In actual fact, one remarkable thing about Roman citizenship is that,.like American citizen, it was generally 'all or nothing' - a newly enfranchised veteran was instantly every bit a citizen as the bluest blooded senator.

When the emperor expanded citizenship to a community for loyal service, he sure as hell wasn't adopting them as his heirs.

The same obviously goes for soldiers getting citizenship on discharge.

Freed slaves, for instance, immediately became Roman citizens but they very much did not get adopted by their former masters.

There was an expectation they'd act as clients, but even that wasn't codified into law until quite late.

like if you look at the turnover at the VP/SVP level in big tech it was an absolute bloodbath where the worst guys got a rocketship into management while the best of the old guard all got promoted to fired. (got increases in title with zero reports.)

oh. that seems pretty obvious to me. like. you can see what happened. people stopped praising them and they reoriented their entire view of the world towards the people who told them that they would literally be kings. then the people who that happened to fired everyone who didn't.

This project is using very big data to show what @jamellebouie.net keeps saying: the yglesias types aren't standing in reporting about some silent majority backlashing against CRT, DEI, and progressive racial ideology. They ARE the backlash.