Message from @Goblin_Slayer_Floki
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Why though?
If not for Christianity.
Polygamy creates more violent societies
anyway, have to afk for a while
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The Romans weren't actually too violent, and they certainly were promiscuous. Before the 'but they took over places', they were very, very kind occupiers.
Generally wanted to avoid bloodshed.
You had legions. So they used their violence productively
Last I remember, back during that time, raping and pillaging were morally acceptable.
Not something I heard of the legion doing very often.
It's hard to maintain an empire abroad when you've ransacked the new neighbors
Tell that to how many other armies have taken over places and done the same.
And maintained the same.
See also: Afghanistan
At the time, the Romans were fairly progressive. I've had this argument come up before.
They had volunteers from conquered cities reinforcing their legions.
Yes, which is why they didn't usually ransack new lands, until later in the empire era
probably helped the collapse a bit
Unfortunately, power corrupts.
If only Caesar hadn't gotten shanked
Yes, the roman legions did have *auxillary* of local forces, but to the romans they were more or less meat shields. And it in turn lead to a lot of the issues as the foriegn elements were soon let into the senate and broke the whole system down.
That's... sort of just the whole concept of a vanguard.
There were plenty of native auxilliaries that the Romans respected. The Romans had little of a cavalry or archery tradition, so they were quite welcoming to native auxilliaries that could take care of those problems.
i think with that meme, capitalism shoe is a bit higher
maybe there's a car jack helping lift it up a bit (economic growth let them invent it)
or you could just replace 'capitalism' with neoliberalism
"Stop being so smart because these other people aren't as smart and we can't meet our ethnicity quota. It's absolute cancer." >> Later someone responds with: "I just used your Affirmitive action argument, and made a hardline liberal rage quit in five minutes or less. IRL." <:pepe_smile:378719407977005068>
Tim got woke lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRpqApcSz4M
The sad thing is, somebody needs to legit save the Dems from spiraling down into irrelevance.
Because we know there are lunatics in the Republicans too.
The country needs democrats.
In much the same was as it needs republicans. Or at least some kind of opposition.
The crazy repubs are already dying off in the party. Another party will replace the dems
No, we saw some biblethumpers come out of the woodwork to blame video games again last mass shooting.
Hmm, I guess. I don't see the populace being like that though
It'd be great if the death of the dems leads to a power vacuum that new parties can fill
eg. libertarians
don't just prop up a corpse