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        "alt": "Some early pirate ships were privateers gone rogue, but typically, pirate crews were born in mutiny. Discipline on board sixteenth-century European ships was arbitrary and brutal, so crews often had good reason to rise up; but the law on land was unforgiving.\nA mutinous crew knew they had signed their own death warrants.\nTo go pirate was to embrace this fate. A mutinous crew would declare war \"against the entire world,\" and hoist the \"Jolly Roger.\" The pirate flag, which existed in many variations, is revealing in itself. It was normally taken to be an image of the devil, but often it contained not only a skull or skeleton, but also an hourglass, signifying not a threat (\"you are going to die\") so much as a sheer statement of defiance (\"we are going to die, it's only a matter of time\") —which crews making out such a flag on the horizon would likely have found, if anything, even more terrifying. Flying the Jolly Roger was a crew's way of announcing they accepted they were on their way to hell.",
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  "text": "“Flying the Jolly Roger was a crew's way of announcing they accepted they were on their way to hell.” 🏴‍☠️\n\nPirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber"
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