@aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • 10 months agoConvo about piracy with my friendlemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square58fedilinkarrow-up1270arrow-down145
arrow-up1225arrow-down1imageConvo about piracy with my friendlemmy.dbzer0.com@aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • 10 months agomessage-square58fedilink
(i’m also gonna ambush my friends about Signal on sunday and coerce them to download it to get rid of the green bubbles)
minus-square@BearOfaTime@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish6•10 months agoExactly. 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.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ 🏆linkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-210 months agoThere 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!”
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.
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!”