well if the rich ones could resist keeping out of the poor ones

because the emperor was unnaccountable and everything was top down

people put the romans on a pedestal, but their own system killed them - they were just lucky not to face off against another great empire that could hit them directly

because their empire was protected by mountains and desert

and then barbarian buffer states

yeah

really good start buffs

really the only good thing about rome was the repuiblic, but england came up with a better system

indeed, start buffs lol

also a good start buff for england

well i dunno about england so much

i dunno how aware they were of the republic in medieval times

far as i know, not much

well england middle game when technology was more developed

but magna carta was a thing, and then parliament gained power and then england became set on the path after the civil war

yeah

a king and basic rights dont work well

english common law, i know very little about that

but i know it's better than napoleonic code due to adversarial system

not familiar with the napoleonic code

the mad lad czechs do it again

https://tenor.com/view/xi-xi-jin-ping-clap-slow-clap-gif-11951262

Bold words from people who can't even defend themselves from tyranny

Now if an asian country did that

That would be mad

Anyone know what the fuck is happening in Ecuador?

Protests against economic reforms

many native indigenous are part of the protest

Good reforms, or bad?

I ask, because Ecuador is a socialist backwater

I've not been following it closely enough

If you have to ask, its another scoop of socialism

Now get back to work peasants and stop complaining about being hungry

From what I'm reading so far, the President Lenín Moreno has made economic reforms to liberalise the economy

>Lenin

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Ok adolf

-liberalisation of prices of diesel and gas
-lifting of tariffs on heavy machinery
-lifting of tariffs on imports of computer and mobile devices
-flexibilising the labour market
-subsidies for 300,000 families

but this comes at the cost of heavy austerity measures which mostly affects the native populations. In particular the liberalisation of the diesel prices means that there no longer will be a diesel subsidy which they depend on (1.300 million dollars a year).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Ecuadorian_protests

They keep using the word "Populism" in a way that I don't understand

@Fitzydog wdym?