Are orgies and homo sex in style again?
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Reminds me of the biblical scenes from A Clockwork Orange. Some people think history is neat and the Romans had alot of history. Some people wish they could conquer Gaul and own sex slaves.
That explains why they hate my reaction to seeing a cybertruck. I hold my thumb out horizontally, until I know I have their attention. I then rotate it to a thumbs down. The sheer amount of road rage, at having had ancient roman iconography used against them, warms the cold dead cockles of my heart.
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No, 👎. Lol
Only tidbit I have about that is the thumbs down meant you weren’t allowed to kill the person despite how the movies play it but I didn’t take latin long enough to confirm that.
That's correct, but I suspect they either don't know that, or are the type that wouldn't see that as approval for a good fight, but would see it as the denial of their "righteous kill."
If only we could throw those criminals against basic decency and aesthetics to the lions, like the good old days!
Or at least enter the Cybertruck in a demolition derby so it can serve some purpose.
Their kindred love of lead poisoning
I thought almost everyone had a mild obsession with Romans
I prefer to romanticize the three kingdoms period of China.
Turns out the mild obsession was really with tits.
I mean, they're kinda neat but I don't consider them all that important to modern day life.
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Unfortunately this makes sense - the original Italian and German fascists were also obsessed with it.
Fascism weaponizes history by creating a narrative about past greatness that was lost because [ENEMY] took it away from them.
So for Italians, the Roman Empire was their past greatness for fascists (and where they got the name fascist from). For Germany, it makes less sense, but in their version of history ,the Holy Roman Empire was the "First Reich" so there's somewhat a connection there.
For American fascists it makes less sense. While some Americans can trace their ethnicity to Italy (and therefore the Roman Empire) it doesn't seem to be an Italian American thing. Probably it's just due to Romans being ridiculously misogynistic and liking the aesthetics of it.
Mythologized history to serve their racist worldview:
Right, ancient Greece and Rome were actually quite diverse and the concept of “whiteness” didn’t have much meaning thousands of years ago. Race, as we know it, is a fairly recent category. But the far-right relies on this construct of Western civilization, which for them means white civilization and culture. So they craft a narrative that begins with Greece and Rome and then continues into the medieval period up through the emergence of modern Europe.
What's funny is Rome and Greece (and probably every other ancient culture) mythologized their origin history, too, due to lack of history records from that far back, or just by plain human nature. Nothing new under the sun.
No. No. They were really decended from gods and raised by wolves. /S
Honestly the best explanations for Greek and thus Roman myth is a mix of patrical worship (story from dad, become from grandpa, from great grandpa, from ancestor, from the ancient, from myth, mixed with ruling caste families becomes our mythos).
That mixed with stories about concepts war, beauty, death, getting personified for story sake but then with enough personality now the afterlife is married and has a dog because his wife is on business trips all the time.
No. No. They were really decended from gods and raised by wolves. /S
Funny thing is, one of the key parts of Roman legend was also that their city was founded by a bunch of literal criminals and exiles that no one else wanted, and this was a theme that they constantly returned to - both positively (as in referring to the wisdom of Romulus in accepting outsiders of merit, whatever their reputation) and negatively (as in referring to Rome as the 'cesspit of Romulus', a place of base realities instead of high-minded ideals).
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