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  1. TWO THOUSAND YEARS,
    SAME OLD PROBLEM 💎

    I was thinking about the Orange Man this morning, and suddenly I thought of Caligula. Not because they are the same man. They aren’t. Different centuries, different political systems, different circumstances. But two thousand years separate them, and an uncomfortable question remains.

    WHY DO HUMAN BEINGS KEEP GIVING THEIR POWER TO MEN WHO ARE SO OBVIOUSLY UNSUITED TO HOLD IT?

    We have history. We have education. We have constitutions, courts, elections, and institutions specifically designed because generations before us discovered what happens when too much power gathers around one person.

    AND STILL WE ARE FASCINATED BY THE ORANGE MAN.

    The certainty. The performance. The insults. The promise that complicated problems have simple answers and that somebody else is responsible for everything that has gone wrong.

    Perhaps that is the part we haven’t outgrown. Powerful men come and go. The human appetite for them seems remarkably durable. But there is one small piece of this I can actually control.

    MY ATTENTION.

    I don’t have to watch every speech. I don’t have to play every outrageous clip. I don’t have to spend another morning being furious about what the Orange Man said yesterday.

    BEING INFORMED MATTERS.

    Being permanently occupied by him does not. Caligula has been dead for nearly two thousand years.

    THE ORANGE MAN DOESN’T GET MY MORNING.

    @3goodthings@DigitalCoup@meditation@economics_that_works@startrek

    #Politics #Democracy #Power #History #Attention #Caligula #Trump #UnitedStates #orange #history #control #dead #ATTENTION

  2. TWO THOUSAND YEARS,
    SAME OLD PROBLEM 💎

    I was thinking about the Orange Man this morning, and suddenly I thought of Caligula. Not because they are the same man. They aren’t. Different centuries, different political systems, different circumstances. But two thousand years separate them, and an uncomfortable question remains.

    WHY DO HUMAN BEINGS KEEP GIVING THEIR POWER TO MEN WHO ARE SO OBVIOUSLY UNSUITED TO HOLD IT?

    We have history. We have education. We have constitutions, courts, elections, and institutions specifically designed because generations before us discovered what happens when too much power gathers around one person.

    AND STILL WE ARE FASCINATED BY THE ORANGE MAN.

    The certainty. The performance. The insults. The promise that complicated problems have simple answers and that somebody else is responsible for everything that has gone wrong.

    Perhaps that is the part we haven’t outgrown. Powerful men come and go. The human appetite for them seems remarkably durable. But there is one small piece of this I can actually control.

    MY ATTENTION.

    I don’t have to watch every speech. I don’t have to play every outrageous clip. I don’t have to spend another morning being furious about what the Orange Man said yesterday.

    BEING INFORMED MATTERS.

    Being permanently occupied by him does not. Caligula has been dead for nearly two thousand years.

    THE ORANGE MAN DOESN’T GET MY MORNING.

    @3goodthings@DigitalCoup@meditation@economics_that_works@startrek

    #Politics #Democracy #Power #History #Attention #Caligula #Trump #UnitedStates #orange #history #control #dead #ATTENTION

  3. TWO THOUSAND YEARS,
    SAME OLD PROBLEM 💎

    I was thinking about the Orange Man this morning, and suddenly I thought of Caligula. Not because they are the same man. They aren’t. Different centuries, different political systems, different circumstances. But two thousand years separate them, and an uncomfortable question remains.

    WHY DO HUMAN BEINGS KEEP GIVING THEIR POWER TO MEN WHO ARE SO OBVIOUSLY UNSUITED TO HOLD IT?

    We have history. We have education. We have constitutions, courts, elections, and institutions specifically designed because generations before us discovered what happens when too much power gathers around one person.

    AND STILL WE ARE FASCINATED BY THE ORANGE MAN.

    The certainty. The performance. The insults. The promise that complicated problems have simple answers and that somebody else is responsible for everything that has gone wrong.

    Perhaps that is the part we haven’t outgrown. Powerful men come and go. The human appetite for them seems remarkably durable. But there is one small piece of this I can actually control.

    MY ATTENTION.

    I don’t have to watch every speech. I don’t have to play every outrageous clip. I don’t have to spend another morning being furious about what the Orange Man said yesterday.

    BEING INFORMED MATTERS.

    Being permanently occupied by him does not. Caligula has been dead for nearly two thousand years.

    THE ORANGE MAN DOESN’T GET MY MORNING.

    @3goodthings@DigitalCoup@meditation@economics_that_works@startrek

    #Politics #Democracy #Power #History #Attention #Caligula #Trump #UnitedStates #orange #history #control #dead #ATTENTION

  4. TWO THOUSAND YEARS,
    SAME OLD PROBLEM 💎

    I was thinking about the Orange Man this morning, and suddenly I thought of Caligula. Not because they are the same man. They aren’t. Different centuries, different political systems, different circumstances. But two thousand years separate them, and an uncomfortable question remains.

    WHY DO HUMAN BEINGS KEEP GIVING THEIR POWER TO MEN WHO ARE SO OBVIOUSLY UNSUITED TO HOLD IT?

    We have history. We have education. We have constitutions, courts, elections, and institutions specifically designed because generations before us discovered what happens when too much power gathers around one person.

    AND STILL WE ARE FASCINATED BY THE ORANGE MAN.

    The certainty. The performance. The insults. The promise that complicated problems have simple answers and that somebody else is responsible for everything that has gone wrong.

    Perhaps that is the part we haven’t outgrown. Powerful men come and go. The human appetite for them seems remarkably durable. But there is one small piece of this I can actually control.

    MY ATTENTION.

    I don’t have to watch every speech. I don’t have to play every outrageous clip. I don’t have to spend another morning being furious about what the Orange Man said yesterday.

    BEING INFORMED MATTERS.

    Being permanently occupied by him does not. Caligula has been dead for nearly two thousand years.

    THE ORANGE MAN DOESN’T GET MY MORNING.

    @3goodthings@DigitalCoup@meditation@economics_that_works@startrek

    #Politics #Democracy #Power #History #Attention #Caligula #Trump #UnitedStates #orange #history #control #dead #ATTENTION

  5. TWO THOUSAND YEARS,
    SAME OLD PROBLEM 💎

    I was thinking about the Orange Man this morning, and suddenly I thought of Caligula. Not because they are the same man. They aren’t. Different centuries, different political systems, different circumstances. But two thousand years separate them, and an uncomfortable question remains.

    WHY DO HUMAN BEINGS KEEP GIVING THEIR POWER TO MEN WHO ARE SO OBVIOUSLY UNSUITED TO HOLD IT?

    We have history. We have education. We have constitutions, courts, elections, and institutions specifically designed because generations before us discovered what happens when too much power gathers around one person.

    AND STILL WE ARE FASCINATED BY THE ORANGE MAN.

    The certainty. The performance. The insults. The promise that complicated problems have simple answers and that somebody else is responsible for everything that has gone wrong.

    Perhaps that is the part we haven’t outgrown. Powerful men come and go. The human appetite for them seems remarkably durable. But there is one small piece of this I can actually control.

    MY ATTENTION.

    I don’t have to watch every speech. I don’t have to play every outrageous clip. I don’t have to spend another morning being furious about what the Orange Man said yesterday.

    BEING INFORMED MATTERS.

    Being permanently occupied by him does not. Caligula has been dead for nearly two thousand years.

    THE ORANGE MAN DOESN’T GET MY MORNING.

    @3goodthings@DigitalCoup@meditation@economics_that_works@startrek

    #Politics #Democracy #Power #History #Attention #Caligula #Trump #UnitedStates #orange #history #control #dead #ATTENTION

  6. Movies of the day (4/8)
    🎬 Caligula(1979)
    🎬 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run(2020)
    🎬 Bambi(1942)
    🎬 As Above, So Below(2014)

    © TMDB

    #Caligula #TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeontheRun #Bambi #AsAboveSoBelow #Adventure #Animation #Comedy #Drama #Family #Fantasy #History #Horror #Romance

  7. A fair transmission from the One Armed Scissor; the Head of Orlok.
    Why didn't anyone call the One Armed Scissor on Yaldabaoth at Epona Bergum and the apple of his eye Mokelock and her husband Caligula and their bestie Ghislainechromium59?? My life is NOT a fair transmission.

    #onearmedscissor #centralebergum #ghislainechromium59 #mokelock #caligula #yaldabaoth #fairtransmission #gemeenteleeuwarden #magnafrisia #vonbathory #thelivesofsatan #lornashore #azog #valdablack #pennywise #witchking

  8. Will Ramos? Lorna Shore? Yeh that's one of my lifepaths; he's just Jaap Albert from Noardburgum in the life of Satan and Ice Spice? That's Atty from Noardburgum, her mom worked at Epona powerplant Bergum with Yaldabaoth, also in the life of Satan.

    The life of Satan was big business for Yaldabaoth and Caligula.

    #satanherself #westernoardburgum #centralebergum #epona #yaldabaoth #caligula #icespice #willramos #lornashore #elizabethvonbathory #frisianwoodlands #wartenfryslân #thelifeofsatan

  9. Vladimir is being slaughtered as we speak?? Good that's what you get for mating with humans and refusal of soulmate collection; but put him back in 3D at some point; I already have an Azog brother in 4D (maybe he's in 2D) in my garden...

    #vladimirtepes #snuff #bestiality #cjmccreery #yaldabaoth #caligula #sodom #frisianwoodlands #wartenfryslân #magnafrisia #azog #muspelheim

  10. Yaldabaoth is my bitchass stepfather who is or was the janitor of Epona nuclear powerplant Bergum.... That powerplant has an underground facility.

    #centralebergum #undergroundfacility #snuff #yaldabaoth #caligula #pennywise #holyground

  11. I think it was Pennywise at Centrale Bergum with Yaldabaoth...

    Pennywise made me a Dancing Clown prinses; Yaldabaoth made me a prisoner of poverty...

    #centralebergum #pennywise #hexagon #muspelheim #yaldabaoth #caligula #pointofnoreturn #holyground #dancingclown

  12. Odin and Ra are the Devil;
    that's why I'm a hereditary Satanist.

    The Roman is of Prometheus.

    #odin #ra #zeus #shiva
    #prometheus #yaldabaoth #nero #caligula

  13. #datocurioso

    Sí creías que los políticos actuales hacían locuras y disparates, espera a ver lo que hacía el emperador romano Calígula, quien planeó nombrar cónsul a su caballo favorito por puro desprecio al senado.

    Cayo Julio César Augusto Germánico, mejor conocido en la historia como Calígula, gobernó el Imperio romano desde el año 37 hasta el 41 de nuestra era, ganándose una enorme fama por sus excentricidades y su carácter sumamente autoritario. Su caballo de carreras más querido, un semental llamado Incitatus, disfrutaba de una vida de lujos verdaderamente inimaginable para cualquier habitante común de Roma. El animal vivía en una caballeriza construida completamente de mármol pulido, comía avena fina mezclada con hojuelas de oro puro en un comedero hecho de marfil y vestía mantas de color púrpura, que era el tinte más caro de la época reservado de forma exclusiva para la familia del emperador.

    La historia cuenta que Calígula estaba tan harto del senado que decidió organizar banquetes formales en su palacio donde sentaba a su caballo como el invitado de honor en la mesa principal. Durante estas cenas, el mandatario obligaba a los propios senadores a servirle comida y a brindar por la salud del equino. Aunque los rumores de la época señalaban que el gobernante quería otorgarle el cargo político de cónsul, que era el puesto administrativo más alto de toda Roma, los investigadores modernos aclaran que este plan no era un síntoma de locura real, sino una burla sumamente pesada y un insulto directo para demostrarle a los legisladores que su trabajo era tan inútil que hasta un caballo podía realizarlo sin problemas.

    — A. Eldritch, Periodista, Locutor, podcaster y bloger del fediverso

    Alt text via @altbot y @TeLoDescribot

    #Calígula #AntiguaRoma #Historia #DatosCuriosos #ImperioRomano #Politica #Incitatus

  14. New Short! JB takes on : The Ultimate Cut - we watched this last year, this is actually a real film with story and characters, an absurdist tragedy 😺🎥📺 youtube.com/shorts/IBTE-lVyER4

  15. New Short! JB takes on #Caligula: The Ultimate Cut - we watched this last year, this is actually a real film with story and characters, an absurdist tragedy 😺🎥📺 youtube.com/shorts/IBTE-lVyER4

  16. New Short! JB takes on #Caligula: The Ultimate Cut - we watched this last year, this is actually a real film with story and characters, an absurdist tragedy 😺🎥📺 youtube.com/shorts/IBTE-lVyER4

  17. New Short! JB takes on #Caligula: The Ultimate Cut - we watched this last year, this is actually a real film with story and characters, an absurdist tragedy 😺🎥📺 youtube.com/shorts/IBTE-lVyER4

  18. New Short! JB takes on #Caligula: The Ultimate Cut - we watched this last year, this is actually a real film with story and characters, an absurdist tragedy 😺🎥📺 youtube.com/shorts/IBTE-lVyER4

  19. It's long overdue so Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, aka Caligula, is finally getting his day on B-Movie Enema. Strap in becuase I don't think there will ever be another 3-hour movie reviewed on the site again!

    Read the new review at wp.me/p9XNnZ-7Gv

    #blog #review #drama #sex #70s #malcolmmcdowell #helenmirren #tintobrass #bobguccione #caligula #peterotoole #johngielgud

  20. It's long overdue so Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, aka Caligula, is finally getting his day on B-Movie Enema. Strap in becuase I don't think there will ever be another 3-hour movie reviewed on the site again!

    Read the new review at wp.me/p9XNnZ-7Gv

    #blog #review #drama #sex #70s #malcolmmcdowell #helenmirren #tintobrass #bobguccione #caligula #peterotoole #johngielgud

  21. It's long overdue so Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, aka Caligula, is finally getting his day on B-Movie Enema. Strap in becuase I don't think there will ever be another 3-hour movie reviewed on the site again!

    Read the new review at wp.me/p9XNnZ-7Gv

    #blog #review #drama #sex #70s #malcolmmcdowell #helenmirren #tintobrass #bobguccione #caligula #peterotoole #johngielgud

  22. It's long overdue so Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, aka Caligula, is finally getting his day on B-Movie Enema. Strap in becuase I don't think there will ever be another 3-hour movie reviewed on the site again!

    Read the new review at wp.me/p9XNnZ-7Gv

    #blog #review #drama #sex #70s #malcolmmcdowell #helenmirren #tintobrass #bobguccione #caligula #peterotoole #johngielgud

  23. It's long overdue so Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, aka Caligula, is finally getting his day on B-Movie Enema. Strap in becuase I don't think there will ever be another 3-hour movie reviewed on the site again!

    Read the new review at wp.me/p9XNnZ-7Gv

    #blog #review #drama #sex #70s #malcolmmcdowell #helenmirren #tintobrass #bobguccione #caligula #peterotoole #johngielgud

  24. Wie verrückt sind Trump und Co?: Cäsarenwahn in Washington taz.de/Wie-verrueckt-sind-Trum

    Lesenswert!

    … Der bösartige Narzissmus eines Menschen ist eindeutig daran zu erkennen, dass er die Personen, die sein grandioses Selbstbild infrage stellen, konsequent und gnadenlos entwürdigt und sie geradezu suchtartig mit Schadenfreude überschüttet…

    #Trump #Musk #Putin #caesar #Caligula

  25. Wie verrückt sind Trump und Co?: Cäsarenwahn in Washington taz.de/Wie-verrueckt-sind-Trum

    Lesenswert!

    … Der bösartige Narzissmus eines Menschen ist eindeutig daran zu erkennen, dass er die Personen, die sein grandioses Selbstbild infrage stellen, konsequent und gnadenlos entwürdigt und sie geradezu suchtartig mit Schadenfreude überschüttet…

    #Trump #Musk #Putin #caesar #Caligula

  26. Wie verrückt sind Trump und Co?: Cäsarenwahn in Washington taz.de/Wie-verrueckt-sind-Trum

    Lesenswert!

    … Der bösartige Narzissmus eines Menschen ist eindeutig daran zu erkennen, dass er die Personen, die sein grandioses Selbstbild infrage stellen, konsequent und gnadenlos entwürdigt und sie geradezu suchtartig mit Schadenfreude überschüttet…

    #Trump #Musk #Putin #caesar #Caligula

  27. Wie verrückt sind Trump und Co?: Cäsarenwahn in Washington taz.de/Wie-verrueckt-sind-Trum

    Lesenswert!

    … Der bösartige Narzissmus eines Menschen ist eindeutig daran zu erkennen, dass er die Personen, die sein grandioses Selbstbild infrage stellen, konsequent und gnadenlos entwürdigt und sie geradezu suchtartig mit Schadenfreude überschüttet…

    #Trump #Musk #Putin #caesar #Caligula

  28. Wie verrückt sind Trump und Co?: Cäsarenwahn in Washington taz.de/Wie-verrueckt-sind-Trum

    Lesenswert!

    … Der bösartige Narzissmus eines Menschen ist eindeutig daran zu erkennen, dass er die Personen, die sein grandioses Selbstbild infrage stellen, konsequent und gnadenlos entwürdigt und sie geradezu suchtartig mit Schadenfreude überschüttet…

    #Trump #Musk #Putin #caesar #Caligula