• backalleycoyote@lemmy.today
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      People aren’t targeting the walled garden, they’re targeting one facet of a person’s life, in this case addiction. People love to use a low point in someone’s life as a permanent reference point regardless of whatever they do with their life after that era has passed. They’re not using his addiction as a means of attacking privilege or politics, they’re reinforcing social standards that addicts are a lesser class incapable of ever being anything other than an addict. A nuanced criticism of Hunter and the difference between consequences for wealthy addicts and poor addicts is one thing, low hanging fruit of “you were once an addict so you’re automatically a piece of shit” only keeps addiction a baseline for dismissing another person.

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        My point was more centered on walled garden censorship, not the context of the post. I don’t have anything against Hunter Biden, well — no more than I would anyone with as much money as his family has.

        Edit: which really isn’t much, relative to the Trump crime family that is.

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    What the fuck is with children and sensitive cucks censoring adult humor? This shit is so annoying. Don’t read and repost it if a word hurts your feelings.

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    It’s refreshing to see actual, sincere responses in the midst of the political poo flinging that’s mostly bots these days.

    Yes, Hunter Biden was an addict who smoked crack. He’s not denying it. It’s the truth. He’s also calling people out on their bullshit theater around it.

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      I forced myself to read through a couple pages of that sham book about his hard drive, it tried to mislead people by placing right next to each other an account of Hunter supposedly purchasing sex work and two completely unrelated accounts of sexual misconduct as if to imply Biden was responsible for them.

      I can imagine people with low reading comprehension being easily misled.