Damn, I had hoped it was around the same time to give extra context to his rep. I knew that contrary to the typical assumption he had not done it just because it was the only way he could get a proper semi going.
Vlad Tepes used impalement as a method of extreme intimidation, in the same way as hanging, drawing, and quartering was used in England. The Dutch later used impalement for the same purpose in their Indonesian colonies in the 18th century.
Yeah, given what he was up against it was kind of unsurprising how far Vlad went and if memory serves his reputation within the country is far better than outside of it. And as you say he's not the only one to take more extreme measures.
Most historical empires used some form of slave labour. Extracting cheap labour from a defeated population was almost always more profitable than killing them entirely, though the latter sometimes happened, like with the Tasmanian aborigines, who went extinct. Genocide was almost never a rational decision, and much of it happened by famine and disease rather than direct murder. The transatlantic trade started because the native Americans who would otherwise be enslaved died of smallpox, so African kingdoms stepped up to sell replacement labour in exchange for European weapons and wealth.
Oh believe me I know that sort of nonsense. My primary school in the UK included the workhouses as part of history lessons. Including the fact that the factory owners found it cheaper to have people dart between the massive machines to clean them while they were in operation rather than than pause them and just how easy it was for one of those machines to turn a human limb into paste.
No one much really crossed the Sahara in antiquity. Massive trans-Saharan camel caravans started in the middle ages after the Islamic conquest, around the time that literacy arrived in the region.
I like how the other guy just drops it at that point. As soon as the first dude doesn't immediately fall in line he's got nothing left.
Yep. Vegan. Even before she decided to be "Elliot", she was already the poster child for "Vegan malnutrition".
Probably lipo/abdominal etching
True. Didn't the Phonecians handle a lot of the slave trade for the Romans from Africa, largely via the sea rather bothering with the Sahara? To the point that debatably they created the slave trade within Africa because the alternative for many coastal regions was a bunch of Phonecian vessels turning up with wide smiles and quotas to meet.
They did, but they were mostly trading slaves around the Mediterranean and North Africa, which was inhabited by Berbers and Egyptians. Slavery of black Africans was rare aside from the odd few people brought up from east Africa.
Of course, the Mediterranean Sea was where most of this happened so it was limited to those parts of the continent bordering there rather than Africa as a whole.
How is murder real? Just pretend it isn't happening, if some black man is murdering you, don't even call the cops, just like close your eyes. Just enjoy your murder so you can be relieved of the pain of being a white man.
How Can Murder Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real
As if most troons can afford this shit instead of just getting horribly mutilated instead.
This in no way backfires against blacks.
I can't remember anything, ever that remained so ripe for satire and was still treated as a sacred cow like this white supremacy schtick.
