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?