this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2025
843 points (98.7% liked)
Funny
11838 readers
2697 users here now
General rules:
- Be kind.
- All posts must make an attempt to be funny.
- Obey the general sh.itjust.works instance rules.
- No politics or political figures. There are plenty of other politics communities to choose from.
- Don't post anything grotesque or potentially illegal. Examples include pornography, gore, animal cruelty, inappropriate jokes involving kids, etc.
Exceptions may be made at the discretion of the mods.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
They're not totally wrong though. A huge share of the goods the Caribbean pirates "stole" didn't belong to their "victims" anyway. In fact, most of it had previously been stolen from the native Americans who had been conquered and killed or extorted from slaves on the plantations. Stealing from a robber isn't stealing imho.
Another, more modern example are the pirates of Somalia, who originally were fishermen. Only when foreign ships came into their waters to steal their fish and dispose toxic waste, they began to arm themselves to "steal" their own goods back.
Disney on the other hand...
Unless they were returning the treasure to the natives, it's still stealing dude lol
Good luck bringing back a treasure to the rightful owner, when the rightful owner has been killed along with his family. Also, usually the thieves would not write "stolen from person X in Y" on their gold bars.
And let's not forget that a non-negligible part of the pirates were in fact former slaves that either fled on their own or have been freed directly by other pirates. So they basically fought their previous "owners".
Yeah let's not pretend they were some noble boat robin hoods they just stole what they could find it just so happened to be a lot of slave made stuff
Explain to me how overfishing and dumping by neighbour countries somehow justifies taking hostage a ship transporting goods from China to Europe?
If you steal my food and poison my soil until my family is starving, you shouldn't be surprised when I come back at you. And don't expect me to steal the fish back, that you've already eaten. Of cause I'll take whatever I can get hold of.
It weren't primarily neighbour countries, it were especially European and Chinese vessels that were doing that shit.
Okay you go there and do better then, smart guy.
Others take my means of getting food.
I take shit and food from others.
Don't care about justification. That's just what they do.
Try to live and probably since no-one really stops them continue to do so.
You could provide alternative ways to earn money if you want to.
Potatoes