We’re making history today. A tremendous history, okay? No one’s seen anything like it. We’re standing here at the Rubicon, a little river, not a big one, but it’s about to become a big deal. A huge deal. Why? Because once we cross it, we’re going to make Rome great again. Believe me, it’s going to be tremendous.

The Senate? You know them. They’re corrupt, they’re weak, and quite frankly, they’re failing. Same with Lyin’ Praetor Harris. Everyone knows it. The people know it, the soldiers know it. They sit there, with their fancy togas, eating grapes, while the rest of us, the real Romans, are out here fighting the real battles. It’s disgraceful. But that’s going to change, and it’s going to change big league.

Now, they’ll say I’m breaking the rules. ‘Oh, Consul Trump can’t cross the Rubicon. That’s against the law!’ Well, guess what? The rules are rigged! They’re rigged against us, the people, the soldiers who built this empire. And let me tell you, I’ve dealt with rules before. I know how to win. We’re going to cross this river and we’re going to win so much, you’re going to get tired of winning.

The Senate? They’re scared. They’re afraid of what I’ll do. They’re afraid I’ll drain the Tiber of all their corruption, all their bad deals. And you know what? They should be scared. Because when we get to Rome, it’s going to be different. Very different. The Republic? A mess. But I’m going to fix it. These so-called leaders, they say I’m a dictator, they say I’m doing something unprecedented. Well, was it unprecedented when Marius took over? When Sulla marched on Rome? No. And you know what? They weren’t half as successful as me. They weren’t even close. We’ve got the best legions, the best generals, the best people. No one builds legions like we do. It’s a fact.

So here’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to cross that Rubicon, and once we’re in Rome, we’re going to give the power back to the people. Back to you. Not the crooked politicians, not the elites. We’re going to rebuild the temples, strengthen the economy, protect the borders—you know the barbarians, they’re pouring across. It’s a mess. But we’ll fix it. We’re going to build a great wall across the Rhine. And who’s going to pay for it? The Gauls. Believe me.

Seriously though, I didn’t know what it was. I had to look it up: https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher

umu, what’s this?

Too bad we can’t gild people here, because this deserves it.

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Hmm…

It could be argued that the senate (also being unelected) is better at filling the role you ascribe to the GG. If anything it’s even better, since they don’t serve for a set term, and they have a much more involved legislative role.

Hell, Quebec still to this day hasn’t ratified the 1982 update. They kept using the notwithstanding clause for years until the supreme court unilaterally decided that since QC is part of Canada, the constitution applies there in practice despite them not signing it.

Oh, this is interesting, and it ties into the other comment about it being essentially antisocial behaviour.

I generally agree, but .io stands for “indian ocean”, which isn’t a country.

Thanks for this interesting and deeper take. I hadn’t made that link between individualism and this phenomenon, but it seems very plausible because we see less of this in countries that aren’t as antisocial.

It’s mindblowing to us non-Americans that such a large percentage of a purportedly first-world country can be so utterly stupid. I can’t imagine that things were this bad even just 20 years ago. Why are y’all so dumb?

what a majority of the population, including an overwhelming majority of your own base

Source for this? Polls I’ve seen suggest otherwise, but maybe you have access to data that others don’t.

Huh?

Serious question: what do you think publicly repudiating Israel would do for the democrats’ chances of willing the presidential election? It makes sense for them to say nothing publicly while privately trying to tie down those loose cannons.

People here constantly repeating this is so tiresome. Read this: https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/politics/bob-woodward-book-war-joe-biden-putin-netanyahu-trump/index.html

Counterpoint: .su still exists

I was wondering the same. It’s a very popular TLD, so you’d think they would grandfather it in as a generic (non-country) TLD like .net or whatever.

Hmm yes, all Israelis are fascists. That definitely isn’t dehumanizing an entire people or anything.

Lemmy users casually talking about wiping a country off the map:

I assumed it was the equivalent of “dark enlightenment”.