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1. l0ng1n+61[view] [source] 2025-01-22 00:19:42
>>Ozarki+(OP)
Absolute no brainer, he should be celebrated. Countless lives were saved via the harm reduction effect of a peer reviewed, reputation based platform. Of course if we had less draconian drug policy, it wouldn't be necessary but here we are.
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2. bdndnd+V2[view] [source] 2025-01-22 00:30:22
>>l0ng1n+61
Does trump also support needle exchanges and safe consumption sites?
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3. vkou+A3[view] [source] 2025-01-22 00:35:21
>>bdndnd+V2
As well as online drug marketplaces? Or would running one without legal trouble require a campaign-contribution booster pack?

What a beautiful political anschluss between people who just want to ban contraceptives and abortifacients, and people who just want to shoot up heroin. Not sure how you square that circle[1], but it's 2025, and here we are.

It's very telling about libertarian priorities when a cryptobro running an online drug marketplace who tried to hire a hitman gets amnesty, while hundreds of thousands of people who have been convicted of drug possession[1] do not. Likewise, somehow reproductive rights are just not a libertarian issue, either. It's not a party of freedom, it's a party of freedom for wealthy men.

[1] Biden gave a blanket pardon for people convicted of marijuana posession, but that's far less important for libertarians than Ulbricht.

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4. robert+ti1[view] [source] 2025-01-22 12:18:48
>>vkou+A3
> a cryptobro running an online drug marketplace who tried to hire a hitman gets amnesty

Would you call this amnesty? He was already in jail for a decade, I thought.

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5. vkou+qj1[view] [source] 2025-01-22 12:25:52
>>robert+ti1
I misspoke. The correct term is clemency.
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6. robert+w24[view] [source] 2025-01-23 09:57:34
>>vkou+qj1
In that case, yes, guilty people get clemency. Innocent people don't.
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