… what a bizarre piece.
Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.
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100%, died happy in his bed surrounded by loving family
… sorry, gotta break it to you. He was an immensely civilian Emperor who was well-regarded by the public for respecting the republican traditions of Rome, insisting that he was only a private citizen and issuing edicts with the Senate and a panel of legal experts to ensure continuity with extant law and opinion. Unfortunately, despite several near-misses where he managed to talk the troops down after one crisis or another, his lack of military credentials eventually killed him. His attempt to bribe an invading Germanic tribe to turn back instead of engaging them in battle enraged his own troops, who were looking for loot and vengeance against the barbarians which had violated Rome’s borders and plundered Roman provinces where many of them had come from, and the Legions thus mutinied and killed him for his lack of militancy.
On the upside, he ruled for some 13 years, which is a good clip.
but why is the American flag over an Australian?
Meme templates are often divorced from the details of the original picture. Else you could also point out that this isn’t Mel Gibson complaining about how hard his life is to soon-to-be-crucified Jesus, but Mel Gibson as director talking with one of the actors he’s directing.
They both need to go, albeit for different reasons.
Explanation: The US’s reason for rebelling against the Brits - that we were taxed without being represented in parliament - was legitimate… but the offense does ring a little mild in comparison to the treatment many other holdings of the British Empire suffered under.
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Claudia Severa to her Lepidina, greetings. On September 11, sister, for the day of the celebration of my birthday, I give you a warm invitation to make sure that you come to us, to make the day more enjoyable for me by your arrival, if you are present. Give my greetings to your [husband, Flavius] Cerialis. My [husband] Aelius [Brocchus] and my little son send him their greetings
I shall expect you, sister. Farewell, sister, my dearest soul, as I hope to prosper, and hail.
Birthday party invitation on a wooden tablet, Roman Britain, 97 AD - 105 AD
I like how everyone claims all religion is fucked up but there’s only one where this is actually extremely common
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Greek earrings, gold, semiprecious stone, and enamel, 3rd-1st century BCE
Beer? You’ve spent too much time on the frontier, frater!
In the same letter, the decurion asks for orders, whether he was to take all or just half his men to a particular location. Perhaps more urgently, at least as far as the troops were concerned, he informed his commander that “My fellow soldiers have no beer. Please order some to be sent.”
The purpose of a legal system is to provide consistent and coherent methods of conflict resolution that are superior for the functioning of general society than means outside of a system of centralized coercion for certain, sufficiently disruptive acts.
By this extremely broad definition, the legal system in my country, the USA, fulfills its purpose. But so would the legal system of fucking Napoleonic France.
More narrowly, a legal system should be oriented towards a standardized means of punishment and reform of those who disrupt the basic functioning of civil society.
By this narrower definition, my country only succeeds on ‘standardized means of punishment’, and even there arguably only partially. It largely fails at reform, and the punishments are both visited on those who do not disrupt the basic functioning of civil society (minor drug offenses, immigration crackdowns, anti-homeless legislation), and failed to be visited on many of those who do disrupt the basic functioning of civil society (gestures broadly at corporate America and the current coterie of fascists in power in government).
Resin-soaked shot can’t melt stone walls 😔
I can shitpost
I mean, I would be extremely wary of someone who crossed boundaries like that and is willing and able to confront me near my home and is ignoring my signals that I don’t want to engage. I… would not have any benign conclusions to make in your position. Even in the least unpleasant interpretation, he’s trying to creepshow his way into your pants, which is bad enough on its own.
Keep your friends and family informed on this.
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