as i said earlier, the problem with calling someone "the black Napoleon" is the "Napoleon" part

Also Marlow:
Faustus: How comes it, then, that thou art out of hell?
Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it:
Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God,
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells,
In being depriv'd of everlasting bliss?

Woah that's grim, what makes you think that?

I have only seen the edges of this and it is very bizarre, cos, like, the actual people involved in fighting the Haitian revolution plainly did not themselves see Dessalines as an unproblematically great guy to whom they owed fealty and honour! This is not, like, a subtle feature of their evaluation

"getting dumped, going on a bender" really is the ockham's razor one here

Ye became extremely divorced, Musk has always had the air of divorce even before he was divorced. Could argue it both ways tbh