• bedwyr@piefed.ca
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      Nero was libeled by the christians after the fact. You feed a few of them to lions and they never shut up about it. But that was the custom then.

      Rome had a lot of monsters as emporers, Nero didn’t even rank.

      IE caricalla, and that was before shit got really bad.

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uk
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      I cannot think of any head of state who has a worse track record in terms of statecraft, vision, inspiration, or even pure accomplishment. Even if you flatten your moral judgment and only look to how skillfully even the evilest men in history achieved their aims, he’s plainly a negative outlier. His only signal achievement is in uniting the sentiment of the entire planet against the US.

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        He is not a negative outlier. He is another step in the downward trend both Democrats and Republicans have continued for years.

        Biden was much worse than Trump in destroying international law in Gaza. If Trump did that all hell would have broken loose.

      • 🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸@sh.itjust.works
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        17 hours ago

        He’s been a really good promotor of energy independence with renewable power and sales of electric cars have never been higher.

        But the rest, the dude has the mierdas touch. Everything he touches turned to shit.

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          Oooh I like that a lot. “trump applied his mierdas touch again today, announcing he will annex the Falklands”