• stringere
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    4 hours ago

    Consolidating purple was a laudable goal in and of itself, though.

    • j4k3@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      It destroyed a democracy and lead to terrible civil war and eventually feudalism where most of the population were serfs – aka slaves in all but name. He was a products of his time, but played a large role in a terrible fulcrum in western history.