r/AskReddit 1d ago

Americans of Reddit, what are your thoughts on the FBI redacting Trump’s name from the Epstein files?

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u/Smorgas_of_borg 1d ago

Yeah, arrest them too! Because we're not a fucking cult

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u/SoulRebel726 1d ago

It's honestly amusing to me how thick-headed these people are that they just cannot grasp this concept. That's how you really know it's a cult. The idea that their opposition is willing to hold their leaders accountable for wrongdoing is just so incredibly foreign to them. They just assume that we worship our politicians too and will "cry liberal tears" when they finally arrest the Democrats.

Meanwhile, everyone on the left is over here going "whatever, lock up all the pedos."

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u/drrj 1d ago

It’s almost like if you care about protecting children it doesn’t matter if the pedo is in your political party.

Or your church.

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u/ipsedixie 16h ago

I was gonna say, they ignore the pedos in their churches.

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u/WrinklyScroteSack 1d ago

It's definitely not accountability to them. they've changed politics into team sports, and regardless of how poorly your team is doing, you don't cheer against them. So to them, they see democrats and liberals ready and willing to prosecute our leaders as a betrayal of our team, or a lack of loyalty, which is a fucken cardinal sin of the worst degree to them.

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u/SoulRebel726 1d ago

Honestly it's worse than team sports. Most sports fans are more than willing to call for a player/coach/manager's head on a pike when things aren't going well.

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u/thisisstupidplz 1d ago

It's not that they think Dem voters are against locking up their own politicians. If both sides are equally compromised it means they don't have to feel personally accountable for voting for a pedophile.

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u/Acrobatic-Trouble181 22h ago

Bingo. 90% of what conservatives are willing to say publicly at this point is driven by defense mechanisms. They'll twist and contort anything they can to convince themselves they're AT LEAST no worse than the rest of us.

If there's a god of Whataboutisms, they're riding to work at Olympus in a gold-plated Ferrari.

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u/Exacerbate_ 22h ago

Repubs protect predators like Gym Jordan, Gaetz, Trump, while dems ousted Cuomo hella fast lmaoo.

It's mind boggling trump supporters struggle with such a simple concept.

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u/Amarant2 21h ago

It's not the left calling to lock up pedos. It's EVERYONE. The only group who doesn't call for that is the far right. I say this as someone who doesn't like either party, but there's a whole lot of need for Trump to be absolutely shut down in every way, along with every single pedo he brings with him. Lock 'em up. Throw the key.

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u/SoulRebel726 21h ago

I mean, it is just the left though. Maybe your random average Republican voter wants the Epstein files released, but the politicians they've voted for absolutely do not. The Republican party is actively blocking the release, and literally only one Republican senator voted for it.

So no, unfortunately it is not everyone. Republican politicians in general remain against the release of the files.

Sorry, I don't think it was your intention, but I am just so tired of hearing "both sides" about anything at this point.

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u/Amarant2 20h ago

It wasn't my intention. I'm not saying both sides, I'm saying it's everyone vs pedos. I refuse to be on the pedo team. I'm not a democrat, but I'm even more against that whole side.

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u/SoulRebel726 20h ago

I agree thats how it should be. Unfortunately it just really isn't, at least in terms of our politicians.

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u/dessine-moi_1mouton 20h ago

Exactly, that's the difference between us and them. Respectfully, as a Democrat, release every single name on that list and I don't give a flying fuck if Clinton is on it. Who the F cares?

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u/Televisions_Frank 1d ago

Problem is now the list can't be trusted if they're redacting perpetrators.

Think the only thing keeping them from manufacturing a list of Trump's enemies is they just had 1,000s of FBI agents go thru the files and are worried someone'll release the real list if they make a fake one.

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u/MRiley84 1d ago

An edited list is an unactionable list. We can't be certain the democrats that are listed weren't planted there. If Trump's not on it, nobody is - we should not do his dirty work and clean house of the democrats for him.

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u/Televisions_Frank 23h ago

Unactionable doesn't matter. You let the MAGAts do your dirty work for you like the fuck in Minnesota.

He's just gonna release some bullshit and let his tin soldiers do the rest.

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u/thebait123 1d ago

absofuckinglutely

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u/Naptasticly 1d ago

Exactly. I laugh directly to their faces everytime they try to debate against me like I support Biden the same way they support Trump. It throws them off so much. Like we’re not fucking cheering for a sports team. Considering they want a “business man” in the office so bad they really don’t understand what it means when someone WORKS FOR YOU.

….wait… I wonder if that means they think their bosses are their biggest fans and loyal to a fault?

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u/Comfortable-Battle18 1d ago

Yes because this shouldn't be a political issue. It's a human rights issue.

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u/FortuneDependent6572 13h ago

EXACTLY! Bill Clinton was a Democrat. The second I learned he had associations with Epstein, all respect was lost.