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Vive la révolution! Vive l'Empereur!
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yeah, sometimes people judge historical figures by their enemies and Napoleon is one of those. He was a tyrant but a lot of people think he was great because he fought against monarchies. like, a despot is still bad even if they have worse enemies is kind of my point.
then we look at politics today and say "well they all bad" and fail to apply the same "critical" thinking about history.
Yep. One of my 'favorite' Napoleon moments is when he falsified the already-vastly-in-favor plebescite to make him Emperor to an even more ridiculously-in-favor degree for the sake of his own ego.
i love looking back at history and then saying "you know we've done this before. want to hear how it went?" in the middle of political discussions and getting dirty looks from EVERYONE.