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[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 23 points 11 months ago

Now do Jared Kushner.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] doublejay1999@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Someone make a meme about lemmy users believing they’re on the left.

[–] banneryear1868@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

There's plenty of memes about Americans who think the Democrats are in any way left, or that Americans think they can be on the left in their current political arrangement. The left wing of neoliberalism is to be a centrist liberal. Most of them are uneducated and fed notions of what a good person is from celebrities and corporate branding.

Peal clutching over Hunter... to think a Marxist would say his name and reflect the issue back on the right?! Almost all the criticism I get over this is that it's wrong to mention Hunter in a news article, what a joke these people are they can't respond to the right's insanity and have to hide the issue. Every day Trump victory seems more and more likely, this is just like 2016 but none of them learn.

[–] Potatofish@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've never seen an OP get so thoroughly trounced in the comments. I guess this wasn't the right sub for spreading fud, 🤔..

[–] banneryear1868@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Potatofish@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You sound like an internet debate-bro

[–] Potatofish@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Sure, whatever that means