I thought this was slightly funny.

Mark Zuckerberg is known these days for wearing t-shirts with Latin phrases on them, especially ones where he compares himself to Julius Caesar.

Bluesky made a shirt in the same style, but theirs says “a world without Caesars” in Latin.

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    26 days ago

    Roman empire, like the nordic pagan BS is also a (extreme) right-wing fetish.
    So glad to see our new PM celebrating his election win like this:

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          26 days ago

          Agreed. But if you’re going to fixate on one era, you could do a lot worse than Roman history.

          Other cool eras to fixate on:

          • Joseon Dynasty and Sejong the Great in Korea
          • Chola Empire - naval empire before navies were really a thing
          • Ethiopian Empire - somehow survived with strong empire neighbors

          There’s a lot of really cool history, Roman history is extra cool though since you can see so much of it in Europe.

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            25 days ago

            You can also hear it every day if you’re an English speaker. The Roman conquest of England greatly affected the English language.

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              25 days ago

              Yes but I can’t let this chance go by to piss off the English and say they’re a German colony, the country they love to hate.
              Speak a germanic language.
              England, literally land of the Angle. Where are the Angle from? And who’s the other part of the Anglo-Saxons?
              Ruled by…The Windsors? Doesn’t sound right.
              Or did they change their Von Saxen-Gotha name for some mysterious reason in 1914?

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                11 days ago

                Englishmen: We’ve been invaded and occupied for centuries by sooo many different nation states. Which one are you again?