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Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz have significant influence on staffing.

Vivek Ramaswamy is a partner at a16z

I don't think Trump actually has a lot of Core Beliefs besides do stuff that appears strong on tv.

A large portion of people at the Libertarian convention that Trump gave a speech at would prefer complete legalization of all drugs.

I think it's a belief that a lot of us arrive at early in our lives, many eventually grow out of it.

one of the German states foundations is responsibility for the Holocaust, which led to the founding of the state of Israel.

There are laws in Germany that make it a crime to condone a crime (forgive, overlook, allow, permit )

Some German courts have ruled that the slogan "between the river and the sea" is condoning the unlawful removal of Israelis or that the slogan is firmly attached to Terrorist Organization Hamas (therefore is by default a criminal statement )

Plenty of people have been fined for chanting the slogan at German protests against the current conduct of Israel in Gaza and West Bank.

There isn't a German law that states "it is illegal to criticize Israel" but laws like the following have been used to punish people criticizing Israel, in Germany:

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__130.html

Some German courts have thrown out some of these cases, they don't agree the Condone Crime laws can be applied to chanting 'between the river and the sea'

I think they were dropped because in 1 out of the 6 cases, the investigation was tainted because the associated government agents committed their own crimes, and also maybe but I can't prove it everyone thought that prosecuting someone who has been sentenced to 2 life sentences + 40 years is a waste of time.

People are usually jailed for hiring contract killers, even if the contract killer happens to be a FBI informant and the murder does not end up getting done.

I totally blame Amazon!

I never did any drugs but when I was growing up, it was understood that you needed to keep your drug use somewhat secret, behind closed doors, hidden from the public, I expected there would be consequences from the police if I decided to do drugs out in the open.

Now I see guys doing extremely hard drugs out in the open on the street and on buses. it is a jarring. They're usually not trying to inject or exhale on me ( though the meth smoke guys on some buses don't seem to care ).

I don't understand why people keep stating Silk Road did not sell guns.

Here's a thread in a forum where someone quotes Ulbricht's message stating Silk Road will no longer sell guns.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=66587.msg1079466#msg...

I was at the sentencing, I do not remember the judge mentioning the murder-for-hire cases. To me it was obvious that the prosecution defense and judge had agreed beforehand to not mention it. The judge gave plenty of other reasons for the harsh sentence.

The lengths the FBI went to in one of the murder for hire cases is interesting.

After Ulbricht ordered the hit on one of his forum moderators, the FBI visited him, took all of his computers, told him they were going to be "him" from now on online forever, had him "pose" in a bathtub where they hosed him off and doused him in ketchup to take fake trophy photos, had the "hitman" send the photos of Ulbricht, who famously commented "It had to be done."

It's the scale of the crime (he facilitated 10s of thousands of transactions), the judge clearly stated she wanted to make an example of him and give pause to anyone thinking about doing something similar in the future, and she was angry at the many of the letters of support Ulbricht's fans family and friends sent the court.

My memory is she started the sentencing hearing by disdainfully reading a few of them from a pile of them she brought to the court that day.

If I go to a bar and end up hiring a hitman to kill my wife, and the hitman happens to be a FBI asset, I'm still going to jail.

There was deliberately no mention of the alleged murders-for-hire during the trial.

The judge said during sentencing that she was giving Ulbricht an incredibly harsh sentence to make an example of him to others who think that facilitating selling drugs is a victimless crime, and she was also angry at the huge stack of nice letters that people sent to the court in support of Ulbricht.

Ulbricht's career represents many core values of a certain wing of today's Libertarians.

* unfettered and unregulated and anonymous weapons sales. * willful ignorance and rejection of any of the social costs of buying and selling hard drugs. * commerce that operates in a world that is difficult to be taxes by government entities, and ideally anonymously (even though bitcoin is the least anonymous thing in the world)

Sounds like his next step was anonymous assassination markets.

> Silk Road didn't actually facilitate any selling/buying of weapons or any items "whose purpose was to "harm or defraud"

There was definitely a fake ID tab on it. Isn't fraud one of the main purposes of having a fake ID?

Guns were definitely for sale on Silk Road. Ulbricht stopped selling them because it wasn't lucrative enough.

I can't find the original post, but this post quotes his comments at the time when he closed the gun forum:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=66587.msg1079466#msg...

Plenty of meth where I live !

Albanian is unique because its the only surviving branch of a particular branch of proto-Indo-European languages .

This is a pretty good explanation

http://www.krysstal.com/langfams_indoeuro.html

I've read a few of these sources, it is my understanding that nearly 2/3 of all buildings in

North Korea were destroyed in the Korean War. S3 Sources - Blowback https://search.app/8ZBidRZFnNxnWUcG9

I don't think it's too hard to figure out why the US has worked closely with the South Korean for decades. They're anti Communist.

The opinion among the few Albanian history nerds in Albanian that I know is that the bunker project was really about diverting the country's resources into busy work to keep the population occupied, instead of investing in intellectually stimulating pursuits that could result in a threat to Hoxha's control.

It's really about how the US gov is concerned that an app installed on half of all US cell phones is controlled by a company that is not 100 percent beholden to the US gov and stock market regulation, by a company that doesn't have to instantly respond to pressure from the Executive branch, could possibly refuse to instantly comply from pressure from US intelligence agencies, could refuse to comply with search requests from US law enforcement, and extensive lobbying from Facebook to cripple a competitor that Facebook ignored until it was too late.

It's not a free speech issue.

Given that the infra for serving US tiktok customers is in the United States(inside of Oracle Cloud), I am curious if Tiktok/bytedance responds to US law enforcement requests.

Tiktok works fine for me if I pretend to be in Singapore.

I open up tiktok: I see cute dog videos.

I open up Twitter: Immediately get pushed white nationalist great replacement was Hitler actually bad? posts.

Incredible.

> There is this podcast called Behind the bastards

I know so much more now about the figures behind the rise of the fascism before the end of WW2 because of this podcast.

"The Beekeeper"

To me the difference there seems to be an incredible amount of large pools of money and billionaires publicly committing 100s of millions of dollar each to PACs, totally billions and billions, that clearly 100 percent exist to get Trump elected, but of course no PAC would ever think about aligning their activities with the Trump campaign because that would be against the law.

But Harris did raise a billion dollars, it is true.

> Why wasn't such cartoon made when Mark Zuckerberg donated $400 million to essentially increase Get-out-to-vote in essentially largely democratic areas.

untrue.

That study is from CIS. CIS' founder was

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

then you should look up "Jared Taylor". Then look up "American Renaissance"

The DOGE guys + Executive branch will try to get the Supreme Court to rule that the phrase "take care" in the Constitution means that the President has the power to fire any government employee at any time.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S3-3-1/...

have you tried deep sea exploration in an experimental vessel?

What's wrong with eating at Souvla?