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If you’re not familiar with Caligula, do yourself a favor and read over his Wikipedia.

As they say, comedy = tragedy + time.

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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 5 points 1 hour ago

I doubt it... He's going to be a footnote. Or referred to as a turning point. He's a symptom of systematic issues coming to a head

There's been lots of bad rulers. Caligula was pretty wacky... Trump isn't the entertaining kind of delusional, even with time.

What is there to say about him? That he embezzled openly and had an obsession with putting his name on things? That he set up concentration camps and deployed brown shirts, but stopped short of genocide because he is afraid of confrontation with the courts?

He's just another corrupt wanna be despot. History is full of them, but we only remember the ones who accomplished things

When he's gone, we'll probably strip his name from everything. His followers are already scattering, they probably won't see justice but they're going to be looking for new careers

Tragedy plus time may be comedy, but I just don't think he's going to be interesting to read about

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 1 points 37 minutes ago

Oh I dunno, Trump isn't so much a national tragedy as a national embarrassment and shame. He's tacky, lecherous, unintelligent, crass and gross (literally walks around soiling himself), not much of a comparison to Caligula.. That and Caligula tried to help his people with lots of public works; aqueducts etc. Apart from ergotism and hedonism, I don't see it.

I think Trump will ultimately be remembered a lot like Hitler is in Germany: deep national guilt and in general rarely spoken about and in sombre tones.

Enduring legacy will depend on if he's allowed to get to his German counterpart's bodycount before the US population fixes the Trump problem..

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 hours ago

Don't give him too much attention. He deserves to be forgotten entirely.

[–] nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

The movie is a blinder too, if you have no objection to some serious nsfw. Also, you’re thinking the same as me, when I saw this: