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  • What is the typical sentence for Hunter Biden's Tax Evasion?

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  • couple of things

    1. I'm assuming you mean Trump and as of now he is not the president
    2. Once Trump becomes president after Jan 20th, he will be just as much my POTUS as he will be your POTUS, assuming you live in the US
    3. I think you are trying to make the insinuation that somehow because I answered the question asked by OP, I am a Trumper

    I spent the majority of my life as an illegal immigrant in the US. I didn't become a citizen until well into my adulthood. I was brought here illegally at a young age

    do you really think I am a Trumper? that I'm a red hat wearing Maga bible thumper? i would be a traitor to my own kind- being damned to spend eternity in the lowest level of hell freezing right next to Marco Rubio and Judas

    come on man stop drinking the koolaid it's OK to admit Biden's son is a criminal.

  • What is the typical sentence for Hunter Biden's Tax Evasion?

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  • Let's see. Biden was charged with and pleaded guilty to 3 felony counts. One count of tax evasion and two counts of filing false returns. And then 3 misdemeanor counts of willful failure to pay taxes

    Everyone's favorite actor Wesley Snipes got charged and convicted of 3 misdemeanor counts of willful failure to pay taxes. significantly less than Biden was charged with.

    he got sentenced to 36 months and served 28 months

    this guy: https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/former-baltimore-police-commissioner-darryl-de-sousa-sentenced-federal-prison-failing

    baltimore police commissioner served 10 months along with community service and probation. he got 3 counts of willful failure to pay taxes

    so what is the typical? it really depends. there's a lot of nuance to it. but Biden is/was facing some serious serious charges. 3+ years of prison would probably be the minimum expected

    the police commissioner tried to hide about $60k of taxes from the government

    Biden tried to hide $1.4M

    so yeah, I'd be really grateful to dad if I were him

  • Appeals court upholds TikTok ban law

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  • such a silly semantic statement

    TikTok exists in its current manifestation because it is managed by ByteDance

    If you sold TikTok to an American company it would immediately change into a different entity.

    If we're gonna play word games I'd call it a "anti-foreign social media ban"

    now i'll ask a question

    are they banning it because it's competition for our social media companies? so is this an economic anti-china policy designed to protect american company interests?

    or are they banning it because right now TikTok is one of the larger social media platforms and it's the only one that doesn't have to bow down to the DOJ or DOD? i don't think it's a coincidence they're banning the platform with some of the loudest leftist anti-government voices

    I don't buy the national security angle one bit. It's like pretending the PATRIOT Act was to protect kids. It's a veneer. Scratch off the surface and you realize if China wanted data on Americans, they can just buy it legally and cheaply from American data brokers

  • U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid unprecedented cyberattack

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  • yeah i just try not to think about it. I'm glad I was in the myspace generation during my teenage years. so I was actually able to just delete my myspace later on as an adult

    i feel worse for the kids growing up today. they don't fully understand the implications of what they are posting online. anything and everything is being recorded forever. my generation got a chance to be a stupid kid and have it be forgotten. today's kids don't get that opportunity

    the best you can do, though, is just stop posting potentially damaging things online. you can't change what you already posted. and 999 times out of a thousand, it's not gonna hurt you.

    i understand the overwhelmed feeling though

  • President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden

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  • the topic of this thread is Biden pardoning his son, who was guilty of serious financial crimes.

    you're the one being selective in your outrage, not me. i disapprove of all these guys.

    the thing with Biden though, is that the DNC frames themselves as the good guys. You know, Trump is a corrupt criminal, bla bla bla.

    So when Trump does, it isn't really a surprise. It's what you come to expect from someone like him. I'm not approving of Trump's pardons because I'm mentioning Biden's

    The issue is that Biden promised various times that he would not pardon his son. But now that he has nothing left to lose (his career is over, and probably the country is doomed to fascism anyways) so fuck it. Integrity is for schmucks anyway, right? i guess the moral of the story is make sure you have a powerful dad

    personally I'm not even outraged about it. I'm glad he did it so that it's more clear to everyday Americans that they're all a bunch of crooks

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    CEO of UnitedHealthcare fatally shot outside of NYC hotel, source says

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  • there were 6 arrests for social media crimes, including the one for the woman who actually kicked off the protests by sharing a fake name about the kid who attacked the concert

    but that's beyond the point. let's look at the comment for Kay, one that you mentioned, that caught a sentence of 38 months

    "Mass deportation now, set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care… If that makes me racist, so be it"

    that's the portion that says he "called for hotels to be set alight"

    see, to my interpretation he was saying "i would not care if they set fire to the hotels". in the US, this would be very strongly covered under free speech. why? because it's an opinion. in the US you can say "I believe that [xyz] should happen" and that is a belief. an opinion- something that cannot be censored. in the UK, not so much. but even in the US, you could be held legally responsible in some way depending on the interpretation of the law

    and likewise, the platform hosting that controversial speech can face legal consequences. from serious fines to potentially even criminal charges depending on the enthusiasm of the government. (governments that are getting progressively more authoritarian and trigger-happy the world over)

    the point I was trying to convey is that a website like this instance of Lemmy or any other must follow rules in order to stay out of legal hot water. how can you fault them for that?

    if you believe this is not the correct thing to do, then you can pay money to host a website and then you can put your ass in front of the ringer to handle potential legal consequences for not doing your part to stop it. i don't fault the mods in the slightest.

    just for reference though, let's compare and contrast the comment that got Kay arrested and put in jail and then some comments in this thread

    a lot of comments in this thread are being deleted, let me see if i can catch some before they are deleted

    "This bit of news does not bother me at all"

    "I mean, I thought we were gonna eat the rich, but this will do."

    "this will probably lead to the increased militarisation [sic] of ceo security teams. People can start going after their family"

    using the same level of scrutiny, each one of these comments could justify a sentence in the ballpark of 38 months like what happened with Kay

    this is what i mean. the internet today is changing and social media admins need to change with the times or the hammer of the law can screw them. users here spamming about mod abuse do not fully understand

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    CEO of UnitedHealthcare fatally shot outside of NYC hotel, source says

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  • thin line. many people got sent to jail in England for celebrating too enthusiastically online during the anti-immigrant riots. the internet today isn't the same as the internet 15 years ago

    the rules aren't because the mods care very much. the rules are so than the website doesn't get taken down and/or the owners/maintainers aren't subject to serious legal penalties

  • The US isn't a Democracy. It's a Capitalist Oligarchy. You know. Like Russia.

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  • "A tomato isn't a vegetable, it's a fruit. Like apples"

    "Yeah dumbass there's no difference between apples and tomatoes. In fact, I'd go ahead and never eat a tomato again. Might as well"

  • U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid unprecedented cyberattack

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  • the safest perspective to have is this -

    every single thing you send online is going to be there forever. "the cloud" is someone's server and constitutes online. even end to end encryption isn't necessarily going to save you.

    for example iCloud backup is encrypted. but Apple in the past has kept a copy of your encryption key on your iCloud. why? because consumers who choose to encrypt and lose their passwords are gonna freak out when all their data is effectively gone forever.

    so when FBI comes a'knocking to Apple with a subpoena.. once they get access to that encryption key it doesn't matter if you have the strongest encryption in the world

    my advice

    never ever ever write something online that you do not want everybody in the world seeing.

    to put on my tin foil hat, i believe government probably has access to methods that break modern encryptions. in theory with quantum computers it shouldn't be difficult

  • HowStuffWorks founder Marshall Brain sent final email before sudden death

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  • sad story. it's emblematic of a mentality that is all too common in "ivory tower" positions

    whether you work for a university or a news agency or a government organizations, etc. everyone ends up self censoring because they realize that rocking the boat is bad for your personal interests. after working so hard to get into this little elite club, you don't want to jeopardize your position. your identity and sense of self worth is tied up with it

    the few that end up trying get quickly chewed up and spit out by the whole.

    it's essentially group think and self censorship. too bad this guy killed himself instead of trying to move forward in his life with another avenue.

  • President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden

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  • why the whataboutism? why the compulsive need to downplay the severity of this?

    yes, trump is a criminal too. and he has pardoned criminals and will likely pardon more criminals.

  • President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden

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  • Robert Hunter Biden (Hunter Biden) pleaded guilty in federal court in Los Angeles this afternoon to all counts in a nine-count indictment, including three felony tax offenses and six misdemeanor tax offenses. There was no plea agreement.

    He pled guilty. Read more: https://www.justice.gov/sco-weiss/pr/robert-hunter-biden-convicted-three-felony-tax-offenses-and-six-misdemeanor-tax-offenses

    He was playing money and tax evasion games. Getting millions of dollars of payments from a sketchy sources in Eastern Europe through his law firm and then what would be called embezzling from his company under different circumstances

    This is not normal people behavior. This is most likely the tip of the iceberg. It's actually a nice little sneak peek into how much money flows between different oligarchs (including US ones) through these sketchy illicit channels

    This guy absolutely is a criminal. There's no question about it. The trial probably is politically motivated too.

  • President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden

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  • and not an actual criminal

    yeah it can happen to anybody. sometimes you just forget to pay $1.4M you owe in taxes from the millions of dollars of dubious payments from overseas organizations (Burisma Holdings) owned by Russian oligarchs (Mykola Zlochevsky) that just happened to be investigated, tried and convicted of corruption

    you know what message this sends to us plebs? they can do whatever the fuck they want. all we can do is sit and watch

  • Australia bans social media for under 16s

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  • i don't think the always thrown around "more education" is an effective answer to everything

    you can educate kids up and down about the harms of smoking- if smoking is advertised as cool in popular media, there are cigarettes with colorful and fruity flavors, and it's easy for the kids to obtain then they will inevitably smoke cigarettes. everybody has known smoking causes cancer for a half century know.

    if you don't want kids smoking, then you must act with force to restrict something. whether it's the restriction on subliminal advertising, the ban on colorful cigarettes, or prohibition of selling to underage smokers- you need some sort of ban.

    i firmly believe in the near future we will view social media as we know it similar to how we see smoking. addictive little dopamine hits that will over time change the structure of your brain. we look back at the 50s and think it was crazy how they smoked cigarettes on airplanes, drank whiskey at work, and everyone bathed in lead and asbestos. they're going to look back at our time period and see us similarly

    so if I were to say "should kids be using social media?" I wholeheartedly believe they should not be using it until their brains are developed. much like I don't think kids should be smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, or smoking weed

    but the ultimate question is- what are the potential harms of a government ban and are those potential harms worth it?

    that's where I am conflicted. a minor not being able to buy cigarettes is something that I don't really think hurts society very much.

    but a ban on a minor accessing certain online spaces.. how do you accomplish that? well, you will need to track people's identities online somehow. this is the part where I think maybe the harms of kids using social media is not worth giving the government power to monitor and regulate social media websites.

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    White House pressing Ukraine to draft 18-year-olds so they have enough troops to battle Russia

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  • American strategic goals and what Ukraine deserves are two separate topics that have no connection with each other

    The Kurds have a right to exist, what happened to them once there was no more utility to the US?

    The US is participating in the destruction of Ukraine for their own strategic interests. Just like every other thing the US has ever done.

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  • American goals in Ukraine are

    • make Russia pay dearly for every inch of land they take in Ukraine
    • use this opportunity to give a nice cash injection to our defense contractors
    • gather as much intel & data on both Russia & the modern battlefield in general. Sort of like the Spanish Civil War before WW2. A playground to test out new technologies

    These goals have already been accomplished. It's been a great couple years in terms of hurting Russia for cheap.

    We want to prolong this war as long as possible. A Ukrainian victory would be just as bad as a Ukrainian loss. It's why we modulate our aid carefully. Like Chomsky was saying before his stroke - "we will fight them to the last Ukrainian"

    I think a lot of people get blinded by propaganda in the moment. Even people who retroactively would be able to see it just fine (try and find someone who believes Iraq was a justified war) strongly believe the party lines.

    Reality is American interests and Ukrainian interests are not aligned.

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  • "keep the Americans in, the Germans down, and the Russians out"

    best thing for America is to prolong this war as long as possible.

  • Judge says he must still approve sale of Infowars to The Onion

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  • Thanks for the info. If the creditors agree to take a lowered payout, than it makes sense. I wasn't aware of any such deal before making my comment.

    I don't want to dox myself but I know Parkland very well. The people who live there are loaded. So it makes sense they aren't hurting for money and would just prefer the Infowars website to be neutered, which it seems is the Onion's goal.

  • Is the Wikimedia Foundation about to sell out its editors—and its principles?

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  • most democratic countries cosplay as democracies. just like most communist countries cosplayed as communist.

    ideology in its purest form. After the death of God, you need something to fill that unapproachable void. So you inject ideals- civil service, egalitarianism, tolerance, justice, etc -- values that are virtuous and aspirational, but ultimately are just shiny veneers over a darker truth. it functions as scaffolding for systems that serve the interests of raw power. it is theater. performance. spectacle. underneath, the mechanisms of control, inequality, and corruption remain unchanged.

    don't make the mistake of believing that India is somehow unique here