Why do people like Caesar so much?

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Only the historically illiterate think France wasn't a force to be reckoned with for a very long time. There's a reason Franklin, Monroe, Adams etc all spoke French, it was the lingua franca, literally, of the day.

Anyway people like Caesar for the same reason they like Napoleon, Alexander or Hitler. Because they think, even if they aren't capable of such deeds themselves, they'd make a pretty good obergrupenfuhrer, or military tribune or whatever under such a man. People need direction to thrive and the wisest of us realize their own limitations
 
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He conquered the french and freed us from dry salad.

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Well it was not only France, but he also invaded Great Britian twice. Defeated Egyptians. And fought and won massive civil war. Conquered part of Spain. And his actions lead to end of Roman Republic and rise of Roman Empire.
 
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Brahma said:
Anyway people like Caesar for the same reason they like Napoleon, Alexander or Hitler. Because they think, even if they aren't capable of such deeds themselves, they'd make a pretty good obergrupenfuhrer, or military tribune or whatever under such a man.
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Except of course for zoomers who associate the name with tasty food and don't care to know anything about him beyond that.
 
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Brahma said:
Only the historically illiterate think France wasn't a force to be reckoned with for a very long time. There's a reason Franklin, Monroe, Adams etc all spoke French, it was the lingua franca, literally, of the day.
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The Norman Conquest of England is the reason the English speaking world uses words like beef and pork to mean cow and pig meat because the Frenchies had a thing for completely distancing the meat from the animal it came from. Then there's mutton (sheep) but not many people eat that anymore, and chicken and fish meat used to be referred to by Frenchie words as well but those have fallen out of favor because fuck consistency I guess...
 
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France was not France it was Gaul

It was not filled with French it was filled with Gauls and Celts and other Germ strains

French don't like being reminded that they're actually Germs
 
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He conquered France.
Like that's hard.
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it wasn't really france at the time, it was celtic and germanic peoples without an overarching identity.

also france was a formidable force throughout most of history, burger jokes about french surrender are a false narrative. french armies were among the best in europe all the way up to and including world war 1. the only time they ever really failed spectacularly was against hitlers wehrmacht, which was at the time the most formidable fighting force on the continent (arguably on the entire planet) similar to how napoleons grande armee was unmatched a hundred and fifty years earlier.
 
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Lone MacReady II said:
Now that I think on it, how many times have the frogs been conquered anyway? Seems like many tribes have done the ol' Paris military parade, even up to the current day with invading African belligerents committing massive amounts of rape and destruction.
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Fewer times than Germany, to be honest.

France hasn't lost any of its territory but Germany's been cut in half.
 
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