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>>The big difference is that Elon Musk is a powerful figure who has far reaching impact on our society, whereas Hunter Biden is a nobody that the right is trying to turn into a somebody for political gain.

I wouldn't describe "Son of the President" or "Son of Potential President" as a complete nobody.

>> There's plenty of reason to believe that the whole Hunter Biden story is a complete fabrication, but even if it's not, and he goes to prison, it still doesn't mean much to society as a whole.

Currently there's no reason to believe that the whole Hunter Biden story is a complete fabrication. It's been verified by independent journalists. There are also emails that (at least on the face of it) could be interpreted as sending money his father. It would be good if those had been investigated and people either convicted or cleared.

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> I wouldn't describe "Son of the President" or "Son of Potential President" as a complete nobody.

As much as nobody as Barbara and Jenna Bush.

Trump's children actually work for their father, serve on his staff, benefitted from tons of nepotism during his administration. Most presidential children don't do any of that. Most of them are either children who just happen to live in the White House, like Chelsea Clinton or Malia and Sasha Obama, or they're living their own lives, like Barbara and Jenna Bush, or Hunter Biden.

It's important to understand that a president's children are not normally serving in his administration, on his staff, or holding any sort of office.

> It's been verified by independent journalists.

What I understand is that people verified that that hard disk has been massively tampered with, lots of content was added later, and it's not clear it was ever actually the property of Hunter Biden.

It's fine to investigate it, but it's not remotely on the level of political scandal of the previous administration. And even that prosecution is moving glacially slow.

He's a nobody.

I care as much about him as the other billions of other citizens I've not met who are innocent and guilty and who are living out their lives.

Not enough for you? Go and speak with the Police.

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Nobody... someone here identified the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives official visit in Taiwan as "just an old lady off-boarding a plane".

I'm making a stupid comparison for an example but just because we don't know them publicly to the same extent, doesn't really correlate with them having less power then say Justin Bieber.

As most often happens there's people whom Musk is dependant upon and in all probability has never heard their name.

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