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That’s a very bad take. What he said was: 1. FBI said there may be Russian propaganda coming, be on the lookout 2. They decided to allow posting of Hunter Biden story, but reduce the distribution while independent fact checkers confirm it 3. Then eventually allow the story to be distributed

Calling it “censorship at behest of FBI” is very disingenuous and misrepresents the story. I think what they did was very reasonable as a platform.

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I would not have voted in the election if I knew about the laptop. True story about something that is true.

That was the only point about the laptop -- to smear Biden.

But it was a true story? You don’t want to hear about true bad things if they are about people you like?

My (current) understanding of the truth:

  * Hunter Biden was (is?) a drug addict
  * Hunter Biden has done stuff to be ashamed of
  * Hunter Biden got a board member seat on Burisma because of who his dad is
  * Content (some percentage) on the laptop in question came from Hunter Biden

I could do this all day long, because I have no partisan loyalty/ideology binding me. I care about corruption regardless of which party is committing it.

Do you want to hear the awful truth about people you like?

I think the politcaly relevant points were:

* Hunter Biden appeared to have sold access to Joe Biden to Chinese officials

And suppressing that story before the election was a form of “election interference”

But he didn't. The point I'm trying to make is the whole point of the story was to insinuate Joe Biden had an active part in this.

Yes, Hunter, his adult son who he doesn't control, was engaged in a corrupt enterprise. There's zero proof Joe was involved but yet you hold on to the story like it matters.

The story is pure election interference, hoping to be a repeat of Buttery Males.

You all are proof that the only thing that matters is that there's a possibility that "the other guy" is corrupt. Yet mountains of evidence that Trump is corrupt have no impact on you.

Hmmmmmmm, so do you really care about corruption or do you just hate the other team?

https://nypost.com/2022/08/05/joe-biden-met-chinese-energy-e...

Trump’s corruption and Biden’s corruption are both relevant to voters.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220816171221/https://www.washi...

No evidence of actual corruption by Joe Biden.

Again, if there was he should be prosecuted accordingly. Nobody is above the law, right?

Sure, crimes should be prosecuted. There is enough questionable evidence here that voters should know about, the information should not have been suppressed.

It wasn't suppressed, it just wasn't amplified.

You're demonstrating exactly why: because you don't care about corruption you just hate the other candidate. And that's the only value of the story, is for you to complain about it.

If there was evidence that Biden Sr. was corrupt his supporters would turn on him.

The only part of the story that's true is that Hunter Biden was given money with the expectation that he'd have political influence over his father. There's zero evidence to show that happened.

Turnabout is fair play: are you willing to hear true bad things about the people you like?

It’s relevance is for the American voter to decide, not the FBI or Zuckerberg.

The best part is that the attempted suppression only sheds even more light on it.

The only point of the Steele dossier paid for by Hillary was to smear Trump. Should that story also have been censored? It was provably full of fake information.

Opposition research is a foundation of all campaigns, so get off your high horse.

The Steele Dossier is the next gen version of RatherGate (discredited reporting on a subject that can still be assumed to be true).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy

The laptop was all over the news at the time. But the news said it was Russian misinformation.

My skepticism of the media didn't quite reach the level it should have at the time.

At least there is telegram for real news am I Right?

I've stopped using smart phones for the most part this year so I won't be using it I don't think. I've been scared enough by what I've already learned come to pass that I think I don't need to be scared further by rumor mongering. All I know is that it seems the quality of the media is viewed by my peers as about the same as I'd expect the soviets thought of theirs back in 1986.

> But the news said it was Russian misinformation.

And pushing the story was Russian misinformation, peddled via Rudy. Weird how trump world folks keep pushing Russian ops.

I think a lot of people forgot how sketchy the laptop story seemed when it came out.

Even conservative media sources like Tucker Carlson and the WSJ refused to touch it because the idea of Hunter Biden just leaving a water damaged laptop with a blind laptop repair guy (blind so the repair person could never testify to who left the laptop) just seemed so absurd.

Hunter Biden once rented a car which was then returned in the middle of the night with his driver's licenses and credit cards left behind, along with a crack pipe that had residue of cocaine on it. In addition, the car keys were left in the gas tank compartment instead of the car key drop box.

Do you actually know anyone who smokes crack? They don't always make the most sensible decisions.

I don't find the story absurd in the slightest.

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