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True Roman Memes For True Romans

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A place to meme about the glorious ROMAN EMPIRE (and Roman Republic, and Roman Kingdom)!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Explanation: The sculpture depicted is meant to represent the Brothers Gracchi, a couple of extremely dangerous subversives in the Late Roman Republic who drew the ire of conservatives by... [checks notes] suggesting that letting the poor starve and be reduced to slaves in their own country was a bad thing.

For this reason, both brothers were unlawfully killed by conservatives in the Senate, despite the Gracchi being sacrosanct and democratically elected officials.

[–] Tomassci 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Those who study the past are doomed to watch the morons in power repeat it, unfortunately.