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apricops: the tendency for racists and white supremacists to go gaga over their idea of ancient Rome is so darkly hilarious because of how entirely wrong it is. It's not a twisting of some kernels of truth, it's not a misinterpretation, it's just the exact opposite, and people in Western Europe has been doing it for so long. For centuries people in Britain and Germany would be like/have been like "ah yes, we are special and superior because we are the heirs of the superior Romans" while next to a giant pile of writings by respected Ancient Romans who went "god, Britain is a dump and Germany is full of idiot barbarians. I wish I lived somewhere cool and cultured like Syria or Tunisia."


occultbookstores: Someone wrote once that Fascism is Roman bimbofication and that's been living in my head rent-free.


Here's some homework for you: https://piped.video/watch?v=sEjCNzGOe3Q

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We went overboard on the kill off.and enslave in the Americas. 90% of the population of both continents straight up died.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. There is evidence to suggest that while they(Europeans) definitely took advantage of the deaths, most of the deaths were accidental from disease. Not all of the disease was maybe quite so accidental though.

E.G. one recorded instance in the 7 years war where British/American forces delivered blankets as a gift to nearby natives, some of the blankets were from the infirmary where there was smallpox. However, the notes and letters we have don't inform us as to whether that was an intentional move on the part of the fort commander, or a logistical error that resulted in the gift being tainted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That incident may not have been intentional The ones we took out west on the other hand.....

[–] Slagius 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but that was an accident, we gave the poor bastards the plague. Whereas most/all of the killing done in other places was, well, by hand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Little bit of column A, and a little bit of we have guns....