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vunderba 85 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon

I don't think anyone in here is making the case that Ulbricht is a "good person", but comparing Escobar to Ulbricht is next-level delusional.

One of these people attempted to place hits on 3-4 individuals, the other one planted a bomb on a passenger plane that resulted in the deaths of over a hundred people.

Get some perspective and/or learn your history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avianca_Flight_203

jMyles 85 days ago [–]

> I don't think anyone in here is making the case that Ulbricht is a "good person",

I am.

He built a tool that allowed people to circumvent a wantonly unjust legal framework by an aging, decreasingly relevant state.

We need more of that.

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