Still long on Rome. These aren't losses until I sell!
this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2026
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Selling those rome stocks would bankrupt you at this point.
This dude is gonna shit when he finds out about the visigoths
Rome must have been an extremely fragile empire if mere Vandalism caused it to collapse.
what do you mean, property damage is the highest form of damage!
This fella finding out that the second most common surname in Spain is Rodríguez (from Germanic Roderick)
The Roman Empire, famously still around.
is the pope nothing to you? and finland?
Pretty sure there was a point in history when betting against the Roman Empire was a solid investment idk I'm not a historian
which one?
the unified roman empire lasted till 395 AD, the western either till 476 or 480, depending on your views regarding iulius nepos and the eastern till 1453.
later on, several powers claimed to be the successors of either the western or eastern ones including, but not limited to, the carolingians (800-887) and the hre (962-1806) in the west and the russians (1453 to 1917) and ottomans (1453 to 1922) in the east.
depending on your views regarding iulius nepos and the eastern till 1453.
If you don't count all the times it fell apart before coming back as an end, there wasn't much of Eastern Rome left when the crusaders took the Latin empire and Nicaea (just saying it's a continuation doesn't mean it is imo)
i mean, this is pretty much true for the west as well. towards the end, the western emperors wielded negligible controll over their de jure posessions and odoacers coup brought little qualitative change for the population, regnum italiae or not. and charlemagne three centuries later and his successors were essentially just larping, lets be honest.
besides, all this continuation and succession nonsense was really just propaganda and intellectual masturbation by the various ruling classes trying to justify their rule.
which one?
the 31.december 406
Sounds like there were actually a few good times to buy shorts then 
I'm going to put myself in a leveraged position and place a short on Constantinople in 1453
The sun never sets on the ~~Roman~~ ~~British~~ American empire!
Some people are saying it's a Thousand Year Reich, but I think they're wrong because that's betting America will only last 1000 years 
Nately could scarcely believe his ears. He had never heard such shocking blasphemies before, and he wondered with instinctive logic why the why G-men did not appear to lock the traitorous old man up. “America is not going to be destroyed!” he shouted passionately.
“Never?” prodded the old man softly.
“Well…” Nately faltered.
The old man laughed indulgently, holding in check a deeper, more explosive delight. His goading remained gentle. “Rome was destroyed, Greece was destroyed, Persia was destroyed, Spain was destroyed. All great countries are destroyed. Why not yours? How much longer do you really think your own country will last? Forever? Keep in mind that the earth itself is destined to be destroyed by the sun in twenty-five million years or so."
Nately squirmed uncomfortably. “Well, forever is a long time, I guess.”
“A million years?” persisted the old man with keen, sadistic zest. “A half million? The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength and prosperity, with its fighting man that is second to none, and with its standard of living that is the highest in the world, will last as long as the… frog?”
(Catch-22)
"And the romans,where are they now?"
: ""You're looking at them, asshole." 
Real talk has the US ever won a war? Pretty sure after like Mexico we have never really won a war.
We have won against like, Guatemala, but we literally already had military bases in the country.
Yeah, I don't think that is properly a war
There was that time they fought themselves so does that just come out as a wash or is it a win and a loss
There was the war against Japan
Dunno, Emperor still in power and Japanese nationalists still going strong...
emperor naruhito doesn't own anything in Japan other than unwarranted media attention. Nationalists are a feature, not a bug. They're Japan's version of operation gladio.
Japan is owned currently by a consortium of Sony, yakuza real estate, and America.
Did we actually win that one. How much work did China put in? Like, you know how the USSR mostly beat germany and we tagged along?
The Roman Empire which very famously collapsed
Odoacer: “Challenge accepted”
Same people who want 99.9999% of the human population dead because “da bibble sez so” btw.
And what does the Roman Empire have to say about this?
Rome?
Any comments?
o_O
you're lookin at em
Somebody get the ghost of Nixon to haunt this clown until he remembers the USA lost in Vietnam
The comparison between betting against the US and betting against the Roman Empire ends up surprisingly apt because they grossly miscounted by about the same amount on both sides of the equals sign.