On Sun, Jun 27, 2021, 7:35 PM David Barrett <[1]dbarrett@expensify.com>
   wrote:

   On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 4:19 PM Karl <[2]gmkarl@gmail.com> wrote:

   On Sun, Jun 27, 2021, 7:12 PM Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0
   <[3]punks@tfwno.gf> wrote:

             That's nonsense. It was all just drugs, and there's
     absolutely no reason to apologize for it.

   I agree IF you are in support of unrestricted sale of hard narcotics,
   then that's fine.  It just happens to be that in the US (and virtually
   everywhere else in the world), most people aren't, and the legal
   structure reflects that.

             We have YET ANOTHER US govt turd alias 'david barnett'
     posting the most idiotic trolling nonsense one can imagine :  "But
     but, the US govt is good and drugs are baad!" - Please.

   David's able to speak so rationally, how do we protect him?

   Thank you, I appreciate that!  The idea that

   Be well, David.  I don't know you at all.

   everyone who speaks up in defense of the US government is automatically
   a government plant comes from a pretty sad worldview.  In

   the real world, our representative democracy was built by people who
   largely agree with it (tautologically so) -- which means we largely
   agree with it's fundamental structure, it's general workings, and it's
   overall results.  I know it's not very fashionable to be patriotic
   these days (Trump was about the worst thing I can imagine for "Brand
   USA"), but I think part of democracy is recognizing that it's *ok* to
   dislike the outcome of a good process, while still agreeing the process
   itself is good.

   It's best if we think of ways to improve it.

   For someone to say they are ok with Silk Road and what appear to be
   genuine attempts to hire killers, proven instances of

   ???? Did you miss my last reply?  The link you posted had to use a
   private conversation as evidence since there was no trade records of
   such things, and the prosecutor admitted there was no indication
   killers were actually hired.

   the sale of hard narcotics, and the

   To be clear here, the person in prison did not sell narcotics, right?
   They provided a platform for general trade, where others sold
   narcotics.

   widespread platform for money laundering and tax evasion -- is kind of
   to say they are a

   ???? Bitcoin already exists and people are finally realising it doesn't
   make anything private.  Ross Ulbricht didn't invent bitcoin.

   pretty extreme outlier.  It's not our government's job to reflect the
   attitude of every outlier -- and anyone who wishes it did, almost
   surely would not support all the other equally extreme but very
   different attitudes our government also correctly ignores.
   -david

   Looks like you've won here.

References

   1. mailto:dbarrett@expensify.com
   2. mailto:gmkarl@gmail.com
   3. mailto:punks@tfwno.gf