“NCLM- he facilitated those deaths”
So did the employers of the people who bought the drugs and used the money from their paychecks. What’s your point?
“would you say that someone who aided a suicide should go to jail?”
No. I would not say that the owner of a gun store should go to jail every time a customer uses one of the guns to shoot himself.
“the same way any other drug dealer does”
Then let him have the same sentence as “any other drug dealer,” which again is not multiple life sentences. If the best you can come up with is to call him a drug dealer, then even within your shittah he should be pardoned. He already served 3 times the time of the drug dealers from his platform. Unless you think all non-violent drug dealers should be given life, but that is probably a much crazier stance than you think it is.
“Rename a mountain and free a drug dealer?”
I’m not sure why you’re ignoring all the other things he did, but if I’m understanding correctly, you’re disappointed he didn’t do even more? You were wishing he would be more authoritarian, not less? As for those two particular issues, they were niche issues that were very big deals to a lot of people, myself included. Freeing Ross Ulbicht was one of the top issues if not THE top issue for people on the libertarian/anarchist spectrum (it was basically the slogan of the libertarian party). You can think all those people are dumb all you want, but they still have votes. As for Mt. McKinley, it’s totally in line with Trump’s whole shtick. Obama renamed it for political correctness, virtue-signaling reasons. That’s exactly the kind of thing Trump claims to want to roll back.
“stupidity and ignorance is no excuse.”
It is when the basis of your argument is intent. I can see trespassing resulting in jail time, but not this much. The extent of it was unambiguously politically motivated. I genuinely don’t believe anyone truly thinks it was an attempt to violently overthrow the government. Don’t you think they would have brought some guns or bombs if they were going to do that rather than running around in cosplay holding up banners?
“At its core, it wasn’t built for drug sales even though drug dealers latched onto it.”
To be fair to their side of the argument, I do think drug sales were always one of the intentions for the Silk Road. I don’t actually think that matters. If I put up a sign in my yard that said “if you deal drugs in my yard, I will not call the cops on you” I don’t think I should go to jail when people actually go ahead and do so; it’s not like I forced them to. People who hate Silk Road and people who love it have the same underlying reasoning: the potential to use the internet to circumvent government. The opponents are terrified of it for that reason. The proponents such as myself are giddy with excitement.