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TheVespasian

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About TheVespasian

imperial localism

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    Comment #40238030

    I don't know which country you live in, but it's a claim I've seen made just about everywhere. Both America and Caesar are so influential that it's difficult for people to recogniz…

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    Comment #40237983

    > However we do speak of them passionately anyway, even if the discussion is less emotional. You bringing up the examples that you brought up is a perfect example. People immediate…

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    Comment #40232744

    > Nazism and Fascism are largely influential today but Caesar isn't. Sorry, but this is when I just have to tune out. It's like when people say, "America has no culture," or someth…

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    Comment #40231194

    > Nazism and Fascism's brands of ultra rightwing ideology still looms large in part of the world. Not as distinct from basic impulses we can detect in all periods. These terms we u…

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    Comment #40230844

    > It's a loud silence when someone circles around the topic without mentioning it It's a unique feature of American/Western historiography that would incline you to believe this. I…

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    Comment #40204523

    An event like this would be more of a rejuvenating forest fire than an apocalypse.

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    Comment #40204230

    It's dizzying even on the galactic scale to internalize that discrete, visible stars are "right there" compared to the general murkiness of the Milky Way. A sphere of very near sta…

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    Comment #40163317

    LeifCarrotson was arguing that, but mistakenly typed out about 10 words that would indicate the opposite

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    Comment #40160710

    And indeed this gets at the falsity of democracy as a concept itself. In a certain sense it is more duplicitous than dictatorship