RE: Spartacus: Vengeance
October 4, 2011 at 3:56 pm
(This post was last modified: October 4, 2011 at 3:57 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(October 4, 2011 at 1:09 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:He was the richest man in Roman history. He was also a ruthless turd, even by Roman standards.
Crassus was a scumbag of a businessman...making his money by buying the estates of patricians who were executed by Sulla at rock-bottom prices and by maintaining his own fire brigade which would only put out the fire if the land were sold to him cheaply.
Today he'd be a republicolibertarianazi for sure!
At least when Crassus crassly starts an ill conceived war against Parthia, he had the good grace to personally take the field and get wacked, thus compensating the republic he defrauded by ridding it of himself.
Do we see any republicolibertarianazi personally taking the field in wars they sent lower social castes to die and be mutiliated in? Do we see any of them blown to bits by IEDs? What was Cheney's response to whether he served? Was it "I had higher priorities"?
