apricops: the tendency for racists and white supremacists to go gaga over their idea of ancient Rome is so darkly hilarious because of how entirely wrong it is. It's not a twisting of some kernels of truth, it's not a misinterpretation, it's just the exact opposite, and people in Western Europe has been doing it for so long. For centuries people in Britain and Germany would be like/have been like "ah yes, we are special and superior because we are the heirs of the superior Romans" while next to a giant pile of writings by respected Ancient Romans who went "god, Britain is a dump and Germany is full of idiot barbarians. I wish I lived somewhere cool and cultured like Syria or Tunisia."
occultbookstores: Someone wrote once that Fascism is Roman bimbofication and that's been living in my head rent-free.
Here's some homework for you: https://piped.video/watch?v=sEjCNzGOe3Q
I don't think German people see themselves as Romans.
You should talk to the holy roman empire of german nations then
Also: Speak to all people on the west-side of the river rhine.
Maybe not nowadays, but you know how much the third reich tried to symbolically align themselves with the Roman Empire, right? To wit:
Emphasis mine. It’s deeper than that, but there was absolutely a conscious internal propaganda effort in Nazi Germany to represent their “new world order” as aligned with the Roman Empire in a racial, societal, and aesthetic sense.
I don't know about modern Germans, but the nazis definitely appropriated and identified with classical Roman and Greek culture (here's one well-regarded book exploring this).
Given that the original post is about fascism and racial supremacy, I assume any German fascists/supremacists it's referring to share some ideology with the nazis in this regard.