Huh? Caligula and Nero were emperors during the Julio-Claudian dynasty at the beginning of the Principate, literally the first dynasty of Roman emperors. How would they know anything about the decline of an empire? That came 400 years after their reigns. The year of the four emperors was tumultuous and violent, but it wasn’t even remotely “the empire is crumbling and being sold for parts”.
This is the perfect metaphor for the empire… needless spending under a corrupt evil rule, crumbling beneath them in grand fashion.
The only problem I’m facing is whether or not they’re doing it on purpose as double agents for a foreign country, or they’re really this incompetent.
Evil genius’? Or just evil stupid fucking pedophiles?
Tale as old as time, just ask Nero and Caligula.
Huh? Caligula and Nero were emperors during the Julio-Claudian dynasty at the beginning of the Principate, literally the first dynasty of Roman emperors. How would they know anything about the decline of an empire? That came 400 years after their reigns. The year of the four emperors was tumultuous and violent, but it wasn’t even remotely “the empire is crumbling and being sold for parts”.