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0 pointsnemothekid4y ago0 comments

Did the Hunter Biden story ever have any legs? As far as I can tell:

1. A grown man, who was not running for president, was doing drugs.

2. He was hired by company to try and gain favor with the White House, which backfired when the White House decided to act against their interest anyways (in other words the guy running for vice president didn't give the company a sweetheart deal because his son was on the board).

Why do people try so hard to force this story?

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Stupulous4y ago

I think the original story was pretty unimportant. But the suppression of the story demonstrated that twitter was willing to manipulate the narrative against the truth, which is consistent with what the right had been saying.

I wouldn't go so far as to say they Streisand effected it into public consciousness. Politics is a bullshit fight. Nonstories get media attention all the time, pushed by status quo narrative manipulators that everyone is okay with. But they turned a nonstory into a story here by covering it up (perhaps with good intent). I think that is what the parent is talking about.

ttt04y ago

Why did people try so hard to censor this story?

colinmhayes4y ago

Because people are idiots and would be swayed by hannity sound bites even though the story has nothing to do with Joe?

ttt04y ago

Damn, that's a wild thing to say in response to a censorship of a true story. I mean seriously, why even bother having democracy and free speech at this point. How does that make you any different from a dictator that's censoring any story that's unfavorable to him, even if it's something petty and of no significance?

hntroll6664y ago

If that's what you really think, I guess it's an indication of how well the story was suppressed. Does the part where Hunter explained that the long-standing arrangement was for Joe to get half of the loot ring a bell?

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esperent4y ago

If true it would further a false narrative that they want to push.

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