

“Ah, a slave!”
“I’m no slave! I’m the best damn astronomer/engineer/singer/underwater basket-weaver you’ve ever met!”
“Oh, so you’re a VALUABLE slave?”
Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.
“Ah, a slave!”
“I’m no slave! I’m the best damn astronomer/engineer/singer/underwater basket-weaver you’ve ever met!”
“Oh, so you’re a VALUABLE slave?”
Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?
The Expression
If Cicero was so opposed to monarchy, why was he the king of run-on sentences?
Explanation: It used to be fairly normal for teachers in the US, at least, to ‘correct’ left-handed children by striking their hand or otherwise punishing them for using it for primary-hand tasks. My great-uncle suffered this bizarre form of correction as a child.
Mm. I’ll consider deleting it here, leaving it just up on RoughRomanMemes, where some knowledge of Crassus’s shittiness can be expected.
More about Musk’s sheer patheticness and lack of actual accomplishments, but otherwise I don’t disagree. Crassus was not a good man, even by the judgement of his contemporary aristocrats. You may be interested to learn that he died (according to legend, at least) by having molten gold poured down his throat as repudiation of his infamous greed
It’s an achievement, at the least. I don’t think raising armies with one’s own money has a strong positive moral component either, but it’s a much bigger thing to have to one’s name than shitposting on social media.
Explanation: Marcus Licinnius Crassus was one of the richest men of the Late Roman Republic, and an extremely influential politician. He was a ruthless businessman, but at the least, he had guts and smarts. One of his most famous - and successful - schemes was to create the city of Rome’s first firefighting force - a private firefighting force, which he would use to buy houses on fire at fire-sale (dohohoho) prices, and THEN put them out.
If the owner refused to sell? Well, Crassus would wait. Then offer less money. And less. And less. Until the house was burned down, as it would have without his intervention.
Immensely shitty on a human level, but brilliant business sense. Very active fellow.
Thought you lot would appreciate that Musk fails to look human even next to aristocrats of literal antiquity.
Explanation: Marcus Licinnius Crassus was one of the richest men of the Late Roman Republic, and an extremely influential politician. He was a ruthless businessman, but at the least, he had guts and smarts. One of his most famous - and successful - schemes was to create the city of Rome’s first firefighting force - a private firefighting force, which he would use to buy houses on fire at fire-sale (dohohoho) prices, and THEN put them out.
If the owner refused to sell? Well, Crassus would wait. Then offer less money. And less. And less. Until the house was burned down, as it would have without his intervention.
Immensely shitty on a human level, but brilliant business sense. Very active fellow.
Explanation: Marcus Licinnius Crassus was one of the richest men of the Late Republic, and an extremely influential politician. He was a ruthless businessman, but at the least, he had guts and smarts. One of his most famous - and successful - schemes was to create the city of Rome’s first firefighting force - a private firefighting force, which he would use to buy houses on fire at fire-sale (dohohoho) prices, and THEN put them out.
If the owner refused to sell? Well, Crassus would wait. Then offer less money. And less. And less. Until the house was burned down, as it would have without his intervention.
Immensely shitty on a human level, but brilliant business sense. Very active fellow.
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!
Calm down, Satan
Explanation: In WW2, much is made of the Nazi ‘Tiger’ tanks, which were specialized for tank-on-tank combat. The American Sherman tank, used by the US, UK, France, and USSR, however, was a multipurpose beast that was modified for a wide variety of problems as the need arose. Got a problem? There’s a Sherman M4 Medium Tank for it. Minesweeper, armored bulldozer, rocket-launcher, AA-platform, support gun; there’s nothing the Sherman couldn’t be outfitted for. Eat shit, Nazis!
Explanation: The bust pictured is of Cato the Elder, who hated Carthage even after it was reduced to a struggling city-state which regularly got trashed by its own minor neighbors, and posed no real threat to the superpower of Rome which controlled half the Mediterranean. He would still end all of his speeches in the Senate with “Furthermore, I believe Carthage must be destroyed”, no matter what the topic he was speaking on was.
They accidentally nuke London, Ohio
“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
Thank god, now you can indulge in all your favorite conservative fantasies under the paternalistic gaze of the PRC.
That was the goal, right?