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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Napoleon

And context matters as some portion of the world knew another as Alexander the Terrible.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

These are the kinds of questions that should give you pause about what kind of times we’re living in.

[–] dinren@discuss.online 0 points 1 week ago

What kind of times we have always been living in, and how the ruling class tricked us for a couple hundred years into thinking we have any control.

[–] anachrohack@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I vaguely recall a US founding father referring to the political situation with the British Empire as "Caesarism", so perhaps Julius Caesar?