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MotoAsh@lemmy.world 18 hours agoThey still needed to interact with society. Do you think most ports weren’t controlled by some kind of authority that you’d have to get some kind of either favor or believability with?
Pirates weren’t pirates just to pirate things… not the successful ones, anyways.
Dasus@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Honestly, it’s now been a few decades and gonna have to say, even if I feel like an old man yelling at the skies, it does feel like people on the internet just used to be smarter and humbler.
I just linked you two articles which detail almost a century of the golden age of piracy, during which private havens, aka complete societies which were either under weak states which tolerated/allowed or even sponsored piracy, or completely self governing communities. Either way, they were complete communities. There are people who lived their entire lived in cities like Port Royal and Tortuga.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Piracy
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_haven
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortuga_(Haiti)
Tortuga is 183 square kilometres. These weren’t tiny outposts in which pirates hid from the authorities. They were prosperous and wild, but complete societies.
To not even glimpse at the basic material when it’s literally shoved in your face, yet still have the gall to argue as if you knew the subject? The internet was better 25-20 years ago without the normies.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
My point was they’d still have some need to launder money. Or do you think it was just a walk in the park to get tons of gold and avoid all the people you’ve just robbed?
Even if laundering money was just as easy for some as going to the right port and melting it down DOES NOT erase the long history of laundering and subterfuge.
A single time period with single instances where pirates were the police does not magically remove the MUCH larger history of civilization.
Dasus@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Jesus fucking god.
They had their own islands and cities which they could defend.
YES, they absolutely could avoid anyone they just robbed. That’s why they did it.
Honestly you still haven’t even glimpsed at the articles yet continue to act as if we’re discussing this on the same level.
People like you would happily walk into a nuclear power plant and mess about and think you’re actually making it better.
“much larger history of civilization”
Wtf are you smoking?
Read the goddamn basics before opening your ignorant mouth.
Pirates are still a thing.
It was just the golden age of piracy because of just how far spread it was and how little any state could oppose them.
Tl you didn’t read this, my point is that you’re very very wrong.