• kristina [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        6 days ago

        only thing i know tbh is that he brought her on his poverty eradication campaigns where he’d go to various poor villages and check in on progress. idk how you could be a neolib in that sort of atmosphere at least given your dad is also the leader of the largest communist party ever

        also like this lady is like 30 something, barron is 19 lmao genuinely unhinged take

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            6 days ago

            i suppose thinkin-lenin but theres actually a lot of reasons for a communist to come to america, e.g. learning english or immersing yourself in a specific scientific field. shes a psychologist, could have attachments to patients? idk shrug-outta-hecks i tend to try to look for the best in people i guess

            Saying this as someone with dual citizenship that cannot leave this fucking black hole of a country

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        IIRC she moved to the US before her dad became President, but I could imagine she stuck around because being the President’s kid is a position where absolutely everyone wants a piece of you, and (if you want to get by on your own merits) it’s probably better to live somewhere that it’s not all that relevant/recognizable to people. Her personal politics aside, it seems pretty reasonable to not -