Since America is mimicking the fall of Rome it seems logical that we are gonna see even more extreme ufc style battle arenas. :pog-dolphin:
Since America is mimicking the fall of Rome it seems logical that we are gonna see even more extreme ufc style battle arenas. :pog-dolphin:
For the first paragraph you are pretty incorrect, while individual Gladiators did not fight often, once or twice a year, Gladiatorial battles took place for special events like the death of a someone from a powerful family, but when these events took place they often did end in the death of a Gladiator . Just watching a trained man execute someone isn’t exactly entertaining. They left the untrained dissidents/slaves to other, often more gruesome deaths.
Gladiators who survived more than 10 fights were heavily respected and got much of a following like WWE wrestlers today lol, but not because they were killing untrained people, because they were killing other trained killers.
Gladiators trained for almost a year or more before they would actually enter the arena.
Sorry for the info dump but most Gladiators were slaves selected for glad training except at the beginning when free men would volunteer , and slaves were not a hard commodity to come by and train in Rome.
Fair, and I suppose you could argue we're not quite to that point yet where 'to the death' is an assumed pretense. IE: we still have all the violence, death, and humiliation...but we still put a bit more veneer on it.
yeah I’m more talking about “here are two prisoners serving life sentences and they must might to the death with nothing but blunt objects for the possibility of parole” levels of dystopian ”satire”
Check out the Angola Prison Rodeo , which is one of the more dangerous rodeos as prisoners living on a former slave plantation compete for prizes such as... 50$ to see who can sit stationary the longest before being gored.
What the fuck, that is grim. And Louisiana is the worst slave state in the world. Wild fucking shit.
Angola Prison deserves to be entirely dismantled and wiped off the face of the earth, its such a stain. But my friend who did public defender work in Louisiana said while it is the most eyecatching, it isnt even really the worst conditions she saw during her time working in the state.
I believe the Louisiana State legislature has the highest proportion of former cops in their assembly. Saw an article outlining the connections before but I have had trouble finding it again. It's so bad that it's not even a lobby, their legislature is literally mostly filled by former LEO types.
With the barbarism already on full display already...I'm not sure I can quite appreciate how bad conditions will have to be for it to get to that point.