Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on "Yes, Men Think About the Roman Empire Every Day | feat. @shadiversity" video.

@CourageousCourier1701 if a person walks around head empty not thinking about history a day of their life, i absolutely believe they take almost everything for granted
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@CourageousCourier1701 the fact that you care so much is telling, i think your argument completely misses the context of the broader discussion here in favor of making this yet another boring gender war debate
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they browse Tiktok, it's to be expected.
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@RomanHoliday53 to be fair, if a woman thinks about the Roman empire regularly she probably isn't scrolling Tiktok
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@Thumbdumpandthebumpchump immigration weakened Rome greatly and hindered their own military power structure. you're also conveniently ignoring the issue of slavery, which is in effect, a mass immigration time bomb. it impacted Rome even worse than it did the US, because African-descended people in the US have few ties to their homeland, but slaves in the Roman empire often remembered what life in their homeland was like and weren't even that far away from it. there weren't any black generals in the American military that betrayed our nation in the name of their African homeland. that's happened I believe more than once in Rome's history. the barbarian armies were always present throughout Rome's history, yet they were only able to deal the killing blow after immigration became a serious problem for Rome. weird coincidence, don'tcha think?
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@Thumbdumpandthebumpchump also, America is most definitely unique in that regard. no other nation on the planet that I know of offers birthright citizenship. we have by far the most lax immigration policy of any nation on this planet since 1965. to say that our nation hasn't changed profoundly since then would be silly. other nations typically have 90% ethnic homogeneity, meanwhile less than 60% of our population is Caucasian. European nations freak out when they receive a couple of waves of refugees yet caravans of illegal migrants on our border were a common occurrence the past few years. almost every other nation would buckle under the force of immigration constantly streaming into the US
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@MrKrill614 most Roman roads, indeed most roads throughout history until the modern era, were built by soldiers not slaves. when you're moving a massive army on campaign, it becomes cost effective to pave your own roads so the supply train can follow more easily
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@Thumbdumpandthebumpchump the parallels with immigration issues are quite hard to ignore
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@fuerstmetternich1997 slavery and the military pension program made Rome weak. allowing people you've just conquered or recently freed from your own enslavement to rise to the rank of general in your military and then get fat swathes of land was not a good idea in hindsight. the aristocracy was also decadent and impotent before Christianity entered the picture
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@TheCelticCowboy98 the upper classes and the clergy tried to Latinize English, but the farmers and lower classes (vast majority of the English speakers) didn't really let them. many words relating to every day situations or animals are the same or nearly the same in English as in German (hound = hund for example) but it only starts getting into the weeds of Latin when you start speaking about abstract concepts like justice, or scientific pursuits. if you go to Franconia (half of my heritage is from there) you'll meet people that speak something that resembles a middle stage between German and English, i.e. dropping the gender ending from "mein" so that it is just "mei" (pronounced like "my" and means the same thing).
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@sleeve9097 no March?
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if you're Western, it's difficult to not think about the Roman empire because it informs so much of our culture, even today, especially because it was so highly prized by members of the Catholic church, and especially because the United States has a lot in common with it
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I can't help but think about Diogenes on the regular now because he was a successful critic of society and academia whereas today we have so many failed and dishonest critics of society and academia.
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"if i drew a dick on a tavern in Pompeii, would it still be legible today?"
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I so dislike it when psychologists reduce a group of people into children or cavemen when analyzing why they do something. It seems to be especially common in the "gender war" narrative. Men don't like ancient Rome just because of military conquests and cool armor and the imperial eagle. Kids like ancient Rome because of that, and then their interest may die out at a later age. Rome was very far ahead of its time in many ways, and it's easy for an adult to appreciate that, but I suppose a feminist might not like to admit that a legitimately patriarchal society had so much success.
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