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    1. It was not what he did before declaring himself ‘Emperor for life’, because Caesar never declared himself Emperor.

    2. The initiation of the civil war was not because Caesar decided to deploy troops as a matter of suppressing popular dissent, but because the Senate, at the behest of the ultraconservative Cato the Younger, was hell-bent on having the reformer Caesar executed for behavior of his that the Senate had already sanctioned, and preventing the democratic popular assemblies from saving him.

    3. Caesar, quite famously, did not repress his political enemies, even during the civil war; those political enemies who remained in territory he controlled were left unharmed and unimpeded; those who fought against him were unconditionally pardoned. Many of them went on to stab him several years later, so it’s not like he was pardoning just the harmless ones.

    4. Caesar’s appointment as dictator in perpetuity was not preceded by military crackdowns.








  • Explanation: In WW2, much is made of the Nazi ‘Tiger’ tanks, which were specialized for tank-on-tank combat. The American Sherman tank, used by the US, UK, France, and USSR, however, was a multipurpose beast that was modified for a wide variety of problems as the need arose. Got a problem? There’s a Sherman M4 Medium Tank for it. Minesweeper, armored bulldozer, rocket-launcher, AA-platform, support gun; there’s nothing the Sherman couldn’t be outfitted for. Eat shit, Nazis!










  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPtomemes@lemmy.worldBread is love, bread is life
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    Bread made feeding people cheap.

    Bread is a luxury, if feeding people cheap was the only concern, porridge would be a better use of grains than bread. Porridge predominated when peasant culture predominated; bread becomes common with civilization’s connections, innovations, and specialization.