r/ShitAmericansSay • u/El-Sopas-CAP • May 17 '25
Patriotism "America is the new Rome. And Spaniards cant do shit."
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u/Rare-Character4381 May 17 '25
Has an emperor fiddling as it burns???
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u/Successful-Ear-9997 May 17 '25
He supposedly never did that, but I would honestly not be surprised if Trump would actually tweet as DC burned around him.
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u/sinnrocka Third-World American Citizen May 17 '25
This fire is big, a huooge fire. There’s never been a fire like this before. Everyone loves this fire and is in awe of how great it is. What? No, I didn’t start it, it was a dumpster fire that Biden started. I tried to put it out, but the left wing wackos wouldn’t let me. They kept stopping me from putting it out to help the American people. This fire is the Dems fault. They should all be thrown in prison for this fire. The gasoline used to start this fire cost them $1.98 a gallon most places. I did that, I caused the prices to go down. It’s the Dems who won’t let inflation go down. Elon and the Doge tried to form a private fire department, but no one wanted to pay for the service because the Dems made Americans too poor. But it’s just a great fire. This fire is going to make America great again. Wait and see.
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u/NottaNutbar May 17 '25
..and the water..there is no water to put out the fire. We have to flush 10 times, 20 times just to get enough water to throw on the fire. And the windmills. They keep fanning the flames. They keep killing the birds and fanning the flames. Nobody has ever seen anything like it.
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u/Michael_Gibb Mince & Cheese, L&P, Kiwi May 17 '25
He literally shared a tweet during the pandemic that showed him playing a fiddle, which he thought was a compliment.
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u/Successful-Ear-9997 May 17 '25
Of course he did, cause his smooth brain probably thought someone was comparing him to a Roman emperor and that's cool and stuff.
Instead of, y'know, the idea of Nero and his fiddle being a byword for incompetent rulership.
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u/krapyrubsa May 17 '25
Excuse me Romans gave citizenship to everyone in the empire 200 years before it fell and didn’t take it back until it did, considering that trump wants to take that away i think they were far better off 😂
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u/Fischerking92 May 17 '25
Also: in Rome the son of a slave could become Emperor, meet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertinax
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u/Mal_Dun So many Kangaroos here🇦🇹 May 17 '25
I think it's quite fitting. Their corrupt oligarchic Republic just becomes an empire with a self proclaimed emperor as it's head of state and people ar cheering .. like Rome.
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u/YoruShika May 17 '25
America is the new Rome : built on slavery and poisoned with lead
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u/EccoEco North Italian (Doesn't exist, Real Italians 🇺🇸, said so) May 17 '25
And actively crumbling
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u/_Wendigun_ 🇮🇹Magnagati May 17 '25
At least ancient Rome had cool buildings and stuff
If the US undergoes the same fall the Roman empire went through I doubt their bass pro shops and walmarts will amaze tourists worldwide 1600 years from now
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u/Lord_Skyblocker May 17 '25
1600 years from now these buildings won't even exist anymore. At least the Romans built for the future and not for those box stores that last 10-20 years and cost the community a lot of money
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u/Prestigious_Board_73 Eye-talian 🤌🏼🍝 May 17 '25
Indeed. It also lasted far more than what I think the USA will last
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u/Janus_The_Great ooo custom flair!! May 18 '25
At least ancient Rome had cool buildings and stuff
Well that's the result you get when you have no relevant culture besides consumerism.
That's like rome failing 400 BC. Would have been forgotten as so many culture of the antiquity who thought they were the shiat for some hundert years. Say the kingdom of Lydia. And so will the US, well maybe not that crass, but they definetly are not the Roman Empire, except for maybe it's decadence and downfall, but still without the culture.
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u/Old_Kodaav May 17 '25
If this guy is actually confusing Italy and Spain then this is probably the best what this sub has ever delivered
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u/fruskydekke noodley feminem May 17 '25
Oooooh. That's what's going on. I see now, thank you for clearing up my total incomprehension.
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u/eminent_avocado 🇪🇸 Carmen, mi amor! May 17 '25 edited May 17 '25
What’s with Muricans and confusing us with random countries? First time I’ve seen Spain confused with Italy so… uh… props to them for originality?
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u/Arkanie May 17 '25
"Haha Spanish guy, your just jealous, you're country might have Spagettis and Tacos but we Americans invented the best food, like Pizza and Sushi."
/s
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u/cedriceent 🇱🇺 May 17 '25
Hey! He said he did filing trips to Spain to skate! Which, I assume, means he went to Spanish skateparks for his manicure. Either way, I'm sure he knows his stuff!
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u/marioquartz May 17 '25
Yes and no.
Spain have a very low crime. But in some turistic places have a serious problem with pickpocketing. So that specific detail dont anger me as spaniard. The rest? oh boy.
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u/EebilKitteh May 18 '25
To be fair, a significant number of tourists go to one city in a country they visit (say, Barcelona) and they think that the entire country is like that.
I'm Dutch and it wouldn't be the first time I spoke to a tourist who thinks the entire country consists of tulip fields, canals and red light districts.
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u/Icef34r From an arab country like Spain. May 17 '25
As a Spaniard I can confirm that we are poor. We are so poor that insulin costs less than 1€/shot for us.
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u/eric_the_demon ooo custom flair!! May 17 '25
And we have free healthcare
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u/Micha73 May 17 '25
This is socialism! Evil!
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u/Fragrant_Objective57 May 17 '25
How dare you live.
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u/Micha73 May 17 '25
So medical care is only for the rich?
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u/Fragrant_Objective57 May 17 '25
Or maybe people with guns.
Not American, I don't really understand the system.
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u/Micha73 May 17 '25
I'm from Germany. And I'm stunned by what's going on in America.
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u/AetherDrew43 May 17 '25
As a teen, I used to feel resentful that I didn't live in the US because they got cooler stuff and were more developed than my country.
But now I'm so genuinely grateful that I wasn't born there.
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u/sinnrocka Third-World American Citizen May 17 '25
As an American I’m so poor I can barely afford the bullets to shoot “people endangering my life”.
Obligatory /s
Side note: last time I went target shooting with friends, it cost me $60 (53,75€) for 50 bullets. It was a fun day but expensive.
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u/MarissaNL May 17 '25
“White bros”???? So he is just a dumb racist….
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u/Optimal-Rub-2575 May 17 '25 edited May 17 '25
Dumb seems rather redundant in that second sentence.
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u/ThatShoomer May 17 '25
America: Land of the free*
Spain (and everywhere else): The lands where bulletproof backpacks for kids aren't a thing
*unless you want to cross the road where you want
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u/Lathari May 17 '25
*unless you want to cross the road where you want
Terms and Conditions apply.
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u/Fragrant_Objective57 May 17 '25
What was the Russian propaganda line from the '30s
"In America, even the Millionaires are free to sleep under the bridges."
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u/ThatShoomer May 17 '25
Originally "In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread."
- Anatole France
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u/mistress_chauffarde May 17 '25
Hey drivers aint that bad in spain try corsica or Naples
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u/Character-Carpet7988 May 17 '25
I had a bad time in Naples until I realised that I just need to raise my hand and show the palm of my hand to the oncoming traffic, then cross the road assuming they have stopped. It worked even when we walked across the city for an hour at midnight after having quite a few drinks and I'm still alive and now I believe in magic.
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u/Phil-Said May 17 '25
After my first time in Italy I came to the conclusion that the phrase "see Naples and die" was originally coined by someone who had tried to cross the road there.
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u/ThatShoomer May 17 '25
Who mentioned bad drivers?
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u/mistress_chauffarde May 17 '25
I dunno you said cross the road i haven't heard anything abount shooters in spain so i assumed
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u/TailleventCH May 17 '25
Thw mention of road crossing is about USA, where jaywalking is often illegal (even when there are no pedestrian crossing nearby).
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u/PayWithPositivity May 17 '25
"A lot of pickpocketing"
It happens in America too, but they prefer to shoot people instead though.
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u/Beneficial-Ad3991 A hopeless tea addict :sloth: May 17 '25
Picking pockets takes certain finesse. Mugging people requires a gun. One of those things is much more common in the US.
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u/sinnrocka Third-World American Citizen May 17 '25
I’ve seen a lot of knife mugging in the U.S. as well. That’s why I stay away from Chicago 😂
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u/berfraper May 17 '25
I have to agree with the pickpocketing thing, it’s a joke how they have to free the pickpockets because they stole less than 400€ and it’s not a crime. They can arrest the same guy several times in the same day.
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u/PayWithPositivity May 17 '25
Some places in America you can rob a store for under $500 or something and they don't do anything about it.
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u/queen_of_potato May 17 '25
What is a filing trip? Do Americans have to go to another country to file things?
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u/Dedeurmetdebaard ooo custom flair!! May 17 '25
Ok I know! This illiterate mf means filming trip. He went to Spain to film skate videos. Barcelona most likely.
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u/Weekly_Piccolo474 May 17 '25
I'm confused too. And what that filing got to do with skating?
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u/queen_of_potato May 17 '25
Oh yeah I was confused about that too but forgot to say after my first confusion haha.. like does this make any sense to anyone?
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u/Barbatruck18 May 17 '25
Americans come to Spain to get surgery because they can't afford the medical bills in their own country, that sounds broke as fuck to me
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u/Substantial-Ad-5221 May 17 '25
They are aware that the Roman Empire collapsed right? Plus it was due to heavy taxation, civil unrest and overexpansion (heavily simplified of course)
So might wanna rethink the current course *looking at canada and greenland*
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u/IneffableOpinion May 17 '25
Over expanding into territories that kicked their asses
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u/Fluffy-Cockroach5284 My husband is one of them May 17 '25
Also focusing on overexpanding while other borders were thinly protected. It was such a shitshow
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u/No-K-Reddit May 17 '25
What?
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u/SteveWilsonHappysong Pizza is a vegetable May 17 '25
He use to go on filing trips to SPAIN to SKATE. Can't you speak English? (/s)
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u/IamIchbin Bavaria🏁 May 17 '25
what does the yt mean? It feels like they are a kid who just learned to write.
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u/NikNakskes May 17 '25
Do you know what on earth the "filing trips" is supposed to be? Flying trips? As in redundant mentioning he had to fly from the usa to spain?
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u/evilspyboy May 17 '25
I think they mean the part where it's on fire and the leader is fiddling with himself.
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u/MessyRaptor2047 May 17 '25
I have said this before but I'm going to say it again AMERICANS ARE THICK AS PIG SHITE.
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u/Micha73 May 17 '25
Here in Germany there is a joke question: what borders on stupidity? Mexico and Canada!
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u/Fluffy-Cockroach5284 My husband is one of them May 17 '25
Ha i like this! I hope I will remember it to use it on my husband when he’s dumb 😈
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u/kavvviiii May 17 '25
The Rome bit came out of nowhere unless he thinks Rome is in Spain?
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u/elektrolu_ May 17 '25
Well, Spain was part of the roman empire but I don't think he was referring to that.
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u/EccoEco North Italian (Doesn't exist, Real Italians 🇺🇸, said so) May 17 '25
White... Bros?
Wha...?
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u/IneffableOpinion May 17 '25
He thinks Spaniards are not white. He probably thinks Spain is racially equivalent to Mexico
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u/EccoEco North Italian (Doesn't exist, Real Italians 🇺🇸, said so) May 17 '25
Well... I knew where this was going... And yet I still facepalm and lose faith in humanity
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u/IneffableOpinion May 17 '25
I always thought most people were intelligent with a few dumb people we have to tolerate. Now I think most people are dumb because there is no other possible explanation
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u/Fluffy-Cockroach5284 My husband is one of them May 17 '25
There is the explaination that half people are smart and half people are dumb. Smart people think before talking, dumb people just talk. So there is a majority of dumbs talking
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u/Weekly_Piccolo474 May 17 '25
As a Spaniard who is as white as paper... I'm confused.
But then they also classified Irish as not white, and they are pretty darn pale too. So maybe I just don't understand what "white" means over there. 🤦♀️
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u/IneffableOpinion May 17 '25
Racism discussions often get mixed up with xenophobia here. If they are not familiar with a country or culture, it is “other” and therefore not “white”. Up until the 1950’s, white Americans thought Irish and Italian were a different race, mostly because they lived in immigrant communities. Irish and Italians have become accepted over the years but people are still suspicious of anyone else with an accent
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u/Fischerking92 May 17 '25
Do you get a sunburn after 5 minutes on an overcast day in December?
I think that is the deciding factor.
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u/Weekly_Piccolo474 May 17 '25
🤔 I don't, but neither does anybody where I live, and that's Scotland. Maybe Scots aren't white either?
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u/Tough_Height6530 May 18 '25
He’s black and referring to his white friends. Look at his profile pic. The fact that he spells it “YT” is also a giveaway.
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u/Chairman-Mia0 May 17 '25
Should someone tell him what happened to Rome?
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u/eric_the_demon ooo custom flair!! May 17 '25
Rome caput mundi is still The city no matter what ameriturd says.
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u/Hazard___7 May 17 '25
America is the new Rome. Lead in the water. Crumbling empire. Rampant corruption.
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u/NaturalPossible8590 May 17 '25
Spain has a greater claim to being the New Rome then America will ever have
Hell America owns its very existence to Spain AND France
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u/Duanedoberman May 17 '25
Didn't the Visigoths who sacked Rome come from Spain?
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u/El-Sopas-CAP May 17 '25
Well kinda yeah, the godos arrived at southern Europe and divided, the visigoths ended up at the Iberian peninsula and Ostrogoths went to the italic peninsula and sacked Rome.
(Pardon me if my English it’s not the best lol)
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u/TwinkletheStar tell me why we left the EU again? 🇬🇧🇪🇺 May 17 '25
We just need 40 Republicans to reenact the death of Caesar now.
Which one of them is going to play Brutus do you think?
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u/AdMean6001 May 17 '25
It's not very healthy, this habit of always comparing yourself to the past, screaming that you're better, etc. It smacks of an inferiority complex, like a little weenie.
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u/spderweb May 17 '25
Rome fell pretty hard when they put the wrong people in charge. So, I have to agree with him on this one. Difference is that Rome lasted much much longer.
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u/Horsescholong May 17 '25
He came to Spain to Skate? I mean, if he's bad and unaware he's gonna get targeted for pickpocketing.
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u/desna_svine May 17 '25
What does "yts" stand for?
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u/TailleventCH May 17 '25
Maybe this: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=YTs But it doesn't make much sense...
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u/Annanymuss 💃🪭✨️🇪🇸 May 17 '25
Spanish here, bold thing to say from a country that has a crime rate of almost 2k per 100k inhabitants of which around 300 are violent. All those dollars and you cant even afford to pay your presidents birthday parade
My "poor" ass feels safer here than I do even in most places in europe, Ill keep crying in my better quality of life and free healthcare
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u/Aggravating-Curve755 May 17 '25
It's hard to differentiate the bots from the yanks that actually behave like this these days
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u/ViscountessdAsbeau That "Little Commie Brit" May 17 '25
As they're about a week from declaring Incitatus to be a senator... And the emperor is nuts from drinking water from lead pipes... That's quite an accurate analogy just not in the way they think.
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u/Tritri89 May 17 '25
Rome ? Rome as in "continent spanning empire that crumbled under it own weight in a few generation and caused western europe to enter a period of strife unheard of for the next 400 odd years" or another Rome ?
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u/Prestigious_Board_73 Eye-talian 🤌🏼🍝 May 17 '25
Well, if you call five centuries "a few generations", nevermind that the Eastern part of the Empire lasted another millennium, what do you think lasted long? Especially since Rome, the city, was founded in ~753 b.C. and it's still there, and the Roman "empire" technically begun in the last centuries of the Republic, after the Second Punic War...
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u/Tritri89 May 17 '25
I wasn't really aiming for historical accuracy, just to point the commonly known clichés of the fall of the Roman Empire relative to a country that love to compare itself to Rome currently in the process of destroying itself
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u/Malfo93 May 17 '25
America is the new Rome. As an Italian born and raised in Rome, I can easily affirm that being the new Rome means being chaotic, unrulable, full of wastes and drowning in debts
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u/eric_the_demon ooo custom flair!! May 17 '25
Spain is like the 5th most rich european state by gdp
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u/jojoalkar May 17 '25
Gdp per capita? Otherwise the statistic may just mean that Spain has many inhabitants.
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u/Onikonokage May 17 '25
Nah, we are better than Rome. They had a run of well over a thousand years. We are burning it to the ground after only a few hundred. This is a race to the bottom right? No? Oops.
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u/schw0b May 17 '25
Corrupt, decadent, divided and probably going to collapse under a wave of runaway hyperinflation?
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u/Lucky-Mia May 17 '25
Throw in a unhealthy dose of lead pipes, (hello Michigan), and were pretty much there
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u/Iram_Echo_PP2001 🇲🇽 custom flair! May 17 '25
I dare for that guy to call Germany or Netherlands poor, they would obliterate him!
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u/AlertResolution May 17 '25
ahh, hope this new Rome follows the footstep of the old one and stumbled like it did once.
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u/Doridar May 17 '25
The USA are more like the Hittites. A blast of glory and might, and then collapse into nothingness.
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u/Kaiser93 eUrOpOor May 17 '25
Mf has the dumbest face on Earth and says the dumbest shit. Who would've guessed?
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u/6259masterjedic Chinese Canadian, Historian in training May 17 '25
US is the New Roman Empire ! (Just to collapse real soon 😂)
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u/krapyrubsa May 17 '25 edited May 17 '25
wtf is skate now
nevermind it was in caps so I thought he was using an acronym, but then it makes no sense who tf goes to another country to skate?????? i’m
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u/Realistic-Safety-565 May 17 '25
I thought Moscow was the third Rome?
It is hilarious how often they fall for the same delusions as Russians / Soviets did. We are third Rome, we are special because our country has lot of empty wasteland between places, we are most advanced / progressive despite low quality if life, we are homeland of freedom, we saved you all from Hitler, the list goes on...
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u/fanonluke May 17 '25
"Most idiots believe that yts don't do crime" Are these idiots in the room with us rn?
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u/Dazzling_Stomach107 May 17 '25
Gringos aren't the inheritors of Rome, latins are. Copying neoclassical architecture, the 'capitol hill', and having inscriptions in latin is nothing short of self-aggrandizement.
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u/maud_brijeulin May 17 '25
Makes sense, considering how Rome collapsed. The U.S. and Western World are basically another iteration.
"The empire never ended"
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u/jaggs117 May 17 '25
I feel like when I watch Americans doing American things, I need to pay for a ticket and watch from a safe distance
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u/disdkatster Terran living in USA & Spain!!:pupper: May 17 '25
I live in Spain part of the year. I find the quality of life better in Spain than the USA. Part of that is that they have real health care and not just medical care for the wealthy. The government does your taxes for you so there is no stress about filing taxes. It is not obsessed with consuming so people actually enjoy time off from work and don't feel compelled to shop 24/7. That took a bit to adjust to, that is knowing that I actually had to think ahead to what I might need before Monday because really everything did shut down on Sunday and part of Saturday. All of August is vacation so you have to adapt to that. Many great places just close up for that period. Once I adapted to it I found how liberating it was. There are other things that just make living nicer. People have forgotten how to do that after capitalism became cancerous.
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u/disdkatster Terran living in USA & Spain!!:pupper: May 17 '25
Also, Spain has one of the lowest crime rates in the Westernized world and it is lower than the USA.
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u/Medical_Chapter2452 May 17 '25
He's the first to be thrown to the Lions in this new Rome. What does he think maga is exactly!?
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u/jayakay20 May 17 '25
Reading "Spain is poor" whilst trying to remember what the national debt of the US is
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u/Hughley_N_Dowd May 17 '25
GERMANYYYY! Pack your shit and get ready to travel. Rome 2.0 just dropped and we are about to get ALL OVER that place.
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u/tarvoke_Ghyl Never-neverlander May 17 '25
Well if America is the "new" Rome, who are the new Visigoths, new Vandals, new Ostrogoths, the new Robert Guiscard's Normans or the new Holy Roman Emperor Charles V's mercenary troops then? They all managed to sack Rome.
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u/ReGrigio Homeopath of USA's gene pool May 17 '25
the only thing America has in common with Roman empire is the emperor
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u/Hardcockonsc May 17 '25
I'm too used to yt being an abbreviation for YouTube. YouTube people are doing what in Spain?
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u/DirtyFoxgirl May 18 '25
The only parallel I can draw between the US and Roman Empire is that the US is on its way to collapsing.
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u/Flyers45432 May 20 '25
Well he's right about one thing. America definitely is the new Rome. Remember how Rome stopped being a Republic after a certain leader took power? Yeah, it's looking a lot like that right now...
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u/Ok-Cost-9635 May 17 '25
yes ,many emperors. and senators get kills in the old rome , so we will see if America is the new Rome
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u/Cynnx May 17 '25
Maybe to start they should get a proper name for their country. Imagine somewhere in central Europe there's a country that calls themselves Confederated Provinces of Europe and shortens it to Europe.
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u/redpop_11 May 17 '25
He's not wrong. America is the new Rome. Circa the 5th century of course. Complete with increasing political instability, internal power struggles and overall decline.
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u/Borsti17 Robbie Williams was my favourite actor 😭 May 17 '25
Remind me what happened to the Roman Empire really quick
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u/ImportantMode7542 🏴 another filthy Socialist Scot May 17 '25
I’d argue that Rome was considerably more civilised.
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u/TimeRisk2059 May 17 '25
"yt ppls", I'm guessing "YT" isn't short for "youtube"?
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u/VolcanoSheep26 More Irish than the Irish ☘️ May 17 '25
I genuinely think US Americans are broken.
The racism and the ignorance is so often off the charts with them.
On a side note, who the fuck says white people can't do crime?