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

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

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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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    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

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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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      Also the “tremendous amounts” of fentanyl coming in from Canada last year came to about 250 lbs.

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

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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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      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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    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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          The actual danger is that the system is denying people medications so they need to get them on the black market.

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    Another garbage pardon by garbage people. Why does he like criminals soo much!? Oh yeah, he is one himself.

    I guess the silver lining is that we can recognize no one single entity should be allowed this discretion to pardon people. Donald Cuck’s abuse of this privilege helps us realize that is should not be a privilege at all.

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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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    my assumption is that he wants a guy like that to assist in the operations of a new american run private cartel network, after they have ousted mexican cartels who cant be reasoned with to give up their profits to the US Oligarchs and private contract groups. they get a chance to install their own american run mexican cartel in mexico, and take over their drug trade for private funding operations. it would explain the 3000 troops they sent to the southern boarder, among other “official” reason.

    this guy will help them with connecting with private sellers, to private clients, and logistics. im also assuming that this “new silk road” will be heavily monitored under the guise of decentralization and privacy, for use in things like blackmail, and coercion of users. or simply to attack other drug trade networks by undermining their image and pricing.

    but what do i know? im just some guy in a bathtub.

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      This tracks given his posts the other day about “the US beginning the crypto capital of the world”

      It’s all about to become some dark enlightenment bullshit

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    And yet no more than 2% of the drug problem is entering through Canada illegally, apparently. The bulk is smuggled in by regular citizens via regular channels. Funny that.

    My source is Leejah Miller.

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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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        I don’t think there was ever any solid proof Ross tried to do that.

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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.