Nadegda wrote:
> Time to trigger the right-wing snowflakes again. Melt, snowflakes, melt!
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 23:20:32 -0800, Tard Wrangler wrote:
>
>> Once upon a time, on or about Fri, 10 Jan 2025 03:09:29 -0000 (UTC),
>> Nadegda allegedly stated the following, and is solely responsible for
>> its content:
>>
>>
>> F00P!
>> F00P!Time to trigger the right-wing snowflakes again. Melt, snowflakes, melt!
>> F00P!On Sat, 04 Jan 2025 22:29:11 -0800, Tard Wrangler wrote:
>> F00P!
>> F00P!> Once upon a time, on or about Sun, 5 Jan 2025 03:29:58 -0000 (UTC),
>> F00P!> Nadegda allegedly stated the following, and is solely responsible for
>> F00P!> its content:
>> F00P!>
>> F00P!>
>> F00P!> F00P!
>> F00P!> F00P!Time to trigger the right-wing snowflakes again. Melt, snowflakes, melt!
>> F00P!> F00P!On Sat, 04 Jan 2025 03:08:40 -0500, kensi wrote:
>> F00P!> F00P!
>> F00P!> F00P!> On 2025-01-02 8:55 p.m., Nadegda wrote:
>> F00P!> F00P!>> Time to trigger the right-wing snowflakes again. Melt, snowflakes, melt!
>> F00P!> F00P!>> On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 14:29:43 -0500, kensi wrote:
>> F00P!> F00P!>>
>> F00P!> F00P!>>> On 2024-12-28 11:54 a.m., Nadegda wrote:
>> F00P!> F00P!>>> [excellent spnakage of Ko0kMa7e, culminating in:]
>> F00P!> F00P!>>>> I'ma gonna guess you actually passed English and shop. But until and
>> F00P!> F00P!>>>> unless you scan an old report card and post it, I will maintain that
>> F00P!> F00P!>>>> you must have flunked everything else.
>> F00P!> F00P!>>>>
>> F00P!> F00P!>>>> And *after* you do I'll have proof!
>> F00P!> F00P!>>>>
>> F00P!> F00P!>>>> <snicker>
>> F00P!> F00P!>>>
>> F00P!> F00P!>>> ROTFL!!
>> F00P!> F00P!>>
>> F00P!> F00P!>> He's just reiterating stale ignorant and racist nonsense now, and offering
>> F00P!> F00P!>> nothing new in the way of entertainment. Time to put him back in his box
>> F00P!> F00P!>> for a while and see if any of the other kooks around here can be induced to
>> F00P!> F00P!>> put on a show for us?
>> F00P!> F00P!>
>> F00P!> F00P!> Yeah, probably.
>> F00P!> F00P!>
>> F00P!> F00P!>> <snicker>
>> F00P!> F00P!>
>> F00P!> F00P!> *snicker*
>> F00P!> F00P!
>> F00P!> F00P!<snicker>
>> F00P!> F00P!
>> F00P!> F00P!>> Oh, and how was your New Year?
>> F00P!> F00P!>
>> F00P!> F00P!> As well as could be expected, considering how the world is going to hell
>> F00P!> F00P!> at an ever-accelerating pace. I don't know which is worse, the climate
>> F00P!> F00P!> meltdown or the political one. Whole nations are becoming k00ky somehow
>> F00P!> F00P!> -- like someone invented some new sort of propaganda-virus or something.
>> F00P!> F00P!>
>> F00P!> F00P!> If it gets any worse I'm not sure how we get out of it without nukes
>> F00P!> F00P!> getting used ...
>> F00P!> F00P!
>> F00P!> F00P!That worries me as well. Whatever is going around, half of Europe is
>> F00P!> F00P!infected, the US is infected, Brazil, even South Korea. Perhaps we should
>> F00P!> F00P!call it the Russian flu? Seems to have originated with their propaganda
>> F00P!> F00P!kooks, after all.
>> F00P!> F00P!
>> F00P!> F00P!In just the past few days there have been multiple bomb plots and mass
>> F00P!> F00P!casualty events in the US, some (but only some) of them foiled. I mean,
>> F00P!> F00P!it's the US, but this seems excessive even for them. I think we might be
>> F00P!> F00P!on the verge of a period of civil unrest at least as severe as summer
>> F00P!> F00P!2020.
>> F00P!> F00P!
>> F00P!> F00P!And the awards warehouse has been worryingly low on Bobo trophies ever
>> F00P!> F00P!since the pandemic. @#&! supply-chain difficulties! Normally we don't need
>> F00P!> F00P!the big ones that often, but given recent trends I think they could run out.
>> F00P!>
>> F00P!> GASP! Are... are the AWARDS coming back?
>> F00P!
>> F00P!That's for me to know and you to find out.
>> F00P!
>> F00P!<snicker>
>>
>> Remember when I had to destroy them? F33R MY RATH, K0OK!
>
> Still trying to take credit for the Tetrarchy's good work, eh, kooky?
>
> *We* destroyed the corrupt old guard.
>

Roman imperial dynasties
The Tetrarchy

Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs, two porphyry sculptures looted from the
Philadelphion of Constantinople after 1204, now standing at the
southwest corner of St Mark's Basilica, Venice
Chronology
Diocletian as Augustus 284–286
— with Maximian as Caesar 285–286
Maximian & Diocletian
as Augusti of the West and East 286–305
— with Constantius I & Galerius
as Caesares 293–305
Constantius I & Galerius
as Augusti of West and East 305–306
— with Severus II & Maximinus II
as Caesares
Severus II and Galerius as Augusti of West and East 306–307
— with Maximinus II and Constantine I as Caesares
Maxentius & Maximian as usurpers in Italy and Africa 306–308
Galerius as Augustus 307–308
— with Maximinus II as Caesar
— with Constantine I as
self-proclaimed Augustus
Licinius & Galerius
as Augusti of West and East 308–311
— with Maximinus II and Constantine I as Caesares
Maxentius as usurper in Rome (and Asia Minor 311–312) 308–312
Licinius I & Maximinus II
as Augusti of West and East 311–313
— with Constantine I as
self-proclaimed Augustus
Constantine I & Licinius I
as Augusti of West and East 313–324
— with Licinius II, Constantine II & Crispus as Caesares
— with Valerius Valens as
Augustus of the West 316–317
— with Martinian as
Augustus of the West 324
Succession
Preceded by
Crisis of the Third Century Followed by
Constantinian dynasty
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The Tetrarchy was the system instituted by Roman emperor Diocletian in
293 AD to govern the ancient Roman Empire by dividing it between two
emperors, the augusti, and their junior colleagues and designated
successors, the caesares.

Initially Diocletian chose Maximian as his caesar in 285, raising him to
co-augustus the following year; Maximian was to govern the western
provinces and Diocletian would administer the eastern ones. The role of
the augustus was likened to Jupiter, while his caesar was akin to
Jupiter's son Hercules. Galerius and Constantius were appointed caesares
in March 293. Diocletian and Maximian retired on 1 May 305, raising
Galerius and Constantius to the rank of augustus. Their places as
caesares were in turn taken by Valerius Severus and Maximinus Daza.

The orderly system of two senior and two junior rulers endured until
Constantius died in July 306, and his son Constantine was unilaterally
acclaimed augustus and caesar by his father's army. Maximian's son
Maxentius contested Severus' title, styled himself princeps invictus,
and was appointed caesar by his retired father in 306. Severus
surrendered to Maximian and Maxentius in 307. Maxentius and Constantine
were both recognized as augusti by Maximian that same year. Galerius
appointed Licinius augustus for the west in 308 and elevated Maximinus
Daza to augustus in 310.

Constantine's victory over Maxentius at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge
in 312 left him in control of the western part of the empire, while
Licinius was left in control of the east on the death of Maximinus Daza.
Constantine and Licinius jointly recognized their sons – Crispus,
Constantine II, and Licinius II – as caesares in March 317. Ultimately
the tetrarchic system lasted until c. 324, when mutually destructive
civil wars eliminated most of the claimants to power: Licinius resigned
as augustus after losing the Battle of Chrysopolis, leaving Constantine
in control of the entire empire.

The Constantinian dynasty's emperors retained some aspects of collegiate
rule; Constantine appointed his son Constantius II as another caesar in
324, followed by Constans in 333 and his nephew Dalmatius in 335, and
the three surviving sons of Constantine in 337 were declared joint
augusti together, and the concept of the division of the empire under
multiple joint emperors endured until the Fall of the Western Roman
Empire. In the Eastern Roman Empire, augusti and caesares continued to
be appointed sporadically.