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Oh whatever. Fuck Trump but Ross Ulbricht isn't as bad as your glorious leaders would have you think. It's time to end the fucking drug war already jfc.
Are you ignorant of how other countries decriminalize drugs? It's not like it's a free for all. They have services in place to educate people, offer safe and clean environments and give them help when they stop.
You asshole libertarians just want to make it legal. No other thought, no government services or help. The people can handle it but then you get on the road and see how people handle traffic lol. If you haven't been paying attention the drug war is effectively over. Now they need to decriminalize it properly.
Yes yes and alcohol and cigarettes get a pass because reasons.
You'll never convince me that running a marketplace allowing people to sell things to other people is worthy of life imprisonment. You'd even be hard pressed to convince me that people selling things you simply don't like to other people deserve life imprisonment. You can take your high horse right the fuck on out of here.
Never? Look, I’m not one to “think of the children” an argument, but you can’t think of a single thing that someone could facilitate the buying and selling of that is worthy of life imprisonment?
Not even CSAM? Not even human trafficking?
Well, "humans" aren't "things" and CSAM while it could be argued is a "thing" necessitates harming an unwilling or unable to consent individual to create.
Also, ykwim goddammit lmao.