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@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io
2025-12-27 01:23:54

No joke I’ve read multiple documents that argued the Roman Empire was too tolerant and allowed for too much ethnic mixing, which was why they thought Italians in the late 19th / early 20th century were a threat to white purity….
They were literally justifying their prejudice with history that was many centuries old. (Also how did none of them consider that the Roman Empire reached territories that would become Britain and France and Germany too? It’s not like their ancestors were somehow exempt from this supposed ethnic mixing.)

@akalanka@masto.es
2025-10-24 14:51:54

Captura de la (siempre interesante) newsletter del Paul Krugman:
Comparto completamente su reflexión, esto de la desigualdad se nos va de las manos. Mira, yo sé que es un poco PSOEizado decir esto, pero no me parece tan grave que haya algo de desigualdad; pues vale, hay gente con mas pasta que otros.
Pero UN YATE. DOS YATES. TRES YATES. Señor USTED NO NECESITA DOS YATES, NECESITA UN ABRAZO

The text reads: 

What happened? Modern historians of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire mostly agree upon one explanation for the Republic’s collapse – namely that the enormous loot from Rome’s conquests created a class of incredibly wealthy oligarchs who were too wealthy and powerful to be constrained by republican norms, institutions and laws.

The modern parallels are obvious. Here’s a photo of Jeff Bezos’s yacht:

<An infographic of the yatch is joined, depicting how impossibly huge i…
@jackie@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-13 05:01:57

"my roman empire" thing that doesn't affect you that think too much about it
"my 9/11" thing that devasted you
so might I propose
"my roman eleven" something devastating that you think too much about but that didn't actually affect you