A historic perspective:
Traitors were subjected to torture mainly because treason was treated as the supreme political crime: an attack on the sovereign, the state, or the community’s survival, not an ordinary private wrong.
Rulers and legal systems used extreme bodily punishment for a mix of practical, symbolic, and deterrent reasons that were widely accepted in the societies that practiced it.
Loyalty to the ruler or the polity was a foundational duty. Breaking it threatened civil war, foreign invasion, or the collapse of order. Roman law treated certain forms of betrayal (perduellio, maiestas) as offenses against the res publica; medieval and early-modern European law ranked high treason above murder. Chinese imperial codes likewise placed plotting against the emperor among the “ten abominations,” crimes that justified the harshest penalties and often collective punishment of kin. Because the offense was political, the response was meant to reassert the authority that had been challenged.
Torture served several overlapping functions:
• Extraction of information. Conspiracies were hard to prove and often involved hidden networks. Judicial torture (or extra-judicial interrogation under threat of it) was used to force confessions, names of accomplices, and details of plots. English treason trials, Spanish Inquisition proceedings against political or religious enemies of the crown, and Ottoman and Chinese interrogations of rebels all show this pattern. A confession also supplied the formal legal basis for conviction in systems that prized it highly.
• Public deterrence and spectacle. Executions were staged so that large audiences would see the cost of betrayal. English hanging, drawing, and quartering (codified for high treason in the 14th century and used into the 18th) displayed the body being mutilated; the head and quarters were often exhibited on gates or bridges. Similar logic appears in Roman damnatio and public executions, in French ancien-régime punishments for lèse-majesté, and in the display of rebel remains in various Asian empires. The message was that the traitor’s body, honor, and lineage could be destroyed.
• Symbolic annihilation of status. Traitors were frequently noble or office-holders whose betrayal was especially dangerous. Degradation rituals—stripping of titles, inversion of heraldic symbols, dismemberment, or denial of honorable burial—marked them as outside the political community. Pain and mutilation reinforced that exclusion.
• Retribution and restoration of order. In societies that understood crime as an injury to the sovereign or the cosmic/social order, proportional severity was expected. Mercy was possible (and sometimes politically useful), but the baseline penalty for proven high treason was deliberately worse than for ordinary homicide.
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Women were never oppressed. There was NO oppression. What women call oppression today was just PROTECTION.
Let me break it down for you:
1. VOTING:
Women say "we couldn't vote." But back then, voting was not a right, it was a RESPONSIBILITY. Only people who owned property, paid heavy taxes, held public office, or were drafted to DIE in wars could vote.
100% of the people dying in wars were men. You want to vote to send men to war, while you sit at home safe? Makes zero sense. Voting was linked to the DRAFT. You vote, you go to war. Men understood that.
2. BANKING:
"You needed your husband's signature!" Yes, because by LAW, a woman was LEGALLY PROTECTED from debt. Her husband was the head of household and by law HE was 100% liable for ALL debts she made. If she borrowed and couldn't pay, THEY CAME FOR HIM, not her. Creditors went to jail or lost everything - the husband.
So of course his signature was needed. He is the one who goes to prison if you don't pay.
3. PROPERTY - COVERTURE:
They cry about coverture. Coverture meant when you marry, your property merges under ONE name, the husband's, because there was ONE tax filing per household, not two like today. ONE household, ONE name, ONE tax.
It was not to steal from you. It was because the husband was legally responsible for you. If you got sued, he paid. If you owed taxes, he paid. He took your debts too.
These men had mothers they worshipped and daughters they would die for. They were not oppressing women, they were covering them.
4. CONTROLLING WOMEN'S BODIES:
The biggest lie. Back then there were NO abortion pills, NO condoms that worked, NO diapers, NO formula, NO government money to raise a child alone as a single mother, NO good jobs for women to survive alone.
Who bears the most risk in unprotected sex? THE WOMAN. She gets pregnant for 9 months, she risks death during childbirth, which was very common then.
So what did society do? They made sure women stayed virgins until marriage, and made sure men MARRIED them before sex. That is not oppression, that is PROTECTION from becoming a single mother with 3 kids and no food.
And it WORKED. Single motherhood rate was less than 5%. Marriage rate was 90%. Children grew up with fathers.
Today you have "freedom" - 40% single mothers, fatherless homes, abortions everywhere, and women crying that men don't want them.
There was never oppression. There was a system that understood biology and protected women from the consequences of their own choices.
And the UK is now experiencing a serious shutdown at their airports:
A technical issue in the flight processing system at NATS (the UK's air traffic control provider). Engineers implemented a fix and the system is "starting to recover," but full recovery is expected to take time.
· The Scale: Over 350 flights were cancelled, with hundreds more delayed. Approximately 4% of UK flights were affected. Ryanair alone reported 65,000 passengers delayed by up to eight hours and cancelled over 50 flights.
· Airports Affected: All major hubs were hit, including Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester, Stansted, Birmingham, Bristol, and Edinburgh.
@Polymarket The Smithsonian marked America’s 250th by tying Mickey Mouse to blackface minstrelsy, floating unevidenced claims that Ben Franklin electrocuted slaves, and keeping staff trainings that treat “objectivity” as White supremacy.
Kick this douche to the curb yesterday.
@Marcellinoposts@HumanProbably2 Not that easy you say? You went on a rant about being a betrayed white man. Now here you are refusing to learn from your own treatment. You must have the same in group biases that everyone else does or you deserve an even worse fate. You can hire and train people.
Were his parents married? Was it common to be birthed at an inn in this time? I’m curios if this account is going to post primary sources and create a timeline here.
20 April, 1889
Adolf Hitler is born at 6:30pm at an inn named 'Gastof zum Pommer' in Braunau am Inn, Austria.
He was the fourth son (first surviving) of Alois Hitler and Klara, née Pölz.
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