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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

There is definitely a similarity!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Sure, we could say this version of the “Roman” empire was like that

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Believe you me, you are not alone.

Then there's what some guy wrote and the quote became famous, I paraphrase - "The Holy Roman Empire is none of the above", or maybe it was "The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, Roman, nor an Empire".

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

It was Voltaire: "The HRE is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire"

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I think in 1190 it was still all of those things though

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

… talk amongst yourselves

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

and Voltaire was wrong. It was "Holy" as in the pope had no authority over it, as it is "Holy" already. "Roman" as it larps to be Roman from time to time and "Empire", because it was an actual Empire.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

*notices the Bohemian Lion

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If you want to assassinate a graphic designer by giving them a heart attack, aneurysm and an anaphylactic shock all at once.

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