A Dark Web Admin's Open Letter To Law Enforcement

[@awesomethegreatamazing2651]

You know we’re reaching new levels of basededness when there’s a viewer discretion advisory on a mental outlaw video. I’m all here for it

[@grinderbaseb]

😂

[@klwthe3rd]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@HülyeLó]

And when he ends the video with an all-seeing eye sign

[@ConsensusX]

Based on what?

[@zakthan]

‎

[@tass2001]

My take is that the grammatical and spelling errors are purposeful. As you pointed out, the alphabetbois could compare their sentence structure, idioms, etc to, in the very least, get a rough geographical location for them. Intentionally obfuscating your correspondence via Chingrish is good opsec, IMO

[@yoda6239]

i thought this too. that would be a bit next level op sec but would make the most sense. who knows this could have also been parsed through some ai

[@xenn4985]

could just use a language model to "reword" your writing to erase your fingerprint

[@chrome1157]

@@xenn4985Probably but LLMs like ChatGPT store your prompts. The feds could therefore get your messages out of chatGPT which, AFAIK, doesn’t let you connect via TOR and requires a login with a phone number and email. The LLM would have to be hosted locally for sure. In my opinion, the LLM should not only reword what you wrote differently, but also reword every message from every user in the same style. That would lead to every message being anonymised and messages across platforms can’t be tracked either based on writing style

[@googlehomemini2059]

@@xenn4985or several..

[@timmygoldstein]

@@yoda6239 If this is the case, hopefully through a model that was trained locally on their own systems

[@cassiuslives4807]

plot twist: mental outlaw is obamaphone

[@astar1147]

🤯

[@MinisterRedPill]

😂

[@qlippoth13]

I thought he was a fed 😆

[@christianremboldt1557]

actually.. may be

[@ismailsabribinyaakob2022]

Mental Outlaw is a drug addict and a person who hates taxes

[@steveshyde7564]

Is no one going to point out that Obamaphone is a hilarious name? Also like others have mentioned, it's almost like the authorities are comfortable with the vast amount of money to be made. Not saying they're all complicit. But some most definitely take advantage. Glad I got to see this

[@RogueRunna]

I laughed my fucking ass off - one of the largest data mining operations ever pulled off in front of the public eye

[@dropnec6660]

Have you not heard about the Ross ulbricht case where they caught 2 agents i think being corrupt and taking money from DPR? Yeah they caught those two,how many though remained uncaught? Or let them have it?

[@freedustin]

Not as funny as the Obamamoney that never materialized except for his extended family members.

[@jhoughjr1]

imagine if people had an ideal higher than money....

[@DieselRamcharger]

they are without a doubt complicit. its a criminal protection racket. nothing more.

[@exoZelia]

As an aside I liked how you just read it out. Most other youtubers would've paused every three sentences to chime in or add stock footage or whatever. Appreciate you Outlaw

[@theedwardian]

Most youtubers don't use a hyper-realistic masking avatar.

[@echooscar5241]

I don't do drugs but I absolutely support obamaphone.

[@misanthrophex]

A symptom of a mature mind is the ability to be sympathetic without any self gain. Well, there is actually self gain, we do live in a society, and you do want your fellows feeling good rather than bad, for the most part. Everyday people would benefit from legalisation. Of course the money is too big for "them" to stop it being illegal. The only reason why they keep it illegal is that; it's so easy to put a facade of morality while rubbing your hands.

[@cryism7798]

@@w花bit is truly soul sucking that we as a people know for a fact that the government is the cat and at once also the mouse it’s claiming to chase

[@johnthomas2970]

What about obamacube

[@iuse9646]

Good maturity my man

[@kajojo2399]

​@@w花bliterally sisyphus

[@paulthomann5544]

As an NSA representative, i thought we had stated clearly enough that we don't collect anything! We only store everything in case we need to collect it later. How can you ignore that difference :P

[@MAG_nan]

How do you store without collecting? 🤔

[@ilyasabi8920]

As an extraterrestrial representative we store particular strains of viruses from time periods and locations in case we need it in future, mostly ones that are patalogic to humans. 👽

[@scrappyanimations4096]

@@ilyasabi8920 is that you Fauci?

[@sirchoppy1810]

you're being lied to m8

[@paulthomann5544]

@@sirchoppy1810 how dare you :D

[@LoneWanderR]

now we wait for this to be unlisted or taken down by KZbin for being too educational

[@lain2600]

at least it will be on Odysee

[@ground-beef]

the post is already a month old at this point, anyone who this message is intended for should have the ability to find it easily

[@SkyyySi]

​@@lain2600Where about two dozen people will see it

[@monke7566]

​@@lain2600LBRY, the company that created odysee, has been sued into oblivion, it probably will not be alive for long

[@veryhuman7472]

more often just demonitized. Honestly KZbin just shooting itself in the foot anyway, Alphabet think they're invincible but history has shown they're certainly not.

[@dreadedenterprise51]

This is splendid

[@xp8969]

The funniest part is he literally makes cooking videos and doesn't know what a chef is 😂😂

[@EliteBuildingCompany]

It's not that the people are sick, it's that the corrupt society we are forced to live in, is making them sick. I believe this is the argument.

[@Pappagar]

We live in a society

[@jkohutiak]

Nah.. Society didn't make them become full time drug addicts

[@oliwer1402]

No, this is just how certain strains of human behave. Where we are as a society is a result if human thoughts and actions.

[@EliteBuildingCompany]

@@Pappagar Gamer Mosley.

[@bccsivxx-xxivvii]

Yea maybe, it's also that some drugs are just so damn good. Once some people discover that first hand, it's really hard to put them down. That's why you should really never try them. Speaking from experience in case it wasn't obvious. Sober now but that took a long time.

[@xephael3485]

The letter means nothing to them... other than a possible way to track him down.

[@Kalimoor]

esex

[@disband_thebbc5933]

It's superfluous data that can be fed in to the machine and analysed. Which could potentially lead to Obamaphone being fed in to a federal facility and Analised 😂

[@AbandonedVoid]

Something tells me the letter isn't necessarily for just them

[@anarchy_79]

I found it a bit juvenile, but I'm aboard with the basic sentiment- perhaps sometimes some things need to be said or repeated from time to time to stake out the boundaries of the battlefield so to speak. Doesn't have to be fancy if everyone already agrees.

[@Z3r0Sk83r]

​@@AbandonedVoid100% once you get that high up you have to give up a lot of your humanity. People that would narc on their own mother no questions.

[@skaruts]

I sincerely believe the war on drugs is one of the leading causes of high crime rates, while also being completely useless.

[@seawolf7610]

Its a feature, not a bug.

[@DukeWooze]

It's not even speculation. Prohibition did the same thing. At least people realized it was failure and repealed it.

[@slaykonTK-]

industrial society and its consequences

[@freedustin]

its worse than useless...its harmful.

[@amergingiles]

It's more complicated than the prohibition though. Banning alcohol and then reintegrating it was the right move. Legalizing drugs would on paper allows us to do the same thing, add a sin tax, provide safe and monitored production, but the drugs aiming to be legalized have the same effect legal or illegal, and the effects only get worsened in places where they are encouraged. New York added crack pipe vending machines, and now there's an influx or new users, and old users have broken into every single vending machine already, and robbed the restocking people. When alcohol was banned, functional people went to underground bars and drank with moonshiners trying to make a living. When weed was legalized, sure, there was a spike in nonfunctioning users, but functional stoners went on with life as usual. You give people legalized fentanyl, and they will abuse it to death, immediately, and literally. There is no world in which legalizing what the cartels is sneaking in through their tunnels and the borders ends with functional addicts having moderation and control over their lives. The chemicals are simply a different beast. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. I would rather not legitimize the criminal organizations responsible for so much ruin and death.

[@Gabiscis]

ngl regardless of this guy's motives and how based they seem u gotta admit this is a fantastic pr move for their site lmao

[@vuufke4327]

archetyp was already the largest by then

[@Fred_the_1996]

i mean pretty much everyone who uses tor has used archetyp at least once lol

[@deadrabbitv275]

He posted this without approval of any of the owners and mods, def based

[@jreezy524]

You can guarantee every alphabet agencies focus was just put solely on this website, and you have to wonder if the letter itself was put out because the writer knows it's not long before he is taken down by them so he's writing it to us, the consumers, as a fare well.

[@christianremboldt1557]

​@@vuufke4327yeah, my favorite market

[@angeldevildx]

Where were you when feboy cry? Me? I was home watching outlaw suddenly Obamaphone rang I pick up "we couldn't bust" No.

[@youtuberobbedmeofmyname]

Thanks anon, I died rofling

[@PunishedBeerCanBennyIV]

this is the funniest comment I've seen in years, the chans wish they could still make posts like these

[@XtoDoubt25]

There is a fine line between foolishness and bravery. This man treads that line

[@what-un4yq]

The thing that bothers me most about the US system. Is that their proven better ways. Yet they don't even bother. In most of Europe It's not a criminal offense. Your sentence to bloody rehab. which has been super effective for them. It's even possible to handle homelessness this way. Just handling it at the source.It's easy, it's fast and it costs basically nothing.

[@snark567]

If you start solving problems, politicians won't have talking points to use in elections to divide and distract the public.

[@ElJosher]

The US has a corruption problem. I’m surprised they have been competent enough to keep their world power status. Cause when you see how behind they are to european and asian countries, one can’t help but feel that Americans are being ripped off by their own gov.

[@quintit]

Im behind rehab as an alternative to figuratively ending lives in the justice system, but how is rehab cheap in any way. Maybe cheapER than jail, but even that’s debatable

[@ComputingTheSoul]

Why do you want imitate dying societies? Europe is not a paradise

[@EdyAlbertoMSGT3]

@@quintit A person you rehabilitated can get back to work and generate money for society. A person sent to prision will most likely return to the streets. Their life is figuratively ended, as you said.

[@johndeaux8815]

Whenever I hear that someone is being very brave online, I assume they are going to be an hero one day...

[@ChiefMasterGuru]

Grandpa using the term an hero in the current year

[@oderchannel426]

@@ChiefMasterGuru what, are you serious?

[@activeshooter603]

brother you are using the term wrong it's "they are going to an hero"

[@Dean.....]

@@activeshooter603 No, they were using it correctly considering the origin of the joke. It's supposed to be improperly used as a noun, not a verb.

[@activeshooter603]

no

[@moldyzucchinis3251]

got banned from xbox live when I was 14 for the gamertag Obamadong. This guy succeeded where I failed.

[@isbestlizard]

That's a LOT of words they wrote. When assessing risk and opsec, be aware of techniques such as forensic stylometry and linguistics, perhaps not enough for a conviction, but enough for a parallel-construction lead on someone. The unabomber was caught when his brother recognised the writing style of his manifesto.

[@isbestlizard]

17:30 YESSSSSSSS exactly and they probably have a fucking powerful AI crunching through it all to identify unique features of trillions of documents and their likely authors

[@isbestlizard]

haha I say yesssssss so much I will have to remember not to do that when doing crime on the darkwebs

[@wehmo]

The drug epidemic is a direct symptom of societal decay

[@johnnyblazem5326]

Or the cia starting up the hippy movement then going to in the 80s. The rave scene in the 90s then heroin in the 2000s. Then fentanyl with making starting to bring back the mushroom and lsd scene has we speak

[@goatpepperherbaltea7895]

Not really mfs just like heroin shit feels good 😂

[@yyeezyy630]

It’s just how organic life is. If you can send dopamine to your brain your going to want to. We have used drugs forever

[@ValleyMansonOfficial]

My Lima Company's body bags comment may have been censored. F××k heroin.

[@12q8]

Yeah, heroin and cocaine were prescribed before that, and people did not get addicted at a wide scale.

[@NFvidoJagg2]

If he's really smart, the writing mistakes are actually a red herring to throw law enforcement off.

[@ZaneEckols]

Plot twist: This is actually Obama just trying to make some moves

[@Cam_88]

😂

[@Dre4dP1r4teR0b3rts]

The balls on this guy 💀

[@astar1147]

Balls full of cocaine and meth 😎

[@sp4c3d0ut9]

When english is your 1st langue so you use broken english to trick the glowies

[@XOFInfantryman]

Because...what? It implies aforeigner couldnt write with a perfect english and vice versa? Man that's some solid logic right there, kindergarten levels of OPSEC. Nothing weird yall keep getting caught 😂

[@XZenon]

When your dealer tells you he's not in it for the money, he's lying

[@zimtage1744]

I sure he'll be on Jack Rysider's show when he gets out

[@Epic-so3ek]

😂😂😂

[@snowcoalRC]

i mean he could just be playing the 4D chess and faking the bad english

[@powerdude_dk]

He could very well be asking ChatGPT to mix it up a bit.

[@snowcoalRC]

@@powerdude_dk lmao i hope not for his sake, inputting your message into Chat fucking GPT is the dumbest possible opsec related thing you could do

[@beskamir5977]

I don't think it's necessarily really bad opsec if he's deliberately creating those spelling and grammar errors. If anything it could help mislead law enforcement into dismissing the real guy cause his confirmed writing doesn't match all the data they've collected. It'd what I'd do if I wanted to stay anonymous from law enforcement. Hell, I could probably use a self hosted LLM to rewrite my text in a way that'd make it impossible to trace back to me.

[@sam-np4ol]

Crazy idea: Things are bad on purpose.

[@sam-np4ol]

"Oh man, what if we changed our system?" -Some guy in 500 B.C. "Oh man, what if we changed our system?" -Some guy in 2023. We have been asking the SAME questions for thousands of years. But sure, let's just keep pretending like our suffering is merely unfortunate, or an accident, or a mere byproduct of greed. Woah sorry, lemme take a quick reality check. It's just baseless to say there's something out there that wants us to suffer and that this has anything to do with our situation. Such a crazy idea right? On second thought, let's just plead with the witless henchmen to address the "real issues." Yeah that'll get 'em. Sure. Totally. I'll go saw my nuts off too. And I'll go vote while I'm at it.

[@Ryan-44]

@sam-np4ol If you look at the massive improvement in quality of life for the average person, I think you'll understand the idea that incremental change can and does improve systems. Pushing and voting for systemic change does produce results, its just that as the standard of living increases, so to does the poverty line. There's no easy solution, but technology can help when well used

[@sam-np4ol]

@@Ryan-44 "Massive improvements." ... ... ... Well shucks dude, if your definition of reality is only atoms and molecules, and you think there's no real driving force of evil beyond the materialist hylic sarcasm I wrote above, then I wish you luck slamming your head against a wall for another few thousand years. Imagine one day you actually achieve a society where suffering is virtually non-existent, then an evil befalls it and sends everyone back to the stone age and subconsciously guides all future generations to build their societies in ways that purposely cause indescribable suffering, all with no surviving memory or record of back when things were essentially perfect. And then your descendants start unwittingly saying nonsense like "dude look at all the improvements we've made since the stone age! We're obviously doing better in many ways." And your ghost is just hovering above them wishing you could grab them by the shoulders and shake them saying "NOOOO IF ONLY YOU KNEW!!!!!" This is just gonna look like crazy gibberish probably :/ I wish everyone the best anyway.

[@stephen6631]

Quality of life is way down from the 50s. Due to destruction of authentic relationships

[@nowhereman7413]

@@Ryan-44 Quality of life has improved thanks to fossil fuels, new technologies and so on. Voting change nothing at all.

[@dandeeteeyem2170]

Effing AMEN to that.. Based AF. Brought up every point I wish I could say to government and law enforcement about prohibition. He even brought up the AFP who caught Peter Scully - those dudes are shining examples of what law enforcement should be, and they are heroes to me. ❤

[@nossteamed9963]

The problem is: we have too much government and laws passed acting like the parents. Jesus christ, we are adults we need to be treated as such with responsibility. The government should be there to protect life, liberty, and protect the common man against another man if he chooses to attack

[@Axodus]

Exactly.

[@jhoughjr1]

You mean acting like the sperm donor and single mother? Kids don't have parents they have care providers and Uncle Sam keeps it that way so the single mothers keep voting themselves more benefits.

[@saadamehdi2848]

Except people taking drugs and hurting themselves thereby prove they are not responsible adults... Not that the governement is any more responsible though.

[@ItachIBrolly2]

Most so called adults are brainless manchildren.

[@buttface865]

You aren't adults. Your society makes you perpetual children, dependent on daddy government & all your submissions to their utter buuuulshit. Do not submit, do not yield & never fucking capitulate.

[@powerdude_dk]

It's now very clear to me that the illegal drug market would vanish if the substances would be legalized and sold by reputable companies. But I fear how big of a business that could actually be, when you consider the tobacco and alcohol market. Because a lot of people continuously buy it, due to addiction.

[@TheRealRusDaddy]

Just like with weed in legal states some people still prefer to buy from street dealers because they will usually have the same quality of weed for a much lower price and other government hurdles

[@DanielBjorndahl]

high taxes on all addictive substances with at least some of that subsidizing rehab and awareness

[@progenitor_amborella]

@@DanielBjorndahlthat would have to include alcohol and tobacco, which you know would never fly. I also don’t see caffeine addiction talked about very much when it comes to responsible usage. Don’t think coffee/tea should be taxed though.

[@42468]

Weed has already been captured by corporate interests in legal states and they’re already suppressing information about long term use of things like distillates. It’s part of a larger strategy to pivot from nicotine to THC.

[@BallstinkBaron]

​@@TheRealRusDaddyalso you know if they grow with pesticides or not that way

[@DMSBrian24]

Legalizing/depenalizing all drugs without addressing core issues in the society itself is going to lead to even more people ending up in even worse situations, this is clearly seen in cities in the US that decided to take that route. It sucks and I'm against "users" going to jail, but dealers - absolutely, they are still making bank off of the suffering of others.

[@DMSBrian24]

I agree that in general, people should be able to choose whatever they want to do as long as it doesn't affect others, but when you look at it on the societal level, it does affect others, it increases crime rates greatly for instance. But the real problem is that most people are just stupid and uneducated and will very easily fall victim to stuff like this. So to me, this debate is similar to that whether scamming should be legal. There's a lot of scams that pray on vulnerable people that will suffer as a result, sure you can blame them for being dumb and falling for it but then you end up in a society where this is normalized and where you can't trust anyone any more. I think there needs to be a middle ground, a compromise driven by pragmaticism rather than ideology. The current "compromise" is broken and doesn't work, but flipping the switch and doing a complete 180 and legalizing everything is not necessarily the solution. But regardless, I believe that those people are much less noble than they portray themselves to be, in the end they make bank on feeding people's drug addictions, sure maybe there's more root causes to it but they still participate in this system and make great profits from it too.

[@indetermite]

@@DMSBrian24 I second this completely.

[@nutbastard]

If dealers are in danger, be it from the cops or other dealers or their customers because the dealers are still black market, then nothing will change. The violence around the drug trade will remain. The purity and safety of the product will remain questionable. It all needs to be entirely legalized and done properly. Dealing drugs is a stressful job and the margins are not nearly as wide as you might imagine. In order to make a solid living, you need to move a lot of product, and that comes with deadly risks. We already figured this out with alcohol. Not a lot of bootleggers these days. Why? Because legitimate establishments fill that market. Mandate counseling, designated supervised use locations, waivers, whatever, and watch the black market crumble.

[@nutbastard]

@@DMSBrian24A vast minority of drug users are addicts. Most are casual users who enjoy the products they consume responsibly and only partake occasionally.

[@patnor7354]

Prohibition already settled this. Cities only prove that people go where the laws suit them.

[@gyrgamer8936]

Silly and Based moment

[@PseudoNym13]

Nothing but facts from the guy if people weren’t being destroyed by society they’d have no need to cope with drugs

[@ezye97]

people destroy themselves too, not saying society is not a part. its is a part in destroying lifestyles. but some people just destroy themselves.

[@alissoncandatem1896]

@@ezye97 i would agree with the OP but you're right too, people will be descructive to themselves too

[@theyellowarchitect4504]

Ted Kaczyinski mentioned this decades ago

[@warrioratthewall1969]

many ppl use the same compounds to celebrate and just have a good time. Not everyone is using them to cope with trauma. So...theres that.

[@leagueaddict8357]

Some people don't want to change, society can help them as much as they can, but no more sure society is not perfect but at the end of the day to change the people need to want to change, they need to have reasons to want to change, and most often the reason why people quit doing drugs is because of family, society fails particularly with how schooling works because it does not work you send a kid to school for 18 years, and after those 18 years some of them haven't found anything worth learning, and the schools didn't try to focus on personal interests at all. The schools typically when someone reaches adulthood hasn't thought them anything that is worth knowing being an adult, most schools spend more time teaching kids how to clean the floor than they teach anything about finances no wonder there are homeless people they never got taught how to be responsible with money they never had the opportunity to learn, so much so that even though there are a lot of drug addicted homeless people the not addicted ones fit right in with them since they have such poor skills at managing money. The things you end up enjoying doing as an adult for example you may really like cooking, but how many schools drop the majority of subjects to give you more time in that subject, this applies to pretty much any subject, but very few times do schools seek out interests or skills, and then try to strengthen them to where people can successfully get high paying jobs in those fields, since let's face it most subjects are very useless for the majority of people, what if that time could've been used getting them books in subjects that interest them.

[@youreyesarebleeding1368]

With this story, I'm trying to balance my dislike of the government and my dislike of people who are obnoxiously into weed or psychedelics.

[@Rexhunterj]

Everyone has copes... some people oversell their own copes.

[@johnlennon2864]

“It’s ok for us to sell drugs because corporations”

[@rejvaik00]

Yep I kind of commented something similar he is right in that he has may not have created the problem but he's still trying to do the same thing and "sell them back a solution" and generate profit from it

[@BusinessWolf1]

@@rejvaik00 profiting from selling solutions is not a bad thing you dumbass, without that we wouldn't be living this modern life

[@ethicalhaxonly]

The poor stay poor and the rich get richer. "Inflation" is just another tax imposed on the little guys. As the middle and lower class is effected big business won't have a problem from increasing prices of their goods we do.

[@Skradgee]

Language analysis is how the unibømbér got caught.

[@heroslippy6666]

Nowadays with college plagiarism checkers I could see this happening a lot more. Everything you write gets saved by some third party to prove that no one plagiarized. Having that kind of dataset on "smart" people would give law enforcement an upper hand.

[@fucuszullanti7877]

who's to say he didn't already change his normal language

[@qlippoth13]

Ted Kaczynski was a Harvard MK-ultra project with emphasis on der Kontrolle.

[@bickyboo7789]

His brother recognized his hand writing iirc.

[@Ginsekami]

Damn, video launched 20 sec ago and I got a notification, never seen YT work tgis well in my life

[@CODE_Abyss]

I'll be real, Mental Outlaw...what if the poor English making it look like a second language was PART of the the op sec to throw them off and make them look for a non-native English speaker instead of someone who, in reality, speaks it just fine? 🤔

[@georgesos]

Zigzagly!

[@Tubeytime]

"accidentally" revealing your "address" is another example

[@snowiecore]

this is what to expect from dread sometimes and i'm glad

[@MR-zw1gq]

Nice Funkybun pfp

[@snowiecore]

@@MR-zw1gq ty

[@hello-rq8kf]

@@snowiecoreit cute

[@snowiecore]

@@hello-rq8kf aw tyy

[@ReflectionsofChristianMadman]

I recommend Johann Hari’s classic book, “Chasing the Scream.” He covers the topic well and broadly.

[@KajDarkwind]

Extremely based. This guy has some massive cajones to point out the absolute folly of the so-called "War on Drugs". At the end of the day, it's just about making money. They don't care about why people are turning to drugs.

[@GamingBits-py1or]

I have a theory and I call it "helicopter governing". Same idea as helicopter parenting. Thats what a lot of these protections are to me. And the best part: You treat people like children, they start to behave like children. And then the cycle of needing more and more protections beging until you out put people into prison for a decade for a bit of weed. Im a big fan of letting people do their mistakes and have them have to learn from it or suffer more. That is way better than taking away consequences - or artificially increasing them - and hoping for the best

[@AbandonedVoid]

The government wants to keep us dependent on them, though. They don't have our interests at heart. They just want control, and they'll justify it through the dependency they forced upon us, the symptoms of their own system like in this video, myths about lazy workers, appeals to not sparing the rod, and at the end of the day sheer threats of force as they try to maintain a monopoly on violence. Some rank and file members might actually believe they're doing the right thing because they drank the flavor aid, but a lot of them are self-righteous people looking to inflate their own power and status in our society.

[@jhoughjr1]

Women voting did this. Never forget that.

[@sushi_man53]

🤓@@jhoughjr1

[@CarrotConsumer]

Who is getting put in prison for a bit of weed?

[@LucasCunhaRocha]

@@jhoughjr1 this 100%. women are literally children in adult's body, and they will give daddy gov power to control everyone lives.

[@cazz]

The War on Drugs is the greatest joke of modern society.

[@nossteamed9963]

I genuinely do feel that with everything go bad already, prohibition needs to end.

[@shlumhum4912]

It’s nice to see a young black man speaking on these topics in tech. As an aspiring programmer myself, we just don’t have enough representation so I appreciate you showing your face as well!!

[@reachthesingularity]

It's cute that Obamaphone got that out of his system, it's just going to be a hell of a moment when they re-read it in court lol.

[@powerdude_dk]

I bet he would like to hear it read aloud....

[@LordWaterBottle]

@@powerdude_dk He probably would, it would put the actual problem into the public record.

[@monkemode8128]

@@LordWaterBottleThey should let him read it out loud

[@Luzum]

I feel like the wall of text he wrote doesn't matter that much, or that it will shatter his opsec or anything. That's a bit of a stretch to think it'll deanonymize the admin, plenty of people write in second hand english, so it won't really matter. Still was quite the bold move to do from him.

[@4.0.4]

I'm certain that, after reading this compelling argument, law enforcement will see it all differently, and change their minds. "He got us there."

[@RustyBucketz30]

Very based dw admin. I respect the gonads on that lad

[@CjqNslXUcM]

Sounds to me like a guy who feels overwhelmed by guilt trying to make himself feel better by blaming everyone else for the misery he is causing.

[@goncaloazevedo9822]

also a good pr stunt

[@TheBenSanders]

You know this is going to be based when Kenny has to put a waning at the start. 😆

[@SearedBite]

wish people used this stuff for something besides child porn and drugs, two of the worst things i can think of

[@vilian9185]

yeah, even if them aren't wrong in blaming society, they aren't helping

[@kingdededelicious]

fr the technology has plenty of potential for legitimate use

[@imgladnotu9527]

if you listened mo read his letter, it wouldnt be the case if there was a better solution than what we have right now.

[@Marty234]

What? CP is terrible bc it hurts a person non-consensually. A free person owns their body and can put whatever they want into it. Drugs are an inanimate object same as sugar (which kills more ppl than other white powders), that's crazy to say CP & drugs are anywhere near the same. Equally crazy to say that a random substance can be good or bad.

[@vxicepickxv]

Our prison count isn't even per capita. It's we have the most people in State approved slavery in the world.

[@supermortar2862]

you know it's gonna be a banger when even mental outlaw starts with a disclaimer

[@Ginfidel]

As someone who has worked with law enforcement in various capacities... I can't argue with this guy. I'll put my heart and soul behind the war on gangs, and I'll put my heart and soul behind the war on big pharma, but these online marketplaces are "soft targets" by comparison. Street corner dealers and junkies are downstream from organized gangs and morally bankrupt corporations. It's utopian to think that there's any sort of top-down solution to the human problem of feeling the need to use drugs. As another commenter aptly put, the drug epidemic is a direct symptom of societal decay.

[@scienceface8884]

Drugs is always a tricky issue. Vancouver is trying the government dispensery route on heroin and they had to start walking it back because it's not helping as much as it's just bringing the price down. But darkweb dealers seem like they would be the least harmful illegal dealers, since they wouldn't be getting into turf wars in the streets. That way at least the only people who are getting killed are the junkies. And anyone stabbed by a desperate or strung out addict.

[@codeinechugger]

Saying "i agree with pretty much everything OnamaPhone is saying" unironically, is a wild statement

[@sa_ni_bi]

I wonder how this guy can walk around with those balls of steel

[@blindey]

Law enforcement's job isn't to make things better, even if some of em think that that's how it is. It is protect capital and the capitalist class.

[@rashira9610]

It's also to follow the law to a T. While laws tend to be created based on the common moral compass of the time, ultimately once something is in law it doesn't matter how moral views change as time goes on. The law is the law and LAW ENFORCEMENT must ENFORCE the LAW based on how it is written, not based on their feelings about the law or the person violating it. There are a lot of things that are illegal that should be legal, and vise versa. But until IF or WHEN those changes happen, it doesn't matter how much you mental gymnastic or justify your actions, if you do not comply with the law, you're a criminal and deserve to be treated as such.

[@Humble_Merchant]

Current authorities around the world are OBSESSED with treating/addressing ONLY the symptoms and NOT the causes of basically every issue There's a few reasons for this, but I think a big one is they want to appear like they're doing things more than they actually want to have an effect, and tackling the root causes rarely looks as good

[@keylanoslokj1806]

They won't be needed if we tackle the juz cause. I meant the root cause... .😂

[@qlippoth13]

If authority were to address the cause it would require pointing the finger at themselves.

[@aperitifs]

regarding legalization... In Australia, 40 years ago it was 20 dollars for a stick of weed, Today its the same price... Thats a great thing.... if it was legal think of the price going up and up and up

[@MentalOutlaw]

The only way the price of that would go up is taxes. If all your neighbors grew it then it would be very cheap (supply and demand)

[@Ed.07]

Good night, officer! How is it going?

[@MentalOutlaw]

Pretty good

[@doz3r943]

@@MentalOutlaw LMAO

[@DeathFollowsQuickly]

Says "its hard to read" proceeds to completely ignore punctuation and stop where there is none.

[@y29k15]

Having a large language model (on your own PC) reword an open letter might improve the opsec while still getting the message across.

[@silentbob1236]

I think Oregon had the same thought that providing a drug supply service is not harmful. Look at them now.

[@Mightydoggo]

There´s reasons why in most countries that legalized drugs, addictions and drug related deaths are going down big time. Kinda reminds me on how most countries even with the most shitty implementation of a social system outplay countries without any widely accessible social systems at all. Almost as if taking people from the street and giving them something to do and a perspective for the future would make society a better place... Crazy concept, I know.

[@adrianalexandrov7730]

I would argue that only somewhat successful countries can implement social system.

[@theyellowarchitect4504]

Plot twist: There are 9999 variables unmentioned, which lead the destiny of a country. This is only 1 of them.

[@MrJohnnyseven]

The state needs prohibition so they can launder their money..

[@Bvic3]

Prohibition works. Ireland outlawed selling alcohol on Sundays. It reduced alcohol addiction and domestic violence. France giga taxes on cigarettes reduced consumption despite a black market with cheaper ones. Make drugs hard to access and people will consume less. That being said, it's true that we're seeing extreme despair, just like during the Chinese opium war.

[@amp4105]

good luck doing that in amerifat you guys cant even wear masks without throwing hissy fits lol

[@shredkaczynski8414]

@@amp4105 why wear a mask? 99.9% probability of survival, I'm not wearing a mask or getting jabbed to make people who watch television feel better.

[@thekivster]

Adults shouldn’t be allowed to do whatever they want

[@polygondeath2361]

That’s not the argument

[@Kabodanki]

My dude is trying to validate his immorality lol.

[@Rexhunterj]

So? You're using a computer device built off the backs of child slaves, on a global network that probably uses that same labor elsewhere. You're not so guilt free of immorality, is yours better than his somehow? Arrogance at its height.

[@fluffypinkpandas]

"GPT. summarize this internet schizo's manifesto"

[@ihbrzmkqushzavojtr72mw5pqf6]

😂😂😂

[@bccsivxx-xxivvii]

The only reason prohibition is still a thing is because there's so much money it in, on both sides. It clearly doesn't work. But it funds and feeds the Military Industrial Complex, or more specifically the extensions of the MIC, the Prison and Law Enforcement Industrial Complexes. We could fire over half of all law enforcement if drugs were legal. Not only that, but all the supporting industries, manufacturers of products and service providers that only exist to support law enforcement. We're talking about millions of jobs and trillions of dollars. And obviously, to a lesser extent, there'd be no more money to be made on the trafficking/dealing side.

[@nowhereman7413]

Facts

[@Tubeytime]

I agree with his letter 100%. He has balls for trying to tell law enforcement to do their job, bigger balls than it takes to start a drug ring.

[@Trafoder]

They got Teddy K by his writing style, let’s hope Obamaphone doesn’t have any long Reddit posts.

[@JvG0]

Dude is still a drug lord, odd holier than thou vibes coming from that.

[@bickyboo7789]

A benevolent drug lord 🙏

[@imafiretruck7454]

let's also not forget, the US Navy is the very reason TOR even exists.

[@blackpower6654]

Prohibition is meant to deter future addicts, not established addicts . Although, a lot of that work is being undone because drugs are promoted in the youth with (c)rap music.

[@goodbusiness9674]

Drugs have been illegal for many many years and how has that worked out. All it has caused is more deaths and harm while the numbers of drug users keeps increasing every year. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_prohibition

[@Jojo-lg5jm]

They are just eliminating competition. Intelligence services make tons of money through drug smuggling which they then use for covert operations.

[@brubrusuryoutube]

love to see people waking up and moving on to post-conventional moral thinking

[@JustAverageJeff]

Marijuana decriminalization has reduced the profit of the Sinoloa Cartel by over $700k a year that is quite the hit to their business.

[@Calibanio]

I don't see it ending well for him, but good luck to him.

[@ladvargleinad7566]

I think someone said that his letter would be read in court, so win-win.

[@frostydei5012]

Thank you for educating people on this issue. You're taking a stand and speaking a truth people don't wanna hear, i commend you.

[@AhidoMikaro]

Idealistic, and honestly, probably somewhat self-vindicating. He might want to believe he is talking to people, but he is facing self-perpetuating systems that are just perusing to survive and grow, like anything else. Animal behaviour, hell of a drug.

[@keylanoslokj1806]

Nuh. People are always the no 1 enemy. The systems collapse without their feedback and monitoring

[@pubjeezy]

I dunno, this open letter feels more like marketing campaign from a darkweb operator than an attempt at activism or discourse.

[@mkano7434]

The decriminalization has already been tried in the US, namely Oregon and it failed spectacularly. What's your evidence it would bring positive change on the federal level?

[@doublesushi5990]

fed spotted

[@JHeb_]

Evidence is seen where decriminalization has been successful. Oregon did it poorly and didn't care about the issue of addiction, but only the issue of addicts being in jails. In several European countries, decriminalization has been successful.

[@mkano7434]

@@JHeb_ In my estimation Oregon failed because they didn't use enough taxpayer money for prison-alternatives for drug users, social programs, social campaigns and generally free public healthcare. MO advocates for none of these things in the video. He says that just decriminalization brings results. It's not true, as seen in Oregon.

[@JHeb_]

@@mkano7434 Problem of Oregon goes also deeper than lack of help for addicts, but it was also a decriminalization itself that was done very poorly and inconsistently, where there are areas where it's illegal to smoke cigarettes but legal to smoke meth. Criminalization of possession of substances is one problem. Video focuses on it, not on the specific problem in Oregon.

[@amp4105]

feddington

[@TeaMaster420]

As a long time fentanyl addict, I completely agree :D

[@quite1enough]

There's interview of UK police officer on KZbin here (channel LADbible TV, title is "Undercover Drug Cop: Why We Need To Legalise ALL Drugs") who worked undercover for 14 years fighting illegal substances crime, and several years of work end up in stopping activity in their region for like 2 or 4 hours. Since then he retired and now thinks that all drugs should be legalized.

[@ijohnny.]

A little boy talking to his "dad", that's what this foolery is. An impotent justification, and projection.

[@zuffin1864]

they were able to identify the unabomber with way less information than people type online these days, so yea typing too much under your main alias would be a bad idea for opsec like he says here

[@doomguy9049]

All these drugs the government cracks down on people for possessing or selling used to be legal at one point, and most didn't cause the kinds of mayhem that would justify their continued prohibition: cocaine, for example was legal for quite a long time and it's relatively harmless compared to substances like alcohol so I'd rather see them legalized and regulated for safety the way the FDA does anything else sold OTC.

[@jhoughjr1]

Yeah and then. u live with a coke head and see why cocaine is illegal.

[@mortemsteam]

@@jhoughjr1alcoholics aren’t any better lol

[@slasheffecttech]

delegalize alcohol and legalize cocaine? sounds good but would it fix anything? we do not know, but why not try

[@doomguy9049]

@@slasheffecttech couldn't hurt!

[@doomguy9049]

@@jhoughjr1 I've done worse

[@JoyDavidson]

I was just telling my son this last night. Everything you said is exactly how I feel too.

[@toxictroll7843]

Like this if you want to be on the FBI watchlist !

[@lemmerelassal2795]

Thanks Obama!

[@AtomicBl453]

That was a god damn manifesto.

[@mamuschka]

Reads like he was sky high on amphetamines alone in his room

[@braddlestf]

BASED OBAMA

[@EarthWalkerOne]

When one lives outside the law, one must be honest.