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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[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago

What do you mean, idolizing a violent expansionist slavery empire leads to trying the same stuff as them???

[-] Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I imagine that's how the planters themselves thought of it but, they thought it was a virtue. They envisioned themselves as new repubican aristocrats in the Roman model. They would live in leisurely repose while being able to pursue art, academic writing, and politics just as the Roman latifundia did in the past.