Still can't make sense of that one outside massive corruption
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Fentanyl was prohibited on Ulbricht's website.
Can you source this? I can't find any links that talk about fentanyl sales being banned. The site sold thousands of drugs/gold/bitcoin/cash/ids/hacking tools, on and on:
Banning a popular drug seems unlikely. Testing to make sure people weren't selling it anyway certainly never happened.
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Didn't he also pay to have someone assassinated?
Evidence was tainted/fabricated by a crooked cop and Ulbricht was never convicted of it.
Well, that's not quite what happened. There is evidence he ordered the hit and paid for it. The tainted cop tricked Ulbricht into thinking that the killing took place.
Source:
Page 19 under heading "2. Murders Commissioned by Dread Pirate Roberts"
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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.
Shut the border down to all Americans until they can control their criminals. They arent sending their best.
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Trump: *word-farts some demented rapist bullshit as per usual*
Corporate News: Well actually it turns out his actions point to this being a false claim . . .
People for whom this is somehow still news: We told you so!
Me:
He does like the word tremendous, also weak border policie with who? USA?!?
Another member of the cool guy club guitar riff
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
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...
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.
I don't think there was ever any solid proof Ross tried to do that.
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.
Yeah and you can find them in the internet too, on telegram, instagram.
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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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!
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.
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.
Rule by the man with the thickest fingers is no basis for a system of governance!
Trudeau should call him Mayor, or even better, "Convicted Rapist and Felon".
And Trudeau called him "a special American, [...] Donald" :D
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.
Carpet bomb them with inaccuracies and they'll spend too much time correcting you to keep up.
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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Both, he honestly believes that he will take Canada and Trudeau will be demoted to a governor somehow.
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