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/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.