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[โ€“] PugJesus@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Historical figures can have a little conflict

as a treat

It's when they get so bad about it that their own contemporaries are disgusted by their behavior that "by the standards of their time" no longer applies.