TheVespasian

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by TheVespasian 2y ago
I don't know which country you live in, but it's a claim I've seen made just about everywhere. Both America and Caesar are so influential that it's difficult for people to recognize their influence. Fish in water, etc.
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by TheVespasian 2y ago
> However we do speak of them passionately anyway, even if the discussion is less emotional. You bringing up the examples that you brought up is a perfect example. People immediately understand what you mean. Anyone who agrees with you w
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by TheVespasian 2y ago
> Nazism and Fascism are largely influential today but Caesar isn't. Sorry, but this is when I just have to tune out. It's like when people say, "America has no culture," or something similar.
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by TheVespasian 2y ago
> Nazism and Fascism's brands of ultra rightwing ideology still looms large in part of the world. Not as distinct from basic impulses we can detect in all periods. These terms we use (rightwing, fascist) are new terms for ancient
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by TheVespasian 2y ago
> It's a loud silence when someone circles around the topic without mentioning it It's a unique feature of American/Western historiography that would incline you to believe this. I find it interesting we don't have to
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by TheVespasian 2y ago
An event like this would be more of a rejuvenating forest fire than an apocalypse.
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by TheVespasian 2y ago
It's dizzying even on the galactic scale to internalize that discrete, visible stars are "right there" compared to the general murkiness of the Milky Way. A sphere of very near stars right next to us relatively speaking
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by TheVespasian 2y ago
LeifCarrotson was arguing that, but mistakenly typed out about 10 words that would indicate the opposite
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by TheVespasian 2y ago
And indeed this gets at the falsity of democracy as a concept itself. In a certain sense it is more duplicitous than dictatorship