They get that the praetorian guard had a pretty good run of success as an elite force, and later almost unchecked power before they were cut down. Not the worst possible reference they could have found, to be honest
I can only assume a lot of people didn't pay much attention in history class if they missed that the connotations of the praetorian guard are essentially entirely negative and also the praetorians got wrecked against the regular legions in 69 and 192 and 312.https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1402998688453038088 …
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I mean, it's a bit like responding to somebody who calls himself "the new Genghis": hey, you know your descendants will be asking for IMF bailouts in 800 years, right? Sucker!
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At least they know they’d also like to unilaterally proclaim their emperor.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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A group that is most infamous for killing their employer in a basis so regular it was in the brochure
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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I actually think the coups and assassinations are precisely the point, and imagine they care very little how they did against regular legions in the field.
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"Bodyguards of the First Amendment" sounds a bit more honorable than that, but from my experience, what right wingers like about praetorians is not the bodyguarding so much as the overthrowing
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Could you please recommend a book I can read about Praetorians getting wrecked? It sounds like great fun.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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How would you assess the contention that the institutional trajectory of JSOC over the past several decades has had troublingly close historical parallels to the development of the praetorian guard?
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Parallels exist and are troubling but also extend more broadly to the AVF and from there into law enforcement. I have a bit on this forthcoming at The National Interest.
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First Amendment Praetorians need some acronym consulting
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...oh my.
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