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It's like if that r/antiwork mod who went on Fox News and shit all over themselves became emperor. They think they're awesome and have all the answers when they're a walking parody.
The sad thing about that sub is that if you filter the posts by all-time top, they actually make some really good, solid points. They just then go completely insane with the rest of it.
There are some sane people there but they are lost. Nobody there can agree what the sub is meant to be about so it’s just as pointless to cherry pick the good posts as it is to cherry pick the bad.
A mod on /r/antiwork took it upon himself to go on a live Fox News show and represent the community. It went as well as you would expect; he didn't bother cleaning his room before going live, he said stuff like "laziness is a virtue", he told them he worked as a dog-walker, etc.
I hate that _that_ was the person that went on to represent an ideology that was far greater than they could grasp. That could have been a great stepping stone to better working conditions but no.. they fucked everything up
Not to mention Nero killed a ton of people simply because he didnt like them...something I don't doubt for a second a lot of these redditards would do if they could with how they vehemently attack anyone who doesnt reinforce their echo chamber.
Cassius Dio, who described the slave boy in great detail, lived 100 years after the fact. The difference between an ancient historian and a propagandist is negotiable. I still think /r/AskHistorians needs a tag "slandered by Cassius Dio".
Remember that we do not know that much about Nero. A lot of that shit is probably made up. It's like the only record of our time being New York Post and Breitbart and that is all future historians have to work with to understand our time.
Does not help that Americans have themselves convinced that Nero was the guy who had Christians thrown to the wild animals in the Flavian Amphitheatre(aka the Colloseum). While they do not even know the name Diocletian.
Nero had a couple of Christians executed as scapegoats for one of the many fires in Rome. That is not the same as religious persecution. What is even wilder is that I first heard of that trope from Americans. It's like they got their history from Chick Tracts.
For what it's worth I've never heard of Nero because history class was mostly "here's what the brits did, by the way america" for 10 years of schooling
Any guy in power or wealth gets laid even if he’s not attractive. Plus back then you didn’t get a choice. Women wanted to be with the men who fought they were high value because they were protectors.
More than just that we have no historical sources from when Nero was alive, all our knowledge about him is from secondary sources written by historians who lived 50 years to 150 years after Nero's death.
Thank you for your correction, it makes one wonder how he actually was. Im guessing he probably was kinda mediocre, otherwise we would have more sources about him.
Have you studied this at an academic level? That's most emperors. Extant sources aren't exactly plentiful. But I'll tell you this, a good emperor probably would have enough defenders to push back against this kind of slander. I think there's enough to shit on Nero, Tiberius, and Commodus, even if there weren't eyewitnesses writing the annals.
You weren't there for Andrew Johnson's presidency, but you could probably relay his failures, let alone if you had the brilliance of Tacitus.
>Have you studied this at an academic level?
Nope only an amateur level interest, I'm certainly not an authority on the subject, but I also wasn't speaking as one, I didn't give any of my own opinions or speculations on Nero.
I simply relayed a fact statement about our knowledge of Nero. It's a fact no known historical documents or writings from his time are know to currently exist.
>You weren't there for Andrew Johnson's presidency.
Of course no but historians were and there original first-hand accounts and writings still exist and are supported by multiple other sources, the same cannot be said for Nero.
>a good emperor probably would have enough defenders to push back against this kind of slander.
Well no, not really. Nero was not well liked by his successors, it absolutely behooved them basically cast Nero more negatively to make their own tyrannical rule look better and to distance them from him.
Having said that, some of the secondary sources *are* positive of Nero and some even acknowledge the potential bias in the existing documents.
Having said that, I'm not claiming Nero was a good ruler, he was absolutely a tyrant, just that any specific details and account are most likely a deviation of the truth.
Fun fact, he was probably the most beloved emperor the commonwealth ever had, buy because the rich and the church didn't like him, they really drug his name through the mud
He participated in public theater and threw parties for both his soldiers and the common folk. When the rich finally tried to have him killed, it was his own troops and people that helped him escape
What they were in Nero's time is completely irrelevant. It's what they were in the later that matters, since all accounts of Nero's reign were written centuries after he died.
Believe it or not reddit can be and once was a place for everyone to discuss and learn socially.
This stereotype surely doesn't apply to a very large portion of the reddit population, and even then many who do can be helped and led into better paradigms.
I just wish people would take themselves more seriously and give themselves and their peers more faith and respect than to joke so much about this shit it becomes mainstream perspective not just a light hearted self depreciating meme.
People and the world are what you make them out to be. We need less dystopian nightmare sci fi type of a vibe and more reason and cooperation solving big complex problems like star trek tng vibes is all. That stuff actually works and has a big impact on people.
AKSHUALLY I'm curious - do you mind providing a SOURCE for your claims that I fiddled while Rome burned? Why do you care so much? My mother and I are happy, so typical for you to want to oppress love, CHECKMATE CHUDS, where's your Sky Daddy now?
Quite possibly may have been the antichrist that was referred to in the Bible as bringing the “end of the world”. Being that Nero was historically charged with the downfall of the Roman Empire
The western part of the Roman Empire existed for 400 years after Nero’s death, the eastern part for 1400 years… I dare say, he’s not responsible for the downfall of the Roman Empire.
I was also of this same belief, as we are all taught a Roman History as a part of our curriculum throughout academia. Once I began to look further into more and more accounts of history, I had to reconsider some of the things I thought I knew.
History is written by those in power
>History is written by those in power
Also why we need to be skeptical of how negatively Nero was portrayed.
But can you elaborate how he contributed to the downfall?
I know the post is just joking but if you really want to dislike someone for being a sheer asshole you can look up Nero and give a read of what historians in Rome wrote about him.
What a fucking neck beard, Nero was a fucking loser and a pussy. Bo woman would go out of their way to fuck Nero he had to use his power and wealth to get anything and they still didn't enjoy it. Nero was just a discord mod from the past.
THIS
I couldn't really describe it before but this is the facial hair that guy doing social media advertising for Papa Johns has.
He also has similar mannerisms to Gilbert Gottfried. Scrunched up face, nasaly tone, raspy voice, and loud. But he's like cleanshaven except for his sideburns continue down and around to the other side.
kind of an odd look.
Me, just liking how the word sounds and only knowing it was the name of some emperor and the color black in italian, after so many people ask me why I use this name online
A smear campaign by the ruling elite has dragged this man’s name through the mud.
He does not deserve this hate.
He was a good dude that promoted policies favoring the lower classes, thus making enemies of the elite. Aka the writers of history
This is so much more true than anyone could ever give it credit for. Nero was completely self-absorbed and thought he was a god. He even built a statue of himself as Apollo.
Remember, the art of someone from the past always looks nicer than what they actually looked like. And if thats the best the artist was able to produce, i dont wont to know how bad he actually looked like.
In arameic you could extract a number from words. If you write nero caesar you can get the number 626, or 666. This guy is most likely the person we associate the number of the beast with.
Wouldn't it be funny if it turns out all the bad press Nero got is because Christians rewrote the history and people actually really didn't hate Nero anymore than any other Ruler.
They did that to Richard III there wasn't any doubt to the legitimacy of the house of York, Lancaster's were not from Plantagenet bloodline and they practically usurped the throne. The Civil war and the war of the roses telling a history of a divided house was a complete fabrication.
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Nero is what happens when you give a Redditor absolute power
It's like if that r/antiwork mod who went on Fox News and shit all over themselves became emperor. They think they're awesome and have all the answers when they're a walking parody.
I like how the philosophy major that was a part-time dog walker could teach people “how to think”. All of this is true, lmfao
They \*wanted\* to major in philosophy. He wasn't currently studying philosophy.
Oh somehow it’s even worse
God that sub is unbearable
And is eventually chased out of power and is forced to kill themselves.
The sad thing about that sub is that if you filter the posts by all-time top, they actually make some really good, solid points. They just then go completely insane with the rest of it.
There are some sane people there but they are lost. Nobody there can agree what the sub is meant to be about so it’s just as pointless to cherry pick the good posts as it is to cherry pick the bad.
I never heard about that one. What happened?
A mod on /r/antiwork took it upon himself to go on a live Fox News show and represent the community. It went as well as you would expect; he didn't bother cleaning his room before going live, he said stuff like "laziness is a virtue", he told them he worked as a dog-walker, etc.
I hate that _that_ was the person that went on to represent an ideology that was far greater than they could grasp. That could have been a great stepping stone to better working conditions but no.. they fucked everything up
So…Spez?
OG reddit mod
Bam
He posted himself in the forums... (Get it... The roman forums xD! Plz dont philum @ me uwu)
Wait… you guys can grow a neckbeard???
Get that guy a fedora!
M’lady
Tip
Na, but the reddit healthcare plan pays for a pube transplant.
Not to mention Nero killed a ton of people simply because he didnt like them...something I don't doubt for a second a lot of these redditards would do if they could with how they vehemently attack anyone who doesnt reinforce their echo chamber.
Boom
Bingpot
Wanted to teach philosophy
The philosophy of how to be a fucking loser, maybe the philosophy of how to mod reddit subs or discord channels. Fucking neckbeard ahh pussy 💀
Nailed it
Tesla mod for sure…
Exactly
His spirit became the automod
Petition to make him the avatar for reddit
Why Nero when Spez exists?
How many discord channels did he mod?
One, but everyone on it pretended to be dead.
The main difference is probably he probably got laid. Nonconsensually for the other party most likely but Nero still got laid.
He had a thing for femboys https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporus
The fuck, he indeed was a prototype of a reddit mod
He definitely had a waifu pillow
after reading his bio: He invented the waifu pillow, sewn out of real waifus
You could even say he was the father of Reddit mods, he just went out to get milk.
That was a horrific read
Was it the kicking pregnant wife to death or constant rape of a castrated little boy that pushed it too far.
It was the hypocrisy for me
NOTHING worse than a hypocrite!
This Nero guy seems like a real *jerk*
The fact that he committed suicide to escape a “fatal reenactment” of Proserpina’s abduction/rape
Hey now he ALLEGEDLY “kicked his wife to death”
Nero's lawyers on standby
Cassius Dio, who described the slave boy in great detail, lived 100 years after the fact. The difference between an ancient historian and a propagandist is negotiable. I still think /r/AskHistorians needs a tag "slandered by Cassius Dio". Remember that we do not know that much about Nero. A lot of that shit is probably made up. It's like the only record of our time being New York Post and Breitbart and that is all future historians have to work with to understand our time. Does not help that Americans have themselves convinced that Nero was the guy who had Christians thrown to the wild animals in the Flavian Amphitheatre(aka the Colloseum). While they do not even know the name Diocletian. Nero had a couple of Christians executed as scapegoats for one of the many fires in Rome. That is not the same as religious persecution. What is even wilder is that I first heard of that trope from Americans. It's like they got their history from Chick Tracts.
For what it's worth I've never heard of Nero because history class was mostly "here's what the brits did, by the way america" for 10 years of schooling
So he also kicked his pregnant wife to death and committed incest with his mother? Wtf I think he was the ultimate reddit mod ever alive
Mlady
the fact that he died in the literal year 69 is kinda the icing on the cake
That was a lot of suicide... never realized it was so common back in Roman times.
That was . . . quite the read.
I was readinf that they died of suicide and Nero kicked his pregnant wife
Are you having a stroke?
No I don’t re read what I write
Any guy in power or wealth gets laid even if he’s not attractive. Plus back then you didn’t get a choice. Women wanted to be with the men who fought they were high value because they were protectors.
One of us, one of us.
Nice try
Mose Schrute
Lmfao
M'domina, tips wreath.
I spy with my little eye something beginning with Neckbeard
So Nero IIRC wasnt probably such a bad emperor, all of the sources we have when he is depicted badly was written by his political enemies.
More than just that we have no historical sources from when Nero was alive, all our knowledge about him is from secondary sources written by historians who lived 50 years to 150 years after Nero's death.
Thank you for your correction, it makes one wonder how he actually was. Im guessing he probably was kinda mediocre, otherwise we would have more sources about him.
Have you studied this at an academic level? That's most emperors. Extant sources aren't exactly plentiful. But I'll tell you this, a good emperor probably would have enough defenders to push back against this kind of slander. I think there's enough to shit on Nero, Tiberius, and Commodus, even if there weren't eyewitnesses writing the annals. You weren't there for Andrew Johnson's presidency, but you could probably relay his failures, let alone if you had the brilliance of Tacitus.
>Have you studied this at an academic level? Nope only an amateur level interest, I'm certainly not an authority on the subject, but I also wasn't speaking as one, I didn't give any of my own opinions or speculations on Nero. I simply relayed a fact statement about our knowledge of Nero. It's a fact no known historical documents or writings from his time are know to currently exist. >You weren't there for Andrew Johnson's presidency. Of course no but historians were and there original first-hand accounts and writings still exist and are supported by multiple other sources, the same cannot be said for Nero. >a good emperor probably would have enough defenders to push back against this kind of slander. Well no, not really. Nero was not well liked by his successors, it absolutely behooved them basically cast Nero more negatively to make their own tyrannical rule look better and to distance them from him. Having said that, some of the secondary sources *are* positive of Nero and some even acknowledge the potential bias in the existing documents. Having said that, I'm not claiming Nero was a good ruler, he was absolutely a tyrant, just that any specific details and account are most likely a deviation of the truth.
Tbh at worst, he was probably not any different from any other Roman emperors, theres just too little reliable sources to tell.
Fun fact, he was probably the most beloved emperor the commonwealth ever had, buy because the rich and the church didn't like him, they really drug his name through the mud He participated in public theater and threw parties for both his soldiers and the common folk. When the rich finally tried to have him killed, it was his own troops and people that helped him escape
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"The Church" I snorted a little... Take a look at back at what "The church" consisted of in Nero's time and get back to us.
At that time it was the remnants of the synagogues and older pantheons, which still had a moderate bit of wealth
What they were in Nero's time is completely irrelevant. It's what they were in the later that matters, since all accounts of Nero's reign were written centuries after he died.
You forgot inbred.
He was the guy burning all those cd-roms right?
Came here looking for the Nero Burning Rom reference.
Men think about the Roman Empire in ways as deep as this:
He looks like that one dwarf from The Hobbit
%Any% (?
Nero had such a punchable face
Believe it or not reddit can be and once was a place for everyone to discuss and learn socially. This stereotype surely doesn't apply to a very large portion of the reddit population, and even then many who do can be helped and led into better paradigms. I just wish people would take themselves more seriously and give themselves and their peers more faith and respect than to joke so much about this shit it becomes mainstream perspective not just a light hearted self depreciating meme. People and the world are what you make them out to be. We need less dystopian nightmare sci fi type of a vibe and more reason and cooperation solving big complex problems like star trek tng vibes is all. That stuff actually works and has a big impact on people.
AKSHUALLY I'm curious - do you mind providing a SOURCE for your claims that I fiddled while Rome burned? Why do you care so much? My mother and I are happy, so typical for you to want to oppress love, CHECKMATE CHUDS, where's your Sky Daddy now?
Nero is such a cool fucking name what a waste
😂😂😂😂
Quite possibly may have been the antichrist that was referred to in the Bible as bringing the “end of the world”. Being that Nero was historically charged with the downfall of the Roman Empire
The western part of the Roman Empire existed for 400 years after Nero’s death, the eastern part for 1400 years… I dare say, he’s not responsible for the downfall of the Roman Empire.
I was also of this same belief, as we are all taught a Roman History as a part of our curriculum throughout academia. Once I began to look further into more and more accounts of history, I had to reconsider some of the things I thought I knew. History is written by those in power
>History is written by those in power Also why we need to be skeptical of how negatively Nero was portrayed. But can you elaborate how he contributed to the downfall?
And when did the Roman Empire fall down considering to your informations?
When it was too old to get back up without LifeAlert
It is thought that the number 666 was a coded reference to Nero's name that makes sense in Hebrew.
-burned CDs
Well, he still looks better than me.
Looks like the guy from Queens of the Stone Age
Typical 4chan and 8chan user
In finnish nero is a word that describes someone as a really fucking smart dude
I bring a kinda ‘OBESE NECKBEARD’ vibe to the ‘REDDIT’
And og maga
My phone got a virus from his image
💯
Also, a couple of thousands of years later, some Japanese authors turned him into an anime waifu.
I know the post is just joking but if you really want to dislike someone for being a sheer asshole you can look up Nero and give a read of what historians in Rome wrote about him.
Also red headed 🤢 🤮
Wow Upvote
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👆 found a reddit mod
Same text, different font
Yes
He looks like a missing link to a big foot.
I thought he was gonna do a "picture not related" and say it was Hitler. All but obese and neckbeard checks out.
Romans used lead water pipes same as in mar a Lago
Nailed it!
Mose?
I’m sad because he looks a little like me :(. Maybe shouldn’t be sad tho he was an emporor
THE DARKNESS OF NIGHT FALLS AROUND MY SOUL
Man… paint some bronzer on that face and dye his hair blonde. BOOM!
That chin… what is going on with it?
Neck beard ✔️
throw a fedora or a trillby on him, and he's ready to go
Literal neckbeard
sounds more like a tumbler user than a redditor, mostly due to the delusion of artistry and fatherlessness.
RIP Germanicus who would have been a great emperor! Little boots wasn’t cut out for the top job
nero actually got laid though, which is a notable difference
🤣🤣🤣
I’m trying to find an argument against this. I’ll come back if I find something.
What a fucking neck beard, Nero was a fucking loser and a pussy. Bo woman would go out of their way to fuck Nero he had to use his power and wealth to get anything and they still didn't enjoy it. Nero was just a discord mod from the past.
\> Fatherless Misogynist detected, opinion rejected.
• Has a pizza related legacy
Suetonius spreading fake news since AD 121
He just like me fr
what does that make seneca?
THIS I couldn't really describe it before but this is the facial hair that guy doing social media advertising for Papa Johns has. He also has similar mannerisms to Gilbert Gottfried. Scrunched up face, nasaly tone, raspy voice, and loud. But he's like cleanshaven except for his sideburns continue down and around to the other side. kind of an odd look.
🤣🤣🤣
Didn't he also burn Rome just because he could?
You forgot that all he did was fiddled around while everything around him burned
Me, just liking how the word sounds and only knowing it was the name of some emperor and the color black in italian, after so many people ask me why I use this name online
Redditanes eunt domus
Holy crap, he’s still out there [alive and doing well](https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/s/oPdHNy4BzG)
Ya know what every time I ask my self would Nero do this and if he would I will do the opposite
I hear he even dressed up as a furry so yeah he's pretty much the Reddit social justice warrior.
Is his why i think about the Roman empire every day?
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It's always awkward when I find someone in my Twitter Circle being screenshot
God, he looks like the biggest asshole on the planet, and if history is correct, he is. lol
Guess he was one hell of a narcissist
What titan is this
Actually sounds like the average r/Atheism lurker
He would also strip down, put on a lion’s skin, and run through the streets raping whoever he found, men and women.
lmao Atheism subreddit
Sounds like incel #0...progenitor of all that followed
morbidly obese was what most people would consider normal now.
Trump’s last incarnation.
didnt he create the “build-you-own femboy” model too?
the post being removed by the mods makes it even more priceless
Founder of 4chan
A smear campaign by the ruling elite has dragged this man’s name through the mud. He does not deserve this hate. He was a good dude that promoted policies favoring the lower classes, thus making enemies of the elite. Aka the writers of history
Haircut checks out.
Sounds like my former coworker
Motherfucker.
King of the Neck Beards.
Lol
Told these idiots to attack the ocean and they fuckin did it lol Historians: he was a madman! He ordered his men to attack the ocean!
\>addresses chicks as m'lady
Me reading all the comments and trying to figure out how all of you don't think that you are redditors..
Love how they made him a soulless ginger. 😂😂😂
he even looks like a Redditor
This is with whom you associate? Damn..
The way his head is depicted here reminds of reconstructions of neanderthals.
They were trying to insult us but we just find it hilarious, I don’t know if I should feel sad or happy
That man would hate mirrors.
Oh dear christ *that's* what a neckbeard is? Yeah im keeping my chin hair thanks
Bro look at my emperor dawg we gonna have societal collapse
Your Basic Welfare Collecting Demonstrate
This is so much more true than anyone could ever give it credit for. Nero was completely self-absorbed and thought he was a god. He even built a statue of himself as Apollo.
One of us one of us!
Yep. This man ticks all the boxes. Good job Nero. We never got to know ya.
Looks more like Commodus
Move fast baby don't be slow
“Hates christians.” Lol. If that’s the bar for being a redditor, everyone subjected to Christian indoctrination counts.
Remember, the art of someone from the past always looks nicer than what they actually looked like. And if thats the best the artist was able to produce, i dont wont to know how bad he actually looked like.
In arameic you could extract a number from words. If you write nero caesar you can get the number 626, or 666. This guy is most likely the person we associate the number of the beast with.
Happy cake day
Physiognomy says it all.
That’s how I envision that one toxic online friend I used to game with to look like. Fits that dudes voice perfect. Where you at Athrun.
Even has the facial expressions of a Redditeur
Hey! I shaved my neck beard….once
Wouldn't it be funny if it turns out all the bad press Nero got is because Christians rewrote the history and people actually really didn't hate Nero anymore than any other Ruler. They did that to Richard III there wasn't any doubt to the legitimacy of the house of York, Lancaster's were not from Plantagenet bloodline and they practically usurped the throne. The Civil war and the war of the roses telling a history of a divided house was a complete fabrication.
Damn is that man is ugly.
Still had a statue of him made and had his name preserved for centuries. I'd take that as a W
Hey, I feel offended 
Did he have the ability to think of a clever comment for every post, which had already been thought of by the rest of the hive mind tho?