Napoleon's greatest foe
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited by commenters as a source of examples of Napoleon's cruelty and poor decisions.
What it is
Lindybeige's long video on Napoleon's most effective opponent, Sir Sidney Smith, with plenty of detail on Napoleon's misdeeds along the way.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2018 to 2021.
What Hacker News said
Critical jerf · 2018-03 · on “Xi Jinping decides to abolish presidential term limits”
Are you demanding easy answers? There aren't any. The goal is deterrence, but deterrence doesn't work if you don't have a credible threat, which means that you have to have the credible threat, and a sufficiently insane opponent may call you on it. It's the reason why China going to a dictatorship is scary... the details of the dictatorship are irrelevant, the mere fact that one man will be in charge of the military of China is intrinsically scary. This is one place where the general bias towards inaction and other problems of a committee are advantageous; history shows that an individual is much likelier to do something really stupid for really stupid reasons than any government that is run
Critical JoeyBananas · 2021-05 · on “France Battles over Whether to Cancel or Celebrate Napoleon”
[this video] This video is full of good reasons why Napoleon was not a good person, see 24:30 for my personal favorite.
Critical eru · 2021-09 · on “Why don’t the French celebrate Lafayette?”
It's not just the extreme left that doesn't like Napoleon. [this video] > relevant part starts at about 16 minutes, all lindy really does is point out how absolutely horrible Napoleon actually was.