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what's the point of roman empire -wank that many anons are
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what's the point of roman empire -wank that many anons are so smitten with? wasn't the republic better?
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>>1360582
>wasn't the republic better?
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>>1360582
>wasn't the corrupt and inefficient senate better then the glorious Augustus
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>>1360582

Cucks like cults of personality.
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>>1360775
Yeah, because corrupt self-interested oligarchs is so much better right?
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>>1360582
If you were living during the later days of the republic then you would be lucky to have a day go by when someone's army didn't march on Rome.
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>>1360595
>comparing Augustus to late republic
Cunt
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>>1360582
Post-Marius(you can argue post-gracchi) the Republic was a husk at the mercy of popular politicians or generals. The first centuries of the Imperium were mostly stable(with some interregnum chaos here and there).
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>>1360582
They imagine themselves linked to an ancient "power" and parallel their modern racial tensions, basically WE WUZ EMPERORS for white people. Same with the crusades.
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Roman heritage by country

>sons of Rome tier
Italy

>sons of Rome and drowning in Slavs tier
Romania

>we're still Romans lel tier
France

>drowning in Moor pussy and dick tier
Spain

>We wuz tier
Portugal

>there's some weird faggots in the mountains speaking latin n shiet tier
Switzerland

>we've been raped by Germans tier
Belgium

>we exist tier
Andorra, San Marino, Monaco

>we wuz Apostles tier
Vatican
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>>1360929
what about Levant,Anatollia and North Africa
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Empire is always bad. The only people who think otherwise are mouth breathers who mistake significance with worth. Also perfidious albions.
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>>1360876
Nonono, we wuz ok. The nigolets were nat kangz okok
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>>1361542
Anything empire is pretty damn shitty. It swallows up other unique interesting culture and after it's death it has morphed and transformed them to be somewhat similiar, and less charming.
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