Comments by "Chompy the Beast" (@chompythebeast) on "Empire of Psychopaths: What Lead the Romans to be Quite so Brutal? DEBUNKED" video.

@shleyLX Religion for Breakfast is, like, 101 level surveys of the ideas it covers, tailored to a brief seminar a third of a normal class length in most cases. It is as digestible as data of that caliber can be, and I'd be disappointed in anyone in my life who found it too difficult to follow or swallow above the age of 15
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The salting of Carthage the city's fields probably happened at some level, but Carthage the city was depopulated anyway. However, population returned to the site a few generations after the sacking, so obviously they were able to sustain themselves in some capacity. Carthage in those days probably resembled Rome in the 900s — a town of subsistence farmers squatting in the ruins of a once-great city
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@smashy_smasherton Burning fields and forcibly evicting (or you know, genociding) the local population works even better anyway, especially if the Romans ever intended to settle the region themselves afterwards, which definitely happened. Israel didn't salt Gaza and the Americans didn't salt Georgia either, though not for a lack of genocidal hatred of the people living there
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That is a very unusual assertion, that "all of us without exception" wish to revel in a romantic past. That is simply not true, my friend, there are many, many who would rather leave the past behind and who strive for a greater, ideologically dissimilar future
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@page8301 Presumably they are referring to (woefully) popular takes on socialism or even social democracy, wherein it is imagined that the entire left can be summed up as being ideologically bent on "free stuff" and "handouts", as if the working class doesn't produce everything itself. I don't mean to speak for them of course, but I am reminded of the misconception that individuals like Marx were Utopian idealists, when of course such individuals were explicitly anti-utopian and thoroughly materialist
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135 replies in 1 day lol Rome the state doesn't exist. America the state does. America paying reparations for deeds it continues tonprofit from is not as absurd as a dead state doing so. Just tossing this out there
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The Romans were no more or less "psychopathic" than the Americans are today. All it requires is putting up a mental barrier between you and those suffering the violence. Certain people "deserve it"; or when certain people commit violence, it's inherently justified by their social standing; or it's "terrorism" when others do it to Americans, but it's "freedom" when Americans do the very same thing to others but on a far greater and more deadly scale; etc. It's about justifying the violence of empire, in America's case, both the number one and the number three most funded military organizations in human history
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