Hi mastodon, I've started learning about the Napoleonic Wars. In general, which side should I root for?
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@floatybirb Napoleon was a reactionary jerk. His anti-feminist "reforms" rolled back most of the remaining progress women made during the French Revolution, he reintroduced slavery in Haiti, planted nepo baby relatives on all the thrones he could reach, ruled as a despot, and so on. Not as bad as Stalin or Hitler but nobody's idea of a good guy: annoyingly, his enemies were almost equally bad.
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Beethoven dedicated his 3rd symphony to Napoleon and then took it back after he named himself Emperor.