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[radicalgraff]

Trans punk graff in Charlottesville, Virginia

#trans #graffiti #graff #vandalism #street art #graffiti art #vandals #trans liberation

[clarkkantagain]

winter vandenbrink

#winter vandenbrink #photographer #candids #vandals

[memories-of-ancients]

Petronius Maximus --- The dipshit Roman emperor who caused the sack of Rome because he was an arrogant dipshit.

Petronius Maximus was a wealthy Roman politician born in 397 AD to old Roman money. Like many wealthy Romans he went into politics and throughout the early 5th century climbed the ranks of Roman government until he became one of the most powerful men in the Western Roman Empire. He was crafty and he was ambitious. He was also a dipshit and an asshole.

By the 450's P. Maximus had a clear plan, to create a power vacuum in Rome that he could cunningly fill. He began by turning the emperor at the time, Valentinian III, against his magister militum Flavius Aetius. As magister militum Aetius was commander of the Roman Army, and had proven himself a master tactician and brilliant diplomat. Through military victories and diplomacy Aetius was barely holding a crumbling empire together. Maximus convinced Valentinian III that Aetius was looking to usurp his throne. Thus in 454 Valentinian summoned Aetius to his palace and personally murdered him with his sword. Maximus had organized the death of the most talented Roman official in the empire, which in the grand scheme of things was probably a big mistake. With Aetius dead, Maximus expected he would take Aetius' place as magister militum. However Valentinian refused to appoint him as magister militum. Thus in 455 AD, Maximus had him assassinated, hiring two of Aetius' bodyguards to do the deed as revenge.

Several powerful Romans claimed the Imperial throne but Maximus managed to beat them all to the punch by taking over the Imperial Palace and immediately marrying Valentinian's widow, Licinia Eudoxia. Licinia didn't know Maximus had murdered her husband at the time but had suspicions. He also forced her daughters, Placidia and Eudocia to marry his sons. Through deceit and murder Maximus had managed to weasel his way into the Roman Imperial family and was now creating his own Imperial dynasty. Thus Petronius Maximus had become Emperor Dipshit, ruler of the shiny turd of what was left of the Western Roman Empire.

Problem was, when Emperor Dipshit married off Placidia and Eudocia to his sons, he canceled Eudocia's arranged marriage to Hunneric, who was the son of Geiseric, king of the Vandals. The Vandals were a Germanic tribe that had set up a prosperous kingdom in the former Roman province of North Africa, and were constantly raiding the Italian coast. Valentinian had arranged the marriage of Eudocia as a peace offering to Geiseric. Geiseric had received a letter from Eudoxia informing him that Maximus had killed her husband and was canceling the marriage of Eudocia. Geiseric was enraged at Empror Dipshit for canceling the marriage, and sent a Vandal fleet and army to Rome in response. "No problem" said Emperor Dipshit, "we got the Roman Army".

Except there was no Roman Army. Not really. After the death of Aetius the remains of the standing full time professional army had collapsed almost completely. Even Aetius was very dependent on mercenaries and allies. Nobody wanted to enlist in the Roman Army in the 5th century, with Romans going so far as to cut off their own fingers to avoid conscription. The Roman economy was a mess, the Imperial bureaucracy was riddled with corruption, the life of the average Roman was miserable, and by the 5th century most Roman emperors were snobbish, over-privileged, incompetent out of touch dipshits. The empire was dying and everybody knew it. Few believed it was worth saving, and nobody wanted to die for a dipshit emperor such as Emperor Dipshit. By 455 AD what was left of the Roman Army consisted of militia units called "limitanei" who acted as border patrolmen far away from Rome. For more complex military operations the Romans were fully dependent on mercenaries and allies. Emperor Dipshit attempted to enlist the help of the Visigoths, but they were like, "LMFAO nooo, you made your bed now lie in it!" I speculate they knew Maximus was a dipshit who was probably gonna get them all killed.

Emperor Dipshit knew it was a hopeless situation, so he made an announcement to the Roman people to flee and save themselves, then he too turned tail and fled. He was spotted by a large group of Roman refugees, who formed a mob and beat him to death. Good riddance. Emperor Dipshit's glorious reign lasted 77 days.

As far as sackings go the sack of Rome in 455 AD wasn't too bad. The Vandals were Christians, so the Pope was able to convince them not to do the more horrible things like rape and murder civilians, or burn down the city. So for the most part the Vandals refrained from bloodshed and arson. However they did take as many Romans into slavery as they could fit on their ships, and they also looted the city of almost everything of value. Even the bronze tiles on the roof of the Temple of Jupiter were pried off and carted away. Also Geiseric carted off Eudocia and married her off to his son Huneric.

The Vandal's sack of Rome in 455 is where we get the term "vandalism" today. Also did I mention that Petronius Maximus was a dipshit?

#history #ancient history #ancient rome #dipshit #fall of rome #vandals #roman empire #western roman empire #late roman empire

[cdeeznutzz]

CD Finds - March 2024

I’m STOKED w my haul this month!!! I bagged some really good CDs which I'm SO happy ab like the “Helena” single by My Chemical Romance, I’ve been wanting it for AGES!!!! :D Since I'm currently on half term and will continue to be for the first week of April, I'm hoping to do loads of charity shopping and hopefully getting other cool CDs to showcase next month!

Which of these CDs is your favourite?

#cds #compact disc #music #cdfinds #rock #emo #metal #nu metal #goth #punk #pop punk #the academy is... #green day #type o negative #my chemical romance #mcr #paramore #three days grace #system of a down #soad #HIM #avril lavigne #korn #the vandals #vandals #linkin park #less than jake

[mapsontheweb]

Vandal Kingdom - 476 AD

#maps #vandals #476

[vandalsonholidays]

Earth is our city. 📸🎞🌅 #graffiti #35mm #35mmfilm #analogphotography #vandalsonholidays VANDALSONHOLIDAYS.COM https://instagr.am/p/CubgCRctiwi/

#Vandals #Holidays #Graffiti

[whencyclopedia]

North Africa’s Place in the Mediterranean Economy of Late Antiquity

The Mediterranean Sea was the economic focal point of the Roman Empire. Rome's armies first established an empire across these waters beginning back in the times of the Roman Republic. In 200 CE, the Mediterranean was still the channel that connected the vast Roman Empire. The greatest imperial cities were located along the seacoast, and ships could cross the waters in a fraction of the time it would take to traverse the empire on land. Among the ships that carried people, news, and goods across the Mediterranean were vessels from North Africa. The region held a special position inside the Mediterranean economy as it contributed a variety of goods to the markets of the empire, notably grain, olives, slaves and pottery. North Africa's loss to the Vandals in 439 CE greatly affected the economy of the Roman world, but it did not end North Africa's important role inside the Mediterranean economy. The wares and grain of North Africa continued to flow out across the Mediterranean, just in a changed position of trade between different states rather than a single monolithic empire.

Learn more about North Africa’s Place in the Mediterranean Economy of Late Antiquity

#History #NorthAfrica #RomanEmpire #Vandals

[wintervandenbrink]

#vandals https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm9bt7FtN0O/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[hoxor]

Bathroom at Nucleo A70 - Lisboa

#nucleo a70 #lisboa #lisbon #portugal #mine #graffiti #urban #street #art #vandal #vandals #vandalism #black & white #blackandwhite

[ancientorigins]

A hidden arsenal of ancient weapons has been unearthed in the Hrubieszów region of Poland, shedding light on the region's historical significance. From iron spears to battle axes, these artifacts provide insights into the martial traditions of tribes during the Roman Empire era. The discovery has thrown open the doors to a past dominated by the Goths and Vandals. Why were these ancient weapons buried?

#Weapons #Germanic Tribes #Goths #Vandals #Poland #Roman Empire

[redcarpet-streetstyle]

#Alanna Panday #fashion #2023 #GQ #Men of the year #bollywood #gaurav gupta #vandals

[radicalgraff]

"Make Elizabeth the last!

No tears for Lizzy, End the Monarchy Now!"

Graff spotted in Manchester, UK

#graffiti #graff #vandalism #graffiti art #vandals #abolish the monarchy

[clarkkantagain]

winter vandenbrink

#winter vandenbrink #photographer #candids #vandals #back #veins #nubs #pitz

[girlactionfigure]

#Holocaust Memorial #Paris #antisenitism #vandals

[mapsontheweb]

The installation of the Vandals in Roman Africa

“La fin d’un empire”, Claire Sotinel, Belin, 2019

by cartesdhistoire

With Gaiseric, their king since 428, the Vandals, the last hostile barbarian group, entered Africa in order to find a rich territory, sufficiently away from the imperial armies to be able to live there in complete independence: in May 429 their army of several thousand men, accompanied by their families, crossed the Strait of Gibraltar. They progressed towards the east over 2000 km, sweeping away the Roman troops and leaving the memory of a particularly murderous expedition. For Rome, losing Africa means losing the richest province in the West and the City's source of supply. But the counter-offensives did not make it possible to defeat the Vandals even if the siege of Hippo between June 430 and August 431, during which its bishop Saint Augustine died, ended in a failure for the barbarians. 

Faced with millions of African Romans, the Vandals were few in number (less than 100,000) but they were invaders who had little interest in signing a fetus with Rome. Finally, the latter was still signed on February 11, 435; the Vandals received land around Hippo while the Romans kept the largest part of Africa, the most urbanized and the richest. But Gaiseric, converted to Arianism, went beyond his status as federated king by adopting an anti-Catholic and anti-Roman aristocratic policy: in addition to the destruction of churches, expulsions and executions of clerics, was added the confiscation of ecclesiastical or senatorial lands for transform the Proconsular into an area of Vandal settlement and Arian religion. 

On October 19, 439, Gaiseric took Carthage by surprise and then occupied Byzacene and Tripolitania. Rome negotiated in 442: the Vandals occupied proconsular Africa, Byzacene and the eastern part of Numidia while the king agreed to deliver grain to supply Rome. He respected this treaty for 20 years but the loss of Africa was no less a disaster for Rome.

#maps #cartesdhistoire #igsourced #vandals #5th century

[vandalsonholidays]

Midnight train. #graffiti #35mm #35mmfilm #graff #trainwriting VANDALSONHOLIDAYS.COM https://instagr.am/p/ClOVhvTq6AW/

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