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  • I think it’s a substitute for sorting ones own identity out by putting yourself in a predefined box so you can do zero self development and feel cool about it. It is a consolation prized coined by so-called ‘alpha male’ grifters when they realized they would need to carve out an exception for people sympathetic to their grift, but, shared all common traits with what they called ‘betas’. It’s all bathwater, and there isn’t even a tub. Anyway, you seem more like a ligma to me.






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    12 days ago

    Being fair to Christianity, they weren’t really in power for a hot minute, and most of the history was decision after decision to benefit the ruling class. I think the real thing to focus on was an ineffective senate and more and more power concentrated in a single office, whose executive was often selected by an entrenched, unelected body. The country was basiclly at the mercy of the competence of the emperor. Sometimes, they got lucky with a dude like Marcus Aurelius, who then decided his son, Commodus (the bad guy from Gladiator), should succeed him. Constantius (effective emperor) was succeeded by backbiting over the four major seats of power that, with constantine ultimately gaining power (via murder). This was like 300 CE? That’s when Christianity started ass fucking Europe for the next 1700 years.