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[-] Damage@feddit.it 21 points 1 year ago

Who cares what a bunch of savage pillagers would have wanted?

What I'm sure of is that the forefathers of modern civilization, the Romans, would have fucking loved trans folks.

[-] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

I mean, the Romans were just industrialized pillagers. Who cares what they would have thought.

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 19 points 1 year ago

Yeah! What have the romans ever done for us?!

[-] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

I mean, if you’re going to disregard the contributions of Viking culture because they were notorious for their pillaging, it’s only fair to disregard Rome, whose entire economy was based on systematized pillaging.

Both cultures have contributions, but the wholesale massacre of other civilizations gets a pass when we discuss Rome for some reason.

[-] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago
[-] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Give it another 50 years and you can substitute British for American

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago
[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

'Cause America is just getting started, baby!

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

Well yeah, obviously the roads. The roads go without saying, don’t they?

[-] Damage@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago

See, even in stuff that was just secondary to them, they were better!

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

So, you're talking about the people that emulated greek culture as they viewed it as more refined than their own?

[-] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah! I mean they took a good idea and spread it around way more effectively than the Greeks did

[-] Oisteink@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The Apple of ancient Europe

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

The Greeks were isolationists. Each city-state considered itself the center of the world. It wasn't on their list of priorities to share or spread their culture, unless it involved complete obliteration by conquest.

[-] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's not about caring what Vikings wanted, it's just illustrating it was found even in some of the most ancient and "less civilized" cultures. The point being it's not unusual, new, or unique to our culture.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago

The problem here is none of y'all know shit about Vikings. Or Northmen. Or whatever you want to call them.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

They very much did not. Like violence against cybelian circles and everything against Elagabalus. Julius Caesar would’ve though

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