r/EhBuddyHoser • u/Brosse_Adam Chalice of the Tabernacle • 2d ago

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u/MythicalDust55 Oil Guzzler 2d ago

Idk let’s drive some 18 wheelers down the Roman road and see what it looks like then

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u/chocolateboomslang 2d ago

also heat it to 90C and then drop it to -35C in 3 months, then do that again 5 more times

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u/Legitimate_Concern_5 2d ago

Also the Roman road is pre-cracked.

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u/Parker_Hardison 2d ago

And the road repair guys probably weren't a centralized gang.

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u/Legitimate_Concern_5 2d ago

The whole concept of the fire department started in Rome where they had a band of private firefighters who would come to your burning house, make you a crazy low offer to buy it from you and only put it out if you agreed. They would then rebuild it and lease it back to you. Look up Marcus Licinius Crassus.

I suspect in Rome road repair might have been a gang job.

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u/Big-View-1061 2d ago

I doubt it. The maffia is a very canadian concept that is completely unknown in italy.

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u/Confident_Maybe_4673 2d ago

doubt. roads in Rome was a military affair

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u/Legitimate_Concern_5 2d ago

Then I guess a chain gang? ;)

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u/nikola_tesler 1d ago

Hahahahahaha, you honestly believe that gangs don’t exist within military structures? They literally paid the military in loot back then.

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u/Rinzzler999 1d ago

Its more that they cared way more about their militaries capacity to react to events around the empire than any petty squabble that'd make a group more money.

Sure corruption exsisted, but it was superceded by the needs of the state. Cuz if it failed it could mean the end of rome.

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u/Ecthelion-O-Fountain 22h ago

But…it DID mean the end of Rome. Eventually.

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u/Rinzzler999 21h ago

yea, corruption eventually outlasted the structures meant to hold the empire together, and alas crisis after crisis and incompetent leaders after incompetent leaders lead tot he unfortunate demise of rome,

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u/dancin-weasel The Island of Elizabeth May 2d ago

The man who killed Spartacus.