0xen 🎩
@0xen
If ross looked like this, instead of this he'd still be in jail rn. Dude tried to have multiple people killed, there's chat logs, it's on the blockchain. Some of those people weren't real, at least one was. Either way this was his m.o. just after like 18 months or being the Dread Pirate Roberts. Crazy that people cheer him on.
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
As usual I think it’s a case of multiple narrative layers getting mixed up, and people looking at the same case but from different angles. Trump’s pardon is not without afterthought — he called the prosecutor “scum” which shows that the decision is partly motivated by vindictive behavior. Then most people agree the sentence was heavy-handed relative to the charges that stuck —even the appellate court said so (screenshot)— and needed revisiting. The murder-for-hire part also doesn’t sit well with me. If Ulbricht is guilty of ordering hits, then regardless of whether they happened, he deserves a long sentence on par with an actual murder But given the questionable chain of custody for the evidence here, and given that it was never tried by a jury of his peers, I’m eventually ok with ignoring that aspect of the case. Which means that Ulbricht, like any other citizen, should not be treated more harshly on the basis of a suspicion, no matter how strong So on balance I’m ok with the outcome
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
In a way, I think the analog is — imagine you’re sitting on a jury and you’ve been presented with reasonably compelling evidence for an attempted murder. But, the judge says that the evidence is not admissible due to a tainted investigation, and instructs you to ignore it. It must be really difficult to pretend you never saw that evidence, and not let it bias your judgment; and yet it’s the right thing to do. We’re not in a court of law, so the bar is lower here — but we can still hold ourselves to looking at this case with a similar lens. It’s what I try to do. In which case it’s reasonable not only that Ulbricht got released eventually, but also to welcome that decision given only the facts at hand. None of this is straightforward and I agree that there’s some degree of discomfort left
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