Comment on Daily reminder that the good old days of the Empire weren't THAT good...

• PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  ngl, guy who brags about killing a million people and enslaving another million sounds like a piece of shit.

  If saying “I won over a large number of enemies” is all that it takes to count as a piece of shit, I have really bad news about the Gauls for You.

  Even if he’s lying, he still wanted to be seen as a genocidal oppressor of holocaustic scale.

  That’s not even close to the message, especially considering the rest of the Commentarii.

  Any society which would approve of such supposed actions is evil.

  … how do You think Gallic societies reacted to their leaders murdering and enslaving others?

  I stand with the barbarians.

  Of course. What’s a little human sacrifice and executing the slowest member of each tribe for ‘disloyalty’ between friends?

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  • MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What’s a little human sacrifice and executing the slowest member of each tribe for ‘disloyalty’ between friends?

    Is this stupidity-slow or velocity-slow? Whatever it is, does this act have a name or term?

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    • PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Velocity-slow. The stragglers from each tribe called to war were tortured or executed. I don’t think there’s a specific term for it, though I vaguely remember a few similar events in history.

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