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Who are your favourite villains from mythology? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Also politically it feels like a really powerful example that repeats itself over and over of how good, idealistic governments in principle decay and fall from the inside from their own contradictions, but ultimately the killing blow comes at the hands of their own cynical and rejected offspring.