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I thought this was slightly funny.

Mark Zuckerberg is known these days for wearing t-shirts with Latin phrases on them, especially ones where he compares himself to Julius Caesar.

Bluesky made a shirt in the same style, but theirs says "a world without Caesars" in Latin.

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[-] gcheliotis@lemmy.world 184 points 3 days ago

Zuckerberg wears t-shirts comparing himself to Julius Caesar? Why is that every time I think I’m up-to-date on the latest weirdness there’s more of it?

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Zuckerberg wears t-shirts comparing himself to Julius Caesar?

Yet March 15 has come and gone yet again without Zuck having a bad day.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 16 points 2 days ago

The reason behind his weird android haircut is that he thought it looked Caesar-esque.

[-] merdaverse@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

I wonder why all these high profile people are so fascinated with a dictator that oversaw the transformation of a republic into an empire. Just like fascists were/are. Must be just a coincidence! Just like that Musk salute from the heart.

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[-] SirDankbud@lemmy.ca 86 points 3 days ago

If you think thats weird you haven't even scratched the surface on Zuck. He actually idolizes Emperor Augustus Caesar so much that he copied the guys haircut for most of his career. Behind the Bastards does a good job of highlighting it. If you want a quick readable version, here's the first non paywalled article I could find. https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-fascinated-by-augustus-future-of-facebook-2018-9

[-] klu9@lemmy.ca 65 points 3 days ago

So... Zuck stans the guy who ended the Republic and turned it into a monarchy that pretended to still be a republic?

Well, that's not concerning at all.

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[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 68 points 3 days ago

Here you go:

At Meta’s annual Connect event in Menlo Park, Calif., Zuckerberg wore a custom T-shirt with the Latin phrase “aut Zuck aut nihil,” or “all Zuck or all nothing,” as he revealed the first working prototype of Meta’s augmented-reality glasses.

The phrase was a play on “aut Caesar aut nihil,” which means “either a Caesar or nothing,” or more simply “all or nothing.”

Zuckerberg has long been interested in the Roman Empire. He spent his honeymoon in Rome and two of his children, August and Aurelia, are named after emperors Augustus and Marcus Aurelius.

Incidentally, fascists tend to have a hard-on for ancient Rome, but I'm sure that's just a coincidence.

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[-] StenSaksTapir@feddit.dk 19 points 2 days ago

He's not doing those roman salutes in public yet, though.

But it's kinda funny that the oligarchs are so obsessed with Rome, famous for baking a fallen empire, while enabling the fall of the US.

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[-] Bloomcole@lemm.ee 38 points 3 days ago

Roman empire, like the nordic pagan BS is also a (extreme) right-wing fetish.
So glad to see our new PM celebrating his election win like this:

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[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 197 points 3 days ago

Where’s Brutus when you need him?

[-] itsathursday@lemmy.world 79 points 3 days ago
[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 44 points 3 days ago

Stop trying to make fetch happen

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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

I swear there really are two types of people who learn latin…

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 days ago
[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

I was going for a specific type of nerd with fascist sympathies ans a very different specific type of nerd with antifascist sympathies. But also yes

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[-] cmrn@lemmy.world 59 points 3 days ago

This is my kind of monetization.

Feels way better than getting features pulled and put behind an increasingly higher paywall.

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago

Give it time.

[-] pfr@lemmy.sdf.org 36 points 2 days ago

Who got a link? I wanna buy one

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[-] pfr@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Not for me, I live in Australia. USD$80 shipped. I'll pass

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[-] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago

it’s a fire shirt not gonna lie

[-] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 2 days ago
[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 54 points 2 days ago
[-] Rookeh@startrek.website 34 points 2 days ago

Oh fuck me, HOW in like 25 years did I not get that pun?!

[-] Bampy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

I was today years old too.

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[-] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 days ago

Best nerdy program name ever.

[-] cyphear@lemm.ee 12 points 2 days ago

I got my copy of Nero from limewire. It only took 3 full wipes of windows to find one that wasn't a Trojan.

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[-] MuteDog@lemmy.world 45 points 3 days ago

So is lemmy or mastodon selling shirts yet? if not, why not?

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 45 points 3 days ago

I was on Reddit for 12 years with nearly a million Karma, and I got permabanned soon after the Inauguration for repeating an anti-MAGA opinion I had posted numerous times before he was elected.

I came over to Lemmy, and discovered that I was only one victim of a bloodbath, demonstrating that Reddit had decided to forego their free speech mission, and grovel for their new masters. Pathetic punk ass corporation.

I never wore a Reddit shirt, but I'd happily wear a Lemmy shirt.

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[-] helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 days ago

The Mastodon project put a lot of energy into a high quality plushy.

[-] umbraroze@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

That must have been frustrating when the user base responded "but I already got my Blåhaj"

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[-] pogmommy@lemmy.ml 40 points 3 days ago

That's cool but I'll check back in to see which fascist technocrat is running bluesky in 8 years

[-] klu9@lemmy.ca 28 points 3 days ago

In 8 years, anyone not mainlining Truth Social through their compulsory Neuralink will captured and euthanized.

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[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 41 points 3 days ago

Ofcourse they ain’t making shit from custom domains. Anyone who is interested in connecting a domain to their Bsky account and has the skills or patience to learn how to probably already has a domain bought at another registrar to connect to.

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[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 20 points 2 days ago

of course the android wears a shirt with latin phrases.

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