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Rough Roman Memes

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A place to meme about the glorious ROMAN EMPIRE (and Roman Republic, and Roman Kingdom)! Byzantines tolerated! The HRE is not.

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  1. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, bigotry, etc. The past may be bigoted, but we are not.

  2. Memes must be Rome-related, not just the title. It can be about Rome, or using Roman aesthetics, or both, but the meme itself needs to have Roman themes.

  3. Follow Lemmy.world rules.

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We can be friends until the Constantine lovers are beaten.

After that it gets difficult.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hey hey hey, you Eastern Roman Empire boys got no place here, this is Western Roman Empire territory!

[–] teft@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In that case does Charlemagne count?

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago

They're out by the sidebar alone.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

How can this be West Rome territory when it collapsed a thousand years before Best Rome?

[–] Jyrdano@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It was Aurelian and you all know it.

[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Diocletian for leaving to grow cabbages!!

[–] smol_beans@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Hadrian was better fight me

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

Catherine the Great 😈

[–] teft@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

My vote is for Gaius Caesar.

which Gaius Caesar?

Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's obviously Commodus, and anyone who disagrees can face me in the ~~coliseum~~ applebees

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We all know it is Caligula from the excellent film about him

[–] Tenthrow@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago
[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

That's very specific.

Ridiculous, it was clearly Vespasian

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

"why are those nerds fighting in the corner while screaming latin"

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago

Wow, wojak sure has seen better days.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

That's terrible advice, my heart is an impulsive idiot.