Comment by crochetquilt on 12/03/2025 at 09:35 UTC

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Imagine if Biden had done an ad for laptops during his presidency. In fact fuck it I want Hunter to become the new US face of Lenovo.

No wait, Lenovo owns IBM and IBM have form with Nazi's so they'd probably want one of the other guys to do it.

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Comment by seanzorio at 12/03/2025 at 12:32 UTC*

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Just as a point of clarity, Lenovo doesn't own IBM. IBM is it's own publicly traded company. IBM sold it's PC business to Lenovo in the mid 2000s, but they're two completely different companies.  Lenovo has about 75k employees and IBM is over 300k employees.

Comment by RemCogito at 12/03/2025 at 12:41 UTC

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IBM still exists separately, Lenovo just bought the IBM Personal Computer company in 2005, not the umbrella IBM. Lenovo is a Chinese Company, founded in 1984, in Beijing. IBM still makes mainframe compatible computers for institutions and they still handle their various support contracts and still work with businesses for large scale custom solutions and such. They just stopped making computers for individual people or that go on individual desks.

They've been in business since 1911, they started making PCs in 1981, and then stopped that in 2005. They only made PCs for 26 years, and they have been in business for 115, and named IBM since 1924. It was founded by a US Census Clerk. Their punch card machines were used by people on both sides of world war 2, Though yes The nazi party did start buying their hardware in 1933, and they continued to do business with them until America Entered WWII.

If it weren't for the punch card machines, it would have been much much harder for them to organize the holocaust. If people had to go through census data by hand inorder to draw up the lists of who was going to the concentration camps, NAZIs wouldn't have been able to torture and murder so many people.

Lenovo on the other hand is partially owned by the CCP. Who are currently holding muslims in concentration camps.

Comment by Saunterer9 at 12/03/2025 at 12:48 UTC

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Lenovo doesn't own IBM, Lenovo bought off IBM PC business division in 2005. IBM and Lenovo are separate companies.

Comment by HapticRecce at 12/03/2025 at 12:55 UTC

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A better analogy would be Biden pimping for the new Chevy Corvette. Except, he's known to actually drive cars and really owns a classic one.

And no, Lenovo doesn't own IBM, which is a publically traded company headquartered in the US. IBM sold their PC division to Lenovo in 2005.

Comment by cimmerian_haze at 12/03/2025 at 14:05 UTC

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I thought the Hunter laptop wasn't a thing? Wasn't it Russian misinformation?

Comment by Kazen_Orilg at 12/03/2025 at 14:10 UTC

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IBM just did a lot of business with Nazi's. Like many other American staple companies, like Ford and Coke.

Comment by MellowHamster at 12/03/2025 at 14:53 UTC

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Lenovo is Chinese and has nothing to do with IBM.

Comment by sheepshizzle at 12/03/2025 at 12:26 UTC

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Goddamnit, really? I just bought a Lenovo a few weeks ago.

Comment by tropebreaker at 12/03/2025 at 12:48 UTC

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Or can you imagine if Hillary advertised gmail?

Comment by blatantmutant at 12/03/2025 at 12:59 UTC

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He did tho!

https://theonion.com/shirtless-biden-washes-trans-am-in-white-house-driveway-1819570732/

/s

Comment by ih8comingupwithaname at 12/03/2025 at 13:04 UTC

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Yeah I'd buy a limited edition Hunter Biden laptop

Comment by Gardakkan at 12/03/2025 at 13:16 UTC

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Lenovo doesn't own IBM, it bought it's PC and Laptop division years ago though.

Comment by Annual-Ad8311 at 12/03/2025 at 13:20 UTC

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What nazi's ?

Comment by ignore_my_typo at 12/03/2025 at 13:39 UTC

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Biden did somewhat promote Corvette during his presidency.

The situation isn’t the same as it is with Trump and Elon, and I’m not excusing that behaviour, but it’s a pretty grey line.

Ethics should be upheld as much as possible when you’re in the largest Most powerful hot seat.

Comment by bjss99 at 12/03/2025 at 14:00 UTC

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Lenovo DOES NOT own IBM.

some ppl should not be allowed to fkn type

Comment by Matthew-_-Black at 12/03/2025 at 14:58 UTC

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Trojans because of that big ol Biden dick

Comment by tjthewho at 12/03/2025 at 15:13 UTC

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I personally, would have found it hilarious if Hunter Biden took a sponsorship from HP to sell Laptops

Comment by hgs25 at 12/03/2025 at 15:17 UTC

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They would never see the tariffs coming. Like this segue to our sponsor.

Comment by Active-Ear-2917 at 12/03/2025 at 16:42 UTC

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Biden effectively DID an ad for Jeep at the White House. So......

Comment by Chumlee1917 at 12/03/2025 at 17:38 UTC

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At least when Biden went to car shows or drove electric vehicles while as president it's cause he was tying it to his agenda and cause he likes cars.

Comment by sylendar at 12/03/2025 at 20:57 UTC

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Lenovo owns IBM

Can you at least make an attempt to be informed?

Comment by No-Contribution-6150 at 12/03/2025 at 22:18 UTC

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Biden did drive the Ford lightning though and the whole thing was kind of an ad

Comment by soyboy815 at 12/03/2025 at 12:44 UTC

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I just started a new job and they gave us Lenovo think pads. And in fact my coworker came in today and there’s was super hot and wouldn’t turn on 😂