Thought it was Caesar Augustus? IIRC Zuckerberg has even claimed that his hairstyle is inspired by him.
I think Zuck's shirt is a good joke on everyone trying to displace Facebook from the market. BlueSky wants to be the next Facebook/Twitter, so IMO by not getting the joke the Bluesky shirt is a self-own.
The point of the shirt seems to be that they don't want to be the next facebook. The article clarifies that. Whether they'll live up to that promise if they grow is another issue.
I don't understand how you misunderstood that so badly that you came to this conclusion.
The Something Awful forums had a $9.95 registration fee. I'm sure markup on those $40 shirts is more than that.
Some game developers also embraced this business model:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/745810196/deep-rock-gal...
Personally I would not spend this much on a plastic mug, but it seems there were enough takers to fund continued development.
https://www.businessinsider.com/x-competitor-bluesky-valuati...
Apart from being barely significant in the first place, the article lacks the context to even make its point. Journalists are meant to do research. This is just a big, sloppy retweet.
That can allude to all the all-too-powerful overlords, in tech and politics. They should make more of those shirts and take mail orders. Maybe even an NSFW version with a middle finger.
If you don't see how this ends you're not paying attention. If you support this you're the problem.
Why can't news sites just report the news? Why do they need to tell me what to think about it?
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Oh, okay. My fault.
In some ways this fits the election of Donald Trump - he was designated as a temporary magistrate who was granted extraordinary powers in order to deal with state crises - but in most ways it does not. Trump does not possess absolute power nor is a member of a small group which possesses such power as the plethora of court cases blocking his decisions make clear. The real important bit here is this:
> apparently 77M Americans
That is the majority of the voting public which you're lambasting for making the wrong decision. Here's a bit more on that subject, read it well:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/democracy and https://www.britannica.com/topic/republic-government
Don't agree with the majority and think they should listen to you or your group instead? There are names for such forms of government as well, names which are generally portrayed as being opposites of the two I pointed at earlier.
the 77M people were not the majority but a plurality, although i'm not sure there is a 2000 y.o. definition for that to help you cope
don't look too far for a president who has been elected by a minority, it happened as recently as 2016
Julius Caesar was not just some "violent dictator" like a Hitler, Stalin, or Putin. He wasn't sending people off to gas chambers, gulags, or out of windows. He was famous for his clemency toward his enemies in the civil war which made him dictator.
Even the title of "dictator" was a legal office in ancient Rome and meant something very different from the modern usage.
Zuck admiring Julius Caesar (which doesn't mean endorsing all his actions) puts him in the company of many of the most successful, ethical, and well informed people in history
I don't want to compare to these other guys because obviously it was a different time/culture and you can't really make such broad sweeping comparisons. I won't judge people for admiring him because I also appreciate a lot of his political and strategic savvy. But he was a very violent dictator.
You might be very surprised at how differently ancient people viewed the world compared to yourself.
Sure, no one wants to be killed or enslaved but the societies of these very people behaved in precisely the same way as the Romans and most ancient societies did. These were not peace loving hippies being invaded by alien monsters.
Anyway, Caesar was not dictator when he fought in Gaul. He was a Roman proconsul/general fighting in his provinces the way all ancient Roman armies did, and was more inclined toward mercy than most, although he also fought a much bigger war than most.
In the civil war Caesar was fighting Pompey, the guy who used his military power to control the Roman government for the previous decade. And who would have continued controlling the government had he won. The narrative that Pompey was defending the republic against a tyrant is more ancient propaganda than reality.
A reasonable and accurate summary is that Julius Caesar led a violent army against violent enemies, fought a civil war with unprecedented clemency, and was a benevolent dictator until his assassination by the envious people he had granted clemency.
edit: Misinformation - number is actually 12m.
Never had a similar problem on Bluesky.
I've seen theories that there's like botting happening on those posts, and it kinda seems likely given how little real interaction they get.
