Yeah, so once you are safely in the provinces with your rebellious legions, you do not, in fact, return to Rome unarmed to attend meetings of the Senate on day-trips. You stay in the provinces with your legions. - ThreadSky

bretdevereaux.bsky.social • 554 days ago

Yeah, so once you are safely in the provinces with your rebellious legions, you do not, in fact, return to Rome unarmed to attend meetings of the Senate on day-trips.

You stay in the provinces with your legions.

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davidniallwilson.com•554 days ago

This sounds like it shoulid be on that list of things "If I Were a Evil Overlord, I would / would not..."

100millionmile.bsky.social•554 days ago

In Putins Russia Rubicon crosses you

forevernever.bsky.social•554 days ago

But he had promises from the dictator for life!

pnathan.bsky.social•539 days ago

Putin / Prigozhin subtweet?

fernmonkey.bsky.social•554 days ago

Seriously, read the Evil Overlord List, with especial reference to notes for henchmen.

djangowexler.bsky.social•554 days ago

That's why Caesar crossed the Rubicon, and then they were like "Come on, man, stand down and you can retire to a quiet country life", and then he did that and it went fine

kudzutiger.bsky.social•554 days ago

And people act like we can learn nothing from reading Roman history.

dingokayfabe.bsky.social•554 days ago

These people want us to believe they’re Third Rome and they can’t even pass Pretorianism 101

insipidtwaddle.bsky.social•554 days ago

Just crossing back and forth over the Rubicon like a cat faced with an open front door.

metalupis.bsky.social•554 days ago

Note the question becomes, what are the legions going to do?

forevernever.bsky.social•554 days ago

I mean, they're off in the provinces without a leader.

cmraman.geek.org•554 days ago

I read that the legions currently don’t have phone or internet service thanks to the Belarusian government. So we shall see.

meredithw.bsky.social•554 days ago

After all, isn't that what Zoom is for?

thakia.bsky.social•554 days ago

Another great piece of advice from Maquivelli

bistromath.bsky.social•554 days ago

People need to read the Classics

sctadsen.bsky.social•554 days ago

One of the classic blunders, right up there with, "never get involved in a land war in Asia."

everyzig314.bsky.social•554 days ago

The only surprise here was that it was a plane crash instead of defenestration or the Spicy Tea.

100millionmile.bsky.social•554 days ago

I think Putin wanted to add to the list of things Russian elites have to worry about.

jwlewington.bsky.social•554 days ago

I still think he fell out of a window during the plane crash. He wouldn't want to defy Russian tradition.

kickstandoptional.bsky.social•554 days ago

All about tradition.

Legend says he did the Kazotsky Kick all the way back down.

mcnutcase.bsky.social•554 days ago

He'd been dead too long for a plausible defenestration, so they scattered him over several square miles.

unfunk.cx•554 days ago

What is the sky, if not a gigantic window one should be careful to not fall out of?

passeriform.bsky.social•554 days ago

Sounds like The Magnus Archives. Ex altiora!

tomlevenson.bsky.social•554 days ago

Seems basic.

And if you do choose to cross the Rubicon, you do so locked and pila at the ready.

garius.bsky.social•554 days ago

But what if they promise you nice snacks?

kateweb.bsky.social•554 days ago

This is why supply lines are so important - in war/rebellion, your own snacks are the only snacks you can trust.

garius.bsky.social•554 days ago

When the revolution comes, I plan to be behind the scenes making sandwiches and running the creche.

kateweb.bsky.social•554 days ago

The revolution needs catering and childcare. ✊

robtelford.bsky.social•553 days ago

The Soviets understood this, at least until Stalin took charge

https://toposmagazine.com/narkomfin-and-the-social-condenser/

kateweb.bsky.social•553 days ago

Hard to be a good Soviet worker if you spend all your time on laundry and childcare.

garius.bsky.social•554 days ago

Exactly.

Logistics wins wars.

kateweb.bsky.social•554 days ago

It does. Armies march on their stomachs.

jimadamsgeo.bsky.social•554 days ago

"feci magnus errata" or something along those lines.

lynperkinsart.bsky.social•554 days ago

lol

aagcobb.bsky.social•554 days ago

"Et tu, Vladimir?"

zyzzyva.bsky.social•554 days ago

"Alea iacta est," says Caesar, crossing the Rubicon without his troops as the law demands.

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