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Quote (IceMage @ Apr 3 2020 06:03am)
The president's dipshit son-in-law managing the Coronavirus response isn't a scandal, but the Vice President's son sitting on a Ukrainian company's board is the end of the world.

Imagine if Hillary had Chelsea's husband managing a pandemic. Every cultist here would have an aneurysm.


Man aneurysm is mild.. Fuck they had an aneurysm over a valentine's date with Obama.
Stuff like this happening under any person besides the cult leader would be leading to armed violence within the US.
Right now Asian people would be getting shot
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Quote (Black XistenZ @ Apr 3 2020 08:32am)
The key difference is that Hunter Biden was enriching himself by sitting on the board of the company which was dependent on the geopolitical decisions made by his father, while Jared Kushner wont get rich by his involvement with the coronavirus taskforce.

From a competence and qualification perspective, there's plenty of reason to criticize Kushner's involvement. But it's not a wealth grab.


rich guy gets richer vs fucks over the entire american population. i agree, its a big difference.
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Apr 3 2020 09:43am
Quote (Santara @ Apr 3 2020 03:37am)
Adding words, and adding meanings. Not changing meanings.


TIL faggot still means pile of sticks
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Quote (Black XistenZ @ Apr 3 2020 09:58am)
No. Again: I agree that Kushner should not be anywhere near the coronavirus decision-making.
Your initial comparison between the two situations was still flawed.

There is a ton of selective outrage on both sides. Including on the right, I'll admit that.


Yes, there's selective outrage on both sides, but one side is far worse, and IceMage gave an especially egregious example.
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Quote (Thor123422 @ Apr 3 2020 10:43am)
TIL faggot still means pile of sticks


TIL "adding meanings" doesn't mean "adding meanings."
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Quote (Santara @ Apr 3 2020 10:55am)
TIL "adding meanings" doesn't mean "adding meanings."


Can meanings get removed?

I gotta go to work so I'll just finish the argument here

Meanings can definitely get removed, since prior to being a bundle of sticks the definition of faggot included a burdensome old woman and you don't find that in any dictionaries, and if I can add and remove definitions then I can remove old usages and replace entirely new ones, and that has absolutely changed the definition. The only way it doesn't is if you get super pedantic and say "well the definitions didn't change because they were removed, you didn't change the actual definition", but that's stupid because words also have connotations that can change depending on the situation and context. In reality, words are defined by usage, and usage drifts over time. They aren't modified in discrete chunks of addition or removal.

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Not heartening, but an awesome pic nonetheless.















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Quote (Black XistenZ @ Apr 3 2020 10:58am)
No. Again: I agree that Kushner should not be anywhere near the coronavirus decision-making.
Your initial comparison between the two situations was still flawed.

There is a ton of selective outrage on both sides. Including on the right, I'll admit that.


I never said the situations were completely analogous.
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Quote (Thor123422 @ Apr 3 2020 11:46am)
Yes, there's selective outrage on both sides, but one side is far worse, and IceMage gave an especially egregious example.



Agreed tbh.

Biden’s son was like a 2 day ordeal with very little news coverage compared to the exponential bitching and moaning about literally everything Trump does.

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