillotine, at least

I refuse to have anything to do with having a m*narch on my money 😤

I’m fine with being a province, but it’s republic or bust

Here’s a nice compromise position - Canada becomes a republic; in exchange, the West Coast and the East Coast down to Maryland (or Virginia) join as unincorporated territories or whatever the Canuck equivalent is.

please save us from Y’All Qaeda

Global warming and proxy wars around the world will kill millions of people, so it’s less that I “don’t give a shit about you” and more “I see larger dangers on the horizon”

Ah yes, the GOP, the well-known champions of reducing emissions and proxy wars.

I’d love to give up modding the community entirely. Not because it’s a huge burden, but because I already mod too many communities as-is.

The Taliban was highly unpopular in 2001,

Fuck’s sake, the Northern Alliance was hard-pressed in 2001.

This behaviour of .ml is so known by this point, it’s becoming a low-hanging fruit and almost like it would mean YDI to bring up anti-Hamas or anti-China talking points when one knows this is invariably going to happen. People just shouldn’t do this, unless they’re trying to be banned.

Unfortunately, many still do not know, or do not believe, that .ml mods and admins behave in such a way.

America is committing genocide, but also, liberals are just fearmongering when they say a Trump regime will lead to genocide.

I blew all my points at character creation on being handsome and intelligent 😔

“I am loyal to the United States of America.”

“Disqualified. Next!”

Zero, probably?

They still pop up now and again when they want to justify why Trump being elected was better than the filthy LIBERAL getting into office.

Which, itself, is a bit funny considering that third parties didn’t have much influence on that.

I would argue for the importance of highly coordinated news monopolies in this. Many people with minimal civics education think they’re getting a wide variety of news sources instead of the same three regurgitated from the same oligarchs.

Don’t worry, the right-wing news bubble will get them riled up into saying “YES! YES! YEEEEES!” for all of that soon enough.