Senate: the commoners will totally love how we killed the guy who was giving them glory, food & land so that we can keep our status
EnamelKant on
As Jugurtha (who’d conservatively bribed at least a third of the senate and bought himself a Tribune for good measure) fled Rome, he was supposed to have mused that it was “A city for sale and doomed to speedy destruction if it finds a purchaser.”
Probably something Livy added in the interest of a good story, but damn if it wasn’t true.
drumstick00m on
You know how evil and pathetic you have to be for James Madison to call you a barbaric civilization of old?
Because he called the Roman and Carthaginian Senate that in his writings. Federalist 10, if memory serves.
Jimmy wasn’t a good guy. A better guy than his boss TJ, but still.
callmedale on
The Birds(Alfred Hitchcock): they just attack people. lol
The Birds(Aristophanes): one of the fundamental problems with a representative democracy is that you can sway any vote by bribing or threatening enough of the representatives. Also if this play is not voted as the best comedy in this year’s Dyonesian festival I will hire people to throw shit at the judges.
AlwaysLimpy on
The senate did everything right and still lost, sometimes you just cant beat fate.
They turned a city into an emerging power, defeated all their rivals, expanded through seas and mountains, killed the dictator that tried to take control of it and got whooped by his half adopted nephew/lover with a loan.
The gods sure act in mysterious ways.
iamstephen1128 on
I thought the meme was supposed to be about history not the present 🤦🏿♂️😭
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i thought this was a star wars meme for a second
All my homies hate the Roman senate
I thought this was a Star Wars meme too wtf
Senate: the commoners will totally love how we killed the guy who was giving them glory, food & land so that we can keep our status
As Jugurtha (who’d conservatively bribed at least a third of the senate and bought himself a Tribune for good measure) fled Rome, he was supposed to have mused that it was “A city for sale and doomed to speedy destruction if it finds a purchaser.”
Probably something Livy added in the interest of a good story, but damn if it wasn’t true.
You know how evil and pathetic you have to be for James Madison to call you a barbaric civilization of old?
Because he called the Roman and Carthaginian Senate that in his writings. Federalist 10, if memory serves.
Jimmy wasn’t a good guy. A better guy than his boss TJ, but still.
The Birds(Alfred Hitchcock): they just attack people. lol
The Birds(Aristophanes): one of the fundamental problems with a representative democracy is that you can sway any vote by bribing or threatening enough of the representatives. Also if this play is not voted as the best comedy in this year’s Dyonesian festival I will hire people to throw shit at the judges.
The senate did everything right and still lost, sometimes you just cant beat fate.
They turned a city into an emerging power, defeated all their rivals, expanded through seas and mountains, killed the dictator that tried to take control of it and got whooped by his half adopted nephew/lover with a loan.
The gods sure act in mysterious ways.
I thought the meme was supposed to be about history not the present 🤦🏿♂️😭