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1996? When Bubba was potus? I wonder why the FBI ignored it
Funny thing is that no FBI director has been appointed by a Democrat. Not even Clinton had that kind of control of the FBI.
Edit: looks like I was wrong about appointments; Clinton did appoint an FBI director who had previously been appointed by Bush to another position. He still didn't have the kind of power over the FBI that would have let him quash an investigation like this
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.
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.
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.
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 dogmatic and 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.
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.
Saying shit like "the Democratic party revolves around genocide" is what gets you push back. Try saying something realistic and people will agree.
From people who know it's true, love it, and never want it to change except for the worse. When their actions indicate that they support another policy with greater persistence and enthusiasm, I'll believe the party actually has other policies.
No, you just have a weird fixation with associating the Democratic Party with genocide by the looks of your last series of comments. I wouldn't be surprised if your entire comment history is peppered with shit-talking on only one side. It doesn't seem to phase commenters like you that the Trump administration is just as friendly with Israel. How come you're silent about that?
No one argues with me when I say that trump is pro-genocide, for one. But I'll admit that I'm intensely bitter about democrats' support for genocide. No political party in the US should ever support genocide, and yet even the "good" party does. I'm livid at all the procedural bullshit they applied toward making sure they didn't keep their campaign promises, while breaking actual law to support genocide.
Just because I fucking hate democrats for what they did, that doesn't mean I don't hate the republicans they keep trying to be for showing them what policies to espouse.
That said, the insinuation that anyone who has a problem with literal genocide must be a republican is a centrist go-to, and it's the least surprising comment in the whole thread.
Huh, if only you'd invest that much of your anger towards the administration that's actively trying to engage in genocide right now. Idk if you saw, but that link was from 4 hours ago. Where's the outrage? Or is it that much more important to get your fix by picking a fight on Lemmy about an administration that's not even in power right now?
The insinuation that anyone who complains about you endlessly complaining about genocide must be a centrist is also quite something.
Huh, if only you could admit that genocide was wrong, you wouldn't have to keep making allegations that anyone who doesn't love it like you do must be a trumper.
Genocide is wrong. Boom. There you go. What else do you want? You're so ridiculous.
A party that doesn't support it.
Best I can do is a grande mocha latte with chocolate sprinkles. I hope that's ok with you.
More than the party is willing to do. And no, it isn't.
Too bad. I'm not in a position to do anything else for you, and I doubt anyone else in this comment section is. It sounds like you're wasting your time yelling at clouds or something.
I mean, they could stop making excuses like the "the FBI has never been headed by a dem appointee" garbage. But you and I both know that's never gonna happen since this is lemmy.
Oh yeah, that's a common thing that people criticize the Dems for. Sounds legit.
It's literally in this thread. Gaslighting is abuse and you should stop.
Awesome that you hand-picked your example to generalize it to everyone, and started abusing the term gaslighting to portray yourself as the victim to divert from the point and get some sympathy points. Good job. Sounds like you do this a lot.
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.
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.