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seppin
6y ago
Yes it's call a "cover story". He visited the Russian consulate in HK (for a birthday party no less) before he left and his main legal advisor was the lawyer from Wikileaks , a Russian intel cutout. All just coincidence I gue
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6y ago
Yeah that's Youtube.
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6y ago
As if this needed clarification (it very much did not): https://time.com/5902557/hunter-biden-rudy-giuliani-ukraine/
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6y ago
As if this needed clarification (it very much did not): https://time.com/5902557/hunter-biden-rudy-giuliani-ukraine/
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6y ago
As if this needed clarification (it very much did not): https://time.com/5902557/hunter-biden-rudy-giuliani-ukraine/
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6y ago
> There's literally a picture of him with a crack pipe in his mouth. He's factually a crackhead. It was a meth pipe. If you got something so basic wrong, why would anything else you said be true?
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6y ago
Downvote with reason or response, what a great place for discussion.
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6y ago
Yes this is the incredible flimsy cover story that Hunter Biden drove 2500 miles from his home to leave a laptop with a random person then never came back for it. This after "US intelligence agencies warned the White House last year th
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6y ago
The FBI investigated the circumstances in which the Trump campaign ended up with Hunter Biden's photos and emails. That doesn't corroborate the story, it compromises it.
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6y ago
> certainly plausible You missed my sarcasm. If you believe son of the Vice President abandoned his laptop in rural Deleware to a Trump supporter to eventually give it to the Trump campaign, I have several bridges in NY to sell you.
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6y ago
https://i.imgur.com/7zadiIM.png Yes I am aware. Bret Stephens was hired to write headlines like this, to appeal to the "fair and balanced" crowd (which will always fail, nothing will ever be enough).
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6y ago
Or, none of the leaked data came from the "computer" in question. Hunter's iCloud backup was hacked, Burisma's internal emails were breached by the GRU last year. Combine those two sources, mix real correspondences with
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6y ago
Unless you have a factual error you'd like to report, citing the 1619 project is a tell that you don't like it's conclusions, and anything you dont like is "fake news".
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6y ago
Unless the IRS was hacked, this comparison is invalid.
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6y ago
Many things have been corroborated, nothing has been disproven. https://www.lawfareblog.com/steele-dossier-retrospective The idea that it was/is fake is a lie direct from Trump's mouth.
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6y ago
Hunter Biden's iCloud backup was hacked, which isn't too hard. Combine those real photos with some real (and some fake) emails the GRU hacked from Burisma last year, you have a ready-made "October surprise". The degree i
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6y ago
> The repair shop almost certainly retains ownership of unclaimed deviced after some period of time. The shop owns the laptop. The data is theirs to do with as they please and they chose to publish it (at least, that's the story). N
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6y ago
Look at how the Soviet Union functioned. You got a government salary as long as you looked the other way and pretended that obvious lies were the truth. Works for a while, not forever.
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6y ago
> The internet has opened us to a Babylonia of different belief systems With all due respect, there is nothing 'new' about QAnon. It's the same recycled theories about santanic pedophiles tweaked slightly to fit new surrou
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6y ago
Bingo. A study I can't find after trying on Google took people with objectively wrong opinions and payed them for accuracy. Magically, people corrected their own opinions when they had a financial incentive to do so.
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6y ago
> Throughout most of history people have believed wildly incorrect things, yet civilization carries on. Society has mostly been run by autocratic systems. If we are determined to make democracy work, conspiracy and anti-fact ideologies a
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6y ago
I trust apple with privacy, I don't trust Amazon. That extra money is well worth it imo
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> I mean that when confronted with that they're clearly irrational. And something's gotta be going on their heads that makes them cling to this hypothesis. The way i've heard it explained that makes the most sense to me: &
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1/2 the price
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6y ago
You don't have to be "productive" with every minute of your life.
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6y ago
Normalizing and accepting intolerant viewpoints is akin to a dictator winning a democratic election. It's how bad actors use the system they despise with the explicit intention of sabotage.
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6y ago
Because you need foot/water/shelter. You can't just ignore those needs. Status is something we choose to opt-in to. You can choose to ignore it as well.
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> Assange suddenly became a Russian asset after 2016 Assange had a TV show on Russian State television in 2012.
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> (at great personal sacrifice) Yes all he had to gain was international celebrity.
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6y ago
98% of what he stole and leaked had nothing to do with domestic surveillance on the American people.
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