Comment on Father of Gaza flotilla activist says UK ignored call for help after son seized by Israel

• Naich@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  https://elizabethanenglandlife.com/sir-walter-raleigh1-famous-pirate.html

  For one.

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  • Semjeza@fedinsfw.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    But he wasn’t a pirate?

    At most a privateer, but has none of the pirate stuff. A more nationally aligned mercenary. The page seems pretty poor and sensationalist if I’m honest. =(

    I was hoping for more free from all law, not just that of their geopolitical rivals pirates, rather than privateers who aren’t much different from an informal navy.

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• DakRalter@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Also
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privateer

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  • Semjeza@fedinsfw.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Eh, I don’t count privateers as pirates.

    That’s just a form of international economic warfare, and has homage to a nation/crown rather than full on piracy.

    Maybe I’m too romantic about it all.

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    • DakRalter@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I dunno, it doesn’t really matter. I see them as pirates with a mandate.

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      • Semjeza@fedinsfw.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Nah, privateers kept the heriarchies of home, only attacked and stole from permitted targets, and those who captained ships came from the elite of society - such as Sir Walter.

        Pirates were much more socially accepting, allowing women and people of colour in to crews, and even to positions of authority. They didn’t pay homage to a nation or work for empire. They saw a chance to get rich quick by not playing by nascant capitalisms rule.

        Of course many pirates did start out as low levels on privateers’ ships, but unlike their landed gentry captains didn’t see a point in staying loyal to a crown and we’re happy to mutiny for their own benefit when the chance came along.

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