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@MathiasAki73519 @AncientHistorry Yes, Rome after the conversion had a new religion, a new capital and never reached the territorial extent of the old empire, it wasn't really the same entity as pagan Rome.

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Forget Nero. Forget Caligula.
The worst Roman emperor in history was a 19 year old who thought he was the reincarnation of Hercules. If you saw the movie Gladiator, you know him as Joaquin Phoenix's character. His real name was Commodus, and the reason his story is so dark is that his father was Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher king who wrote the Meditations.
When Marcus died in 180 AD, Commodus inherited the most powerful empire the world had ever seen. He immediately abandoned his father's wars on the German frontier, made a humiliating peace, and rode back to Rome to play.
He fought in the Colosseum 735 times. He won every match, because his opponents fought him with wooden swords while he used a real one. The Senate was forced to pay him a million sesterces every time he stepped into the arena.
He once gathered men who had lost their feet to accident or disease, dressed them from the knees down as serpentine giants, handed them sponges to throw at him as "rocks," and clubbed them to death in front of the Roman public for sport.
On another day, he decapitated an ostrich in the arena, walked up to the senators in the front row, and held the bloody head up at them with a smile. The historian Cassius Dio was sitting there that day. He writes that the senators chewed on the laurel leaves from their crowns to hide their hysterical, terrified laughter, because they understood the head was a promise.
He renamed the city of Rome itself "Colonia Commodiana." Colony of Commodus.
He renamed all twelve months of the year after his own twelve titles.
He declared himself a living god, dressed publicly in a lion skin, carried a wooden club, and demanded to be addressed as Hercules, son of Zeus.
His own sister Lucilla tried to have him assassinated. He survived and had her executed. His wife Crispina was exiled to an island and quietly killed. His chamberlain Cleander began openly selling senate seats and consulships for cash. In one year, twenty five different men were appointed consul.
On New Year's Eve, 192 AD, his mistress Marcia found her own name on his execution list for the next morning. She poisoned his wine. He vomited it up. So she sent in his personal wrestling coach, a man named Narcissus, who strangled him to death in his bath.
The very next year, the imperial throne of Rome was literally auctioned off to the highest bidder by the Praetorian Guard. Five different men claimed the title of emperor in twelve months. Civil war never really stopped after that.
Edward Gibbon, who wrote the definitive history of Rome's collapse, opens his entire 3000 page book with the death of Marcus Aurelius and the rise of his son.
The Roman Empire would limp on for another 284 years in the west before it finally fell.
But the Pax Romana, the longest stretch of peace and prosperity the ancient world had ever known, died on the German frontier with Marcus Aurelius.
His son made sure of it.

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@ArtThePatriot_ Wonder how these students would fare taking a 4th grade test from 1995 ?
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@FascinatingTrue Stupid "science" .. always ruining the cool the shit. Go cure cancer and leave our mer-monkey-maids alone 😔
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@wild4moon @AndrewGraf_13 There was a rapper... basically describing, once you show talent & marketability, they clone you and whack you so they don't have to pay you .. 💯 profit off the "Brand" 🤷♂️ but they sure don't look the same these days (even structurally)
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Would def. have a beer with Borges and Kundera ... be fascinating
(The latter expelled twice from the commie party in favor of individualism)
Time Capsule Tales@timecaptales
In 1977, Jorge Luis Borges — already blind, already legendary — sat across from William F. Buckley on Firing Line & explained why English is the greatest language in the world & why he respected it too much to write his poetry in it.
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@LarryGreer20 @iluminatibot @susierae23 It is just an algorithm that can be influenced with an infux of manipulated data. Just like
Medical trials & scientific journals, those who fund it have sway over the results & zeitgeist. Hippocratic became hypocritic. People are starting to notice.
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They mocked the Amish like they were primitive.
Turns out they just didn’t consent to processed poison, DNA editing, and digital lobotomies.
No phones.
No seed oils.
No child drag shows.
No Pfizer discounts.
No food pyramid brought to you by Monsanto.
Just raw milk, strong families, and 42 IQ points higher than your TikTok-addicted cousin.
The real red pill? It was in the butter.

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@Wh1teGravy227 @GarbageHuman24 Way to Go J 👍 ... already addicted kids go bonkers if screens are taken away .. its no way to live nor be raised. 💯👊 you're saving our collective future... one day they will understand
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@Lane21402092 @GarbageHuman24 This is precisely why my children will have ZERO social media or tablets or smartphones until they're finished with high school.
They'll hate us for a while but when the realize they're so much smarter and more capable than their peers, they'll thank us.
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@lpark1971 @RealJamesWoods Words that mean nothing anymore ...
When substance runs out ad hominems are all that is Left. Swallow the trickle and the creek runs dry.
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He’s headed for the presidency at some point. The tide is turning in this country.
Congressman Brandon Gill@RepBrandonGill
DEI is a rotten, evil, discriminatory ideology that has resulted in Americans being passed over for jobs, promotions, and college admissions because of their skin color.
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@historyrock_ Segovia, Bream, Emmanuel, Django, Montgomery, Atkins, Bryant.. etc ... so would have to say not even close.
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@LibertyCappy How Dare he defy the (maestro in training)
hand clapper !!!
(Who isn't even facing the band) 🤷♂️
Anyone explain what that dudes job is ?
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@mmigneri @Viralvid_89 @MagaMelarky2 The fact that he could breathe fresh air even at 87 (if not sooner... ) is disgusting. He'll be living off the taxpayers dime now for 60 years. Need to back to the old ways .. I agree.
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@Viralvid_89 @MagaMelarky2 Something really wrong with these mf’ers.
I’m deadass, we need to start hanging violent offenders.

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27-year-old Donald from Georgia didn’t want his girlfriend to keep their baby. According to investigators, the two argued after she decided to go through with the pregnancy anyway.
Police say Donald later took her out on what seemed like a normal date to the movies before suggesting they take a walk through a nearby park. That’s when prosecutors say he shot her in the back of the head and left her there to die.
Officers responded after a 911 caller reported an unresponsive woman near a walking trail. When EMTs arrived, they found the pregnant victim lying in a fetal position. She was awake but unable to speak, suffering from a gunshot wound to the back of her head.
Doctors rushed her into emergency surgery and performed a C-section to save the baby.
She spent two months in the hospital recovering before she was finally able to speak with investigators about what happened.
Donald was later arrested and charged with attempted murder of both the mother and her unborn child. He has now been sentenced to 60 years in prison.

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