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Rough Roman Memes

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A place to meme about the glorious ROMAN EMPIRE (and Roman Republic, and Roman Kingdom)! Byzantines tolerated! The HRE is not.

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[โ€“] PugJesus 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Explanation: "The West has fallen, billions must die" is a meme that makes fun of melodramatic far-right chuds who are certain that small or positive changes will OBLITERATE WESTERN CIVILIZATION. This is continuing that mockery by implicitly comparing the attitude to that of the reactionaries during the Late Roman Republic, who were certain that any alleviation of the plight of the landless poor was the FALL of the REPUBLIC.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

History doesn't repeat itself but it sure rhymes