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[–] 62 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Hang the captain and first mate, take the oil, sink the ship. This is how we've always dealt with pirates.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Scrap the ship, don't sink it. We have more than enough waste on the bottom of the various oceans and seas as is.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You can responsibly strip and scuttle large vessels to help facilitate reef development

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Fair enough, but that's still a form of scrapping as opposed to outright immediate sinking of the vessel. Far too often vessles are sunk, mostly intact, and that is causing countless amounts of pollution in our waterways.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Aim it at the port of St Petersburg and put it on full power. Let them deal with it

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    An extremely public trial would be more effective.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You definitely could. A hanging lasts less than a day. A trial could stay in the Overton window for much longer.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Remember these are not pirates they are crew being told what to do with families back in Mother Russia and a great many pressures on them. Better a trial with all the details spewing forth and Russia blaming birdstrike and threatening armageddon over a cable.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    they are crew being told what to do

    Being told to commit crimes. So, like pirates?

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Pirates are not state sponsored they are self motivated and opportunist, the people responsible here are likely reluctant state operatives, possibly not fully aware of the consequences.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Pirates are not state sponsored they are self motivated and opportunist, the people responsible here are likely reluctant state operatives, possibly not fully aware of the consequences.

    Thats one far fetched speculation after another.

    You have no idea if they are state sponsored or not, and no data to prove it either way. Their actions follow a pattern of state sponsored destruction, but somehow you deny it. Seems you are just making stuff up here.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You are being deliberately obtuse and using other accounts to mark yourself up so no more food for you.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    How am I using other accounts to mark myself up? I have no way to prove it (although I imagine maybe a mod could), but you're wrong about my using multiple accounts too. This making up stuff is a habit for you, I see.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    In some civilized parts of the world, we've renounced death penalty some time ago and only the far-right wants it back.

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