FBI Monitored Aretha Franklin for Years, File Shows

Re:FBI Monitored Aretha Franklin for Years, File Shows by prange on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @02:02PM (#33180643)

If you think being concerned about Trump, who is widely agreed to still be in control of one of the two US Political Parties, is just far off ‘speculation’ to you, then I’m very surprised you care about an old FBI dossier on Aretha Franklin.

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Re:FBI Monitored Aretha Franklin for Years, File Shows by micromacrofoot on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @03:17PM (#33181693)

I guess to put it another way: I care about what has happened, but don't care to speculate about what hasn't happened yet.

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Re:FBI Monitored Aretha Franklin for Years, File Shows by prange on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @04:16PM (#33182455)

That doesn’t make sense. Saying the FBI should be defunded is explicitly speculating about what hasn’t happened yet.

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Re:FBI Monitored Aretha Franklin for Years, File Shows by micromacrofoot on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:13PM (#33183345)

Look you're wasting your time here, the way I think is irrelevant to you and this is some very specific hair splitting.

Anyway, I have the compulsive need to explain it.

I'm not speculating about what an ex-president would do because he's not the president, and might not ever be. There's a good chance that speculating about it is a waste of time. It's definitely a waste of time now, because the earliest he'd become president again is 3 years from now.

The FBI exists. It continues to exist. I don't think it should based on a myriad of past actions. I can write letters to congresspeople and the president about the FBI, and they're people in power now that I don't need to speculate about.

So we have the intangible, and the tangible.

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Re:FBI Monitored Aretha Franklin for Years, File Shows by prange on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:40PM (#33183837)

You don’t need to explain, but I am actually interested. I don’t see it as hair splitting.

My point is that Trump may not be president now, but it seems you see that as a binary viewpoint.

He is currently head of a large political organization that pre-dates the FBI which made him president once and may do so again.

He hasn’t stopped existing, nor has the organization that supports him any more than the FBI has.

So I simply disagree that one is tangible and the other is not.

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