So, like the party that represents you, you are going to slow walk the issue rather than oppose it.Skans » 28 Sep 2023, 1:57 pm » wrote: ↑ I'm going to worry over this equally as much as I do Global Warming.
Okay, I googled it. I was way off - the Carolingian Empire was only a fraction the size of the Roman.Cannonpointer » 28 Sep 2023, 1:52 pm » wrote: ↑ Idunno what history book you got THAT tripe from. For starters, as to its beginnings, you seem to have conflated the Roman Republic with the Roman Empire. The Republic lasted until nigh on to Jesus' birth, when the Empire took off. The Empire lasted only five centuries, and was overrun by barbarians and supplanted by a multitude of governments. Charlemagne was likely the most successful of the various tyrants and kings to govern disparate parts of the previous empire. If memory serves me, at his zenith, Carolus Magnus brought under his dominion an even larger land mass than the Romans had managed to subjugate. But I could be way off in that. Not gonna google it because I don't care enough at the moment.
I get it. It is about civilizational collapse. Not a bad analogy for what's going on.
The Roman Empire, at it's height, was far more powerful and entrenched than the U.S. I think it would be wise to start worrying now. At our current rate of degradation, there is no way we will last until 3300. Unless we start ridding ourselves of undesirables.Skans » 28 Sep 2023, 9:24 am » wrote: ↑ The Roman Empire lasted from about 500 BC to 1200 AD - comparing the US to the Roman Empire, we have until about the year 3300 before we need to start worrying about our demise.
RebelGator » 28 Sep 2023, 1:27 pm » wrote: ↑ So....you're saying ancient Rome's aqueducts are analogous to modern America's ******

Punch » 28 Sep 2023, 2:16 pm » wrote: ↑ The Roman Empire, at it's height, was far more powerful and entrenched than the U.S. I think it would be wise to start worrying now. At our current rate of degradation, there is no way we will last until 3300. Unless we start ridding ourselves of undesirables.
Oh, F-ing whatever!
Rome, Italy. STILL THERE!It became an empire - its citizens, subjects. As did we.
When empires fail, one of two things happens:
1. The republic fails with it - witness Rome,
I knew I would make the list, even though you are assigning false opinions to me. You people are too teamed up. I vote on policy, not for a specific team.Vegas » 28 Sep 2023, 3:46 pm » wrote: ↑ I agree. We should start ridding ourselves of people like yourself who defend brainwashing children to transition and defend genital mutilations of 10 yr olds.
No. I'm going to worry about it as much as I do Global Warming. Unlike you, I don't "slow walk" - as I'm healthy and capable of fast walking, jogging, running and sprinting.Cannonpointer » 28 Sep 2023, 1:59 pm » wrote: ↑ So, like the party that represents you, you are going to slow walk the issue rather than oppose it.
Thanks for sharing.

Punch » 28 Sep 2023, 4:01 pm » wrote: ↑ I knew I would make the list, even though you are assigning false opinions to me. You people are too teamed up. I vote on policy, not for a specific team.
I plan on checking out long before 3300 years. Another 45 years aught to do it. You know what, AI will figure out a way for humans to have gills, so all those folks living in Miami and Baton Rouge can live in sea-condos by then.Punch » 28 Sep 2023, 2:16 pm » wrote: ↑ The Roman Empire, at it's height, was far more powerful and entrenched than the U.S. I think it would be wise to start worrying now. At our current rate of degradation, there is no way we will last until 3300. Unless we start ridding ourselves of undesirables.
Looks like fruitcake skans is slow walking it, just as I suspected.
Policy is the team agenda, you can't differentiate between them.Punch » 28 Sep 2023, 4:01 pm » wrote: ↑ I knew I would make the list, even though you are assigning false opinions to me. You people are too teamed up. I vote on policy, not for a specific team.
Vegas » 28 Sep 2023, 4:07 pm » wrote: ↑ I don't give a ****. If you support even an ounce of manipulating children to transition or chopping off body parts, then good riddance to you.
Well, that's too bad. We're assigning that position to you.
I just might have, but you are taking the steam out of my sails by being funny. Knock it the **** off.Cannonpointer » 28 Sep 2023, 5:16 pm » wrote: ↑ Well, that's too bad. We're assigning that position to you.
Now defend it, damn you.
I've got my queer shoulder to the wheel - Poet Alan Ginsberg (one of the undesirables, speaking ironically and subversively at some point in the fifties)Punch » 28 Sep 2023, 2:16 pm » wrote: ↑ The Roman Empire, at it's height, was far more powerful and entrenched than the U.S. I think it would be wise to start worrying now. At our current rate of degradation, there is no way we will last until 3300. Unless we start ridding ourselves of undesirables.
There was no nation of Italy before the American Civil War, son. The peninsula was just a collection of regional potentates, principalities and assorted tyrants.Skans » 28 Sep 2023, 1:14 pm » wrote: ↑ Just saying that when folks like to compare the US to the Roman Empire, we're still at the very beginning of that time line. Furthermore, the Roman Empire lives on in the nation of Italy.
Except the U.S.
