A place to meme about the glorious ROMAN EMPIRE (and Roman Republic, and Roman Kingdom)! Byzantines tolerated! The HRE is not.
RULES:
No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, bigotry, etc. The past may be bigoted, but we are not.
Memes must be Rome-related, not just the title. It can be about Rome, or using Roman aesthetics, or both, but the meme itself needs to have Roman themes.
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Not sure where to start on Roman history?
A quick memetic primer on Republican Rome
A quick memetic primer on Imperial Rome
As a man who loves Roman history a bit too much who is also very much so a leftist, it's aggravating trying to get into discussions or communities about Rome without things taking a fashy turn at some point. It's almost like being a Star Wars fan... sigh.
But yeah, great to see this take affirmed here.
It's everywhere bud. Fascists infiltrate everything they can find. Try being a WH40K fan and explain satire to them...
I absolutely adore WH40k lore. It's just so ridiculously over the top.
Because of this, a quarter of my YT recommendations are random incels moaning about the "woke infiltration" of the WH40k community, when those same people have probably never set foot in a games workshop store in their lives. The people who actually show up in person, are part of the community, they're in on the joke. They get the satire.
I have no goddamn clue how you can simultaneously know about how absolutely batshit insane the entire government structure of the empirium is, read about how the empirium frequently just forgets about entire solar systems due to their incompetence and paranoia, and still think this is somehow pro-fascist literature.
The funniest is them just absolutely ignoring the whole Roboute Guilliman thing where he wakes up, looks around, and is so appaled and shocked by what the empirium had become that he nearly noped the fuck out of there before getting a pep talk from his dad.
The funniest is them just absolutely ignoring the whole Roboute Guilliman thing where he wakes up, looks around, and is so appaled and shocked by what the empirium had become that he nearly noped the fuck out of there before getting a pep talk from his dad.
Robot Gorillaman was fine with the totalitarian autocracy and casual xeno genocide of the 30k era, but even he is aghast at the sheer pointless tyranny of the 40k Imperium. Goes to show it can always get worse in the Grimdarkness of the Grimdark Future.
sheer pointless tyranny of the 40k Imperium
Absolutely. I think for the majority of the writers, the pointlessness of it all is the main theme.
Mouth Guards for Fascists. Make it so that all fascists need mouth guards in public.
Catullus said it best: Fuck them in particular.
Edit: I'm paraphrasing, because while I share the Roman acceptance of homosexuality, I do value consent more and don't want to go quite there.