

Euergetes [none/use name]
bruh roman empire names are fucking awesome, everyone knows 212, everyone became a citizen but everyone was renamed too. after the emperor. most regime pilled shit you ever heard
and after constantine, my fucking guy constantine–everyone in the civil and military service is Flavius. hell yeah
DC just sucks and nobody wanted parades there, Civil War, WW1, WW2 victory parades happened in New York (and smaller local ones regionally). countries whose capitals weren’t negotiated as ransom from slaveholders put their civil and military institutions in one of the large prestigious cities where frequent military parades can draw crowds and look respectable.
i don’t think most people have the energy to plot a rambo standoff with paramilitaries, who don’t generally announce what they’re doing in advance.
i’m not shittalking resistance, i promise, but we cannot expect people to spontaneously develop a consciousness and militancy, even in extreme conditions. that’s what organizing is for
i think this is what people in kenya feel like when the US is about to invade somewhere. something terrible might happen that will affect us all. i have no fucking clue what can be done about it.