Tildes (a closed garden Reddit alternative) frequently love to reminisce about the days of small forum communities. Maybe we need to bring them back.

Still, it’s a crappy justice system if literally running an international drug cartel thats administering adrenaline to torture victims (so they don’t fall unconscious), skinning them alive and hacking off their limbs with a chainsaw until they die gets you a lighter prison sentence than being a Libertarian web developer who ran the “Amazon of illegal narcotics” and went down what I can best describe as a dollar tree Walter White style descent into criminality.

And that’s just one of the cartel’s many torture and murder methods. They are mercilessly brutal and an incredibly good reason to stay away from huge parts of Mexico.

I’m not saying Ross didn’t do anything wrong (he certainly did) but there are worse convicts in the criminal justice system who are getting the chance of parole that Ross was denied.

I think Ulbricht received a disproportionately harsh sentence for his crime of running an online dark web narcotics marketplace. El Chapo only got one life sentence, plus 30 years for his role as a drug cartel kingpin. And last I checked, the Sinaloa Cartel are responsible for torturing and murdering hundreds, likely thousands of people through some of the most brutal and sadistic methods known to man. Ulbricht’s body count by comparison? Zero, unless you count the two attempts he made to hire hitmen.

As for why Ross got pardoned… A few months ago Trump visited the Libertarian National Convention on his electoral campaign and pledged to commute Ross Ulbricht’s sentence to that of “time served,” which suddenly made an otherwise-booing Libertarian crowd erupt into cheers.

Good on him for actually keeping to his word. He could very easily have flipped the middle finger to the Libertarians who voted for him based on that pledge.

1. He wasn’t charged with murder for hire.
2. Two of the DEA agents that solicited this actually tried to steal millions from the seizure, and each received custodial sentences for it.
3. The other time he tried to hire a hitman, it was a crypto scammer.

He did a second one that seemed far more coordinated in terms of its posture.

That is undeniably a Nazi salute. I’m actually more surprised he didn’t yell “HEIL DONALD” too

Nah, they’d learn Toki Pona, because it’s an amazing interlanguage.

She expelled her dad from the party for not toning down his rhetoric.

Not Marine Le Pen, her far more racist dad.

Boss makes a dollar

I make a dime

That’s why I’m jerkin

On company time.