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Epstein Files Include 1996 Child Porn Complaint That F.B.I. Ignored
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The 5th Director of the FBI, Louis Freeh, who was director at the time of the complaint, was literally appointed by Bill Clinton. Furthermore, the 3rd director, William Webster, was appointed by Jimmy Carter, and the 7th director, James Comey, was appointed by Barack Obama.
I believe you're counting the directors wrong. Freeh was the 15th, Webster was 11th, and Comey was 18th. https://www.fbi.gov/history/directors.
Shh. This is lemmy, where we make excuses for democrats no matter what they do.
This is not reddit and when you make these kinds of insinuations you only ever wind up sounding like a conspiracist or a dolt (perhaps both).
You'll find a large majority of Lemmy instances are pretty critical of the US Democrattic party and rightly so.
I have not found that to be the case. Say anything less than worshipful of the genocide wing that runs the party and you'll get pushback. Try it for the very first time.
What the actual fuck are you talking about?
By which I mean your sweeping, obviously inaccurate claims about the userbase, not the genocide, which is definitely happening, happened under the previous administration too, and is extremely fucked up, and likely contributed to the fascists getting elected given how abysmally the DNC handled the entire situation?
You have a lot more issue with my saying that lemmy makes excuses for democrats than you do about the straight up lie that no democrat has ever appointed an FBI chair. Because that lie is there to excuse bad behavior of democrats.
The prevailing consensus on lemmy is that the democrats did nothing wrong at all and the mean old voters denied them the election.
You're literally in a thread full of people criticized ng Democrats and claiming it never happens. Why do you like to delude yourself?
I'm saying that lemmy has a lot of people who make excuses for democrats no matter what they do, as a response to some preposterous bullshit about democrats never appointing an FBI chair. Misinformation that no one seems to have much of a problem with and that has like 80 upvotes despite being an outright lie.
You said the consensus, not just a lot of people. You're moving goalposts now that you've been called out.
How's that for fact checking
Can't even rephrase something without the people who support dishonesty to protect democrats from criticism nitpicking.
I'm not one of those people, so I'm not sure who you're talking about.
I'm talking about you particularly in this case. If democrats look bad, you look for excuses and they don't have to be true.
Oh, I know that's what you're trying to paint me as, but given that's not how I operate, your attempts to distract from your disinformation campaign with this shift to ad hominem disinfo is pretty laughably transparent
It's not disinformation to correctly say that democrats have appointed FBI directors. Even if that makes centrists look bad.
Disinfo is when you make statements that are backed up by reality, Google, and wikipedia.
Disinfo is anything centrists don't want to hear. Shit like "don't make shit up just because your politician looks bad" or "genocide is wrong even when democratic politicians enable it."
I never said it was. And given that you obvit can't seem to follow the conversation you're participating in, I'm done.
And we're arguing against your thesis. Most all Lemmy communities are, at the very least, highly sympathetic towards leftists and somewhat hostile towards neoliberals.
And repeatedly ignoring the glaring example of someone making shit up to excuse the clinton administration's negligence about clinton's buddy epstein.
There's always someone on lemmy to make excuses for the worst shit democrats do. Always.
I've never commented on that person playing into and broadcasting obvious dem\neolib propaganda but I agree with you that they're either deeply mistaken or, worse, lying.
Of course there is. There's people on Lemmy making excuses for literal fucking Nazi's. What's your point? That Lemmy contains manifold people\opinions? Oh no....
Congratulations on admitting that their excuse exists at all and wasn't factually correct. After significant prompting.
That it happens too often and in favor of too much reprehensible shit.
Sounds like you may have been banned from communities that are expressing more nuanced opinions. Perhaps because of your fairly obviously dogmatic stance (not on genocide, but on how people are reacting to it)
Sounds like you're gloating about pro-genocide echo chambers.
Lmao again what the actual fuck are you talking about
Sorry, I can't put it in any simpler terms.
For anyone with actual passable English reading comprehension skills, it absolutely does not.
This line just proves that you're not interested in a serious conversation. You'll find in life that if you listen before you talk you'll often learn quite a lot of useful things.
Take care.
If you really believe this, then you have serious reading comprehension skills and/or only interpret everything in a way the reinforces your existing biases . From my experience, a majority of people here, myself included, would happily see both parties burn to the ground and replaced with a system that empowers We The People to choose real representatives.
Another person who has never heard the excuses because they've never given anyone occasion to employ them.
I would have made some kind of sarcastic joking "welcome to lemmy" comment, but your profile says it was created two and a half years ago in the era of the great third party app reddit exodus.
The biggest Democrat "support" I generally see here, and which I have contributed to myself, is the suggestion that it may be a good idea to vote for a severely flawed Democrat in order to avoid everything we're seeing right now and have waiting for us in the next 3+ years.
Three comments up is someone lying and saying no democrat has ever appointed an FBI chair because a Clinton appointee was head of the agency when the allegations were ignored. It's heavily upvoted.
They're misremembering. What they're trying to remember is the fact that no Democrat has ever been appointed to run the FBI. Democratic presidents appoint Republicans to run the FBI.
You're making excuses for excuses.
Put away the pillory. You're obsessed.
keep excusing behavior you know is wrong.
This is not the gotcha you think it is.
First, the comment you chose is replying to another comment you don't choose that DID blame it on Clinton and got far more upvotes. And if you care so much about votes then this post of yours seems to have been rejected by the collective so far.
But more importantly, I responded to your broad generalized statement with one of my own. I don't know why you think a single counter example (even a good one and not just somebody being wrong) is going to shatter my statement as if it's a scientific theory.
The one blaming it on clinton wasn't telling an obvious lie. Since this is lemmy, the lie was welcome because it absolved the centrist wing of the party.
Do you really want me to list all the times people on lemmy have lied and made excuses for the centrist wing of the democratic party? Will you immediately dismiss them and make excuses for them like your "being wrong" garbage?
They do exist, but in my experience they are somewhat rare here.
In my experience they aren't, but I'm often the one they're making excuses at.
You getting downvoted for this is just proof they hate you calling it out. If they weren't offended by the truth they'd stop downvoting you.
Edit: and it still happens when directly called on it too, no irony or shame from them
What mental fuckery is this? He got downvoted for being wrong, not as "proof he called it out". You must be a magat, because sane people can't twist like that.
"If you don't the party that didn't stop the Republicans you must be a Republican" good logic.
Youre right. He was also previously appointed by Bush. Not exactly a partisan, and the FBI still would gladly have gotten Clinton for this if they'd been aware of his involvement
OP is misremembering. The real key is that no Democrat has ever been appointed to run the FBI. Democrats always appoint Republicans to run the FBI.