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Part Two: King Leopold II: The First Modern Bastard

Behind the Bastards

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The Congo Reform Association - She's a Congo

King Leopold's regime was heavily criticized for its widespread use of something called the jakote, which is a hippo hide whip. He decided to distract attention from his whipping millions of people to death by sending journalists to British colonies and having them write lurished exposés of abuses. And then, what about Hillary's style? That's exactly it. Like I said, he invented the modern art of being shitty on a massive scale.

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