More recently, they tried to force Apple to put a backdoor in their phones.
It's honestly kind of wild watching the political left do a total about face and embrace and celebrate the FBI while the law and order political right turns against them.
I'm getting almost as much whiplash as when the crunchy, anti-vax political left (remember the 2019 Portland measles outbreak?) turned rabidly and militantly pro-vax while the generally neutral conservative right turned extremely anti-vax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Pacific_Northwest_measles...
But probably not as much whiplash as Obama got after he campaigned in 2008 saying that he believed marriage was between a man and a woman. https://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2008/08/obama-says-...
Interesting times.
There's no need to bring in outside influence to think negatively of the FBI - they've done it to themselves and if anything deserve far more scrutiny than they get.
They also have the biggest targets and the ones that fight the hardest against their job.
But guess what, if those agencies are "big and bad", it's because so are their targets. And even then sometimes they lose
As far as I'm concerned the FBI is a net-negative for this country by a long shot and their defunding and dissolution immediately would have next to zero negative impact and plenty of upside.
Btw I'm sure it's a two way street.
I would argue that it's similar to what happens with a lot of major stories. Something happens, then people start seeing it everywhere even if it was always there. They just talk about it more because it's the topic of the day.
Yes, the timing is... odd. That could be part of a natural cycle of attention, or external influence, or both.
Doesn't change the fact that ACAB, and the FBI are cops.
... oh, look, it's the Republican Party.
Doesnt take much to put two and two together.
I’ve spent seven years listening to people complain about fascist orange man, and yet all the authoritarian policies that were introduced during that time (restrictions on freedom of movement, speech, association, etc) have come from democrat politicians.
Which party forced medical procedures on people who wanted to keep their job? Which party sends the federal police into the homes of its political opponents? Which party has been holding opposition protestors in prison without trial for over a year?
Now tell me who’s the fascist again?
I'm legitimately curious, why do you think we disagree?
You need actual evidence Biden was involved in the situation. All there is right now is Hunter possibly referencing his father. This is on the level of "Russia, if you're listening..." except in that case we know an actual outcome that appears to have coincided with the call for action while the venture Hunter proposed never occurred.