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        • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Worse than a Roman Empire guy, he is specifically an Augustus Caesar simp

          Powerful men do love a transhistorical man-crush – fixating on an ancestor figure, who can be venerated, perhaps surpassed. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has told the New Yorker about his particular fascination with the Roman emperor, Augustus – he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have even called one of their children August.

          “Basically, through a really harsh approach, he established 200 years of world peace,” Zuckerberg explained. He pondered, “What are the trade-offs in that? On the one hand, world peace is a long-term goal that people talk about today …” On the other hand, he said, “that didn’t come for free, and he had to do certain things”.

          gon-anguish

          • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]@hexbear.netMEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Ugh I know it’s not the point but these fucking dorks can’t even be accurate about the history they worship. The so-called “Pax Romana” he loves so much wasn’t “world peace” but “relative stability in the imperial core at the expense of everyone around them”!

            He’s just being a mask off fascist tbh, he’s saying it’s fine for the world to burn so long as he can rule a corner of it