(i’m also gonna ambush my friends about Signal on sunday and coerce them to download it to get rid of the green bubbles)

  • @BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    63 months ago

    Exactly.

    Piracy was “tolerated”, because it stole money from competitors.

    Even if a pirate lied and only turned over some of the booty to the crown, it still took it from their enemies.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
      link
      fedilink
      English
      3
      edit-2
      3 months ago

      There were also those pirates that were told “alright we don’t need you anymore. Don’t pirate.” And went “well if the agreement is over, I guess we can pirate your ships too!”