• Salamendacious@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I didn’t say that we should judge him by the standards of his time. I did say that he did terrible things.

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      1 year ago

      I think the point is that even by the standards of his time, he was horrible. And that was an era where a common legal execution method was strapping you to a wagon wheel and beating you to death over the course of an hour. He was horrible compared even to that.