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Re:A brief history of people losing their minds in Antarctica by belval on Thursday May 13, 2021 @03:08PM (#27146042)
I think this sentence taken out of context gives it a completely different meaning. Farmers were being killed by the Vikings for sure, but France the farming society was never under existential threat from the Vikings.
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Re:A brief history of people losing their minds in Antarctica by hrktb on Friday May 14, 2021 @04:26AM (#27152033)
Sure, yet in the blog's context, arguing wether there are 100% pillaging societies that never had farmers nor developed land under their control is also an argument I feel nobody is making (that's also not the argument made in the parent posts)

Pirates would be the closest thing that comes to my mind, but it's more an economic activity inside a society than a separate culture.

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