It does often seem to be correlated to reactionary conspiracy sentiments. There is the “non-white people could not have possibly stacked rocks this big!” thing

I guess also flat earth?

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    it’s never aimed at, say, Romans

    The swarthy Italians would never have had the intellectual base to produce the scutum, it must have been tower shield wielding aliens that brought them such technology!

    (really though, the idea that people aren’t constantly thinking about their environment and how to improve it is kind of insulting to the intelligence of all of humanity)

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      The version where it’s re-framed as the us highway system being made by aliens is my favorite "americans don’t have the technology to accomplish this! They barely understand how it works and can’t maintain it!

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      typical german whinging about the superior roman brainpan. you people up north are too cold blooded. people down south in africa are too warm blooded. only we romans are JUUUUUUST right. (this is what actual romans thought, IIRC)