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[–] PugJesus 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Explanation: Elagabalus was a teenaged Emperor of the 3rd century AD who became infamous for their (as their gender identity is an object of perpetual debate)... outrageous abuses of autocratic power in pursuit of personal gratification. How much of this is true and how much is sensationalism is up for debate, but it's pretty accepted that Elagabalus did anything except wield power with wisdom or caution. Such is what happens when you put a goddamn teenager in charge of a continents-spanning empire.

Also, funny enough, the Roman Emperor Nero (also became Emperor while a teen and infamous for his abuses of power - seeing a pattern?) supposedly liked to dress up and protoyiff.

He so prostituted his own chastity that after defiling almost every part of his body, he at last devised a kind of game, in which, covered with the skin of some wild animal, he was let loose from a cage and attacked the private parts of men and women, who were bound to stakes, and when he had sated his mad lust, was dispatched​ by his freedman Doryphorus;

[–] Batman 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This is why us Romans are a world power, our leaders know how to relax