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user-inactivated  ·  3767 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: WAR NERD: the history of beheadings as propaganda

    that we were actually nice guys, and that it was a little barbaric to devote so much artistic energy to heads without bodies.

Says the blissful historian skipping right past the similarity of lynching and beheading.