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Strong PC Principal vibes. Makes sense he turned into “Power Christian Principal” after the MAGA shake-up.
He didn’t need to change his name. Being a Christofascist is what’s politically correct now.
Hey, those 7 people are having a pretty OK time right there.
I know it’s off topic, but I wish people would stop using Twitter. Nazi bar and all that.
It’s kind of unbelievable to me that people are even able to still use it, it’s a complete slopfest. Everything good about old twitter is completely gone at this point
I was ten in 1976 and y’all would not believe what a coast to coast extreme party it was for the entire year. Drawers filled with souvenirs!! There was so much!
And now? This.
Most empires last about 250 years so this is fitting
Rome lasted a thousand years, and has become a benchmark for nationalist regimes that imagine they’re ushering in a new golden age (right before they run out of money and attack Poland). NSDAP was notorious about aspiring to a thousand-year reich which they obviously did not achieve.
The US is making similar golden age noises.
Checking Wikipedia, the British empire was ~450 years, so I’d be interested in examples of ~250 year reigns.
Rome lasted a thousand years
Not true. Byzantium lasted a thousand years. The Roman empire lasted no more than 500.
As for the rest, well, fuck fascists.
If you add the Roman Republic too its another 500, but I digress.
We were talking about empires.
Britain still exists as a polity, but the British Empire no longer does, so we say the British Empire lasted such-and-such number of years, because it’s already a thing of the past.
If we’re talking about how long political systems last, it’s going to get very abstract if we count different political systems as one just because they had the same capital (and sometimes not even that), or the same imperial core, or the same ethno-culturo-linguistic citizenry (or rather, first-class citizenry).
It gets increasingly difficult to define continuity if we start claiming the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire were actually the same political entity.