The Roman Way to Trash a Republic | When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

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• HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s odd the way these articles talk about dictatorship taking hold in the US

  It’s as if there is a subtle undercurrent of wanting it to actually happen while simultaneously being outwardly opposed to it.

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  • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A big chunk of the US population wants dictatorship

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    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s a solid 30%, by all accounts.

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  • Sergio@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s odd the way these articles talk about dictatorship taking hold in the US

    Yeah, there are a lot of valuable lessons to be learned by studying the Roman Republic and Empire. This article does none of that, it just lists a bunch of parallels. It’s in the same genre as “12 reasons why Joe Biden was the antichrist!”

    I’m continually disappointed in The Atlantic. At one time it would have published a thoughtful essay on the topic. Instead this article just normalizes the idea that democracy in the US is doomed to fall.

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    • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Everything is just clickbait for established narratives

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• cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The US went straight for Nero it seems.

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