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Dasus@lemmy.world 1 day agoTo think they’d have no need to enage with normal society is … just silly.
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 1 day 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 1 day 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.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
The topic was why pirates would need to launder. Not that every pirate that ever existed needed to launder. Now take your fucking pathetic reading comprehension somewhere else.
Dasus@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
That’s rather ironic, seeing as you straight up refuse to read and keep arguing about something you clearly don’t know jack shit about.
Anyone participating in piracy would be hanged in those non-supporting places which didn’t accept piracy. The place which weren’t the pirate havens I’ve now linked several times.
First, they usually didn’t end up with money, but with wares more than gold. Secondly, neither of that is in anything way trackable. Thirdly, they can just go and sell it in a pirate haven and then travel in disguise to a place somewhere else to spend it. Who do you think theyre having to hide their wealth from?
You’re just incredibly mad you said something you didn’t think through and even though you now realise how silly it was, you can’t even stop, but just keep digging yourself deeper.
Hilarious.