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One of if not the first law passed when Rome founded it's republic declared that any man who called himself king could be killed by any other man at any time with no recourse.

That's because Rome started as a revolutionary movement lmao, having thrown off the yok of Etruscan kings and later fighting counter-revolutions and Etruscan invasions (which they lost) and incursions from the Latin leauge (who liberated Rome from the Etruscans) and

after all that they declared that not a single person could call himself a king. And this was not an idle threat lol it was enforced long, long, passed the death of the republic. Cannot stress how much of Rome's founding mythos centered a hatred and distrust of absolute rulers

So the absolute rulers of Rome who inherited their role and ruled for life did not call themselves kings. They were Princeps (first citizen), Imperator (commander), Augustus (Majestic One), ect but never king. They would wear regal attire and command awe but would be killed for wearing a crown, they would tower above others but rarely on a throne

It's so silly I love it lol

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Transparency in case folks don't see this re-circulate with the new opener: I got a fair number of details about the inciting news wrong, most importantly that there's significantly less indication this is becoming a widespread policy than first reports suggested. Like any "good leftist" (said thick with bitter sarcasm and cynicism) I'm still skeptical that the good times we've had aren't coming to an end, and the core points of my post about "how do you recreate the bank => payment processor => e-commerce chain" and "who are the people that drive the current anti-porn machine" still hold true to the best of my knowledge, but this post got a fair amount of reach & I don't want to let the misinformation I spread go unaddressed.