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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

They also invented dictators!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

They even invented the Romans

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

And organized crime

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What have the Romans ever done for us...?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The aqueducts?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Ok aqueducts, but else have the Romans done us?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

All hail the Holy Roman Empire apparently

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That was more the Germans, the Roman Republic invented dictators.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, the HRE was centuries later and way less cool. The only thing they had going for them was massive chins.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Thanks for the early morning laugh.