"The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire."

"The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire."

What did Voltaire mean by this?

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He meant that the Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

the HRE was basically a loose confederation of german states that had beef with the pope in italy fro a number of reasons much like the democratic republic of north korea is none of those things except korean

>United
kek
>States
more like steaks
>of Ameriga
ignoring the other 90% of the continent.

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It is indeed a united confederation of states located in the Americas.

FEDERAL
TERRITORIES
LOCATED WITHIN AMERICA.

>united
>constant disputes between North vs South, East vs West, old vs new, rednecks vs hippies, CNN vs Fox crowd, Veeky Forums vs Reddit, Batman vs Superman
Nice try.

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by that metric no nation is truly united.

That is beside the point.
The question was if country names hold true to the truth.

Autism

Brazilian detected

>neither Holy
This goes without saying, since Voltaire doesn't believe anything is Holy
>Roman
By this Voltaire means it wasn't governed by Romans, even though it was called Roman by Rome
>nor Empire
By this Voltaire means there was a lot of infighting. Presumably he wouldn't consider Medieval kingdoms to be actually kingdoms, either

>Common
22 million/7 billion people on earth, extremely uncommon
>wealth
economy based on mining and housing bubbles, completely at the will of Chinese investors
>of Australia
Antarctica is further south

Triggered Americlaps who can't take an obvious joke detected.

>implying that being Brazilian is inherently bad
>implying that 90% of the people who think America is one continent aren't Brazilian

>People's
dictatorship of an elite caste
>Republic
more like full of pubbies
>of China
not porcelain at all

>America
>not one continent
Show me the single tectonic border in Mesoamerica that divides it into a north and southern part.
Oh wait there is none.
Or do you count the Caribbean as a seperate continent too?

is Afroeurasia a continent? If not, then America isn't

Commonwealth is completely different to common wealth. Makes no sense to split it up like that.

>Afroeurasia
>what is the Thetis fault line clearly deviding the two
Nice education pleb.

Jokes are completely over your head.
Makes no sense to split it up like that.

no one considers Africa part of Asia even though there isn't a single tectonic border that divides them, if the Arabian plate means that Africa is a separate continent, then the Nazca plate means the same for North and South America

and by Nazca plate, I mean Caribbean plate of course

>North and South America are separate continents
Bro do you even Panama Canal?

Disregard my autism, I think I actually agree with you

Saudi Arabia and everything under it does not count cause it sucks ass.

The Panama Canal is way above sea height m8.

>Empire
of
>Roman
>Holiness

Yee. Even if it was artificial it forms a divode between North and South America. I think they're deparate continents anyway. One isthmus doesn't mae one continent out of two.

Well, can you blame them? Look at their anthem lyrics:

"To the sound of the sea and under deep sky light
Thou flarest, O Brazil, crocket of America,
Illuminated by the sun of New World!"

It is a series of ship locks, not a real canal, which would still not qualify as an automatic divide.
Continents are arbitrary constructs unlike plate tectonics.

The state of Rhode Island is neither a state, a road, nor an island.

New York is neither new nor York.

The Indian subcontinent is not a giant chicken-sandwich.

Baghdad is neither a bag nor your dad.

Peking is not the world record holder in pissing.

Moscow is neither moss nor a cow.

Hungary is not starving all the time.

it wasn't a empire
it wasn't Roman
And it wasn't holy

Turkey is not a turkey.

America is not a merica. Whatever that fuck that is.

Chile is actually quite hot.

Amsterdam is neither a hamster or a dam

They don't give a dam about hamsters though.

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>republic

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>What did Voltaire mean by this?

He meant "I'm French, and thus every other people are garbage."

>There are people who think this applies of Byzantine despite fulfilling all three claims of its original name of Eastern Roman Empire

Dont interchange confederation and federation. America is the latter.