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A shadow of his former self (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago

Oh yeah no, the dude was a slave owner and a piece of shit. Let's also not forget what a pirate literally is. He was not a good dude. But he was famous and was subjectively kinda a badass in a historically contextualized perspective.