The USA House of Representatives has 2 fasces. You cannot get more obvious than that (lemmygrad.ml)

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The USA senate has 2 fasces. You cannot get more obvious than that

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[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago

The Roman Empire was an ideal society to model ourselves after

what about all the slavery and depravity tho?

That is a feature, not a bug

[-] huf@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

also, roman republic tearing itself apart repeatedly because the elites simply refused to give any concessions to the poor.

no, no lesson here.

(not that the republic was good...)

[-] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

Like a dozen times in Roman history, some Consul is hailed as the greatest leader of all time because he breaks up the big slave owning plantations and redistributes the land to the poor (that is, the poor citizenry, not the slaves or immigrants). None of them could figure out how to stop the big plantations from inevitably buying up and outcompeting the smallholders, though.