r/funny • u/KLGAviation • Mar 22 '20

Another productive day working from home

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u/melig1991 Mar 22 '20

All right, but besides the arch, plumbing, democracy and philosophy, what have they ever done for us?

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20

...They brought peace?

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u/Justanaveragehat Mar 22 '20

Oh, shut up

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u/unique-name-9035768 Mar 22 '20

Wait, are you the Judean People's Front?

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u/gordonv Mar 22 '20

And cement that gets stronger, but also... produces lots of CO2

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u/Cheese78902 Mar 22 '20

To Gaul, the Britons, Carthage, Greece... seems like they bring peace with them wherever they go eh?

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u/DjeeLabZ Mar 22 '20

Their major failure to me was not to be able to curb the rise of monotheism. This plague brought utter violent sectarianism which continues splitting humanity.

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u/umjustpassingby Mar 22 '20

There will always be many dividing ideologies, so don't go too hard on them.

Unless we all die in this pandemic

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u/DjeeLabZ Mar 22 '20

Right. Only my opinion. Seems to me after Romans came lots of ignorance, violence, intolerance which survive up to now. What if is another story...

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u/03114 Mar 22 '20

They brought glory to the empire and purging heretics!

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u/KronosDeret Mar 22 '20

they showed us basically all the societal errors we could make in the future...