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[โ€“] [email protected] 98 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Dutch East India Company - The original corporate raiders.

MASS ATROCITIES!

[โ€“] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are the Bug Bad Evil in my pirate themed DnD campaign. Or a proxy of them at least. What better justification for becoming a pirate than them? To quote a real pirate captain from the 1700, "They rob the poor under cover of law, we plunder the rich under the cover of our own courage."

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

That's a 10/10 quote

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And no. 2 is The British East India Company

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea I probably got them mixed up. The British one is what I meant. It's probably number 1?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No lol you are right, the Dutch one was worse

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

came here to say this. though if American slave traders had actually been a unified corporation I'd be pointing at them.