r/SubredditDrama • u/jsmooth7 Anthropomorphic Socialist Cat Person • Jul 05 '16
Political Drama FBI recommends no charges against Hillary Clinton. The political subreddits recommend popcorn.
This story broke this morning:
After a one year long investigation, the FBI has officially recommended no charges be filled against Hillary Clinton for her handling of classified emails on her private server.
Many Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump supporters had been hoping for her to receive an indictment over this. So naturally, in response there is a ton of arguing and drama across Reddit. Here are a few particularly popcorn-filled threads:
/r/HillaryForPrison wonders if the FBI understands how the law works.
/r/TheDonald users discuss if there is a double standard with the FBI decision. (Not much arguing in this thread, just a lot of very unhappy people.)
Another Sanders' supporter: "This is where I quit paying attention to politics again"
In /r/politics, a slap fight breaks out over a person's username.
Note: I'll add more threads here as I find them.
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u/Cylinsier Jul 05 '16
How on earth do you idiots just shrug this off? If I don't understand the law to such a degree that I can see something clearly broken, say that it's clearly broken, then be told by self righteous idiots that "you dont get it bruh, this is just how the country works" without a shred of "i know its fucked, its clearly fucked and i just like things being fucky" added to that as caveat then yeah I guess I dont understand the laws in crazyfuckville, usa. please, please teach me all about how this is perfectly ok and totally normal.
Man this dude is legit pissed. I haven't been that angry about anything since trying to platinum Metal Gear Rising.
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u/datums Jul 05 '16
Reddit's best legal minds are already parsing the details of the press conference. The emerging consensus among these giants of jurisprudence is that the law is stupid.
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u/out_stealing_horses Jul 05 '16
This exchange in r/SandersForPresident killed me:
You're really just proving the point that people on reddit don't know what they're talking about
No, you're just proving that people on Reddit can be tedious and pedantic
You literally don't know what the FBI does.
Jesus, you're really doubling down on this one, aren't you?
The mutual outrage is pretty funny.
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u/aYearOfPrompts Jul 05 '16
What's fun is that I don't know which side each one is on, and it still works.
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u/Vio_ Jul 05 '16
I once had someone accuse me of being pedentic. Fucking trap that one is.
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u/NotGuiltyOfThat Jul 05 '16
Best part are the various comments claiming that intent doesn't matter (for any crime). How can someone be so ignorant of the legal system astonishes me.
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Jul 05 '16
Because reddit and the general public tend to view law as how they think it should be in a specfic situation and not what it is.
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u/djtoell Jul 05 '16
Well, there are some strict liability crimes where intent/mens rea need not be proven.
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u/MimesAreShite Jul 05 '16
Look, you may be new here, but r/The_Donald is where many top minds collaborate, and routinely outsmart the most well funded, well equipped and diabolical organizations on earth. How do we do it? Top thinkers, experts on every field, unparalleled investigative skills and fearlessness. I would trust a top comment here over pretty much any news source, especially a mainstream source, any day.
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u/JCBadger1234 Jul 05 '16
I'm currently "arguing" with a TOP MIND on r/politics, who thinks it's total bullshit that the FBI could decide not to recommend charges, or the DOJ could decide that they shouldn't pursue charges.... because "It's not for the FBI or DOJ to decide if she broke the law. It's for the courts to decide."
Because apparently everyone accused of a crime must stand trial, even if law enforcement and the prosecution decide there isn't anything behind those accusations.......And then he calls me a troll for pointing out just how fucking stupid a system that would be.
This fucking site, man...... Good god.
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u/snotbowst Jul 05 '16
What are the odds on that guy having a problem with the effects of rape accusations then? If he says every accusation should go to trial...
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u/Khaelgor Jul 05 '16
"It's not for the FBI or DOJ to decide if she broke the law. It's for the courts to decide."
It's because most redditors uses 'guilty until proven otherwise' instead of innocent.
It's easier on our minds, you see. /s
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Jul 05 '16
As someone who Googled some legal terminology, here's why the FBI is wrong.
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u/Zachums Jul 05 '16
Holy shit. My mom came into my room to bring me a plate of chicken nuggets and I literally screamed at her and hit the plate of chicken nuggets out of her hand. She started yelling and swearing at me and I slammed the door on her. I’m so distressed right now I don’t know what to do. I didn’t mean to do that to my mom but I’m literally in shock from the results today. I feel like I’m going to explode. Why the fucking fuck is she not being arrested? This can’t be happening. I’m having a fucking breakdown. I don’t want to believe the world is so corrupt. I want a future to believe in. I want Hillary to be in prison and fix this broken country. I cannot fucking deal with this right now. It wasn’t supposed to be like this, I thought she was grilled by the FBI???? This is so fucked.
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u/BolshevikMuppet Jul 05 '16
God I wish laypeople would at least accept the possibility that the director of the FBI (and an accomplished legal scholar in his own right) understands criminal law better than they do.
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u/interroboom Jul 05 '16
well, if you just take a look at this Breitbart article, you'll see that the only just conclusion to this is summary execution for high treason
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u/Felinomancy Jul 05 '16
summary execution
What, we don't do hanging, drawing and quartering any more? Damn liberals.
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u/TobyTheRobot Jul 06 '16
I'm reasonably sure that the person who compared this to 9/11 is not old enough to actually remember 9/11.
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u/Thus_Spoke Jul 05 '16
Holy shit, r/the_donald is using the Star of David graphic in their sidebar image now.