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Lol Everyone loves volatility and pirates, apparently. Weird why we ever abandoned such a golden age.

When you understand the historical norm, you see that "merely" is doing record-setting work there.

This is a joke, right?

Ah, yes, the historical norm of interstate anarchy. I wonder why they did away with that.

I prefer modernity to the historical norm that is "most of you would probably have 'pooped self to death due to disease and malnutrition' on your headstones, but we just chuck you overboard anyway" as far as nautical life goes, Jennifer. Same with not having a fucking age of pirates and privateers!

I don't know... Another historical norm was that I could get kidnapped outside of a bar and pressed to serve in the Navy against my will. Is that bad or something?

An originalist of the high seas.

This was written by someone who doesn't know that the historical norm involved a lot of corpses both at sea and on land was it?

FFS

Lol Lmao even.

Read history, man. It really sucked back then.

A return to cave clan battles over control of fire would merely be a return to the historical norm, argues some idiot.

The ‘historical norm’?!?

This is weapons-grade stupidity. Not using antibiotics would also be a return to the historical norm, that doesn't mean it's remotely a good idea.

It is absolutely incredible that you chose to publish something that would be torn to shreds in a high school history class.

“Oh the year was 1778, How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now! A letter of marque came from the king To the scummiest vessel I've ever seen…” 🎶 youtu.be/1WDX4PAH1L0?...

Any excuse to spam Barrett's Privateers youtu.be/B6Nl3PaTimA?...

I’d be good if the US stopped pretending that all the money it spends to project power counts towards NATO commitments.

A return to greater competition between feudal lords would merely be a return to the historical norm, argues Thinky Tankface

This is a dumb argument especially given the way it ended: with a war started by a psychopathic moron conducted by a religious maniac with zero thought given of the consequences. Just dumb.

Piracy and *Sound Dues* at gunpoint are fucking awesome

Ooh, she was a FedSoc guest speaker, might as well be wearing a tricorn and flying the Jolly Roger! (That think tank she works for is as sus as Colby’s Marathon Initiative—spotted one notorious Kremlin simp right off, & the rest are a collection of mid “Who?” types, & look at the founder’s resume!

OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS

Allies? Partners? Nope.

thanks Jenny, I too want to launch a new golden age of piracy

You still have time to delete this.

Let’s not return to the age of pirates, actually.

Historical norms were really bad!!

Ah, the ol' Argumentum ad Antiquitatem... Bring back the historical traditions of scurvy, grog, & deckside amputations for cannon wounds, while we're at it!

So, recovery of state sovereignty over seas? We're so back.

Is Jennifer Kavanagh a communist operative?

Letters of marque! Pieces of eight! Rum, buggery and the whip?

this is so fucking stupid are you stupid?

so would dying of dysentery!

So would 40% infant mortality Fucking idiocy