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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (26 children)

Always was curious what the deal with the alarming amount of Roman and military memes that pop up.

That shit is just such a bizarre fetish of some people.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Always was curious what the deal with the alarming amount of Roman and military memes that pop up.

    I mean, on here, it's... it's probably mostly me.

    ... I post a lot.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    So can you explain what’s with the anime girl roman memes with all the sexism and racism?

    I also don’t get the fetish that the people over in non credible defence have either. War, guns and killing glorified and memed. So bizarre.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    So can you explain what’s with the anime girl roman memes with all the sexism and racism?

    As I said below

    Mostly it’s just absurdist jokes and memes by a Filipino Romaboo with a terminal case of Horny.

    Centurii-chan is internet-overdosed, that's for damn sure, but unless "Being terminally horny" is sexism, I don't think I see it. As for racism, there are certainly some edgy jokes, and Centurii-chan doesn't always take racism as seriously as they should, but I don't think I've seen anything that's degrading towards PoC. Which, itself, would be a little weird, considering the artist is, themselves, most likely a PoC.

    I also don’t get the fetish that the people over in non credible defence have either. War, guns and killing glorified and memed. So bizarre.

    Many people in NCD, or at least the original (especially pre-Ukraine War) NCD, were vets or involved in the defense industry at some point in their lives. Some were bitter, some were cheerfully detached, but in both cases, humor over the absurdity of the military and fascination with military engineering were uniting features. Many of them were... bizarrely knowledgeable on military engineering and specs, both modern and historical. An attraction to those with a certain hyperfixation, one might say.

    Military engineering is impressive and militaries the world-round are likewise full of fascinating absurdities - interests I share with that original demographic, even though I have never been a part of the defense industry or in the military.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Centurii-chan is internet-overdosed, that's for damn sure, but unless "Being terminally horny" is sexism, I don't think I see it. As for racism, there are certainly some edgy jokes, and Centurii-chan doesn't always take racism as seriously as they should, but I don't think l've seen anything that's degrading towards PoC.

    Will have to heavily disagree with that one. Either someone is stealing the characters and making more hateful content because I have certainly seen ones that are absolutely disgusting. Genital mutilation, cannibalism, rape, racism, all put onto this perverse kink pedestal. Historically accurate or not it’s fucking nasty creating that kind of content.

    Military engineering is impressive and militaries the world-round are likewise full of fascinating absurdities - interests I share with that original demographic, even though I have never been a part of the defense industry or in the military.

    You know what other kind of engineering is impressive? Every other kind that doesn’t involve the military industrial complex and tools designed to kill the most people possible. Sowing machines, bridges, submarines, aqueducts, anything that doesn’t actively make the world a worse place.

    Hyper fixation or not some things are messed up to be so obsessed over.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    Genital mutilation, cannibalism, rape, racism, all put onto this perverse kink pedestal.

    Definitely not the Centurii-chan I've seen, and I follow their art. The worst of their's I've seen are some jokes about colonization that could be seen as in bad taste, and a joke about people using slurs when playing multiplayer games.

    Hyper fixation or not some things are messed up to be so obsessed over.

    Uh, okay.

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  • [–] [S] -2 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    I'd be cautious of any users participating in roman meme or military meme communities. It's a big red flag.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Dumb take.

    Fascists also breath air and drink water. Those red flags, too? A lot of people find rome interesting. You can see this across history - look at US government buildings. It's a roman aesthetic.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aestheticization_of_politics

    Tl;Dr Mussolini was obsessed with recreating a false, idealized past that in Italy's case was the Roman Empire. An obsession with Rome is a warning sign of fascist ideology because that's what actual fascism is obsessed with, as are basically all Western fascists because of Rome's historical relevance to basically all of Europe and the Mediterranean.

    It's just not a sure sign, simply because it is a fascinating topic with plenty to dissect on any point of view.

    If they're also removed and moaning about masculinity and heirarchy you've got a winner for sure though (a la your Jordan Peterson types)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Sure...the leader whose territory literally used to be Rome might also have the interest. Not remotely a telling sign, though.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Your ignorance is pretty goddamn laughable tbh

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (8 children)

    Fuck, I guess I'm glad I didn't follow the history memes to the new instance. I thought all the romaboo stiff was just nerds being silly.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It is. There's very little right presence on the fediverse still. And I don't think pug would humor them if they tried.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    On Lemmy at least I find the right are cowards who like to pretend to be liberals while they quietly dog whistle their takes.

    It's hard to tell how many there are, because they're not out in the open.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah the anime girl Roman memes are certainly the cherry on top the crazy cake. Some incredibly weird and hateful fetishes were in some of those.

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