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
Its ignoring that the Romans brutally conquered and colonized western Europe, oddly in pretty much the exact same manner that western Europe did roughly 1500-1800 years later to much of the world.
Aka: Go in with violence, kill off and enslave upwards of a quarter to a third of the population, then trick the rest into giving you their lands with promises of fairness and copious alcohol.
Also, Roman culture damn near worshiped the Greeks.
They literally used the "noble savage" trope to describe the people of western Europe.
We went overboard on the kill off.and enslave in the Americas. 90% of the population of both continents straight up died.
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.
Little bit of column A, and a little bit of we have guns....