I could use some slop right now.

  • Crucible [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    17 days ago

    When HC released the ‘Work’ video about bosses controlling workers’ time it was a thing of beauty to see all the right wingers commenting their meltdown that they had been learning about about precious western history from a left winger.

    NOOOOO Noooo how dare you make me empathize with a little square who isn’t aristocracy

    • guolai [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      17 days ago

      I remember when some of the commenters (perhaps more appropriately known as Rome-aboos) really disliked when he pulled from some anti-Augustus sources which results in portraying Augustus as a smart and shewd politician albeit vindictive, unnecessarily cruel, and disinterested in war.

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        16 days ago

        Those amateurs need to read Ronald Syme’s The Roman Revolution (1939) and learn how Augustus was a proto-Mussolini. Unless they’re so Mommsen-pilled that they’ll give a pass to anyone who has Cicero killed.