Hunter Biden isn't relevant to anything. He's a nobody.
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Now do Jared Kushner.
This Kremlin propaganda outlet only cares about Jared Kushner when they're criticizing Israel.
It would be amazing that they've covered private citizen Hunter Biden more than they covered Trump Admin official Jared Kushner if I were a credulous enough sucker to actually believe they were a good-faith progressive publication.
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Hunter Biden, the president’s problematic son, has finally been indicted for his years of tax evasion. Only in an egregiously unequal society like ours do the children of the rich and powerful get away with corruption for as long as Hunter Biden has.
I guess my old coworker who made $35k a year and evaded their taxes for more than 30yrs was just lying.
Fuck off with this "OnLy ThE rIcH CaN eVaDe TaXeS." Lots of people do it without getting audited. There's plenty of reasons to be pissed off about the two tiers of justice, but this Hunter Biden angle is just ignorant and smacks of Republicans clutching their pearls as they try to build public momentum for their impeachment bullshit.
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Holy shit, I bailed on Jacobin Mag when the Ukraine War started and they cried "Both sides!" on every other piece, but this is a new low.
Hope you hate it <3 I love sharing Jacobin cause they generate a lot of interaction and agitate people's status quo notions. Marxist view of Russia is like that, mistaken for "both sides" analysis (which breaks American's brains) cause they don't understand the materialist view of anything. Blame lack of education and their shitty news media for that. Anyway enjoy.
"It's a Marxist analysis of Russia!"
No, it's just apologism for imperialism while claiming anti-imperialism. Imagine being this brainrotted.
That makes no sense ^. Anti-imperialism requires criticizing America's global actions and you interpret that as pro-Russia. Simple as that.
That makes no sense ^. Anti-imperialism requires criticizing America’s global actions and you interpret that as pro-Russia. Simple as that.
If you regard "Anti-imperialism" as "criticizing America's global actions" and not "criticizing imperialist actions, including imperialist actions by America", then you're interpreting "Anti-imperialism" as "Anti-America". A common mistake amongst brainrotted morons who turn international politics into a religion where they can embrace a big scawwy 'Great Satan' to oppose and claim Marxism instead of doing actual materialist analysis, but not in any way valid.
Exactly you can't criticize imperialism as it's relevant to the Russia Ukraine war without including America in that economic reality. This is what people freak out about, because a materialist analysis would look at what resources are present in Ukraine, Russian oligarchs pressuring their government to allow them access to them, Ukraine wanting it for them and appealing to their interests, America assisting in that and helping them because it's in their economic interests as well. Then you have the public image of the war obfuscated from these conditions, and that's what people get upset about because they are invested in Ukraine as an arm of America's imperialism not as a truly independent state controlled by Ukrainians. If Ukrainians wanted to be in Russia they would drop them, and probably will because that's what America often does to it's allies in these conflicts. For now there's still rational reasons to continue it from bOtH SidEs, but the Kurds know what it's like to be on the receiving end of US military aid. Israel is willing to do the US' dirty work required in the arrangement so they keep getting US aid.
This is what people freak out about, because a materialist analysis would look at what resources are present in Ukraine, Russian oligarchs pressuring their government to allow them access to them, Ukraine wanting it for them and appealing to their interests, America assisting in that and helping them because it’s in their economic interests as well.
... you... you do realize that materialist analysis extends far beyond conflicts over resources, right?
... right...?
Oh, who am I kidding, of course you don't.
If Ukrainians wanted to be in Russia they would drop them
If Ukraine wanted to be in Russia there wouldn't be a fucking war, so of course?
Oh sorry didn't realize you wanted the entire materialist analysis of the world to consider it valid lol, it's not like you disagreed with my summary though...
Exactly there would be no war, the fact there is one means we can analyze it like any other regional war between imperialist and independent/imperialist-backed nations. It's that which people take to be pro-Russia because it's not injected with pandering. American's need pandering or they think it's anti-American or pro-enemy.
Someone make a meme about lemmy users believing they’re on the left.
I've never seen an OP get so thoroughly trounced in the comments. I guess this wasn't the right sub for spreading fud, 🤔..
Eh I posted this for a laugh to get this exact response. American's will cry about how issues like these aren't relevant as Trump wins over catering to them and have nothing to say in response. They'll blame people like me who say they need to not bury their head in the sand rather than themselves and their party for it's failures. When fascism came to Germany all the citizens shared collective blame for it to some degree, so it will be for Americans.
Yet you tried so hard. Did you laugh so hard? Quick! Add the lol emoji to each of your responses!
No one is buying your sad attempts.
You sound like an internet debate-bro
Sure, whatever that means
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