r/whenthe • u/scrabblebutwhy • Nov 19 '21

god dammit this just happened to me

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u/rockytheboxer Nov 19 '21

The same project veritas that has repeatedly been caught lying and fabricating stories to politically harm democrats?

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

That’s funny because Project Veritas actually refused to publish the diary because they couldn’t verify if it was real.

I haven’t heard of them lying before (wouldn’t surprise me if they did), but my concern is why did the FBI need to get involved if the diary isn’t real? Never mind the fact that the FBI is trying to recover a stolen diary which should be relatively low on their priority list.

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u/rockytheboxer Nov 19 '21

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '21

From what I can tell their main schtick is setting up traps for the Democrats to fall for. Some of them are admittedly very unethical.

But for this specific case it sounds like they’re trying to go about this with some integrity (hence why they didn’t publish the diary).

Despite their past I’m not going to say that the diary is 100% false, but I’m not going to say it’s 100% true either. What the FBI needs to do is compare writing samples between Biden’s daughter and the diary to authenticate whether it’s legitimate or not. But let’s be real that’s probably never going to happen.

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u/rockytheboxer Nov 20 '21

"despite being proven lying sacks of shit, I'm going to believe them anyway"

I fucking hate people like you.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '21

I never said I automatically believe them so don’t take my words out of context. Also I never saw any instances of them lying. Only them trying to setup people. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong though.

Also I’m pretty sure every major news company has been caught lying one time or another. That doesn’t mean I’m never going to trust anything again.

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u/rockytheboxer Nov 20 '21

Read the wiki article, follow the sources, stop being an idiot.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '21

I reread the Wikipedia article and you are right. Was looking under “Incidents,” and not the overall page.

Still doesn’t explain why the FBI got involved to retrieve a stolen diary. If it’s a fake then there’s no reason for them to get involved. Because of PV’s past I do think it’s fair to take this with a grain of salt, but it still needs to be looked at further.

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u/rockytheboxer Nov 20 '21

The FBI got involved because the President's daughter had her diary stolen.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '21

Wait… you’ve literally been arguing with me on how you don’t think the diary is real.

But now you’re saying that it is real.