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In reply to the discussion: Hong Kong's Incredible Official Statement on Snowden's Departure [View all]Diclotican
(5,095 posts)HardTimes99
I think you got both emperors - Nero and Caligula in Bush and Cheney - but it is difficult to say who is who - as both Bush and Cheney was rather bad... Even though I suspect maybe Cheney was Caligula and Bush was Nero.. At least Nero had some attributes to him, who was "kind".. Caligula was just pure evil - and was not afraid of showing off his his attitude to the rest of the world... But then he had been in the school of Tiberius, who on his old ages had some nasty demons who was starting to eat him alive... And to be young, and fearfully man like Caligula was - when the Emperor was in the same room, was not the best way to get a grasp about what an emperor was all about...
But as we also know - both Caligula and Nero got what they deserved in the end... Caligula was killed off by his own bodyguard - who was fearfully for his own life after some funny business - and Nero was killed by his own slave - after the Roman Senate had told the world - and the empire he could be killed.... Not that Nero believed he was in danger - before the Senate Finlay got enough with his mismanagement of the empire... But it is also known - that the first couple of years in Nero's reign was rather pleasant - as the real power was in the hand of his trustees - and they managed the empire well...
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