Things Caesar did that ALL the other Roman Senators also did:
Served in the Roman military industrial complex
Be born into generational wealth
Be born into an aristocratic class that literally had different laws and punishments applied to them than everyone else
Got appointed (NOT elected) to the senate
Was a coloniser and actively colonised
Things the senate was willing to ignore/live with:
Crossed his army back into Rome without disarming (there were laws against that for a reason)
Illegal war x2 (many of the senators were actively involved in those)
Thing Caesar did that made a mere 60 of the Roman Senators decide to stab him:
Introduced legislation that said the senators had to pay their employees/reduced where they could use slave labour
Expanded the senate to give representation to leaders of the places they'd colonised
Gave citizenship to the people they'd colonised
Extended voting rights to the colonised people
Promised land to veterans
Refused a crown dramatically
Decided to change his role from ELECTED Dictator for a Term to Dictator for Life.
Was a switch/bottomed for other men (it's unclear) in a culture wher gay sex was fine and manly ...but only if you were the top. So homophobia.
IF this secret was out (it's unclear, but Brutus was close to Caesar and might have known) : Had seizures in his adult life. May or may not have been late onset epilepsy. May have been malaria related. May have been a parasite in his brain. In Rome people with epilepsy were considered somewhat unclean and you did not drink from the same cups they used. So ableism.
And if you're thinking "huh, i was tagging ides of march posts about how much I wish my elected representatives would kill a certain orange turd and this doesn't sound anything like him" ...yeah.
Because the orange turd and USAer senate is NOT like Caesar and the Roman senate.
And no. It's not okay to pretend or spread misinformation pretending it's the same thing to try to encourage people to deal with your turd.
The Ides of March is fun because the situation (60 military vets only succed in stabbing 1 guy 23 times) is absurd. Not because it's a parabel for modern times. It's not.
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