Best roman empire!!

[Tee Kay]

I'm still trying to figure out how nationalism can even function under such conditions.

Easy. It's a security blanket. Especially if a kind of "glorious history" can be recalled/found/invented.

 

[Masada]

There's a glorious 'Greek' history? I just associated it with the invention of buggery, lame nationalism and impending bankruptcy.

 

[Arakhor]

Apparently it's also a Fyromian conspiracy to make me to start a long and involved sentence and then end up writing a different sentence altogether and confusing everybody!

 

[Masada]

The Tuatha Dé Danann are really just Greeks who arrived on the Emerald Island before giving it the gift of Christianity - and Orthodox Christian (read: real) Civilization - in around 1900, causing England to split with that perfidious agent of the Anti-Christ the Pope, and form its own inferior (non-Orthodox) Christian sect. The obvious result of this was the 100 Years War which saw the English, and the French duelling over French Ireland - which was still Orthodox - and bowing and scraping to the Greek Empire to keep it from world conquest; which happened under Alexander the Greek in any case. Only the Persians invaded after Alexander died, in league with the Turks, and 300 happened which saved Greece. Anyways, the Irish were defeated, and the French infected them with Catholicism, a foul heresy they hold onto to this day - against the Protestant British who still covet Ireland and French. Greece meanwhile has lost its world empire, due to the evils of the Turks. But it's going to rise as soon as this whole... economic troubles are over when a strong leader comes to the helm and leads the Greeks to overthrow the Turkish menace, restoring the Greek Empire to its full glory.

 

[Virote_Considon]

Don't worry, the Plantagenets are just a Fyromian conspiracy to steal Greek culture..... Somehow.

Plantagenets
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Glenn Beck couldn't have proved the Fyromian conspiracy any better!

 

[Leoreth]

They're obviously there to plant a genetic link between Greeks and Fyromians.

 

[Domen]

The Holy Roman Empire was not a real empire.

It was a decentralized conglomerate of states through most of its history.

So I vote the Byzantines.

 

[Arakhor]

They're obviously there to plant a genetic link between Greeks and Fyromians.

Brilliant!

 

[W|M]

FYR Macedonia was the best Roman Empire!

 

[Veles]

The Tuatha Dé Danann are really just Greeks who arrived on the Emerald Island before giving it the gift of Christianity - and Orthodox Christian (read: real) Civilization - in around 1900, causing England to split with that perfidious agent of the Anti-Christ the Pope, and form its own inferior (non-Orthodox) Christian sect. The obvious result of this was the 100 Years War which saw the English, and the French duelling over French Ireland - which was still Orthodox - and bowing and scraping to the Greek Empire to keep it from world conquest; which happened under Alexander the Greek in any case. Only the Persians invaded after Alexander died, in league with the Turks, and 300 happened which saved Greece. Anyways, the Irish were defeated, and the French infected them with Catholicism, a foul heresy they hold onto to this day - against the Protestant British who still covet Ireland and French. Greece meanwhile has lost its world empire, due to the evils of the Turks. But it's going to rise as soon as this whole... economic troubles are over when a strong leader comes to the helm and leads the Greeks to overthrow the Turkish menace, restoring the Greek Empire to its full glory.

Seems legit.

 

[Phrossack]

Is it just me, or is it usually the countries with the least to brag about that are the most nationalistic?

 

[Dachs]

Is it just me, or is it usually the countries with the least to brag about that are the most nationalistic?

USA #1

 

[LightSpectra]

Is it just me, or is it usually the countries with the least to brag about that are the most nationalistic?

It's called overcompensation.

 

[Virote_Considon]

Is it just me, or is it usually the countries with the least to brag about that are the most nationalistic?

No. It's just that nationalists are more noticeable when they're from the countries with the least to brag about because there is so comparatively little to brag about.

 

[Lord Baal]

USA #1

I think you just made his point for him.

Virote_Considon is pretty close to correct there. The less a country has to actually brag about, the more likely it is that the nationalists in those countries are reduced to a few talking points, often having to outright make up outrageous bullcrap to pass their country off as important. The more limited the glories and more ridiculous the claims, the more obvious the bias.

 

[Omega124]

Of course, the best Rome is USA #1.

We have a corrupt senate, a glorified military, and kicked the butts of all of our eneimies Execpt for Vietnam... The only way America can be more like Rome is when one ex-president goes back from his conquest of Canada or Mexico, seizing Washington, and declaring an American Empire.

 

[Lord of Elves]

Of course, the best Rome is USA #1.

We have a corrupt senate, a glorified military, and kicked the butts of all of our eneimies Execpt for Vietnam... The only way America can be more like Rome is when one ex-president goes back from his conquest of Canada or Mexico, seizing Washington, and declaring an American Empire.

This thread has officially jumped the shark. Pack up, people, there's nothing to see here; someone just compared the United States to Rome.

 

[Omega124]

This thread has officially jumped the shark. Pack up, people, there's nothing to see here; someone just compared the United States to Rome.

You just made me snicker in front of other people, which rarely happens. Props to you.

Spoiler :

I hope you realize that the comparision was a joke, right?

 

[G-Max]

The 'Byzantine', properly the East Roman, Empire, was a direct successor of the original. The pope had nothing to do with it.

That, or I didn't understand what you meant.

I was referring to the HRE.

There's a glorious 'Greek' history?

Totally, dude! Didn't you see 300, Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut, or Disney's Hercules?

Of course, the best Rome is USA #1.

We have a corrupt senate, a glorified military, and kicked the butts of all of our eneimies Execpt for Vietnam....

Actually, we kicked Vietnam's butts, too. The problem was that we got tired of kicking their butts long before they could get tired of having their butts kicked, so we decided to spend our resources on something worthwhile instead: protecting the Moon from the Russkies. Note that the Moon remains a bulwark of freedom, democracy, and capitalism thanks to our brave efforts.

 

[Lord of Elves]

There's a glorious 'Greek' history?

Somewhere between quarreling city-states, oppression by the Turks, and crippling debt, a Fyromian managed to accidentally stumble into an empire. We remember this man as Alexander the Clumsy.