>catastrophically lose an expeditionary war of choice against Persia
>threaten the Pope himself with personal violence
>heavy handed promulgation of state religion for social cohesion
>misguided attempts to shrink the central bureaucracy

Fuck it welcome back Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate

April 08, 2026 - 20:20 UTC

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The Ides of March were last month. :/
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Julian was a highly educated man, very intelligent. That’s a big difference. There are other emperors who are more suitable comparisons.
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He was also morally v decent.
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Could be time to re read this one
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That’s a work of fiction
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They say Conservative men love to think about the Roman Empire.
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Plus all the comparisons between Trump trying to roll back the rising tide of "woke" in the modern day and Julian's attempts to roll back the rising tide of Christianity
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Except Julian was right…
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Peak Bluesky content
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No clue why this site doesn't have mass appeal.
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This time, he's learned not to personally lead his army
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Oh man don’t slander my boy Julian like that
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Yes. This is so wrong, it's upsetting.
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Donald the Prostate.
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How DARE you 🤣
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Maybe you can get people to chant “apostate” at public appearances.
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Trump can't get killed in military action, though. Those damn bone spurs.
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Hope this story ends the [redacted]
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I'm going to put the required AHA warning stamp on this one that This Is A Joke, you should not get your historical knowledge from memes and unsourced tweets
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fellas is it good if you end up being known as “the Apostate”
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Can be. He didn't think the Christian church should have control over the state. I think we could use a bit of Julian right now.
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That's what the Xians call him.
To others of us, he's 'the Philosopher'.
I always wear a coin of him set as a pendant.
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I remember that in uni, they always said that ancient and contemporary specialists in history are peas in a pod. They understand each other 😜
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Julian the Apostate would have been rightly offended by the comparison to Trump. Julian’s policy choices turned out to be disastrous for him personally, but he was almost certainly a hell of a lot smarter than Trump.
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He was a good man.
Unlike Trump.
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At least he died in Persia.
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There is still time, it must be said
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Whoop, party like it’s 363!
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I think the comparison to Valerian is more apt, although that’s probably because I have a certain affinity for Julian
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Hahahahahaha. Beautiful. Poetic.
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👨🏻‍🍳💋
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First off, great user name.

Secondly, there’s also the putting his own mug on the coinage, right?
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Most monarchies do. Have done for millennia. Have you never seen coins from outside the US?
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They all did. As egos go, he was fairly mid for an emperor
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@csmfht.bsky.social
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TBF, Trump is deserving of Julien's fate....
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Julian
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