Rome 2,000 years ago vs India 2 minutes ago - /pol/ (#508695612) [Archived: 856 hours ago]

Anonymous ID: TZVYgwokUnited Kingdom
6/25/2025, 5:12:52 PM No.508695612
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Anonymous ID: miZ9c/bQCanada
6/25/2025, 5:25:44 PM No.508696631
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>>508695612 (OP)
please redeem while i touch myself in your window... i know you want me.
like jews they have an internal problem...
period
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Anonymous ID: mszQzd8cUnited States
6/25/2025, 5:34:52 PM No.508697348
>>508695612 (OP)
Irony is that Meloni signed a labor mobility agreement with India. More Indians will flood Italy like the barbarians did. RIP Rome.
Anonymous ID: 6tRBgvvoUnited States
6/25/2025, 5:40:55 PM No.508697783
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Anonymous ID: dnpwPodSUnited States
6/25/2025, 5:44:58 PM No.508698076
>>508695612 (OP)
There was so much shit and trash on the roads of ancient rome it probably looked the same if not worse than the bottom pic.
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Anonymous ID: x8IExlfMUnited States
6/25/2025, 5:46:23 PM No.508698174
>>508698076
shut up loser that's not true
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Anonymous ID: jHYhGcRRFinland
6/25/2025, 5:51:11 PM No.508698583
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Google maps India is actually fun, I sometimes do it when I'm really bored
Anonymous ID: 9Ly9JdKnUnited States
6/25/2025, 5:51:16 PM No.508698588
>>508695612 (OP)
Why do these comparisons always compare the richest, most picturesque part of ancient civilization to what is basically a ghetto in India?
How about we compare the Taj Mahal to a New York crackhouse.
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Anonymous ID: 2WYAYmeCUnited States
6/25/2025, 5:51:59 PM No.508698645
>>508695612 (OP)
Anyone get the feeling ancient Rome wasn't half as nice as the ones here glamourizing and romanticizing it like to portray it as?
Anonymous ID: TZVYgwokUnited Kingdom
6/25/2025, 5:52:25 PM No.508698673
>>508698076
>There was so much shit and trash on the roads of ancient rome it probably looked the same if not worse than the bottom pic.
Romans had municipal cleaning crews (called curatores viarum and aediles) tasked with maintaining roads and enforcing sanitation laws.
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Anonymous ID: dnpwPodSUnited States
6/25/2025, 5:59:59 PM No.508699236
>>508698174
>>508698673
Ancient writers like Juvenal literally write about the disgusting, filthy conditions of the streets. It's true that certain districts would have clean, paved, streets but just like in the OP photo the places where the masses actually lived did not have paved streets. People tossed pots of shit onto the street all day every day, hordes of pack animals wandered around shitting wherever they felt like it. If it rained the streets turned into muddy swamps and if it was dry then everything would be covered in dust and shit.
Furthermore the idea of a landfill or waste management did not exist. Rubbish literally collected in alleys until new buildings were physically built on top of the trash.
>source
Ancient writer Juvenal:
https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/11/10/juvenal-on-the-city-of-rome-late-1st-early-2nd-century-ce/
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Anonymous ID: oA1hB9ZrSerbia
6/25/2025, 6:02:00 PM No.508699409
>>508695612 (OP)

Bullshit, if that were true you would show a real photo, not AI
Anonymous ID: 4cTP7QEGUnited States
6/25/2025, 6:04:21 PM No.508699608
Here in Oregon we're getting more and more browns. I don't know where they're coming from but I didn't invite them. Anyway everything is getting worse. Housing prices have gone way up but all the infrastructure is getting older. The streets are starting to disintegrate and maintenance is falling way behind. There's trash along every road now. It's easy to see how it's going to look like India or worse in another couple decades.
Anonymous ID: vmCU6TztUnited States
6/25/2025, 6:05:41 PM No.508699709
>>508695612 (OP)
dumb comparison. a better comparison would be the pantheon vs taj mahal or something and roman insula vs indian slum
Anonymous ID: 1QBB36zwUnited States
6/25/2025, 6:10:13 PM No.508700091
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>>508698076
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Anonymous ID: dnpwPodSUnited States
6/25/2025, 6:11:06 PM No.508700166
>>508700091
very convincing argument. Maybe you don't know as much about the ancient world as you like to think you do idk
>>508699236
Anonymous ID: LxKm/pqgUnited States
6/25/2025, 6:13:18 PM No.508700329
>>508699236
It's fair to say Rome probably had "bad neighborhoods" but now show us a good neighborhood in India. I'll wait
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Anonymous ID: dnpwPodSUnited States
6/25/2025, 6:14:10 PM No.508700397
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>>508700329
Anonymous ID: 17CyFI6+Canada
6/25/2025, 6:16:38 PM No.508700605
>>508698588
India has garbage mountains taller than the taj mahal.
Anonymous ID: Z13d3jOvAustralia
6/25/2025, 6:18:00 PM No.508700729
>>508697783
>Both peak specimens
Nice
Anonymous ID: Z13d3jOvAustralia
6/25/2025, 6:19:13 PM No.508700825
>>508698076
Nope, nice cope tho ranjeesa
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Anonymous ID: dnpwPodSUnited States
6/25/2025, 6:20:33 PM No.508700942
>>508700825
try and make an argument instaed of just shaking your head in ignorant denial
reference >>508699236 btw because a real ancient roman describes the real filthy streets.
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Anonymous ID: pUuebujfUnited States
6/25/2025, 6:21:09 PM No.508700990
>>508695612 (OP)
Yeah but patriarchy and shiiieeet
Anonymous ID: 00yskWGRUnited States
6/25/2025, 6:26:59 PM No.508701485
>>508698588
Even crackhouses have indoor plumbing.
Anonymous ID: Z13d3jOvAustralia
6/25/2025, 6:30:49 PM No.508701825
>>508699236
Where does it say it's like India and covered in trash? he's talking about servants cleaning stuff, that's not like India at all
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Anonymous ID: Z13d3jOvAustralia
6/25/2025, 6:32:00 PM No.508701949
>>508700942
that is the argument patjesh
And you've been btfo'd here>>508698673
Anonymous ID: dnpwPodSUnited States
6/25/2025, 6:44:07 PM No.508703024
>>508701825
He says walking down the street his leg gets covered in shit
>My leg is covered in crud, from every side
He says there are constant "carts clattering" through the streets making "everyone sick" That means pack animals shitting everywhere
He says dead bodies are lying in the mud
>For stuck in the mud he has no coin in his mouth
This whole section speaks for itself
>Think now about all those other perils
>Of the night: how high it is to the roof up there
>From which a tile falls and smashes your brains;
>How many times broken, leaky jars
>Fall from windows; how hard they strike and break
>The pavement. You could be thought lazy and careless
>If you go to dinner without writing a will.
>There are as many deaths waiting for you
>As there are open windows above your head.
>Therefore you should hope and fervently pray
>That they only dump their sewage on you.
as for "curatores viarum" "aediles" I'm not arguing that the places where the rich lived were like this. The forum and the areas around the big temples and senate were certainly kept "clean" probably not to our standard but yeah nicer than the pic of India in the OP but the idea that a team of 4 Aediles could somehow keep a city of 1 million people clean is ridiculous. The "Curatores Viarum" were specifically put in charge of the VIA which were the highways of the ancient world, not the city streets and alleys where the people lived.
Again we have ancient sources saying the streets were disgusting. Any amount of logical deduction will lead you to the conclusion their streets were disgusting. Hell modern cities even 150 years ago were disgusting! You just refuse to accept the truth.
Anonymous ID: o+KX60pZFinland
6/25/2025, 6:59:57 PM No.508704388
>>508697783
basato
Anonymous ID: UZG+tC98United States
6/25/2025, 7:02:04 PM No.508704559
>>508698588
what you fail to mention is that 95% of india is "ghetto". Go visit. Take some pics for us.
google street maps doesn't lie.
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Anonymous ID: SxcqBsgdItaly
6/25/2025, 7:05:00 PM No.508704778
>>508699236
LMAO INCELS GOT FUCKING BTFOD BASED ANON
Anonymous ID: wNgAJbsM
6/25/2025, 7:28:54 PM No.508706748
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>>508695612 (OP)
>Rome 2,000 years ago vs London today
Anonymous ID: wNgAJbsM
6/25/2025, 7:33:15 PM No.508707144
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>>508698673
>Romans had municipal cleaning crews (called curatores viarum and aediles) tasked with maintaining roads and enforcing sanitation laws.

London had that too, until pakis took over
Anonymous ID: wNgAJbsM
6/25/2025, 7:35:04 PM No.508707293
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>>508700825
>>508704559
Anonymous ID: CUOV0yI0Latvia
6/25/2025, 7:42:33 PM No.508707945
>>508695612 (OP)
>>508696631
uk 1 minute ago