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"Wow! Almost like punishing everything with death is more inducement than deterrent!" (infosec.pub)
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[–] Uruanna@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago

The punchline is that this is what Liu Bang did. Lost a bunch of forced labor prisoners shortly after Qin Shi Huang's death, decided to cut the rest and book it, led an army under another king while the Qin dynasty was collapsing, then about 8 years later, he was founding the Han dynasty.