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BREAKING: Ross Ulbricht has been pardoned by President Donald Trump
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) January 21, 2025
If you don't know who Ross is
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β Free_Ross (@Free_Ross) January 22, 2025
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If people are curious he ran silk road, a place that sold a shit ton of contraband.
He also tried to organize a hit and called it off or something.
He is basically a sperg and thing got too hot too quickly. They gave him like 8 billion years in jail which was r-slurred. He's guilty but it's not like he tried to bring god down from the heavens by clamping both nipples to a steel wire and yanking him down. Way overcharged.
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Based off what I've read that was 100% bullshit and the feds even dropped that allegation but the judge still pretended like it mattered for sentencing.
!nooticers
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My memory of this is very foggy at this point, but wasn't one or both of the hitman and the target of the hitman an undercover glowie and they were basically antagonizing him into ordering the hit? And that whole process of baiting him into ordering a hit was done so they'd have an excuse to spend more resources on catching him
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I got all my information from libertarian propagandists who were probably lying, I'm not sure tbh
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Probably same here. But I think the progression of events went that the feds dropped all of the charges related to the hitman as soon as it became apparent that the hitman and/or target was an undercover fed.
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My understanding is that's the case of all hitmen basically ever, right?
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I think so, yes. To an even greater extent than all .onion firearms vendors being ATF agents.
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Luigi is a GOOD faith hitmen
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I saw his messages with a "hitman" who was just a scammer. But he was legit trying to whack a guy who was blackmailing him and some other people. The scammer was pretending to be a heck's angel.
https://www.wired.com/2015/02/read-transcript-silk-roads-boss-ordering-5-assassinations/
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He ordered kidnapping, torture and murder of five people and responded to the (fake) proof images with satisfaction. But yea, he's just a good kid who dinndu nuffin
!commenters
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If you arrested anyone who's ever ordered or gloated over a murder half this site would be in gigajail
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And that's a bad thing why?
@JustAStupidFrickingGayStragg say this as a feminist ally
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Not me tho
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Sounds pretty based to me
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He was going to kill people who were acting in bad faith.
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why ping people with this comment
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Because it's a great comment and everybody needs to read it
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Fake news
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yeah sick frick
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Yeah the 2 main feds who led the actual task force or something , Carl Mark Force IV and Shaun Bridges, also stole a like a million of the seized bitcoin or something too which was hid during the trial. They eventually were convicted and and went to prison but despite being ultra corrupt they were already released in 2020/2021.
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this nibger got 400 life sentences and people who r*pe children get like two years suspended
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yeah he only made $10 million dollars off of selling $200M worth of drugs. that should only be what, five years? remember when kkkonservatives were supposed to be TOUGH ON CRIME? shutting down the drug cartels killing REAL rural americans with fentanyl?
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I'm not a conservative. I don't care all that much about drug sales by themselves. Cartels are bad because they're violent. This neighbor wasn't violent.
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Should aevann be arrested just because I've bought drugs on rdrama???
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if you bought 200 million dollars of drugs then yes
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What you have read is incorrect.
He was separately charged with murder for hire out of MD. The feds do this all the time with unusual cases so they have a backup if the primary case fails. They dropped the 2nd case after he was convicted.
They didn't disclose most of the murder for hire evidence during the drug trafficking case. That is SOP for dual charging.
No idea if he actually did or not but the claims the charges are BS because they had weak evidence during the trafficking trail and that they didn't charge him with it are nonsense. They didn't know if a jury would bite the unusual case so kept that as a backup.
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I think he was scammed by a rogue FBI agent, so in the sense of guilty mind he did think that he was ordering a murder, but they didn't want to go into details.
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They view circumventing the government like this as just that
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CIA black budgets don't fund themselves so yeah
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They should be humbled
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Who should be?
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The glow in the dark CIA BIPOCs of course
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The part about him organizing a hit was bs.
The judge sentencing him overcharged him so hard because she explicitly wanted to make a show of white males not getting leniency.
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lmfao what kind of bullshit is this? I'd go full Darrell Brooks before I let some powertripping judge grandstand her r-slurred political views.
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Where's the lie?
"Hurr durr libertarian technology bitcoin" is a mega-rarted defence in court for drugs charges.
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how many years do you think someone should get for making ten million dollars off of the sale of two hundred million dollars of illegal drugs? just curious
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Less than 2 life sentences + 40 years, given the entire context.
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i think if you contributed to hundreds of thousands of people killing themselves with hard drugs you should get a worse sentence than if you sold drugs to like 10 people or killed 2?
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The mitigating circumstance is that the silk road provided more predictable substances with fewer violent turf wars. He deserved prison, but I think less than "brick and mortar" drug kingpins given those two salient facts.
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him getting life for it was ridiculous
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how large of a sentence should the head of a drug cartel get? nasty mexican guy whose drugs have killed thousands?
now, consider how many years do you think someone should get for making ten million dollars off of the sale of two hundred million dollars of illegal drugs?
another cuckservative who thinks WHITE people should get judicial affirmative action.
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Most people today believe cartel members should be put in jail for the murder, extortion and torture parts rather than the selling drugs part
(Most americans buy and use drugs)
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most people think selling cocaine is bad!
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Fake news
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sniff cocaine off my peepee?
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If it's pure ill think about it
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he shouldve been executed, like all drug dealers
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was he even dealing drugs or just giving people a place to deal drugs
i don't know any actual details beyond
hey its the silk road guy 
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He was actually taken down for soliciting a hitman with like extreme intent lmfao
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he wasnt charged with that was he
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Nah that's just how they caught him he was really super into trying to kill some motor gang guy
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Was it a self defense situation, like in the movies "Taken", "Taken 2" or "Taken 3"?
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I can't figure out if he just operated a lolbert free for all trade website that was anon and the people who sold drugs etc were an accident in the lolbert utopia plan, or he purposely did it like that, knew that would happen and tried to profit from drugs.
I dont' feel like googling any more of this, it's probably making my list larger
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If it was fent sure
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Was fent even a thing back then?
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I dont think so
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Actually, given the amount of acid that changed hands on TSR, it could technically be argued that something like this was a probable ancillary effect of what was happening there
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I hope they're still doing it with monero
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Also most of the undercover agents that infiltrated and facilitated transactions stole millions of Bitcoin. This was before blockchain analysis was a thing
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Average day in talmudic times. Ublricht is a goy confirmed
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