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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We simp for Rome cause the imagery makes us hard. Simple as. I'd probably be joining that military junta if I actually.lived then, too.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

In the brutal military junta's defense, semi-meritocratic military junta > aristocratic monarchy

It's just not, y'know, democracy. Except on the local level, where Roman assemblies in Roman coloniae retained much of the power that had been lost in the city of Rome itself.