apricops: the tendency for racists and white supremacists to go gaga over their idea of ancient Rome is so darkly hilarious because of how entirely wrong it is. It’s not a twisting of some kernels of truth, it’s not a misinterpretation, it’s just the exact opposite, and people in Western Europe has been doing it for so long. For centuries people in Britain and Germany would be like/have been like “ah yes, we are special and superior because we are the heirs of the superior Romans” while next to a giant pile of writings by respected Ancient Romans who went “god, Britain is a dump and Germany is full of idiot barbarians. I wish I lived somewhere cool and cultured like Syria or Tunisia.”


occultbookstores: Someone wrote once that Fascism is Roman bimbofication and that’s been living in my head rent-free.


Here’s some homework for you: https://piped.video/watch?v=sEjCNzGOe3Q

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    I don’t know about modern Germans, but the nazis definitely appropriated and identified with classical Roman and Greek culture (here’s one well-regarded book exploring this).

    Given that the original post is about fascism and racial supremacy, I assume any German fascists/supremacists it’s referring to share some ideology with the nazis in this regard.