President of a civilized country should not have this power.
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2025
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Keep in mind that a big part of why Ulbricht was in jail was paying to have multiple people murdered
Correct me if I'm wrong: IIRC the feds sent back mock pictures to 'confirm' the victims were killed, so I don't know if anyone was assassinated in reality but, as you said, Ulbricht payed to have them murdered.
Did you just restate exactly what the person above you already said?
I was clarifying and adding more details, and also restating to make it clear I wasn't disagreeing at all or trivializing it.
Was it? It wasn't mentioned in the article and I don't think I've ever heard that before.
"Ulbricht was found guilty of charges including conspiracy to commit drug trafficking, money laundering and computer hacking."
I've never heard about this.
Can you provide a source?
Google dude. It was all over the news back when it was new news.
Google didn't turn up anything conclusive.
Are you sure you're not misremembering this or making it up? It should be pretty easy for you to provide a source if it's true.
Don't be fooled - Trump cut a deal with the Libertarian Party promising he would do this if he won the election. It seems that yet again, he can conceive of no morality greater than transactionalism.
How does that fool people? It sounds like you're scared that some people may consider his pardon to be semi-good & it bothers you that he might be capable of some good too?
Well now I’m wondering who this could fool and how…
I have to say… even with the Elon influence, I didn’t see that one coming. Ulbricht stole capital from the rich and enabled stuff including human trafficking considered evil by the religious right. But I guess he also stuck it to The Man, for which he is being rewarded.
He's also partially responsible for why cryptocurrency has any worth at all.
Human trafficking is considered evil by everyone unless you're a pedo/psychopath
now we know why he was pardoned
Have any other good pardons come through?