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@Angry_Husky @washingtonpost

[Handre @Handre]

Rome handed out free grain to 40,000 citizens in 73 BC. By 46 BC, Julius Caesar found 320,000 people lining up for their monthly ration. That eight-fold expansion happened in under three decades, and it shows you how welfare states actually grow.

No Roman senator stood up and announced a plan to addict a third of the city to government bread. It happened incrementally, through political competition. Each magistrate who wanted votes expanded eligibility. Each expansion normalized the next one. The citizen who once considered the dole shameful eventually expected it, then demanded it, then organized politically to protect it.

This is the core mechanism free market thinkers have identified across every era: once you create a transfer program, you create a constituency for that program. Recipients vote. Administrators build careers. Grain merchants who supply the state develop a stake in keeping the contracts flowing. The political economy locks in.

Caesar, to his credit, actually cut the rolls back to 150,000 through verification audits. It was one of his more economically coherent moves, though the Senate still murdered him. His successors quietly let the numbers climb again.

What did the dole require? Massive grain imports from Sicily, Sardinia, and Egypt, organized through state logistics at state expense, funded by taxation and conquest. When the conquest revenue dried up, the obligation remained. Rome had written a check against future military success, and future military success eventually failed to arrive.

The lesson is not complicated. Distribute a benefit and you distribute dependency. Distribute dependency and you distribute political power to whoever controls the distribution. The grain dole didn't weaken Rome overnight, but it made every subsequent reform politically impossible.

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@catturd2 Did they destroy the app or are you made that your turds aren’t dropping everywhere anymore???

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@FBIDirectorKash @TheJusticeDept Politicians and people in power have done it forever! Nothing happens to them of course! They are the real criminals! Let’s make a soldier that risked his life and placed a bet that they would succeed the criminal though. Make it make sense!?!?

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@LdoFrne_network @LidoFinance @aave Scam!!! And your reported!

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@mattvanswol @SenSchumer And for today’s magic trick we are gonna perform the impossible! Turning Chuck the Smuck Schumer back into himself from 43 years ago! Where he somehow stood for all the same values as Trump! Nm I forgot magic can’t fix sorry old men whose magic is lying! @SenSchumer

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The Left is crying about Trump losing equipment saving an American…

Here is a video of the Taliban having a military parade with BILLIONS in US military equipment left behind from Biden’s horrific Afghanistan withdraw.

They didn’t care.

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@citrini @rkmtimes Thanks @Citrini for helping me block out another clown group! My block list keeps getting bigger, as more and more of these BS so called news groups get called out!

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@EthanLevins2 You must be a man with such a sick twisted mind to say the things you do! You're such an idiot to think you are somehow justified in saying you're right from such a BS post. Sad sad human being you are!

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@mattvanswol @EdKrassen BREAKING!!!! On today’s X post of Krusty the clown Krassen’s BS story telling. We have acquired a real life photo of what he actually looks like in real life. (PSA it’s as fake as his rage baiting false posts) See how easy it is to tell the truth @EdKrassen.

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@AngletonOrchids Therapy can be helpful buddy. Take some deep breaths and step away from X. Admitting you need help is the first step!

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@chamath @SenWarren In my view, many senators and members of Congress are among the most harmful actors in our system, given their constant dishonesty and inability to accomplish anything meaningful for Americans—especially @SenWarren, who is just putting on a show that sadly many believe.

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@chamath @SenWarren If those straightforward measures you mentioned were implemented, and the wealthy supported them in good faith, this country could be far more prosperous. I, like many others, would not feel so robbed knowing our taxes are being used responsibly instead of funding fraud.