Or, like, outright say that people would be happier and healthier growing up on Mandalore on self-sufficient farms than in the wretched hives of Coruscant
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Man you would really hate it, it was straight up blood and soil shit She decided the stuff about Mandos being raiders and predators was propaganda and that their way of life was every man having a self-sufficient homestead that he was prepared to defend by force himself
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
TBH that sounds less Jeffersonian US and more Viking Era Iceland.
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Replying to @bazzalisk @arthur_affect and
She claimed she modeled them off the Picts but honestly we don't know much about the Picts.
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Replying to @nivenus @arthur_affect and
Yeah, we definitely don’t know enough about the Picts to model anything off.
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Replying to @bazzalisk @nivenus and
It's a bunch of propaganda about the Celts that honestly is fash-adjacent (Robert Howard was into similar ideas)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bazzalisk and
She I think openly said she was inspired by people's accounts of Gaelic barbarians living in freedom and harmony with nature in contrast to the decadent, bureaucratic, slaveowning Romans
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nivenus and
I guess the picts might have been Gaelic, and they might have been anti-slavery. We have no way of knowing really.
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Replying to @bazzalisk @nivenus and
It's really her obsession with them being the opposite of Rome, which she viewed as everything bad about smug big city elitist civilization Like I said, fashy as hell
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bazzalisk and
Conservatives really can't make up their mind about the Romans.
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What have they ever done for us
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bazzalisk and
The funny thing is that skit really does kind of capture the complex legacy of any really successful empire. They *do* build things and create lasting infrastructure, leaving a legacy successive generations benefit from. But they do so by crushing indigenous cultures beneath.
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Replying to @nivenus @arthur_affect and
I mean that's how successful empires generally stay successful. The butchers are a liability, they only ever perpetuate themselves by the efforts of conciliatory magistrates.
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