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starspangled ◴[] No.40219850[source]
The greatest thing about tight, upcoming elections is that governments actually start to do a tiny bit of what people want. Great result.
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p1esk ◴[] No.40219925[source]
Unfortunately different people often want different things.
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m463 ◴[] No.40220086[source]
Doesn't everyone want freedom, justice, fairness, etc.

(unfortunately everyone doesn't agree on the definition of these terms)

(also: "But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?")

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portaouflop ◴[] No.40220131[source]
Romans have enslaved our children, raped our wives, desecrated our holy places and burned our priests. They razed our villages, slaughtered our herds, and forced our young men into their military service.

So glad that they brought us civilisation!

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1. drekipus ◴[] No.40220424[source]
Obligatory

https://youtu.be/Qc7HmhrgTuQ?si=ZcQQorNm5px-XoY_

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2. m463 ◴[] No.40228776[source]
lol, that was what I was alluding to, but I seemed to have provoked a non-monty-python-humor reply.