Japan's Most Famous Tuna Buyer Says He Turned Somali Pirates into Fishermen

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• aha21 1 minute ago
  This timeline is 14-15 years ago, a world has changed since then.

  Now, the US just import the Somalis by the hundred of thousands and turn Minnesota into a welfare state.
• jeffybefffy519 54 minutes ago
  Somali pirates WERE fishermen before being pirates... They turned to piracy to combat other countries fishing their waters.
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  • happyopossum 28 minutes ago
    That’s a great story, with very little attachment to reality.
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    • dmbche 6 minutes ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_off_the_coast_of_Somali...

      Maybe read the first paragraph
  • readthenotes1 37 minutes ago
    And then they turn to piracy for its own sake because they realized how lucrative it was
  • IncreasePosts 35 minutes ago
    No, the pirates are organized crime syndicates. They are not the same people who were fishing the waters 35 years ago
• mikeatlas 48 minutes ago
  > Both things can be true.

  Ughhh I hear this like 5x a day now. It's the new emdashery.

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  • helpfulclippy 12 minutes ago
    Unless someone is a structural engineer or something, I never want to hear the term "load-bearing" again.
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    • victorhooi 7 minutes ago
      Aha...gold star =)...10 points to Gryffindor....well played, Sir.
• Gensui 36 minutes ago
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• samlinnfer 49 minutes ago
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