Cyberbullying is sometimes acceptable

It doesn’t teach anyone a lesson, but it can keep cretins out of places where decent, non-racist folk gather :)

“Bisexual Biden”

The fuck is this, a Ben Garrison comic

A delicacy in Ancient Rome! If you wanted to show off your wealth, you’d weigh the fattest dormouse you could get in front of your guests before serving it in a fancy dinner. The fatter, the more impressive!

One time, after Halloween, the local store had candy corn on clearance sale, each container was 25 cents for a pound.

My gut suffered. Wax belly is awful. Yet I never learned.

There was also a lot of nasty work inbetween. The US was a supporter of decolonization of European empires in the 1940s and 1950s, which put us in conflict with France; De Gaulle was a horrifically small-minded nationalist who took special delight in being obstinate and sabotaging all attempts at cooperation with countries outside of France; and France resented the US taking the pre-eminent position in Europe despite not being European (or French).

Electoral bribery is a hell of a drug.

okay, fine, but not being able to leave your house is no excuse for having … I’m just gonna say the opinions that people on Lemmy have.

Yeah, I can’t believe the number of people on here who think Star Trek > Star Wars, smh, straight-up sickness

Then she’s still someone, just someone shitty.

That’s enough internet for one lifetime

Hippo-crates says “Do harm”

Can confirm, also will not elaborate

Absolutely unheard of on 196, I am shocked, shocked I say

Sucking builds character

All hail our lord and savior Vezimira

Wireless mic

To hell with your toes, I’m lusting over that water. That’s fucking witchcraft, it is

!noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works energy

"♪ One cat asked me for a dollar, ♪

♪ I asked him what it’s for ♪

♪ He said ‘I HAVE SEEN THEM’ ♪

♪ I said okay it’s your’s ♪"

Was he even as bad as they say?

Commodus was likely as bad as they say. Emperor Septimius Severus is said to have decried Marcus Aurelius for not strangling the kid when he had the chance. Of course, Septimius Severus’s kid would turn out to be a gruesome fellow like Commodus, so he doesn’t actually have much room to throw stones.

I mean, probably, absolute power and all that, but from what I hear the madness of Caligula is severely overblown since the main sources we have on him are the Roman versions of tabloids, so maybe it’s similar with Commodus.

Caligula revisionism is… very problematic. The most I would say there is that some of the pop culture interpretations of him are false, and some of the incidents mentioned as rumors by Roman historians are likely exaggerated. He was pretty unambiguously a tyrant and extremely arbitrary in his rule. If you take ‘madness’ as ‘detached from reality’, Caligula probably wasn’t mad. If you take ‘madness’ as ‘sociopathic and impulsive’, then Caligula was almost certainly mad.

More that the only news we can read is from the Anglosphere, and the Anglosphere is dominated by American news, because we are very loud.