• GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    4310 months ago

    My friend told me to stop ordering cocaine via the mail. I told him he was disrespecting a future US army soldier.

      • rootsbreadandmakka [he/him]
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        came onto this thread thinking about just that deeper-sadness those were the days

        we also used to be able to mail order psychedelic truffles from the netherlands due to some legal gray area or something? Idk we did it a bunch and never got arrested. Checked a few years ago if this was still possible and it’s not deeper-sadness they just don’t want the kids to have any fun these days

        • Adkml [he/him]
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          510 months ago

          Had a high school buddy that went to the next college over that their whole floor sophomore year would order laundry lists of psychedelics and party drugs and get them delivered to the student mail room without issue.

          Then as an added bonus they realized 10 years later the absolute crumbs of leftover bitcoins they had to use to buy them were worth thousands of dollars.

          • rootsbreadandmakka [he/him]
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            410 months ago

            I so wish I kept track of my bitcoin. There’s probably a wallet somewhere that at one point was worth quite a large amount. But it was always just drug money to me and silk road shut down, then I stopped doing large amounts of drugs and it sort of became useless to me. Then a number of years later there’s this huge bitcoin craze…

        • Des [she/her, they/them]
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          just referred to this as such upthread.

          helped me kick a bad habit. and got to know this wonderful transwoman out in cali who shoveled many wonderful cannabis and concentrates she made onto me for cheap or free

          the community was really cool and felt like old school late 90s subversive hacker internet again

  • @DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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    4010 months ago

    So…why is military recruitment struggling in the US again? Promises of “Free drugs” and “Be immune the law” would get their numbers right back up.

    • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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      1910 months ago

      Fun fact: Genghis Khan distributed “be immune to law” priviledges to his commanders, but those were very rare, considered to be among the highest honours, were valid once or twice and military law was exempted from this.

      • Dolores [love/loves]
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        1010 months ago

        you can walk from one side of the empire to the other with a golden plate upon your head… unless Subutai really wants it & cashes in his good boy points

        • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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          Afaik there is no record of this priviledge being ever invoked, but we only have very scarce information about it so no wonder. Of all named people Shigi Qutuqu might possibly used it when he fucked up the battle against Khwarezmians which didn’t resulted in any visible consequence to him, but Genghis might just forgive him without it anyway considering their relations. Also it was him who probably wrote our main source about those event so he might just forgot to mention it (though he did mentioned pretty many embarassing things about Genghis himself).

          • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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            610 months ago

            I feel like “one get out of jail free card, because I like and trust you” is indistinguishable in function from “he forgave him for his failure, because he liked and trusted him otherwise.”

      • @DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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        510 months ago

        TIL. I guess sometimes you just need extra privileges to cut through the red tape. And by “red tape” I mean the Khwarazmian Empire.

    • @Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml
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      1510 months ago

      He has textured hair and beard - I don’t want to be a phrenologist here but there’s a good chance he’s just light-skinned or mixed-race.

      Not saying white privilege doesn’t exist but this may not be an example of it.

        • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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          Military privilege is def a thing in the US that goes beyond the tangible benefits (some retail stores giving discounts to veterans and such)

          Had a grandfather that served in the air force for a long time, any time he got pulled over for speeding he’d ‘accidentally’ give the cop his old military id first. He rarely got ticketed.

        • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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          Could be mestizo… or creole (white ethnic spanish born in Latine America)

          I mean, Latines are not a race, but an all-encompassing group of Lusophones and Espanyophones in Latine America, of varying races…

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            That is true, but the vast majority of Americans do not think in these terms. Because of that, many Latines who’d be considered white in Latin America arguably lack white privilege, or have it to a lesser extent than Anglos.

            My point is this guy is likely not viewed as white by his community.

            Also, as far as white privilege can go, arrested and charged white heroin dealers do not typically (and never explicitly) get off scot free for being white, but this guy faced 0 consequences explicitly because he is in the military.

            • That is true, but the vast majority of Americans do not think in these terms. Because of that, many Latines who’d be considered white in Latin America arguably lack white privilege, or have it to a lesser extent than Anglos.

              Well, now’d that I think of it, I thought more of the technicalities rather than the social construct of his status…

  • @dannoffs
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    3310 months ago

    “Brave freedom fighter arrested for trying to have a good time”

  • SnowySkyes [she/her]
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    3110 months ago

    Just a dude living his best life. Why go out for coke when it can be delivered to your doorstep? Guys thinking on a completely different level.

  • @SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net
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    3010 months ago

    lol, lmao

    What is it with Fort Bragg? Is it just because it’s so big, or is there something about it that makes it the “Florida” of US Army bases?

    • Des [she/her, they/them]
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      2010 months ago

      back in the brief golden age of this kind of thing having that kind of access actually helped me permanently kick the habit

      i was so used to inconsistent connects and being run around and buying as much as possible that finally having one click access meant budgeting, planning, and controlled transition to kratom

        • Des [she/her, they/them]
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          610 months ago

          not everything just drugs and big packages of pirated content for mere pennies. place was surprisingly ethical

          • Fish [Indiana]
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            210 months ago

            True. They also had counterfeiting stuff and counterfeit designer clothes. There were some other sites that had SUPER illegal stuff. Hopefully, the the Feds shut those ones down.