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I'LL EAT YER LIVER
Explanation: Later in life, the Roman senator Cato the Elder began ending every speech he made with "Ceterum (autem) censeo Carthaginem esse delendam" ("Furthermore, I consider that Carthage must be destroyed"), regardless of how far the topic of the speech was from Carthage or foreign affairs. He did this because... well, he was pushing for Carthage to be destroyed. He got his wish, eventually, in the Third Punic War, in which the extremely powerful Roman Republic brutally crushed Carthage, which had been reduced to a city-state bullied by its neighbors, already a shadow of its former glory.
Cato the Elder was a bit of a dick.
Okay but Alexander was pretty indisputably a prettyboy.
Like, we didn't just invent twinks in the last century. I promise, they've been around.
It's a complex issue, but think of it like backwards fundamentalist Christians going ballistic over women (especially their daughters) wearing anything more revealing than a sweater. That kind of familial coercion is couched in religious terms and springs from religious values, but is not, strictly speaking, fundamental (ha) to the religion itself.
Nah, just fuck theocracies.
A revolution powered by a combination of progressive anti-monarchists and revanchist religious leaders emerged victorious, only for the progressives to get knee-capped by a Reagan government that claimed to be targeting the religious leadership.
Jesus fucking Christ. Tell me you know nothing about the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution without telling me you know nothing about the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution.
Don't worry, plenty of online 'leftists' will tell me that this is what critical support for anti-imperialism looks like.
The US: "Please change your RoE to something that doesn't make US police look restrained."
Israel: "No."
Explanation: The top figure is a depiction of the Roman Emperor Aurelian, who put a great deal of effort into encouraging sun worship in the Roman Empire. There is some controversy over whether Aurelian's sun worship was derived from Syria and had only Roman influences, or was derived from native Roman traditions and had Syrian influences. He is generally highly regarded as a general and a driven man, both contemporarily and by modern historians.
The bottom figure is a bust of Akhenaten, I believe, who tried to implement sun worship in Egypt and failed.