Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.
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2·3 hours agolmao, we actually have quite a bit on the topic of fellatio. Let me grab an old now-public-domain source I have, it’s on the Classical world specifically, but you might enjoy it if you can endure the hoity-toity 19th century tone
11·4 hours agoMy ‘favorite’ is when they defend clerical fascism in Iran as some kind of fantastic anti-capitalist development,
Hey, no judgement, but we’re trying to cut down use of the r-term around here, as a courtesy to those who it’s been used to unfairly hurt. Just for future reference.
Not quite the case. While your life didn’t mean much, generally speaking, the limitations on military action in the pre-modern period come down to logistics - ie how many troops can be fed in a field army at once.
When there’s a limit to what you can do with numbers, you have to put some effort into quality. So SOME amount of equipment was considered necessary - the idea of the mass peasant levy carrying pitchforks and clubs only really comes into play for the most small-scale of intrafeudal and clan wars and the like, and even then, not always - unmotivated troops are quick to collapse against well-armed enemies. There are incidents of some particularly poorly-thought-out peasant rebellions being eliminated by mounted knights that they outnumber 20-1, or more, simply because, in a pitched battle, equipment and training DOES make a massive difference.
Even the uglier and more primitive forms of pre-modern states would generally see troops sent into battle with, at minimum, a metal-tipped spear and a shield. Even as far back as Ancient Egypt.
Poor people were forbidden from wearing most animal furs by sumptuary laws. Cats were as high-class as you were allowed to go as a filthy poor in late medieval England. Hence the phrase “more than one way to skin a cat” - cat skinning was, indeed, a means of making money…
Yeah, gave up Pepsi over their continued involvement in Russia, now I’m giving up Coke over their involvement with a Russian stooge.
I’m at RC right now.
2·6 hours agoBecause the views of Trump apologists are just as valuable to media as the views of sane folk.
I advise modern medicine. I believe there are shampoos they offer
5·7 hours agoIt’s an addiction. ROME’S HONOR MUST BE DEFENDED
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It was not what he did before declaring himself ‘Emperor for life’, because Caesar never declared himself Emperor.
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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.
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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.
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Caesar’s appointment as dictator in perpetuity was not preceded by military crackdowns.
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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!
6·8 hours agoCalm down, Satan
4·11 hours agoThey get grilled, probably
4·11 hours agoI believe it’s a tide mill, yes. Unfortunately, I just found it on Pinterest, so I don’t know much about it specifically.
No, afraid not. Flairs aren’t a feature of Lemmy currently.
“If the State kills him I don’t get paid” - Deepweb Assassin Man
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.
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Reading Michael Parenti’s The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome. Some very dubious scholarship, even though I sympathize with the main thrust of it.