• TheDankHold@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Roman Empire was multicultural with emperors from Spain, North Africa, the Balkan’s, Syria, and others. The modern Roman obsession is all about the optics that fascists have wrapped it up in, not actual history. They were even surprisingly religiously tolerant.

    They’re not actually trying to go back to that, they only want the worst traits of the empire.

    • TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Every Empire has a period of expansion and prosperity, modern-day Republicans are trying to bring back the policies that destroyed Rome, without understanding that conservatism is always the corruption that leads to fascism.