• BrotherL0v3@lemmy.world
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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.

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      Facts only matter to people who understand that facts are real and measurable things and not opinions and feelings.

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      Shut the border down to all Americans until they can control their criminals. They arent sending their best.

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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!

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      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.

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      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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      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.

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        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.

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      Carpet bomb them with inaccuracies and they’ll spend too much time correcting you to keep up.

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    Fentanyl is so bad it is prohibied even on deep web illegal marketplaces. Do some research before spreading lies. A lot of stuff was not allowed on the silk road.

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    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

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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:

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    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…

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      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.

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        I don’t think there was ever any solid proof Ross tried to do that.

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        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.

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      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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        I wish I’d have saved some of those images; I can assure you they did exist. I don’t think it was a prominent part of the site, with their main focus on illegal substances/goods, but it was definitely there.

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          Someone who definitely wasn’t me often browsed the whole site in awe at what was sold and never saw anything like that

          I’m not saying he didn’t find them, but I am very confident it would have been against the ToS. The admins had a pretty hard line stance on it because it would take the site from “very illegal” to “extremely illegal”

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      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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    I agree that Trump doesn’t care about the fentanyl issue. If he did, he’d be ending the war on drugs.

    I would like to point out, Ross Ulbricht was sentenced for running a website, to double life plus 40 years in prison without possibility of parole. It was a bullshit sentence that came at the end of a trial of questionable integrity. The fact that neither Obama or Biden pardoned him is one more embarrassment for the Democrats.

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      He was not sentenced for running a website, holy shit man. He paid to have people killed and in at least one case believed it happened (it didn’t, the hitmen were all scammers or law enforcement)

      Let’s not paint a rosy picture of Ross Ulbrecht here.

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      “Sir I did not bring in tons of cocaine across the border, I only drove a boat”. Is essentially your argument.

      Now I’m not against what the silk road was initially supposed to be, but this guy took it to a whole new level of fucked.