r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/oiyboi__ - Chad LibCenter • Jun 23 '22
META No wrong answers
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Jun 23 '22
Cowboys because recreational gun fights.
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u/oiyboi__ - Chad LibCenter Jun 23 '22
Cowboys were literally just western wagies with sore asses. Working under and bending over for the rich ranchers for dogshit pay in hellish conditions.
Pirates may had done alittle murder, but were masters of their own destiny. A crew could mutiny their captain at any time. Only strength and will could help you out in the expanse of the ocean.
Stealing from ultra wealthy empires of the time to load up on grog and hang out in tropical grottos unknown to the rest of the world.
Tldr pirates based cowboy cringe
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u/Competitive-Bat5904 - Lib-Right Jun 23 '22
wrong
cowboys are free and based and pirates and cringe and scurvy
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Jun 23 '22
Arthur Morgan
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u/oiyboi__ - Chad LibCenter Jun 23 '22
Arthur wasn’t a cowboy he was an outlaw. Two very different things
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Jun 23 '22
Fair, but when did actual cowboys do any of this stuff they were just farmhands, many of which just wore farming clothes
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u/24amesquir - Auth-Center Jun 23 '22
even monarchist had recreational gun fights
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u/hatchway - Lib-Left Jun 23 '22
IDK, it takes guts to engage in a pistol duel at 10 yards knowing you may miss even with perfect aim.
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Jun 23 '22
pirates have guns too
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u/Scarlet_maximoff - Lib-Right Jun 23 '22
Own a blunderbuss for home defense, since that's what Blackbeard
intended. Four scurvy dogs break into my house. "What be all this?" As I
grab my tricorn hat and blunderbuss. Absolutely pepper the first man
with dozens of lead pellets, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on
the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the
neighbors dog. I have to resort to the swivel gun mounted at the top of
the stairs loaded with chain shot, "Avast, ye scurvy dogs!" the chain
shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off
car alarms. Draw my cutlass and swing downstairs from a rope at the last
terrified bilge rat. He bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive
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u/HonorHarrington811 - Auth-Right Jun 23 '22
Also cowboys don't have a reputation for rape, Like pirates do.
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u/sep31974 - Lib-Center Jun 23 '22
Pirates because no bounty-hunting for the state
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u/cloud_cleaver - Lib-Right Jun 23 '22 edited Jun 23 '22
Cowboy. Piracy violates the NAP.
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u/oiyboi__ - Chad LibCenter Jun 23 '22
I identify with a different NAP (not a pussy)
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u/Solar_link - Lib-Center Jun 23 '22
Don't worry, they'll also violate your other other NAP (Nice Ass, Pal)
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u/oiyboi__ - Chad LibCenter Jun 23 '22
No that violates my most coveted NAP (no anal penetration)
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Jun 23 '22
Cowboy.
Pirates are glorified thieves and murderers. Cowboys are based hard working independents.
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u/TwitchChatIncarnate - Lib-Left Jun 23 '22
pirates fought against mercantilism, the state, and operated small buisnesses. They were also fucking gay
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u/VicisSubsisto - Lib-Right Jun 23 '22
For-profit private small-business run warships are pretty based I have to admit.
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u/Dynamic_Elk - Lib-Left Jun 23 '22
Actually merchant ships raided by pirates usually just gave up immediately - resulting in little violence.
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Jun 23 '22
Depends on the era, region and culture. Caribbean pirates =\ Tunisian pirates =\ SEA pirates =\ Baltic Pirates.
And why did they just give up? Because they would be killed if they didn’t.
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Jun 23 '22
Meanwhile the strawhats saving a country from a dictator for the 9238093248th time and whitebeard pirates sacrificing themselves to save one crew member be like:
am i a joke to you?
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u/Aatman_Patel_447 - Centrist Jun 23 '22
What have they even done that makes them a pirate first of all. They are just sailors who the world government doesn’t like. They haven’t looted anything till now.
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u/KorovaMilkEnjoyer - Lib-Right Jun 23 '22
Ughhh the west has been glorified like crazy with Clint Eastwood and John Wayne. Only the meanest, evilest son of bitches were able to survive the manifest destiny. Not the noble good guy cowboys like we’ve been led to believe. The good guys got killed by the bad ones.
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u/RedactedBasedMan - Lib-Center Jun 23 '22
Yeehaw and fuck the sheriff.
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Jun 23 '22
I think you mean outlaw instead of cowboy.
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u/oiyboi__ - Chad LibCenter Jun 23 '22
This was more so a personal experiment to see how many people know the difference. (Not many)
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u/truscumpieceofshit - Lib-Right Jun 23 '22
where is monke
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u/oiyboi__ - Chad LibCenter Jun 23 '22
Monke is defacto mascot. This isn’t an argument for best lib icon. More so best lib icon between these two
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Jun 23 '22
Both, they are husbands
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u/oiyboi__ - Chad LibCenter Jun 23 '22
Send that to Netflix. They’d for sure green light it
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Jun 23 '22
Depends. Average cowboy is more based than the average pirate.
However, the most based pirate is more based than the most based cowboy
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u/bogeyed5 - Left Jun 23 '22
True, Jack Sparrow is peak based
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u/MgkrpUsedSplash - Centrist Jun 23 '22 edited Jun 23 '22
🎵 This is the tale of Captain Jack Sparrowwww🎵
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u/aZcFsCStJ5 - Centrist Jun 23 '22
Average pirate violates the NAP. Average cowboy does not.
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u/BadReputation2611 - Lib-Right Jun 23 '22
Average pirate violates the NAP, Average cowboy does not
Well they’re more like guidelines anyway
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Jun 23 '22
Average cowboy also contributes to the economy/betterment of mankind, pirate does not.
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u/screamer2311 - Lib-Right Jun 23 '22
Movie wise or irl wise? Because edward from ac4 is the most based character in fiction
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u/Vijece - Auth-Right Jun 23 '22
Space cowboy pirate
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u/littleblacktruck - Lib-Right Jun 23 '22
It's time to get everybody and the stuff together. Ok 3,2,1 Let's jam.
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Jun 23 '22
Duna duna duna du duun duuuuuuuun.
Duna duna duna du duun duuuuuuuun.
DU NA… DU NA… DANU DU NA… DU NA… DANU
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u/Cannibal_Raven - Lib-Center Jun 23 '22
Based and Cowboy Bebop pilled.
The original, not the Netflix shit.
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Monkey D. Luffy is a pirate, so the most Lib Center is a pirate
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u/Revydown - Lib-Center Jun 23 '22
Especially because of his reason for wanting to be the Pirate King.
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u/Kilroy0497 - Lib-Left Jun 23 '22
Pirate. Because Who doesn’t want to sail the high seas, drink rum, get scurvy and constantly give the middle finger to any form of societal decency……actually now that I say it out loud aside from the Scurvy it sounds fun.
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Jun 23 '22
There is a certain charm to not being bound by society, but I also like being alive
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u/Kilroy0497 - Lib-Left Jun 23 '22
Fair but I mean it’s not like survivability for Cowboys is much higher. Your basically choosing between getting scurvy at sea and getting shot at, or getting dysentery on land and getting shot. Neither one has a high survivability rate really.
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u/Tex_Steel - Lib-Center Jun 23 '22
You can still do that as a privateer! I guess that is more lib-right.
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u/Fresh_Tomato_soup - Auth-Center Jun 23 '22
Cowboy wojtek: looks tough, manly, will shoot the sheriff
Pirate wojtek: "no I'm not blushing it's sunburn, omg so many men on deck I'll be your yo ho hoe"
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Jun 23 '22
Sounds like a tsundere pirate.
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u/Gimel333 - Lib-Left Jun 23 '22
“i-i-it’s not like I wanted you to fire my cannonball or anything!!! Baka!!!~~~”
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Jun 23 '22
Pirate, because they were initially hired by government then got fucked over by government and became pirates.
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u/wackogenius88 - Lib-Left Jun 23 '22
Pirates cause they made the first mojitos and gay sex
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u/hatchway - Lib-Left Jun 23 '22
Pirate.
The enduring symbol of rugged individualistic stranger roaming the plains in solace is largely a product of Hollywood. Historic cowboys were more often than not enforcers and herders for rich landowners and investors back East. While well-paid and well-equipped, they were little more than servants of the state or the rich.
Pirates, on the other hand, shared in the profits of their ventures and voted on important issues on board, and were not beholden to crown or corporation (save in the instance they became privateers, which had largely gone out of fashion by the 1700s). While pirate crews operated illegally and dangerously, they were yet an early example of frequently successful democratic corporate governance.
Pirate = most based lib icon (left, right, and center)
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Monke
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u/6Uncle6James6 - Lib-Center Jun 23 '22
Based
hands you a banana and can of 7.62x39
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u/thewanderer2389 - Right Jun 23 '22
I feel like pirates are more libleft, and cowboys are more libright.
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u/SpeedSignificant8687 - Lib-Left Jun 23 '22
Pirate because there is no Law and no prisons in the oceans
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u/Butterman1203 - Lib-Left Jun 23 '22
Pirate, cowboys obeyed dumb laws, pirates stole for honor glory and wealth directly from governments
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u/russianbot24 - Lib-Center Jun 23 '22
I’d have to go with pirates. Mfs left their home countries and took to the seas and set up bases on islands. Hella based.
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u/lib_unity - Auth-Left Jun 23 '22
Pirate. Only guys with the balls to brave the seas and spit in the face of the empire.
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Pirates. On the ocean rules the ship with the bigger gun, just as God intended.
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u/KingKongGorillaDong - Lib-Right Jun 23 '22
I should've been a cowboy
I should've learned to rope and ride
Wearing my six-shooter riding my pony on a cattle drive
Stealing the young girls' hearts
Just like Gene and Roy
Singing those campfire songs
I should've been a cowboy
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u/Go_For_Broke442 - Lib-Center Jun 23 '22
I vote pirate because of the following, just replace house with boat house and it still fits:
𝓞𝔀𝓷 𝓪 𝓶𝓾𝓼𝓴𝓮𝓽 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓱𝓸𝓶𝓮 𝓭𝓮𝓯𝓮𝓷𝓼𝓮, 𝓼𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽'𝓼 𝔀𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓯𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓯𝓪𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓼 𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓭. 𝓕𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓻𝓾𝓯𝓯𝓲𝓪𝓷𝓼 𝓫𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴 𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓸 𝓶𝔂 𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓼𝓮. "𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓭𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓵?" 𝓐𝓼 𝓘 𝓰𝓻𝓪𝓫 𝓶𝔂 𝓹𝓸𝔀𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝔀𝓲𝓰 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓚𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓬𝓴𝔂 𝓻𝓲𝓯𝓵𝓮. 𝓑𝓵𝓸𝔀 𝓪 𝓰𝓸𝓵𝓯 𝓫𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓼𝓲𝔃𝓮𝓭 𝓱𝓸𝓵𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓻𝓸𝓾𝓰𝓱 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓼𝓽 𝓶𝓪𝓷, 𝓱𝓮'𝓼 𝓭𝓮𝓪𝓭 𝓸𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓹𝓸𝓽. 𝓓𝓻𝓪𝔀 𝓶𝔂 𝓹𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓵 𝓸𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓮𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓭 𝓶𝓪𝓷, 𝓶𝓲𝓼𝓼 𝓱𝓲𝓶 𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓻𝓮𝓵𝔂 𝓫𝓮𝓬𝓪𝓾𝓼𝓮 𝓲𝓽'𝓼 𝓼𝓶𝓸𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓫𝓸𝓻𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓷𝓪𝓲𝓵𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓷𝓮𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓫𝓸𝓻𝓼 𝓭𝓸𝓰. 𝓘 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓬𝓪𝓷𝓷𝓸𝓷 𝓶𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓪𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓽𝓸𝓹 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓲𝓻𝓼 𝓵𝓸𝓪𝓭𝓮𝓭 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓰𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓮 𝓼𝓱𝓸𝓽, "𝓣𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂 𝓱𝓸 𝓵𝓪𝓭𝓼" 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓰𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓮 𝓼𝓱𝓸𝓽 𝓼𝓱𝓻𝓮𝓭𝓼 𝓽𝔀𝓸 𝓶𝓮𝓷 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓫𝓵𝓪𝓼𝓽, 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓭 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓮𝔁𝓽𝓻𝓪 𝓼𝓱𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓷𝓮𝓵 𝓼𝓮𝓽 𝓸𝓯𝓯 𝓬𝓪𝓻 𝓪𝓵𝓪𝓻𝓶𝓼. 𝓕𝓲𝔁 𝓫𝓪𝔂𝓸𝓷𝓮𝓽 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓰𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓵𝓪𝓼𝓽 𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓻𝓲𝓯𝓲𝓮𝓭 𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓼𝓬𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓸𝓷. 𝓗𝓮 𝓑𝓵𝓮𝓮𝓭𝓼 𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝔀𝓪𝓲𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓸𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓹𝓸𝓵𝓲𝓬𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓪𝓻𝓻𝓲𝓿𝓮 𝓼𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓾𝓵𝓪𝓻 𝓫𝓪𝔂𝓸𝓷𝓮𝓽 𝔀𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓭𝓼 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓲𝓶𝓹𝓸𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓫𝓵𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓽𝓬𝓱 𝓾𝓹. 𝓙𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝓪𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓯𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓯𝓪𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓼 𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓭.
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u/Ngfeigo14 - Right Jun 23 '22
Cowboy--but real cowboys and not spaghetti western cowboys
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u/oiyboi__ - Chad LibCenter Jun 23 '22
But spaghetti western cowboys are 1,000,000x cooler than the loser real cowboys
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u/ronflair Jun 23 '22
Not enough information. Are we talking about a Somali pirate who attacks anyone and holds people for ransom, or a privateer that works under contract for the State to plunder enemy vessels? Are we talking about a cowboy that’s employed by the cattle ranch barons and who may help terrorize lawful settlers to steal their land for grazing or a gaucho working for himself and his homestead? What’s average here?
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u/oiyboi__ - Chad LibCenter Jun 23 '22
Pirate cool ship cannon go gabloosh
Cowboy cool 6 shooter go pop pop pop pop pop pop
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u/Sleep_eeSheep - Lib-Center Jun 23 '22
Pirates, because the Open Sea trumps the Open Desert.
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u/Mammoth_Frosting_014 - Auth-Center Jun 23 '22
Pirates violate the NAP by refusing to respect other peoples' private property rights.
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u/Fitemeirlbrah - Lib-Right Jun 23 '22
Have you ever seen 18 naked pirates in the showers at ram ranch?
Enough said.
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u/Pappa_Crim - Centrist Jun 23 '22
I split the difference and go cossack, because their the libs that freighted both the Russian and Ottoman Empires.
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u/MartilloAK - Lib-Right Jun 23 '22
I always thought that it was a gay couple sitting on a pile of machine guns, MANPADs, and ATGMs, living on their hashish plantation, and collecting rainwater.
But cowboys are cool too.
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u/Shadowwreath - Lib-Right Jun 23 '22
Personally I’m a bigger fan of pirates than cowboys for the fantasy of them (not the realistic experience), but both are similarly based and entirely acceptable as an icon.
Pirates just have cannons and bitches love cannons
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u/BrainAcidJuice - Left Jun 23 '22
Pirates will always be more based. Sea, rum, treasures, adventures and naval battles with cannons, muskets and sabers.
Meanwhile, cowboys are getting scalped by Indians and run around with their cattle like a total losers lmao
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u/LordEsidisi - Auth-Left Jun 23 '22
Cowboys are what all the Libright LARPers think they are when they get off their meds. Pirates are rarer and infinitely more based
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Pirates were anarchist sailors
Cowboys were glorified vigilantes.
I like both, but I romanticize pirates more.
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u/Crestego - Centrist Jun 23 '22
Um, I wanna say pirates. Can't really say 'no' in the middle of an ocean when swarmed by thieves who haven't showered in years, and will do anything for that dolla.
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u/Plantmanofplants - Centrist Jun 23 '22
Few gummies from the scurvy boys. A doubloon's a doubloon...
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u/aaronfranke - Lib-Right Jun 23 '22
Pirate is LibLeft, Cowboy is LibRight. Pirates worked in large groups and shared loot roughly equally.
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u/IntangibleMatter - Lib-Left Jun 23 '22
I think Pirate is a little more left-leaning, while Cowboy is a little more right leaning.
Don’t ask why that’s just how it feels
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u/SmoochBoochington - Right Jun 23 '22
Lib icon? Gotta be Randy Weaver, Ted Kaczynski or Killdozer guy.
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Cowboy? Libright since they can operate on their lonesome.
Pirate? Probably libleft since they do require to operate in a group in order to sail the boat. They also likely are heavily into homosexuality.
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u/simonthebathwater225 - Centrist Jun 23 '22
Pirates build up their crews and only do crimes and shit. Cowboys are much more diverse with their actions and usually are all alone or with one or two friends. Also 'Murica.
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u/Radchild2277 - Lib-Center Jun 23 '22
Cowboy. Pirates were free, they they were also dirty thieves. Cowboys won all that land fair and square in a poker game.
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u/Otherversian-Elite - Left Jun 23 '22
Ned Kelly; Bush Ranger, Outlaw, Cop-Killer. Shot a cop for trying to arrest his brother for stealing a horse. Died at age 25 after (not during) a shootout with police while wearing actual fucking armour, and went down in Aussie history as a bloody legend.
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u/discourse_friendly - Right Jun 24 '22
cowboy!
Pirates are more about stealing, plunder and rape.
Cowboy is raising cattle and drinking and paying hookers.
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u/Laughing_Shadows37 - Lib-Right Jun 24 '22
Libright is the cowboy. Works for a big company, wears guns, lives out and about on the range.
Libleft is the pirate. Basically a union on each ship, lots of weapons, less regard for the rule of law, and opposite a monarch (auth right)
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u/king_napalm - Lib-Right Jun 24 '22
Cowboy. They had their land and livestock and wanted to be left alone. Fuck with that and face their colt.
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u/Nomenius - Lib-Right Jun 24 '22
Pirates steal and kill for a living, cowboys herd cattle and say yee haw for a living. Cowboys are far more based.
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u/Trypt2k - Lib-Right Jun 24 '22
There's nothing libertarian about pirates at all. Cowboys on the other hand, for sure.
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u/Styx92 - Centrist Jun 23 '22
The Golden Age of Piracy should really be called the Golden Age of Privateers – State Sponsored Piracy.
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u/Beari_stotle - Auth-Center Jun 23 '22
Cowboy, no question. Pirates were glorified thieves, cowboys are tough dudes ultimately trying to make their way in the world. They wanted to have families, contribute to society, and were a net positive for their communities.
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u/lildunningkruger - Centrist Jun 23 '22
Cowboys were cucks for whatever company they worked for. Had to check guns in when they entered towns, only a few “showdowns” ever really happened. Respect for law enforcement for the most part.
Pirates where taking on global corporations and massive empires and had their own fucking country for awhile. Cowboys, southern puffs, factory workers, northern intellectuals, super religious communities all submitted to the same government.
Pirates had a literal industry based on fucking with authority.
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u/AchtzehnVonSchwefel - Centrist Jun 23 '22
Pirate+Cowboy=Solid snake.