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    Fun facts!

    85% of people arrested with fentanyl at the border as U.S. citizens.

    The vast majority of people arrested here for trafficking children are U.S. citizens (and children are over 3x more likely to be trafficked by an acquaintance or relative than they are a random kidnapper).

    “Illegal aliens” commit less crime than natural born U.S. citizens.

    Violent immigrants, perverted trans people, and incompetent DEI hires are all moral panics. You hear so much about them because the Republican party has nothing to offer that will make your life safer or easier.

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      Shut the border down to all Americans until they can control their criminals. They arent sending their best.

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      They’ve made a business out of selling panic and fear to the masses. Betraying their own people for money. Never trust a conservative politician or business person.

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      Facts only matter to people who understand that facts are real and measurable things and not opinions and feelings.

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      It’s also just missing the point entirely. The US is primarily responsible for ensuring that illegal substances do not cross its borders. The much, much more logical response by the US to this threat would be to increase searches of vehicles crossing the border. Obviously, we would still have to pretend that a drug as compact as fentanyl can in fact be stopped effectively, but in any case securing the border from the US’ side is not Canada’s responsibility.

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    Did this stupid mother fucker really refer to the Prime Minister of Canada as “governor”? Can’t tell if pushing the 51st state bullshit or he’s just that fucking dumb!

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      He thinks speaking diminutively to people automatically puts him in a position of power over them

      It’s an insecurity issue common with bullying

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        I wish people would start responding by referring to him as “washed up reality TV personality Trump”, or even better, “convinced felon Trump”

        It’s great because unlike “Governor Trudeau”, it’s actually true

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      He has been for a while now, which is actually a violation of the US’ nato obligations. But who care anymore, the US is no longer an ally.

      Edit: it also violates a ton of border treaties, and half a doze international agreements the US has benefited from for a long time. But just with NATO:

      Key points of the treaty

      • The parties agree to settle disputes peacefully
      • The parties agree to refrain from using force in a way that goes against the United Nations’ goals
      • The parties agree to consider an attack on one of them as an attack on all of them
      • The parties agree to consult about threats and defense matters
      • The parties agree to safeguard the freedom, common heritage, and civilization of their peoples
      • The parties agree to promote stability and well-being in the North Atlantic area

      Threatening Canada violates all of these and then some.

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      Canada at least has a “Governor-General” who is appointed by the British monarch.

      Edit: like several other commonwealth states, Canada is a completely separate country from the United Kingdom. It just happens, by law, that King Charles III is the king of all of them.

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        When talking about what Charles III is doing in relation to Canada in his position a king, we’re supposed to refer to him as the monarch of Canada, we just don’t tend to do it because he doesn’t live here full time.

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          Look, when the King of Canada, or his Governor General, perform official acts for Canada, they use the Great Seal of Canada, not the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It’s totally different, I promise.

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      Carpet bomb them with inaccuracies and they’ll spend too much time correcting you to keep up.

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      It’s the new “we’ll build a wall, and mexico will pay for it” - a clause so dumb that people will complain about that, unknowingly tugging “normalcy” a step in that direction.

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              I honestly never heard the term “tankie” before a few days ago. What is it? Extremist communists?

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                Tankies are fans of authoritarianism masquerading as communism. The term comes from the famous Tiananmen Square image.

                Edit: I was misinformed

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                That’s pretty much it, yeah. It’s worth noting, there is a lot of animosity on here, particularly from .world, for .ml and .hexbear instances. Both are heavily communist, far left communities, and get a bad rep because they are known for not accommodating liberal or other not as left viewpoints. This was particularly heated around the election with disagreements about voting for liberals vs protest voting.

                Fwiw I’m a strong believer if we are to organize against literal fascism we will need the liberal and the farther left to find enough common ground to work together. It’s a…work in progress on here.

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                  db0 (my instance and @Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com’ ) is a leftist anarchist instance and I’d say the animosity towards tankies is even stronger here.

                  it’s not anything to do with liberals vs leftists it’s that they handwave genocide and other atrocities as “western propaganda” and worship lennin and mao and stalin and north korea and so on and so forth.

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                  I would have organized against Harris because that would have been easier. I’m not looking to get shot by brown shirts in the street.

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        Tankies and libs are both authoriatians supporting different but co-dependent empires.

        They’re basically the same thing.

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      Decriminalised use/possession, for sure.

      But I always think the libertarian “just legalise all the drugs” is just odd.

      Regulated? So you mean preventing people from taking really stupid shit? Sounds great sign me up lol

      People gotta accept there are trade-offs to living in a society, and one of those is that there’s a limit to which we allow each other to get high. Because there are some drugs that make people aggressive, and I personally think these ought to be curtailed where possible. (Again, not a “war on drugs” style curtailment. But distribution, still illegal and criminal)

      You wanna take shit like meth? Cool, go out to the woods and never use socialised medicine where workers are at risk from people on such drugs, or just randoms walking down the street.

      I don’t think taking hard drugs should put you in prison, or even give you a criminal record, but actually legalising the distribution? Nah. Go live in the woods/hills away from everyone else.

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        Because there are some drugs that make people aggressive, and I personally think these ought to be curtailed where possible. (Again, not a “war on drugs” style curtailment. But distribution, still illegal and criminal)

        The first such drug that comes to my mind is alcohol. Its distribution was also criminalized in the past, eventually leading to an increase in organized crime.

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          There is of course nuance to this, and I don’t claim to be an expert on classifying drugs. Though, I don’t reckon I need to try to hard to argue that there are drugs far worse than alcohol out there. I’m simply stating a blanket “all drugs should be legal” is overkill.

          Alcohol certainly is ripe for abuse, also.

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            Drug criminalization pushes use into the shadows so that the most visible use is from those who are very loud and disruptive with it. I know you think you’re righteous with your “i don’t reckon i need to try to(sic) hard to argue” but you are operating on assumptions about substances borne of ignorance.

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              I’m not arguing for criminalisation of use and posession.

              Just making distribution of all drugs legal is overkill, in my opinion

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          I don’t really fully agree with the person you are responding too, but the level of aggression brought about from Meth use is significantly more potent and consistent compared to Alcohol, which is a little more variable depending on the person using it.

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        I don’t know if Meth use should constitute total exile from society, especially if you are trying to get off of it. Its a highly addictive drug and usually people use it because of a state of being deprived and desperate of any joy in life.

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          This is a misunderstanding, apologies. I’m saying if you’re advocating complete legalisation of distribution of every single drug out there, then I’m using hyperbole to point out that this is too much “freedom to” without considering “freedom from”.

          I think all drug use should be decriminalised.

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            Your choice, I won’t force you to read it, keep spreading misinformation all you want. It’s there for any who actually want to learn about his case and find out those charges were dropped and the agents convicted themselves.

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              I love that the left loves the war on drugs just to own the conservatives. The two are more alike than they think.

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                First time hearing that I like the war on drugs that I’ve so violently despised my entire life to fulfill a petty political agenda.

                I’m glad we have you here to correctly interpret what we think and believe! I bet you have many more similar gold nuggets that you can pull out of your colon.

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                Before pardon: Free Ross

                Wrong president does it: Wait akshully the corrupt cops that were convicted were right even though he was acquitted of those charges for lack of evidence!

                Fucking mind boggling. Like fuck me I don’t like the annoying orange either but this was the right move, he never should have been in jail (at all, end the drug war, but…) especially not “for life” for the crime of running a website.

                And free fucking Snowden while we’re here, goddamn.

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                The left opposes the state and its violent prohibition.

                The libs, tankies, fascists, etal who support prohibition… They’re right-wing.

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        For the whole drug exchange platform fair enough it might have beeneoverkill. But we are still talking about a guy who was up for killing people on his way. Not sure they are the best for society

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      Yea, there are so many other guys, that he pardoned, which are way worse…

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    I love that out minister Joly flat out told CNN, and I’m paraphrasing, “if we are being honest America is a net exporter of immigrants and drugs to Canada. Don’t lie and say this is about drugs or immigrants it isn’t. It’s about destroying the Canadian economy so you can annex us for everything that makes us one of the most desired countries in the world to live.”

    Seriously fuck America

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      Oh man, talk about a head fuck. Sending drugs/immigrants to Canada and guns/gangs to Mexico. We(usa) are rightly fucked as a society, over half of us probably feel a weird joy of being such a cluster fuck of a trailerpark neighbor. The shit we prop up, including narcissistic actions being praised, makes me glad that I’m seeing so many countries pushing back on importing more “American culture” and going by their own light.

      I think the “seriously fuck america” is a little much and vague. Even if immigrants and drugs from Mexico were previously perceived wrongly (at least in amplitude and hysteria), I never thought “fuck Mexico”. I think people are kinda forgetting that even if the coaches have changed, this is still America’s playbook. They’re not going to play unless they make us pay. We’ve been targeting smaller countries and doing the same bullshit with a clean smile to the world for decades. Look at the ACA, now everyone HAS to have insurance (doesn’t help affordability, and sometimes costs more), and they’ve tacked on a yearly fine if you don’t comply while basically allowing the government to subsidize the insurance ceos.

      We’re a publicly traded country now though instead of being privately cut-throat. Stock holders want their continued profits and they see bigger gains in bigger countries.

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        also, mexico’s cartel problem MAY have been started, or at least seriously ramped up, by the CIA-it’s exactly their SOP, and it got seriously bad like right after a teacher’s strike in oaxaca got juuuust a little too much popular support, started looking really communist.

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      America is also the number one consumer of drugs worldwide.

      But I bet you won’t see any of that money flowing to help that side of the problem.

      Just more boots to the door and guns in your faces while we take all your shit and auction it off while you’re locked up. Its sick.

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    Worse; you could buy people from the silk road. Wives, children, nanny’s slaves… Along with military equipment, drugs ofc, stolen goods, and pretty much anything illegal that has a buyer.

    Had a friend that liked buying drugs there, and would send me screenshots of some of the insane ads he found. He was pissed when it got shut down, and moved to a market called ‘Agora’.

    Broke off that friendship quite a while ago and haven’t heard about it since. Not really my scene…

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      This isn’t true, there was no category for buying human beings. I don’t even think hitmen were allowed to offer their services.

      Military equipment and stolen goods, absolutely. Hacked accounts, too. But any ad he found was either promptly removed or was never on The Silk Road to begin with.

      Other non-drug markets did exist at the time but I never went on them so I can’t confirm if they were selling slaves.

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        I wish I’d have saved some of those images; I can assure you they did exist. I don’t think it was a prominent part of the site, with their main focus on illegal substances/goods, but it was definitely there.

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          Someone who definitely wasn’t me often browsed the whole site in awe at what was sold and never saw anything like that

          I’m not saying he didn’t find them, but I am very confident it would have been against the ToS. The admins had a pretty hard line stance on it because it would take the site from “very illegal” to “extremely illegal”

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      False, no human trafficking, cp, or hitmen services were allowed and were promptly removed, except when Ross him self tried to buy one. Obviously people attempted to hide their sales, just like they do in the clearnet, but the site had a policy against many things.

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        Maybe they weren’t permitted/encouraged, and eventually got removed, but you could definitely find them there. I wish I’d saved images; but this was 15years ago.

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    Pardoning Ulbricht is the incredibly thin silver lining of Trump’s presidency. These drug war advocates talk like they really believe this problem can be solved with criminal justice, meanwhile they defund harm reduction education and make healthcare inaccessible. It’s diabolical.

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      Ulbricht was a sack of shit. He tried to hire several hitmen to kill agents investigating his stuff. He isn’t someone you want to get behind.

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        He tried to hire several hitmen federal agents to kill agents investigating his stuff.

        In Ross’ defense people should defend themselves from violent prohibitionists who lock encage, torture, and murder people.

        Prohibitionists are the true sacks of shit. Endlessly profiting from drugs and violence.

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          …prohibiting the sale of child pornography, weapons, and drugs. But I see you’re neatly setting some of these aside.

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          Dude he hired FBI agents whom he thought were hitmen. If he knew they were Feds he would not have done it.

          I believe in lifting prohibitions on drugs. But that doesn’t make people like Ross stand up guys. He is genuine sack of human shit.

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        The war on drugs is not ethical and the very last people I will get behind are law enforcement. The case against Ulbricht was a tissue of lies and fabrication.

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      I had never heard of him or the Silk Road. I just looked it up and it seems like there was some benefit to creating a place where people could find drugs without the dangerous human encounters that can happen during these sales but it also said that the site was used to trade in illegal weapons, hacking tools and tutorials, hit men for hire and other unlawful goods and services. Doesn’t sound like much of a silver lining to me. More like an aluminum lining.

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        Would you trade in weapons or hacking tools? Those are societal problems and locking up a single person makes literally zero difference to that problem. The reality is that there are now many competing sites offering the same items and worse. The opioid crisis in America was created by literally one family, the Sackler’s, why aren’t they in prison? This is a justice system that behaves like a banana republic.

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          Your agreement could be used for the crime of mass shootings. It’s a societal problem, what’s the use in locking up one person?

          I think if it’s true, he should be locked up AND the Sacklers right next to him.

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            This is a criminal justice system where penalties scale with skin colour and inversely with wealth. They got pissy with Ulbricht due to the sheer scale of the manhunt required to get one person, a vast sum was spent that could have been spent on healthcare and harm reduction. They don’t actually care about the damage that drugs do or rehabilitation, this is about punishment. Everyone needs to take responsibility for their actions, except wealthy white people.

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            Innocent until proven guilty.

            By that logic, trump is “innocent” of treason.

            Just because it hasn’t been proven yet, doesn’t mean the accused didn’t do it. We are not judges, we don’t have to be impartial.

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              Well due to double jeopardy he can’t be tried again for the crime he’s already been acquitted for due to lack of evidence and police corruption, but you’re free to lick any boot you wish, and judge people based on all the untrue lies directly from the police you want to, it’s understandable!

              I’m assuming you also believe police like Derek Chauvin then, since he was also convicted and convicted corrupt cops are somehow trustworthy to you? No? Well by all means believe these corrupt cops and not those corrupt cops, corrupt cops can be right twice a day or whatever, even when they’re stealing millions of dollars of bitcoin from the guy they’re fabricating evidence against, that doesn’t mean that the fabricated evidence is fabricated!

              Why is there no “jerk off with eye roll” emoji? The world needs it.

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                Well due to double jeopardy he can’t be tried again for the crime

                Jan 6 insurrectionists got pardoned. Do you think they are “innocent”?

                Fucking no, they are still traitors.

                free to lick any boot you wish

                So… like bootlicking your daddy trump and his illegitimate pardons?

                I’m assuming you also believe police like Derek Chauvin then, since he was also convicted and convicted corrupt cops are somehow trustworthy to you?

                ???

                Dude mudered an innocent black man on camera? What are you talking about?

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                  No no, you misunderstand the circumstances. He wasn’t pardoned for the “murder for hire” charges, those got dropped. Years ago actually, quietly, after they were used to unfairly influence the case he was convicted in which the charges were “engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to distribute narcotics, conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to traffic fraudulent identity documents, and conspiracy to commit computer hacking.” For those charges he was convicted on all counts and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, but after that case ended the other case with the murder for hire charges was dropped for lack of evidence and police corruption in the case (and the cops themselves were actually convicted.) He can’t have been pardoned for a crime which he was never convicted in the first place. Not only that but the charges were dropped “with prejudice,” which means the court has looked at the merits of the case and made a final determination that the case should not move forward. The prosecutor is barred from refiling the charges at any future point.

                  The Jan 6th guys however were convicted of their charges, just as Ross was convicted of “engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to distribute narcotics, conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to traffic fraudulent identity documents, and conspiracy to commit computer hacking” and so basically “no they were convicted, Ross wasn’t but was overcharged for other crimes which he was convicted for.”

                  Look at it this way, if I’m a cop, and I just know you committed a murder, I’m damn sure of it, but I have no real evidence except for some stuff I fabricated, and then you get arrested for selling weed, I don’t think it should be legal for me to put you away for life for the charge of selling weed “because I toootally know you did that murder I don’t have evidence for.” Basically that’s what happened to Ross boiled down.

                  You may think someone deserves to die in prison for “engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to distribute narcotics, conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to traffic fraudulent identity documents, and conspiracy to commit computer hacking,” but I don’t, call me a progressive idk.

                  No no more like the boot licking you’re doing to the corrupt cops that were actually convicted for being corrupt. Wild choice but it’s yours to make. Meanwhile I’m “bootlicking” for that super dangerous…checks notes…webdev. Real scary guy that one.

                  I’m talking about your defense of convicted corrupt cops. Camera or not they were sent to prison and yet here you are parroting their lies, why?

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              By that logic, trump is “innocent” of treason.

              According to the state, he is absolutely innocent.

              Gotta remember there are at least two definitions of “justice”: the state’s version and common sense. They are almost never the same.

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            “Innocent until proven guilty” doesn’t exonerate a person from personal judgement based on facts simply because they have not been convicted in a court of law.

            Edit -

            Also, just because a case has been dropped doesn’t mean they weren’t guilty. Based on evidence, it’s more than reasonable to state he attempted to have someone assassinated.

            You’re also going to need to provide more supporting information than a single article that’s a clear opinion piece written by a business that is biased towards supporting Ulbricht. You also share this bias being an apparent libertarian yourself, which could imply you cherry-picked this article.

            Not that I can’t change my mind, but that one link ain’t gonna do it.

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                There is evidence, though. I provided a reputable source that states such. So, you’re just misrepresenting my point.

                The government also presented evidence that DPR commissioned the murders of five people to protect Silk Road’s anonymity

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                  https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/silk-road-drug-vendor-who-claimed-commit-murders-hire-silk-road-founder-ross-ulbricht

                  Yes, the allegations of a drug dealer who was himself caught are very reliable indeed, even though the case was dismissed due to lack of evidence and the agents charged with corruption involved with the case, we should believe the corrupt cops and cornered rat over the other guy and he should rot in prison forever for the thing that was dismissed due to lack of evidence and corruption, JUSTICE!

                  Btw, while this source backs your claim (that I never disputed) that he was accused of these crimes, you’re gonna hate this part:

                  The charges contained in the Indictment are merely accusations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

                  Now where have I heard that before? Oh yeah when I said it (among other places.) Interestingly enough the whole “proven guilty” part is the bit that never happened.

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      The same people that keep complaining about Trump supporters defending him no matter what keep making the same mental gymnastics to defend Ross Ulbricht without realizing.

      No idea why people keep defending him, he’s a piece of shit that should’ve stayed behind bars.

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      The guy is an idiot that saw dollars and let his brain shut down. No wonder Trump looks up to him.

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    It’s always been nothing but smoke and mirrors with Trump

    The thing he cares about is making you think he cares

    The grift is always his focus

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    I agree that Trump doesn’t care about the fentanyl issue. If he did, he’d be ending the war on drugs.

    I would like to point out, Ross Ulbricht was sentenced for running a website, to double life plus 40 years in prison without possibility of parole. It was a bullshit sentence that came at the end of a trial of questionable integrity. The fact that neither Obama or Biden pardoned him is one more embarrassment for the Democrats.

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      He was not sentenced for running a website, holy shit man. He paid to have people killed and in at least one case believed it happened (it didn’t, the hitmen were all scammers or law enforcement)

      Let’s not paint a rosy picture of Ross Ulbrecht here.

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        Woah, woah woah. You need to check you facts on this one. He was not sentenced for trying to have people killed. He was publicly accused of murder for hire, but not charged. He was sentenced for running a website and the judge wanted to “make an example”

        By all means link me a source that shows he was convicted of murder for hire if you think you can find one, but I can already tell you that you can’t.

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      “Sir I did not bring in tons of cocaine across the border, I only drove a boat”. Is essentially your argument.

      Now I’m not against what the silk road was initially supposed to be, but this guy took it to a whole new level of fucked.

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    Pardoning him was however a good thing, given price gouging regarding medications

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      What does that have to do with Ulbrecht??

      Edit: to be clear, darknet markets still exist, and never stopped existing. You don’t need to pardon someone convicted of attempted murder for this.

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        I’m going to guess there were prescription meds available on SR. The danger is, if they weren’t going through FDA or any oversight, it’s very possible they were some other “mix” containing addictive substances.

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          Sure, but darknet markets never stopped existing. You don’t need this one loser to be out of prison for these things to exist (and they probably function better without him)

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    As much as I hate Trump, I don’t think this is the “gotcha” it is being portraied as by this tweet. Silk Road was one of the best things to happen for the “safer use” movement of all time. The ability to not have to deal with shady street dealers and order from darknet suppliers on a platform that had legitimate reviews and an escrow system was a huge improvement to the safety of drugs users. It meant a much lower risk of contaminated drugs or getting scammed out of your money.

    Of course Ross allegedly also attempted to hire a hitman, which is how he got caught, cause the hitman was an undercover agent, so he allegedly is not a good guy regardless of how you think about him helping people get access to cleaner drugs, but that’s besides the point the author of the tweet is trying to make

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      People died from overdoses not to mention lots more ruined lives. I get you like the idea of drugs that are safer to order but that does not make it a good thing.

      Also lots of child pornography, murder for hire, human trafficking, and all kinds of other shitty things took place. So yeah, not exactly a good thing.

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        Silk Road did not offer child pornography, weapons, people or hitman services. Ross Ulbricht did not hire a hitman to kill his roommate. He was framed by the FBI and the roommate was coerced into helping stage the murder. The roommate later appologized and tried to get Ulbricht out of prison. Don’t believe all the propaganda. Drugs are dangerous, but law inforcement is always more dangerous.

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          Only 70% of purchases were drug related. I find it fascinating people triy to defend this garbage human being. Did he purposely offer hitman, weapons, and CP? Perhaps not, but there is no doubt these things took place on this site as they take place on every site. The difference is of course he profited from these interactions taking a cut of drugs and “other” services.

          I get it though, law enforcement is worse than the drug dealer that got your little sister hooked on fentanyl leading to her death.

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        People die from overdoses every day without the Silk Road so I don’t know where you get off making that argument.

        And in what world is safer drugs NOT a good thing?

        And I’m pretty sure every social media service has had problems with everything you listed at the bottom.

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          When someone facilitates the selling of illicit unregulated substances that cause the death of others they are often held responsible. Pretty sure that’s how it is supposed to work.

          I get it, you want to have an illegal unregulated illicit drug market and you don’t care who it harms. Pretty sure that makes you a POS unless I am missing something.

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        lots of child pornography, murder for hire, human trafficking,

        Are you talking about silk road? Is this some lib conspiracy that I haven’t heard? I think you need to read something based in reality.

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    That guy gave him wheelbarrows full of cash though. Rich and poor have different rules, duh.

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    If any of these worthless politicians actually gave a shit about drug abuse, they would end prohibition and offer basic social services.

    Never gonna happen regardless of the politician’s brand.

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      All research and successful drug policy shows that treatment should be increased and law enforcement decreased while abolishing mandatory minimum sentences

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        I will never understand how ruining someones life because they are using drugs is supposed to help them get off of drugs.

        Edit: don’t get me wrong, it’s great that this has been researched, but it seems so obvious.

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    I also want to point out that when whites are addicts, they go after the dealers. When blacks are addicted, they go after the users