That’s about all there is to it! Coming not long after the gladiator-mad Emperor Commodus (leftmost), the bloodthirsty and cruel Emperor Caracalla (middle), and the bizarre and impulsive Emperor Elagabalus (rightmost), Emperor Severus Alexander was a mild and reasonable boy, whose amusement of choice wasn’t bloodshed or wild orgies, not even theatrical performances, just watching baby animals play!

Besties about to share a friendship kiss!

https://www.christies.com/lot/a-large-carthaginian-glass-head-pendant-circa-6542584/

Look at those eyes, great googly-moogly!

what

MLK needed the Black Panthers as much as the Panthers needed MLK.

The Black Panthers didn’t even exist before MLK’s largest successes.

People don’t not vote just because they’re lazy.

lol

It’s amazing how much the left has bought into the same “everyone is trained to be a hero” cult of action shite that literal fascists peddle.

Just because brainrotted liberals peddle “NO VIOLENCE EVER FOR ANY REASON” doesn’t mean that the mirror fucking image is God’s honest truth, but trying to get online Very Serious Leftists to see this is an exercise in futility.

It’s so goddamn tiring.

Hmm… I’m sceptical because it doesn’t show the actual poll results (what % expressed optimism in 2003?) and it just says “many” Iraqis expressed optimism not even most but I’ll give you the point there was some optimism briefly

From the link I literally posted:

62% in 2004.

https://www.gallup-international.com/survey-results-and-news/survey-result/shifts-in-iraqs-public-opinion-from-2003-to-2025

In 2004, shortly after the fall of the former regime, many Iraqis expressed optimism hopeful for a democratic transition, improved public services, and national recovery. However, this optimism began to erode by 2007, following the outbreak of sectarian violence in 2006 and the partial withdrawal of U.S. troops. Confidence plummeted, with only 45 % of Iraqis believing the country was on the right track.

Don’t mistake the Iraq War being a clusterfuck that the US exploited under the Bush regime for ideological and corruption purposes with Saddam’s regime being something that Iraqis were mourning to see go.

Our presence was initially regarded hopefully by Iraqis, not that that justifies the invasion.

We managed to fuck it up in record time by selling contracts to ‘rebuild’ the country to grifters and attempting to reconstruct a government with zero (0) interest or intelligence regarding Iraqi needs and desires.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/photo-collection-shows-19th-and-20th-century-gay-relationships-180976161/

https://www.runjeetsingh.com/inventory/449/illustrations_of_arms_and_armour

Explanation: Diocletian was a Roman Emperor of the late 3rd century and early 4th century AD who royally fucked the government he took over, and then promptly retired to a nice villa in the Balkans. When one of his co-emperors wrote to him begging him to come back and unfuck the mess he seeded, Diocletian responded “If you [the messenger] could show the cabbage that I planted with my own hands to your emperor, he definitely wouldn’t dare suggest that I replace the peace and happiness of this place with the storms of a never-satisfied greed.”

Explanation: Diocletian was a Roman Emperor of the late 3rd century and early 4th century AD who royally fucked the government he took over, and then promptly retired to a nice villa in the Balkans. When one of his co-emperors wrote to him begging him to come back and unfuck the mess he seeded, Diocletian responded “If you [the messenger] could show the cabbage that I planted with my own hands to your emperor, he definitely wouldn’t dare suggest that I replace the peace and happiness of this place with the storms of a never-satisfied greed.”

Like that ever stopped Caesar. He was such a slut! He was known as “Every woman’s man and every man’s woman”

This is just news. NCD is a humor comm.

WW1, how fun!