His son would have received the Bat Signal to stop him

Funny enough, one of Cato the Elder’s opponents would end all of his speeches with “Carthage must be preserved” in response to Cato’s “Carthage must be destroyed” spiels.

God, imagine the trouble we could’ve saved if battery technology was less primitive at the time.

tbf, the Japanese proficiency of English-speaking nations is probably lower.

Put rich landlords and greedy politicians on leaky boats; put refugees in their former homes.

Redistribute the 5 extra empty homes owned by each of the rich exiles for renting out and capital accumulation to the already-extant populace, and the housing problem is sorted, for at least a generation.

No, they won’t. Trump will shut it down as soon as he can to serve his paymaster.

Wow, officials in India are a lot more expensive than the ones here in the US.

Always happy to help out! I try to add context so everyone (who wants to) can appreciate the meme, not just the ones who already know about whatever minute trivia of Roman history is being memed about XD

Explanation: The Catiline Conspiracy was an incident in which a Roman Senator, the titular Catiline, planned to overthrow the Republic by force. Cicero discovered this plot (not on his own), and in exposing it, contributed to the downfall of the conspiracy (though arguably it never really had a fighting chance). Cicero would proceed to not shut the fuck up about this for the rest of his political career, and oftentimes in Cicero’s speeches you’ll end with an aside along the lines of “And when I saved the Fatherland from Catiline…” A time-traveler who killed Catiline would doubtlessly spare countless future Latin and Classics students from having to read Cicero endlessly fellate himself over foiling the conspiracy!

Not a fan of the meme template but as an inversion I tolerate it.

The people who elected the Nazis did so because they believed that getting rid of the LGBT, the Jews, the Slavs, and the foreigners would Make Germany Great Again.

The cruelty is the point.

Oh, how sweet, Ukraine is finally allowed to use the same tools Russia is.

Fuck’s sake. All this pussyfooting from Cold War dinosaurs…

Too little, too late. If Biden wanted to salvage his reputation at all, he’d have to do a hell of a lot more than authorizing something Ukraine has been asking for for a long-ass time now.

Buckle up folks, and be sure to stand up for any trans folk you know or see. It’s gonna be a rough couple of years for the trans community.

Explanation: Holding the consulship multiple times was considered extremely unusual in the Roman Republic, and it was not lawful for a consul to be elected to two consecutive terms. However, during the Late Republic, the ruthless populare politician, Gaius Marius, was elected consul twice in a row as part of a military crisis involving an invasion of Germanic tribes. While this was against precident, the Senate and People’s Assemblies were so desperate that they passed legislation to allow it so that Marius could take command of the armies of the Republic. He was elected (not consecutively) consul several more times, such was his reputation from resolving the crisis.

Later, Gaius Marius would pursue a number of stupid fucking decisions in the hopes of fulfilling a lifelong conviction that he would be elected consul 7 times. He would achieve this seventh and final consulship through shrewd politiking - though at the cost of sparking the first Roman civil war with the ultraconservative Sulla.

There have been a number of… interesting… incidents over the years, such as one where German troops in a NATO exercise had to use brooms in place of machineguns.

“So, since might makes right in your ideology, you’re going to admit that democracy and tolerance is the superior form of governance?”

“No, I’m actually just going to sulk here and spread Lost Cause style myths about how the Wehrmacht Wasn’t That Bad™”

They/Them Army is so back

Explanation: As Rome declined, so too did its fearsome military. From full-time, highly trained, well-equipped, well-paid professionals in self-sustaining units serving for set periods of time, to unpaid lifelong farmer-conscripts split into penny packets to be overrun and destroyed by invading barbarians. Legions, pls go back

Nah.