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Is this what we're doing today? We're going to fight? (media.piefed.social)
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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

In Elagabalus's case, it was more "We don't like the current Emperor, so we'll take any excuse to start a civil war and place this TOTALLY pliant and obedient puppet on the throne"