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14 hours ago, Dragoon said:

I kinda consider myself an expert on how Rome fell. Our parallels are shockingly similar. 

We are a slave society? I didn't know that? 

 

Did Rome have modern science? Did Rome have corporations? Did Rome have democracy? 

 

I remember when Clinton was president this silly argument was put forward, also. 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Tiberius said:

We are a slave society? I didn't know that? 

 

Did Rome have modern science? Did Rome have corporations? Did Rome have democracy? 

 

I remember when Clinton was president this silly argument was put forward, also. 

 

 


1. people like you tell me we’re a slave society all the time. I’ll argue to some extent we are. I mean, Asian sweatshops do produce a lot of our goods. 
 

2. No, Rome did not have modern science because Rome was in antiquity. 
 

3. Yes, Rome had businesses. 
 

4. Did Rome have democracy? Kinda. 

13 hours ago, Artful Dodger said:

 

Can you please share what you think the parallels are?   I'm in my mid 50's, and people have been talking about this for my entire life, but I struggle to see what the parallels are.  There are no hordes of Visigoths at our borders and we don't drink from lead pipes.  Also we have a pretty good system of government which ensures a peaceful transfer of power every four or eight years. 


Lead pipes......lead pipes had nothing to do with anything. They caused no health issues. 
 

Yeah, what people are talking about....usually, is the end of the Republic era and the beginning of the imperium, which is a longtime before the Goths go rampaging. The Punic wars mesh up with our rise to super power status with our world wars. They had a conflict in Iberia that dragged on forever similar to our Vietnam. The social strife, the politics....it’s all eerily similar. I’m referencing the period of about 170-80 BC. Not the AD stuff like the Goths. 

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8 minutes ago, Dragoon said:


1. people like you tell me we’re a slave society all the time. I’ll argue to some extent we are. I mean, Asian sweatshops do produce a lot of our goods. 
 

2. No, Rome did not have modern science because Rome was in antiquity. 
 

3. Yes, Rome had businesses. 
 

4. Did Rome have democracy? Kinda.  

Oh please, e don't have any type of legal slavery like Rome had. And no Rome didnt have corporations. Two very, very different societies 

 

We are not defending our borders from armed invasion, either. 

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Just now, Tiberius said:

Oh please, e don't have any type of legal slavery like Rome had. And no Rome didnt have corporations. Two very, very different societies 

 

We are not defending our borders from armed invasion, either. 

We are defending our country from socialist like you.

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6 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

Oh please, e don't have any type of legal slavery like Rome had. And no Rome didnt have corporations. Two very, very different societies 

 

We are not defending our borders from armed invasion, either. 


Well we do use slavery....for our imports. 
 

Rome definitely had corporations. Obviously they did. My god man....who do you think collected taxes, provided logistics to the military and so on? I mean a simple study of Rome’s Equites and it’s all there. 
 

i do agree we’re not defending our borders adequately though. That’s true. 

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4 minutes ago, Dragoon said:


Well we do use slavery....for our imports. 
 

Rome definitely had corporations. Obviously they did. My god man....who do you think collected taxes, provided logistics to the military and so on? I mean a simple study of Rome’s Equites and it’s all there. 
 

i do agree we’re not defending our borders adequately though. That’s true. 

There is just no serious comparison 

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2 hours ago, Gary M said:

 

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”–George Santayana

What past? The Roman Empire? What lessons are we suppose to take from a pre-modern, slave based society that didn't even know the earth orbited the sun? 

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3 hours ago, Tiberius said:

What past? The Roman Empire? What lessons are we suppose to take from a pre-modern, slave based society that didn't even know the earth orbited the sun? 


Tibs — if you actually go back and learn about Tiberius Grachus you’d realize how silly you sound. My god man — the very era of Tiberius was the beginning of the end of the Roman REPUBLIC. It was a very complex. Politically, logistically, it was VERY complex. And, literally everything going on today was going on then. 
 

I mean my god, Tibs....it was nothing for Rome to have numerous 60,000 man armies warring on different continents. You think that isn’t complex? Keeping a 60,000 man army in the field is not an easy task today, let alone 2000 years ago. 
 

There is a great deal to learn. 

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6 minutes ago, Dragoon said:


Tibs — if you actually go back and learn about Tiberius Grachus you’d realize how silly you sound. My god man — the very era of Tiberius was the beginning of the end of the Roman REPUBLIC. It was a very complex. Politically, logistically, it was VERY complex. And, literally everything going on today was going on then. 
 

I mean my god, Tibs....it was nothing for Rome to have numerous 60,000 man armies warring on different continents. You think that isn’t complex? Keeping a 60,000 man army in the field is not an easy task today, let alone 2000 years ago. 
 

There is a great deal to learn. 

Rome was a very, very different society, situation and culture, almost no connection what so ever 

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1 minute ago, Tiberius said:

Rome was a very, very different society, situation and culture, almost no connection what so ever 


Tibs, you idiot, we’re new Rome. Do you know less than 50 years separates the story of America from that of Rome. I know the similarities. It’s kinda my hobby. It’s kinda my thing. I thought like you until I actually studied. 

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The country began in a revolutionary civil war ( Not everyone supported leaving English control), continued through another civil war and maybe about to enter another version. 

When the country began the states were given huge power, which is both a strength and weakness that is presently pulling the country apart in 2020. 

Keeping a country of this size and population is hard...and like Rome eventually explodes from within. 

I hope not, I pray not, but the most obvious sign is politicians in power govern only for their supporters not for the citizens. 

Imagine where you, a citizen,  says I will not help my neighbor put out a fire in his house because he believes in something I do not. Wow. trump does this daily.

From the outside this feels like a Venezuela election. 

Best of Luck for a successful election, safe, honest and secure.

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