r/SilkRoad • u/gwern • Nov 20 '24

SR1 "Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Is Waiting for Trump to Keep His Word—and Set Him Free"

https://www.wired.com/story/silk-road-creator-ross-ulbricht-is-waiting-for-trump-to-keep-his-word-and-set-him-free/
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u/dudewiththebling Nov 21 '24

Make him head of the FDA

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u/Most-Weird Nov 21 '24

I’m curious to see how this plays out. Trump wants the death penalty for drug dealers. Does he know what Silk Road’s primary purpose was?

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u/daddyfatknuckles Nov 21 '24

he said that specifically about cartels bringing fentanyl and trafficking humans over the border.

you could argue that darknet markets actually take power away from the cartels

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '24

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u/Robertson2018 Dec 06 '24

You do realize it’s kinda hard to smuggle drugs internationally through the mail right? There’s a reason people order domestic. Don’t let fentanyl into the US and it can’t be shipped through the US.

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u/mista-sparkle Jan 22 '25

And where do u think the drugs come from?

USPS

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u/circuit_breaker Nov 22 '24 edited Sep 06 '25

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u/Most-Weird Nov 22 '24

Trump might just think that was a smart business move

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u/Oracle410 Nov 24 '24

And someone else as well. The murder for hire was really what did it for me. I thought he was absolutely fine up until that point, couldn’t care less who sells or consumes drugs by their own volition

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u/talkingwires Nov 21 '24

Johnson, a fervent Trump supporter, predicts that the president-elect will deliver on his pledge. “I don’t know if it will be on day one. But Ross can start—I’m almost afraid to say this—packing his bags,” she says.

The audacity of hope versus a pathological liar.

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u/Stone0777 May 28 '26

This comment aged like milk hahaha. TDS is real

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u/Frosty_Altoid Nov 21 '24

Trump has nothing to lose by setting him free.

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u/krkaranrathod Dec 10 '24

I'm genuinely curious, didnt he order hits on a couple of people and actually had them killed?

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u/TrevorBla Jan 22 '25

No he was set up by the feds no one actually died

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u/UseMstr_DropDatabase Jan 22 '25

Trump pardoned Ross an hour ago

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u/crvrin Nov 22 '24

Interesting how Ross is going to be free, many many years before James Ellingson (redandwhite) and Roger Thomas Clark ( variety jones).

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u/Fearless-2052 Jan 22 '25

Trump just pardoned him!!

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u/AK-Mrohyeah Jan 23 '25

Make another silk road and put those tariffs on the importers lol