I thought this was slightly funny.

Mark Zuckerberg is known these days for wearing t-shirts with Latin phrases on them, especially ones where he compares himself to Julius Caesar.

Bluesky made a shirt in the same style, but theirs says “a world without Caesars” in Latin.

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    2 days ago

    Roman empire, like the nordic pagan BS is also a (extreme) right-wing fetish.
    So glad to see our new PM celebrating his election win like this:

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      24 hours ago

      Lol his face… It’s like he knows this is a bad idea and he has no idea how he ended up there.

      That or he’s just an idiot and his face always looks like that.

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        23 hours ago

        Poor thing is his son, molded by daddy.
        You should see the video, he just looks scary in it. The empty look, no thoughts, just following orders.
        His sister already had mental problems at a young age and got help, this one doesn’t know it yet.

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        1 day ago

        True, but there is a lot of Roman history and some find it cool for the wrong reasons.

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          Agreed. But if you’re going to fixate on one era, you could do a lot worse than Roman history.

          Other cool eras to fixate on:

          • Joseon Dynasty and Sejong the Great in Korea
          • Chola Empire - naval empire before navies were really a thing
          • Ethiopian Empire - somehow survived with strong empire neighbors

          There’s a lot of really cool history, Roman history is extra cool though since you can see so much of it in Europe.

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            You can also hear it every day if you’re an English speaker. The Roman conquest of England greatly affected the English language.

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              Yes but I can’t let this chance go by to piss off the English and say they’re a German colony, the country they love to hate.
              Speak a germanic language.
              England, literally land of the Angle. Where are the Angle from? And who’s the other part of the Anglo-Saxons?
              Ruled by…The Windsors? Doesn’t sound right.
              Or did they change their Von Saxen-Gotha name for some mysterious reason in 1914?

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            Yeah, I can picture much of roman history in my mind and put into context. Asian history is almost like fantasy lore and no matter how much I learn about it I cannot wrap my mind around how recent tieping rebellion is even though christanity played a huge role in it.

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        1 day ago

        Belgium.
        As I said, after winning the national election.
        While we have an even more extreme party (VB)he is the leader of the NVA, basically a nationalist separatist party that wants to split the country and indepence for the Flemish speaking part.
        Historically they were the party that collaborated with the nazis.
        While they are careful to not be associated with extremism sometimes their true nature shows.

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        Reverse image search brings up articles for belgium referencing a nationalist party, apparently younger dude is his son?

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            You can avoid the whole of Europe, most countries are getting closer to the 4th reich.
            Almost time to send the kids to the eastern front again.

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                Oh I definitely will, always have since the other side of their uniparty is not much better for the rest of the world.
                Besides those 2 factions there isn’t a significant alternative. The vast majority belongs to 1 of those 2.
                The dems will eventually fall in line and collaborate, like much of the European parties did before and during WW2.
                “embracing patriotism” and " banning left wing elements" as the new proposed plan for the dems is already a good step.
                They have no culture of resistance, generally apathetic and pacified.
                If a European country would suddenly live under the same conditions Americans do now and loong before, regardless of which side was in charge it would be in flames. I can name a few things: no social benefits, mass homelesness, authoritarian police that kill plenty people, largest percentage of people put in jail… No country would take that.
                And now they want to ‘save their democracy’?
                And how? By not shopping at chain X for one day or maybe change their avatar.
                True warriors.