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Re:Richard ‘Lowtax’ Kyanka, founder of Something Awful, has ... by cool_dude85 on Sunday November 14, 2021 @08:06AM (#29216969)
The most well-known write-ups of the not great guy vilerat are his racist tirades against African people.
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Re:Richard ‘Lowtax’ Kyanka, founder of Something Awful, has ... by cbozeman on Sunday November 14, 2021 @06:09PM (#29221656)
You're confusing "great" with "good". They are not the same.

Genghis Khan was a great man. You cannot unify a nomadic people and conquer a shitload of Asia and not be a great man. Given that under his leadership, the Mongols literally reduced the carbon footprint of the whole planet based upon the amount of people they killed, you could easily claim he was not a "good" man.

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