It's clearly a pastiche of Star Wars and also of Westerns,which is a totally legit thing to do since SW is a pastiche of stuff incl Westerns
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logically so, bc if you're not operating under the law how do you back up your absolute authority
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it is very true to the ideological contradiction at the heart of the American libertarian tradition though
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pirates were the most democratic Westerners at the time. If you fucked up as captain, you'd be voted out
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the captain's authority was absolute... In battle, when they needed that. no other time
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It's kind of ironic, given how we see them now, just how much democracy there could be in their operations.
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yeah I mean they weren't nice ppl but they were in a situation that required v high trust among each other
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