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Ross Ulbricht pardoned by Trump

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The name Agora Road is a way to pay tribute to Ross Ulbricht A.K.A The Dread Pirate Roberts, Ross Ulbricht, creator and owner of the Silk Road website. The name Agora Road is a mixture of the name Silk Road and and the word "Agora" which is a Greek ancient marketplace where travelers can come gather and share their cultures and this place is heavily influenced by vaporwave.
A great man who defy the authoritative government. He was a libertarian who ran the notorious dark web site Silk Road. It was the worlds largest darkweb website and it was a great big FUCK YOU to the rampant war on drugs. He is hero in my eyes but Atlas Ross Ulbricht got caught. He only wanted a Free Market society, free of government influence but the FBI got him. He is going to spend the rest of his young life in prison. Consider making a donation at the Free Ross Fund here

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Trump is an Agora Road user. Cant recall if this was shared publically or not. But we had a lurker whose IP was from D.C.
 
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Trump is an Agora Road user. Cant recall if this was shared publically or not. But we had a lurker whose IP was from D.C.
Hey Mr. President. If you're reading this, the denizens of Agora Road (mainly me) would like to know your vaporwave preferences! Pull up a chair and join us. Also, I'm sure some of us would like to know if you're a fan of Quake or Unreal Tournament, and if you would formally make swatch beats the official time system of the US.
 
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Trump is an Agora Road user. Cant recall if this was shared publically or not. But we had a lurker whose IP was from D.C.
Hey Mr. President. If you're reading this, the denizens of Agora Road (mainly me) would like to know your vaporwave preferences!
C'mon guys, be real. DJT does not lurk on Agora Road.
But Barron probably does.
 
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I wonder if he'd have pardoned uncle Ted if he were still alive.
He only pardoned Ulbricht because it's politically acceptable to pander to libertarians. Unfortunately Ted K's ideas are still well outside of the overton window...for now.
 
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I won't even question the motive behind such an action.
I wonder if he'd have pardoned uncle Ted if he were still alive.
The man followed through on a campaign promise to the Libertarian Party.
He made this offer to the party in exchange for their support, and for possibly the first time ever, the LP has a policy win from using their leverage as the third largest party.
 
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This doesn't make any sense at all. In the grand scheme of drug war antics it makes even less sense.
trump promised to commute his sentence during the 2024 election to win over the libratarians' support, even if it contradicts his statements against the drug wars i don't think it will back fire on him.

most people outside of the tech or crypto spheres don't know who ross is nor about silk road(outside of maybe the occasional social media post about him today), so it is likely this choice won't impact his appeal to the people who might have voted for him because of his drug war related promises. trump won support from libratarians for basically free as far as he is conserned.
 
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