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[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago (24 children)

Is that a fasces on the wall?! What the actual fuck, America?

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago (14 children)
[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago (5 children)

That's so weird to me because I've only heard of fasces as a fascist symbol

[–] reaper_cushions@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fasces predate fascism by more than two millennia, both as weapons and as symbols.

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A Roman lictor's bundle of sticks is not realistically a weapon. It is a facsimile of a weapon, but you're better off with an actual stick. The axe heads were removed within the boundaries of Rome (Well, until Sulla), and weren't placed in a position where they were realistically used as a weapon. Etruscan fasces may have been weapons, but Roman ones were not.

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