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No lol the country with the largest prison population, that generates private profit by holding its people captive and hands out billions of dollars to police, the DEA and the FBI to capture them, well it just needs to hand out even more billions of dollars of “resources” to these agencies so they can lock up the real criminals and then crime will be properly dealt with!

The people in prison for dealing drugs arent the same people dealing drugs with bitcoin, you conflate gang members, prescription drug resellers and corner standers with the profile of a typical darknet drug dealer, which arent the same demographics for the most part.

No way you actually think this is reality. No way enforcement could just be a deeply inefficient way of dealing with crime and the low hanging fruit along with making a show of token arrests is really all they care about.

Its the reality in the UK at least, only drug dealers who get caught here are the ones trying to ship in millions of worth of cocaine, the prisons are actually all full here and most drug crimes dont even get charged because the time limit they have to charge people expires by the time the courts become available.

As for the US, it remains a convient excuse for the police to suppress votes from demographics the upper class needs supressed; you wont be finding the people who supply elon musk with ketamine going to prison anytime soon, they will be smart enough to use monero!

And it was still quite literally used by 10,000’s of vendors to sell illegal drugs?

I dont think it would have even been a thing if it was as easy as you suggest to catch people selling drugs on it. Sure, with enough resources, a dedicated law enforcement team can likely bust a drug dealer using BTC; but like with most things involving drugs and Neo-liberalism, the prisons are all full, the police are underfunded and can only occasionally make token arrests and the people who arent low hanging fruit get in and out without any interaction with the police.

If anything he made it easier for the rich to wash their money and buy ketamine

A quote by Gramsci and a loosely sourced opinion on the decaying corpse of neo-liberalism in the imperial core

my brother is free thanks for giving us a platform that allowed a safer way of acquiring and consuming drugs

I know exactly what you mean OP, i’ve been pushed out of social circles for my communist views before; granted those people where likely never my friend, but it only takes one fashoid to paint you as a ‘red fash’ for not believing china is literally 1984 x200 to the politically uninformed that their cognitive bias and general feel due to the media pushes them to agree with them and act tribally.

Dont get me wrong, im highly social; I have many friends, different productive social circles; this is just one group of people, but the sad part is i’ve lost some people I was on good terms with for years and I would be lying if I said it didnt hurt, it does! I hate the alienation and tribalism present in the social fabric of the west, you really do feel that tolerance for ideologies left of the liberal orthodoxy has basically become 0 in the UK at least.

Media critique and enjoyment are separate things; I have ideological-communist perspective criticisms of things I would give a 10/10 (breaking bad, better call saul, the wire are all inherently conservative and reactionary pieces of media for example)

Thats why I would separate the two during online conversation as well, no ones wrong for enjoying things and ideology is just something to think about when discussing the abstract and circumstances of art rather than how it made you feel.

And the worst part is that one day very soon, this technology is going to used to start making videos of people commiting crimes. Sickos have already used it to homemake CP

If it helps frame this, those same sicko’s where already doing this through stuff like photoshop and the like, its not really creating new creeps, just lowering the effort > outcome of it all.

It’s very obvious that this problem is only going to escalate, millions of people are calling for regulation or rules, but the scumbags engineering the tech remain anonymous and completely unhindered in their efforts.

Yeah whats going to happen IMO is that companies will hollow out creatives gradually by firing them/letting them go when AI advances to the stage that it can recreate the labor they would be doing to create the same product. HOWEVER what I think will happen as a consequence of this is that…the products will just be shit and no one will buy or care about them, and the companies will collapse as the shareholders/AI grifters escape with all of the surplus labor value.

You gotta remember the inherent restrictions AI generative stuff actually has; it cannot by function make a ‘new’ work of art, just regurgitate previous works of art and reshape them slightly. Truely ‘new’ art will not come from AI, and that will be the value artists will retain, as that requires abstractions, and more importantly; human experience to create.

Fundamentally all art is a story about a human being, no AI is ever going to make me shed a tear.