ITT Mount Stupid

ITT Mount Stupid

>Did you know that the medieval Byzantine Empire was literally Ancient Rome? It's true! They called themselves "The Romans".

PAY DEBT

The fact that many say Byzantines were the continuation of ancient romans triggers me. Rome died on 476

I've never understood why people put such an emphasis on what people say.

i.e. China is communist because it says so; the US is capitalist because it says so, etc.

It's one big post hoc argument.

>The Founding Fathers smoked pot, why else would they grow hemp?

>Waaah our part of the empire fucked up so now you stop being Rome too!
"No!"

It stopped being Rome when gr*eks can't pay their debt

Incorrect

True Rome died with the Republic.

True Rome died with the grain dole*

HAVING REJECTED HIS LOVING CARDASSIAN WIFE


GUL DUKAT HAS COUPLED HIMSELF TO
THE KAI WINN ADAMI


PROMISING HER DOMINION OVER ALL THE ALPHA QUADRANT


HE WORSHIPS ALIENS AND WORMHOLES


HE DECORATES HIS EAR WITH JEWELRY LIKE A PROSTITUTE


HE PRACTICES THE DEATH CHANTS AND LIGHTS DURANJA LAMPS IN VILE BAJORAN RITES

Byzantium was simply the Hellenic world under Roman occupation. Once the Latin yoke was removed, it reverted to Hellenic form, retaining only the name of Rome.

>haha this political entity with administrative and cultural continuity is somehow a successor state of itself because the bit that neither contained the political nor economic core but the EPIC bit got taken over lmao

Perfect example of Mount Stupid.

>ayo it was totally a discrete identity because...
>wait for it...
>UR DUMB HAHAHA
>later losers off to play RTW2

"Dude why did the British stand in lines like retards during the revolution? Were they stupid or something?"

Rome died in 1918

What triggers me more is when Russians say they're the final offshoot of the Roman Empire

Oh? What happened to Moscow in 1918?

That bird is asking for some trouble.

After Justinian, the distinctive Roman way of organising the state fell away, and I'd argue the behaviours of the state and its construct matter more then what the people living there say they are.

>Russia
Umm, no sweety...

But Francis abdicated on the 6th of August 1806...

they were pretty stupid though thats why they lost that war to gorillas

>gorillas

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

>heh...you think American won WW2 but guess what...it was all the Russians doing
>here's a little fact that Napoleon and Hitler didn't know that I've come to understand...don't invade Russia in winter

People who say that politicians in America were somehow smarter in the past.

People who think the US is still as racist as it was during Jim Crow or say the war on drugs is as bad as Jim Crow in regards to institutional discrimination.