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[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

They also invented dictators!

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

They even invented the Romans

[–] spare_muppets@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

And organized crime

[–] Codandchips@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Heterocephalus@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] Codandchips@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ok aqueducts, but else have the Romans done us?

[–] VampyreOfNazareth@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All hail the Holy Roman Empire apparently

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the early morning laugh.