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by ibeckermayer 1269 days ago
Sounds like you’ve been mislead about both the relevant contents of Hunters’ laptop (“10% for the big guy”) as well as the content that the FBI and CIA were directing Twitter employees to censor. The best way to get better educated on the topic would be to read the Twitter Files releases yourself.
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I did. Your problem is you read them without noticing the parts Taibbi was lying about ;)

The part where he mentioned posts being deleted without saying what they were for instance - you can look all those up on archive.org. They’re penises. The part today about the CIA is just nonsense.

Similarly, the laptop story was suppressed by Trump’s FBI because it sounds worse when you post vague insinuations about it then if you saw the real thing, an obvious fake[1]. You can look up the original “reporting” on the archive too - it comes from Guo Wengui, a Chinese billionaire friend of Giuliani, and it’s full of lurid writing about, again, the size of his penis[2] and claims it’s full of child porn. Are you willing to believe that’s real too? Either way, it’s a legal barrier to letting you see it…

[1] https://twitter.com/revhowardarson/status/159983985145688883...

[2] https://twitter.com/beijingpalmer/status/1325259822829334535

>”Your problem is you read them without noticing the parts Taibbi was lying about ;)”

Including the ;) is unnecessary and makes this post come across in a really condescending way.

Seemed a bit too robotic with just a period. Topic’s kind of heavy you know.
It is, but I also feel like it is counterproductive to the message you are trying to communicate. The rest of the post is otherwise articulate and sourced.