• @cosmicrookie
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    213 months ago

    it’s never too late…

    I’m in my mid 40s… i guess too late to become an Impaler

  • @[email protected]
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    3 months ago

    Vlad was done dirty by Matthias Corvinus and the papacy. He wasn’t exactly a nice guy to his enemies (and by modern standards, like every other contemporary ruler, he’d be considered a monster), but a lot of the cruelty was greatly exaggerated and some parts were wholly invented.

    EDIT: It also doesn’t help that Romanian fascists actually liked the casting of Vlad as this incredibly overblown brutal ruler. They wrote poems and stories praising his brutality as a positive thing in service of a strong state.

    • @PugJesusOPM
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      23 months ago

      On one hand, I disapprove of Vlad’s Muslim impaling policy.

      On the other hand, I absolutely approve of Vlad’s boyar-kiling policy!