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Too little, too late, but, so so glad that Caesar got fucking stabbed like that. If that could have previously happened to Marius and Sulla, things might have worked-out better.
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
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"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
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"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
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"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
The difficulty was that Roman democracy was incompatible with dominating so many other peoples. It was very proper to see off the mass-murderer Caesar, but, by that stage, all it could lead to was Civil War and a continuing tyranny under a democratic show. Trumpf, clearly, is hardly in Caesar's league, but I think American imperialism presents much the same problems, basically.
I believe Grind was proposing a 'solution' to the American 'Problem'. Trying to gather his Conspirators into action. (Unfortunately, I don't think Red Team know who 'Caesar' is, and I don't think they know where Rome is, ... or the Timeline that is being expressed. So they sit there, sucking their thumbs, thinking ... 'Grind is stoned again') Just Sad!
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Jack (10-22-2019)
Uhhhh...Caesar spoke a very pure form of Classical Latin, as well as vulgar latin. Yes he spoke and was literate in Greek but almost all upper class Romans were educated in Greek. It's not like he spoke Greek as a lingua franca.
Having said that Caesar was a sexual omnivore and he sure liked pretty Greek boys. Pretty like Watermark does.
You're Never Alone With A Schizophrenic!
Meh...can't agree with that completely either. To have a "Deep State" you need an entrenched bureaucracy and the Roman Republic did not have much in the way of a civil service. The Senate was certainly a "Good ole boy" oligarchy but there was nothing deep state about it.
Caesar was killed because he thought he could replace a degenerate and incompetent Republic, that was created to govern a small city State and not an international empire, with a centralized autocratic government without the consent of the Roman political class. He misjudged the Roman political class and it cost him his life. Octavian didn't make the same mistake. Though the Principate was certainly an autocracy Octavian dressed it in the customs and traditions and institutions of the Republic even though in reality Octavian/Augustus had all the power. This was enough though to appease the political class and Augustus ruled till he was an old man and died in his bed of old age and natural causes. Something that rarely happened to Roman Emperors.
You're Never Alone With A Schizophrenic!
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
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