• PugJesus@lemmy.worldM
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    “Let’s give a teenager complete autocratic power, what could go wrong”

    [wild parties ensue]

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      “With Trump, it’s like there’s a child in the White House!”

      An actual child in the White House: weekly Minecraft LAN parties

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    Let’s not lose sight of who wrote that: his detractors in the Senate. They had every reason to delegitimize and demonize him

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    Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

    They literally just mushed all the greats’ names together. How often does this happen?

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      In Spanish language places a lot of people are called jesus, in Islamic places a lot of people are called Mohammed. I’m not saying i think it is a normal thing to do, but history disagrees with me. People have been name-dropping any way they can for ages now.

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        True but how is it more like “Vishnu Abraham Hesus Muhammad de Buddha” or specifically among Roman emperors.

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      Constantly. Most Roman Emperors adopted the names of previous Emperors to show how part of the ‘imperial family’ they were.

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    I can’t help but think that second-to-last bullet point, especially taken together with the last one, would have been ill-advised given ancient Roman surgical capabilities.

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    I like the sentiment, but they were underage for most of there reign (14-18) so kinda ick to sexualize them

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      What? No one is sexualizing them, they were sexual. They had 4 wives. They had a reputation for “sexual promiscuity”. This information is directly from the linked Wikipedia article.

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      “I never wanted a meme sexualizing a teenager.”

      “How about a meme validating a teenager?”

      “Aye, that I can do.”

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      it’s impossible to sound like a well-adjusted human that is allowed in polite society when saying this but i still feel it has to be said: the meaning of “underage” is a legal one, not a biological one, and it varies a lot across the world. in my country, we commonly call people turning 15 “pants-age” (bad translation) because it’s the age of consent. that’s just normal here.

      assuming the rest of the world, especially when going back through history, shares 21st century north american sensibilities is not helping anyone.