Newly released files show how Maria Farmer, who worked for Mr. Epstein in the 1990s, had urged the F.B.I. to investigate him. The case went nowhere for years.

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    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.

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      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?

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        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.

        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?

        The prevailing consensus on lemmy is that the democrats did nothing wrong at all and the mean old voters denied them the election.

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          You’re literally in a thread full of people criticized ng Democrats and claiming it never happens. Why do you like to delude yourself?

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            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.

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              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

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                Can’t even rephrase something without the people who support dishonesty to protect democrats from criticism nitpicking.

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                    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.

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              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.

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                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.

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                  And repeatedly ignoring the glaring example of someone making shit up to excuse the clinton administration’s negligence about clinton’s buddy epstein.

                  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.

                  There’s always someone on lemmy to make excuses for the worst shit democrats do. Always.

                  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…

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                    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.

                    Congratulations on admitting that their excuse exists at all and wasn’t factually correct. After significant prompting.

                    Of course there is. There’s people on Lemmy making excuses for literal fucking Nazi’s. What’s your point?

                    That it happens too often and in favor of too much reprehensible shit.

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          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)

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      Try it for the very first time.

      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.

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      Saying shit like “the Democratic party revolves around genocide” is what gets you push back. Try saying something realistic and people will agree.

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        Saying shit like “the Democratic party revolves around genocide” is what gets you push back.

        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.

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          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?

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            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.

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              There is a shred of sense and self reflection in this comment, it’s like a dim light in a giant dark cavern.

              And then it’s extinguished.

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              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 has a problem with literal genocide must be a republican is a centrist go-to.

              The insinuation that anyone who complains about you endlessly complaining about genocide must be a centrist is also quite something.

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                Huh, if only you’d invest that much of your anger towards the administration that’s actively trying to engage in genocide right now.

                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.

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                  Genocide is wrong. Boom. There you go. What else do you want? You’re so ridiculous.

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                    Genocide is wrong. Boom. There you go. What else do you want?

                    A party that doesn’t support it.

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      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.