• BilboBargains@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    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.

    • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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      2 days ago

      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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        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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        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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      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.