I understood the post you are replying to as saying "what will AfD voters do when their party is banned?".
In the case of the Nazis, we don't know because their party was never banned. We don't know what would have happened if the Nazi party had been banned.
I would be interested to know if we have historical cases of far-right parties that could have won the elections but were banned before they had the chance.
'Continuity' is a very vague and subjective concept.
I agree.
I mean, they used the title of Kayser-i-Rum to justify a claim to Italy and Western Europe as a whole, and went in big on Classical antiquity as legitimization for their dynasty for the first ~100 years after Istanbul was taken.
Sorry, I wasn't clear on a crucial point. There was continuity. While the other states that we call "successor states" were founded by foreigners who conquered or were granted parts of the Roman Empire and who adopted some elements of Roman culture, the "Byzantine Empire" was just a division of the Roman Empire that lived on after the barbarian invasions. That part had been speaking Greek since the beginning, and was already Christan by then, just like the Western half.
For the Eastern Roman Empire, there was no title to take, because they already had the Roman title. For the Turks, maybe, I'd like to know why you think so. I don't know enough. My initial assumption would be that they took it simply because they conquered the Romans, and their territory, and wanted to give their rule legitimacy before the Roman people.
Thanks for all of the memes and interesting contexts.
I have a few disagreements here.
Why do you consider the "Byzantine Empire" a successor state to the Roman Empire? My understanding is that what we nowadays call the "Byzantine Empire" was THE Roman Empire. We have just chosen to give the medieval Roman Empire a different name for convenience as it's territory, ambitions, realities, and culture differed much from that of the ancient Roman Empire. So in my view, the Byzantine Empire isn't a successor state to the Roman Empire, it's THE Roman Empire.
This is just subjective, but I don't perceive this as hollow. I think it's normal that terms and identities evolve with time, especially when speaking of centuries. People are not always thinking of the past, they didn't have Internet and most weren't spending time reading books about events that had happened centuries before. They were concerned, as of now, with the present, and Romans (of the Roman Empire, not inhabitants of the Roman city) in the Middle-Ages spoke Greek and were Christians. When the Turks conquered them, they effectively ruled the Romans, and as always, new rulers try to give themselves legitimacy (perhaps the only hollow part). And from the perspective of Turks, who as you say had never visited Rome and weren't concerned with it, the territory of the Romans should naturally be called.... Rum.
Patriarchy is not only cruel towards women, it's also dumb. It's like corruption. We're hurting ourselves, all of society, including men, by not giving the fitting positions and proper compensation and recognition to people who merit them.
Do you have a source concerning this innovation being made by Arabs? I was puzzled as to what Ethiopians were doing with coffee before, and I couldn't find any answer.
That makes a lot of sense. Until you consider that around Winter solstice, Christians don't celebrate the resurrection, yhey celebrate the birth. How do you explain that disconnect?
It's a gnome foot though.