and I graciously explained that a 16 year old who read the wiki page for the Roman Empire would know that pagan sexual degeneracy was not the harbinger of imperial decline https://twitter.com/fullerene777/status/975094700196728832 …
idk what she's arguing but have you read Augustus' speech on this? the fact that Rome was a praetorian state 200 years before Constantine is plausibly connected to degenerate mores that were already a problem during the principate