• ActionHank@sopuli.xyz
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    7 months ago

    And I’m sure there was nothing going on there but well paying jobs for the local inhabitants. What a cool guy.

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      7 months ago

      Oh yeah no, the dude was a slave owner and a piece of shit. Let’s also not forget what a pirate literally is. He was not a good dude. But he was famous and was subjectively kinda a badass in a historically contextualized perspective.