In honor of Moldbug coming out of public writing retirement this week, let's do some analysis of a piece from the official press; this one from Vox https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/23/20879611/joe-biden-hunter-biden-ukraine-corruption-prosecutor-burisma-donald-trump-whistleblower-complaint …
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The whole thing rests on dueling assertions. Trump's side asserts that Biden pressured for the firing of a prosecutor that was investigating corruption The bipartisan / international community side asserts that they wanted a tough prosecutor in his place.
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How to resolve this? Well, the int'l community got their way (thankfully!) so what was the outcome? Huh, a new president who *also* promises to stamp out corruption. Did the new prosecutor do anything? Did he investigate Hunter Biden? Vox decided that was unworthy of mention.pic.twitter.com/SipWNrttOg
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The whole thing is very strange without a Moldbug primer to read it. Specifically "international community" and what that means. When the "voice of the people" is valid. What is an "abuse of power" and what "corruption" is - note that Hunter's activity was not corrupt. /fin
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