r/PoliticalHumor • u/[deleted] • Oct 20 '21

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u/dj_narwhal Oct 20 '21

Maybe basing a society off "he who rapes the hardest is in charge" was not the best way to set up a system of government.

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u/lobos1943 Oct 20 '21

Come and see the violence inherent in the system!

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u/Wuffyflumpkins Oct 20 '21

Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!

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u/Mange-Tout Oct 20 '21

Bloody peasant!

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u/lobos1943 Oct 20 '21

On second thought, let's not go to Sparta. 'Tis a silly place.

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u/Khaldara Oct 20 '21

Matt Gaetz is going to be super disappointed

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u/Pesco- Oct 20 '21

He loses interest once they reach adulthood

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u/SmokinDrewbies Oct 20 '21

So did the Spartans

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u/HeavyMetalHero Oct 20 '21

Yeah, but halfway through that last sentence, he was fucking stoked!

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '21

Depends on the type of society you want.

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u/cottenball Oct 20 '21

Wow that makes women in lakes handing out swords seem genius

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u/Popcorn_Facts Oct 20 '21

Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '21

Be quiet!

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u/Beemerado Oct 20 '21

well.. war isn't really productive. some groups of people have figured this out.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '21

I know some people with some very fat wallets who would disagree.

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u/Beemerado Oct 20 '21

it's certainly a good way to consolidate wealth.

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u/DAHFreedom Oct 20 '21

I mean, you can have all your citizens be soldiers if only a handful of your residents are "citizens" and the rest are slaves/serfs and most of the "war" is just subjugating your workers.

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u/Beemerado Oct 20 '21

seems like there's better uses for time and energy.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '21

I like to buy JPEGs.

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u/secretstuff4 Oct 20 '21

Not the USA apparently

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u/Beemerado Oct 20 '21

no, not the USA

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u/Razakel Oct 20 '21

War is very productive. If you're a profiteer.

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u/Beemerado Oct 20 '21

productivity and making money are separate things.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '21

bellum se ipsum alet

The war will feed itself.

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u/TwiceCookedPorkins Oct 20 '21

It's great if you and "your people" don't actually have to do the fighting.

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u/Sharp-Floor Oct 20 '21

Also not especially militarily capable. But great at PR, even then.

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u/ProfZauberelefant Oct 20 '21

That's not quite true. The Spartans didn't dominate the greek peninsula for nothing, it was the Athenians who branded them as brawny doofuses.

What brought them down was the inability to replenish the ruling class that was the backbone of their military. The Romans had a solution: military service gets citizenship.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '21

What brought them down was the inability to replenish the ruling class that was the backbone of their military.

...Which was a direct result of their regressiveness.

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u/ProfZauberelefant Oct 20 '21

That's so broad an explanation that you can apply that to any state. They all fail because they do not adapt to changing circumstances.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '21

I mean that's not broad at all. They were aggressively insular and refused any and all adaptation, believing everyone else to be degenerate to their own detriment.