Sun May 26, 2019 11:07 pm
Sun May 26, 2019 11:25 pm
Mon May 27, 2019 12:07 am
Mon May 27, 2019 12:15 am
digster wrote:I don't know the particulars (I'm firewalled from reading the full piece), but I do agree with Mickey that putting trust in FBI reports when Hoover expressly weaponized the agency against MLK is going out on a bit of a limb, to put it lightly (though I'm not saying the writer's doing that).
Mon May 27, 2019 12:42 am
Mon May 27, 2019 12:59 am
Bi_3 wrote:digster wrote:I don't know the particulars (I'm firewalled from reading the full piece), but I do agree with Mickey that putting trust in FBI reports when Hoover expressly weaponized the agency against MLK is going out on a bit of a limb, to put it lightly (though I'm not saying the writer's doing that).
The author did win a Pulitzer writing about Dr. King so I’m not sure he’d be one to attempt to destroy the guys legacy with with such charges. Apparently the audio is classified for another 8 years so it’ll just beat album 11 out of the gate. God knows what the Kennedys did.
Mon May 27, 2019 4:50 pm
digster wrote:Bi_3 wrote:digster wrote:I don't know the particulars (I'm firewalled from reading the full piece), but I do agree with Mickey that putting trust in FBI reports when Hoover expressly weaponized the agency against MLK is going out on a bit of a limb, to put it lightly (though I'm not saying the writer's doing that).
The author did win a Pulitzer writing about Dr. King so I’m not sure he’d be one to attempt to destroy the guys legacy with with such charges. Apparently the audio is classified for another 8 years so it’ll just beat album 11 out of the gate. God knows what the Kennedys did.
Yeah, definitely, that makes sense; I think I'm less skeptical of the author than the source material.
Mon May 27, 2019 5:09 pm
Mickey wrote:digster wrote:Bi_3 wrote:digster wrote:I don't know the particulars (I'm firewalled from reading the full piece), but I do agree with Mickey that putting trust in FBI reports when Hoover expressly weaponized the agency against MLK is going out on a bit of a limb, to put it lightly (though I'm not saying the writer's doing that).
The author did win a Pulitzer writing about Dr. King so I’m not sure he’d be one to attempt to destroy the guys legacy with with such charges. Apparently the audio is classified for another 8 years so it’ll just beat album 11 out of the gate. God knows what the Kennedys did.
Yeah, definitely, that makes sense; I think I'm less skeptical of the author than the source material.
I don't know if I think the author is attempting to do anything of the sort--he's reporting what he's found in the FBI files (he may have any such motive for doing so). My point is simply that what he's reporting--that the FBI claims to have a tape wherein MLK passively watches a rape--should be viewed with suspicion: it's well within the realm of possibility that the tape is doctored, fake, or that it doesn't exist at all.
It's also pretty widely known that MLK was a philanderer. Abetting a rape would certainly be a much more disturbing allegation and would absolutely necessitate complicating historical narratives about him, but the other shit--that he slept around, that he said "pussy eater" or whatever--isn't news.
Tue June 18, 2019 4:09 pm
Tue June 18, 2019 4:29 pm
theplatypus wrote:More Max Landis stuff
Tue June 18, 2019 5:04 pm
dimejinky99 wrote:theplatypus wrote:More Max Landis stuff
Absolutely no difficulty in believeing any allegation against him.
He’s a vile stain
Tue June 18, 2019 5:14 pm
wease wrote:dimejinky99 wrote:theplatypus wrote:More Max Landis stuff
Absolutely no difficulty in believeing any allegation against him.
He’s a vile stain
You don’t like him because he called Rey a Mary Sue.
Tue June 18, 2019 6:09 pm
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Sun July 07, 2019 7:06 pm
Sun July 07, 2019 7:06 pm
BurtReynolds wrote:You think Epstein became a billionaire by secretly filming very powerful people having sex with teenagers?
Sun July 07, 2019 9:07 pm
Sun July 07, 2019 9:30 pm
tragabigzanda wrote:BurtReynolds wrote:You think Epstein became a billionaire by secretly filming very powerful people having sex with teenagers?
I've also wondered this
Sun July 07, 2019 9:33 pm
Bi_3 wrote:tragabigzanda wrote:BurtReynolds wrote:You think Epstein became a billionaire by secretly filming very powerful people having sex with teenagers?
I've also wondered this
He’s incredibly intelligent and worked with ultra high net worth investors. He made his money hiding theirs. But I would bet good money he’s got a ton of tapes and that’s why charges never stuck.
we need a new Russiagate heading into 2020, so here we go.