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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by croes on Thursday October 15, 2020 @11:17PM (#24797090)
"A spokesman for the Biden campaign, Andrew Bates, said that Mr. Biden’s official schedules showed no meeting between Mr. Biden and the advisor." Sounds different to Biden did not meet the advisor. Overly specific dementi are suspicious. And is GRU using authentic emails or fake ones? Because if they are valid, it doesn't matter who obtained them. Just like when the DNC screwed Bernie Sanders during Hillary Clinton's campaign.
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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by heurist on Friday October 16, 2020 @10:49AM (#24801325)
I don't understand why any of this matters. Is it just to paint Biden with a 'corruption' brush? Trump's family has already been shown to have done as much or worse than these claims against Hunter, and Trump's network of hotels have been raking in cash for access (recent NYT story: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/10/us/trump-prop...).

This is such a strange argument.

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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by croes on Friday October 16, 2020 @05:18PM (#24805152)
If Trump is worse doesn't matter. If there is something true about Hunter and Joe Biden, he would be open to blackmail That's a security risk.
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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by monocasa on Friday October 16, 2020 @04:25PM (#24804686)
Trump's base doesn't care that he's corrupt. Biden's does.

They don't get held to the same standards because they're playing to different audiences.

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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by phy6 on Friday October 16, 2020 @05:44PM (#24805349)
They are trying to drag down Biden by implying he is the person mentioned in Hunters family texts, saying that half of their salaries go to "Pops".
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