celebrity politicians launching their presidential campaigns with a book is one of those things that feels very modern until you realize Julius Caesar did the same thing more than 2,000 years ago
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Modern events are leading me to realize that the big names of the Roman Republic were probably huge dumbasses. All the plebs were probably clowning on Cicero.
Ah, there's the problem, it's great to read in translation as a teen who is able to imagine all of the action in full technicolour during boring car trips.
It's riveting by the standards of the time. The reason they still teach it in Latin class is that the language is extremely clear and easy to understand, because of course he was writing it to request more funding from barely literate Senators
You can actually just read The Gallic, Civil, Alexandrine, African and Hispanic Wars in English, without trauma. You can hate Caesar in English like us culturally British do every day.
Really it was more like his Substack or something.
If memory serves he was sending these regular reports back to Rome to gin up popular support for the war, & put political pressure on the Senate to send him ever more legions/funding.
Caesar's book was a popular text that introduced him to the people but also was a strong reminder to the reader that he was *very* good at killing lots of people and had a *very* loyal army.
The first elected democrat to get arrested trying to stop something trump/muskrat are doing will be the immediate front runner in ‘28. I mean, chain yourself to the door of a Social Security office, just do it on fucking camera.
I find it amazing that so many of today's political trends and methods were things Julius Caesar was doing over 2000 years ago. The science of delivery has changed, but the substance was the same
Funny story, Julius Caesar also was becoming too powerful as the leader of Rome, so a bunch of his advisors in the Senate got together and stabbed him to death, so maybe there's a few things we could learn from his story.
Tell me aren’t talking about Schumer??? I thought the idea of Newsom running was horrible😓😢 Please not another republican lite Dem candidate…. we’ll end up with Trump forever!!!!!☠️☠️☠️FML
Pretty sure the Belgians hold the record for the longest period without a functioning government. You guys just need to bide your time till the next post-election gridlock.
when you look at his life history it is wild that he just happened to be both his generation's Donald Trump and a once in a millennium military mind. wild stuff
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i’m trying to reconcile all this with star wars mythos and i cannot get there
Great campaign!
Caesarites? Caesarians?
Caesar Stans would be like "It's not a trilogy! It's a story in three parts!!!"
Although I had Latin class, we never read Ceasar there, but I read translations, that guy knew his stuff.
Latin is a language
As dead as it can be
First it killed the Romans
Now it’s killing me
so I could know when my society was rapidly imploding
His PR team buried it though because it aged poorly.
If memory serves he was sending these regular reports back to Rome to gin up popular support for the war, & put political pressure on the Senate to send him ever more legions/funding.
Just waiting for musk to get his Crassus ending
And shill his book.
Reading book 6 about the druids in my AP Latin class currently. Unsurprising student support to the druids.
Et tu, Bernie?