@GhostOnTheHalfShell @strypey @SheriSwears @Tooden @401matthall @mcnado

Before Caesar was #Catiline: https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/10/24/catiline-was-wicked/

When the Roman Republic was in its final century, civil wars were common, and so were proscriptions.

Words mean things.

I don’t make the rules.

#history #republicanism #Catiline #Cicero #Sulla

@TomWellborn @GhostOnTheHalfShell

The #American #Catiline won.

There be reckoning by men with guns.

@thomas_klopf @BlippyTheWonderSlug
A successful #Catiline

@soc_i_ety
#Catiline won.

We’re in the timeline where #Catiline and #ThirdRome #theology win.

To be frank, as a #history nerd, it’s like living in Rome 89-90 CE.

Or the post-Spartacus years a century earlier.

https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/05/19/if-you-can-keep-it-from-caesar-and-catiline/

#American #Enlightenment #republicanism #culture #fediverse #Caesar #Catiline

@_9CL7T9k8cjnD_

The #American #Catiline still lives.

https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/10/24/catiline-was-wicked/

#Catiline Was Wicked

The Catilinarian Conspiracy of 63 BCE was a symptom of #dysfunction in the late #Roman Republic. It foreshadowed the rise of Roman imperialism.

Instability & Corruption

The conspiracy emerged in a climate of intense rivalry and public corruption that was dominating the political atmosphere of the late #Republic.

http://inaniludibrio.com/2024/10/24/catiline-was-wicked/

#history

@benroyce @DarkMatterZine @StefanThinks @Diamondjoy
The #American #Catiline still lives.

@tsturm @MichaelEMann @matthewrozsa @Salon

The #American Founders were obsessed with #Catiline, and that’s what we are dealing with now, as we’ve repressed memories of patriotic #virtues.

@jalefkowit

Caveat: Anything that references #Catiline and the Catilinarian conspiracy is •automatically• at least 5/10 for me and can only go up from there.

#history

The #history nerds out there will note that not only did Julius Caesar also load himself with debt to fund the army which he would use to incite an insurrection against the Republic, but the #American founders of the #Enlightenment valued #virtue above all and viewed #Caesar (and #Catiline) as wicked usurpers of their nations.

Just sayin’ 🤷🏻‍♂️
https://mastodon.social/@McSpocky/113200977706500910

The #American #Catiline lives and wants to hold a triumph.

Catiline was wicked.

#CivilReligion #history
https://beige.party/@RickiTarr/113017383564160585

The Dramatic Contrast of Biden’s Last Act https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/joe-biden-speech-cincinnatus/679229/?utm_source=feed #JoeBiden #uspoli #USElections2024 #trump #Cincinnatus #Catiline #USDemocracyUnderThreat

@jordinn

I think Jan 6 was when #Catiline made his attempt to overthrow the Republic.

We hit the iceberg then, and have been pretending otherwise ever since.

The Founding Fathers held both #Catiline and #Caesar in deep contempt.

Anybody telling you otherwise is probably a fascist, reactionary, or mendacious fuck.
https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/111189165504941371

@MatWright @dangillmor

More echos of the Republic than Empire.

The #American founders obsessively worried about the vices of #Catiline and wickedness of Caesar.

And that was without the natural vicissitudes of the environment wreaking havoc.

@paninid Examples such as yours are ones that I believe are productive and useful. Comparative history is important and insightful, when done right (which is why warnings from the Founders are so important). I've been seeing a lot more *248 years is really close to 250* #discourse which is based on Glubb's #pseudohistory which distracts from the rich comparisons of #Catiline and #Caesar

@endofmeaning
The Founders repeatedly referred to the vices of #Catiline and Caesar.