Party Convention with Fighting and Obsenities
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I read that Trump vowed to commute Ross Ulbricht's sentence if he's elected. Ulbricht is the guy who set up the "silk road" black market for drugs on the dark web, and will be spending the rest of his life in prison without a commutation. He was also conned into attempts to hire assassins to take out some business enemies.
Education is extremely important.
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I read that Trump vowed to commute Ross Ulbricht's sentence if he's elected. Ulbricht is the guy who set up the "silk road" black market for drugs on the dark web, and will be spending the rest of his life in prison without a commutation. He was also conned into attempts to hire assassins to take out some business enemies.
@Horace said in Party Convention with Fighting and Obsenities:
I read that Trump vowed to commute Ross Ulbricht's sentence if he's elected.
Yes. I had no idea who this guy was, @Horace - thanks for the explanation.
Of note, when Trump made that promise, the crowd cheered him.
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@Jolly said in Party Convention with Fighting and Obsenities:
Maybe he's just trying to enlarge the tent.
We've already heard more than enough about his efforts in that direction with Ms. Daniels.
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@Jolly said in Party Convention with Fighting and Obsenities:
Maybe he's just trying to enlarge the tent.
We've already heard more than enough about his efforts in that direction with Ms. Daniels.
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I read that Trump vowed to commute Ross Ulbricht's sentence if he's elected. Ulbricht is the guy who set up the "silk road" black market for drugs on the dark web, and will be spending the rest of his life in prison without a commutation. He was also conned into attempts to hire assassins to take out some business enemies.
@Horace said in Party Convention with Fighting and Obsenities:
Ulbricht is the guy who set up the "silk road" black market for drugs on the dark web,
I read a story about him and how they captured him. It was pretty interesting. After a long long time, they were able to trace his username (I think it was Dread Pirate) back to him. They found he did a lot of work at the library in San Fran (I think). They were (correctly) afraid that he had some type of self destruct switch on his computer, so they set up a distraction where two federal agents posed as a couple and started to get into an argument near where he was sitting. He obviously noticed and when he was distracted, the other agent grabbed him, made sure he did not touch the computer, etc. Quite a good story about it.
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If you were a self proclaimed libertarian, who would you vote for, assuming you wanted your vote to count?
@Mik said in Party Convention with Fighting and Obsenities:
If you were a self proclaimed libertarian, who would you vote for, assuming you wanted your vote to count?
I dont know much about them, but I would guess that they would most go towards the Republicans.
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@Horace said in Party Convention with Fighting and Obsenities:
Ulbricht is the guy who set up the "silk road" black market for drugs on the dark web,
I read a story about him and how they captured him. It was pretty interesting. After a long long time, they were able to trace his username (I think it was Dread Pirate) back to him. They found he did a lot of work at the library in San Fran (I think). They were (correctly) afraid that he had some type of self destruct switch on his computer, so they set up a distraction where two federal agents posed as a couple and started to get into an argument near where he was sitting. He obviously noticed and when he was distracted, the other agent grabbed him, made sure he did not touch the computer, etc. Quite a good story about it.
@taiwan_girl said in Party Convention with Fighting and Obsenities:
@Horace said in Party Convention with Fighting and Obsenities:
Ulbricht is the guy who set up the "silk road" black market for drugs on the dark web,
I read a story about him and how they captured him. It was pretty interesting. After a long long time, they were able to trace his username (I think it was Dread Pirate) back to him. They found he did a lot of work at the library in San Fran (I think). They were (correctly) afraid that he had some type of self destruct switch on his computer, so they set up a distraction where two federal agents posed as a couple and started to get into an argument near where he was sitting. He obviously noticed and when he was distracted, the other agent grabbed him, made sure he did not touch the computer, etc. Quite a good story about it.
Yes that's correct, your memory and perceptions are good. I read the book about it written by douche Nick Bilton, who I didn't know was a douche when I read it. It's a compelling read.
How did I eventually discover Nick Bilton is a douche, you ask? Well, I also listen to culture/politics podcasts on occasion, and he hosted some mainstream progressive mag's podcast, and oh boy.
Education is extremely important.
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If you were a self proclaimed libertarian, who would you vote for, assuming you wanted your vote to count?
@Mik said in Party Convention with Fighting and Obsenities:
If you were a self proclaimed libertarian, who would you vote for, assuming you wanted your vote to count?
That would probably depend which party you wanted to be let down by more.
You've got a choice:
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Vote for the guys who don't give a shit about what you believe.
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Vote for the guys who don't give a shit about what you believe but pretend they do for a couple of months.
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Vote for the guy who believes what you believe but nobody else gives a shit about.
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giving a shit is not a great barometer of much when it comes to national level politics. You want to vote for the person with your principles, rather than your heart. Even if the principles are performative and entirely learned as the act of a person who only wants to gather votes.
The problem with giving a shit when it comes to hugely broad politics, is that whatever your candidate supports, can absolutely be framed as murdering babies, at some point. I mean it comes down to murdering babies at some point, and I don't mean only the abortion idea. All politics comes down, at some point, to framings where babies are murdered. You just have to get beyond it.
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@taiwan_girl said in Party Convention with Fighting and Obsenities:
@Horace said in Party Convention with Fighting and Obsenities:
Ulbricht is the guy who set up the "silk road" black market for drugs on the dark web,
I read a story about him and how they captured him. It was pretty interesting. After a long long time, they were able to trace his username (I think it was Dread Pirate) back to him. They found he did a lot of work at the library in San Fran (I think). They were (correctly) afraid that he had some type of self destruct switch on his computer, so they set up a distraction where two federal agents posed as a couple and started to get into an argument near where he was sitting. He obviously noticed and when he was distracted, the other agent grabbed him, made sure he did not touch the computer, etc. Quite a good story about it.
Yes that's correct, your memory and perceptions are good. I read the book about it written by douche Nick Bilton, who I didn't know was a douche when I read it. It's a compelling read.
How did I eventually discover Nick Bilton is a douche, you ask? Well, I also listen to culture/politics podcasts on occasion, and he hosted some mainstream progressive mag's podcast, and oh boy.
@Horace LOL on your douche comment.
I dont know if he deserved life in prison, but the defense of "I didn't make any money off it. I was just trying to make the internet free for everyone" or something like that seems kind of lame.
If you are interested (or President Trump is interested) you can sign a petition or get a tee shirt here. https://freeross.org
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Actually, I thought he handled it pretty well. I was rather impressed, especially If you watched from the beginning.
That being said, the pandering and the promise of releasing the drug guy that hired assassins helped remind me where I won’t be voting…
The Brad
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Actually, I thought he handled it pretty well. I was rather impressed, especially If you watched from the beginning.
That being said, the pandering and the promise of releasing the drug guy that hired assassins helped remind me where I won’t be voting…
@LuFins-Dad said in Party Convention with Fighting and Obsenities:
the pandering and the promise of releasing the drug guy that hired assassins helped remind me where I won’t be voting
At least he didn't promise to cancel...
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PResident Trump comments:
"The reason I didn’t file paperwork for the Libertarian Nomination, which I would have absolutely gotten if I wanted it (as everyone could tell by the enthusiasm of the Crowd last night!), ....
