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Comment by Tycho | Hacker News Reader

Haven’t looked into the details of this supposed crisis, but I’m guessing that the outrage is from the free press over the unjustified suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story in order to influence a democratic election. Am I right?

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If there was a story, why do you call it "the Hunter Biden laptop story"?

I mean, why does everybody call it that, rather than referring to it by the dastardly deeds that were revealed?

I just keep forgetting.

It's a bit like how everyone refers to the "Panama Papers" or the "Pandora Papers" - the laptop contained a trove of information on damning activities, any one of which would have been newsworthy in its own right and relevant to the public's judgement of a presidential candidate.

I believe in some countries there were major politicians taken down, and I bet you a dollar the media and public referred to the reasons with more specificity.

There’s no lack of specifics here. Drug addiction. Sextapes. Misplaced firearms. Cushy jobs with massive conflicts of interest and no qualifications. Shady deals with foreign adversaries. 10% for the big guy. But since the media suppressed the information, he (the president’s son) is now brazenly selling his amateur “artwork” for 500k a pop to “anonymous” bidders. Nice work.

Compare and contrast with "Deflategate". Everybody knows basically what that was. Deflated footballs. People don't go around saying "the Tom Brady cell phone story". You don't have to be initiated into esoteric knowledge to understand.

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