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Yep, the USA is heading toward a 3rd World dictatorship at full steam.
3rd world? We're about to invent the 4th world (or 4th reich, either term works)
Yep, I'm all for it. 4th World it is.
The night of the long knives.
Fun Hitler fact (as if there is such a thing): the phrase "Night of the Long Knives" was coined by Hitler himself in a speech given shortly after the event, although he used the phrase to describe what Ernst Rohm had allegedly been planning himself. The media instead attached the phrase to Hitler's actions, much against his wishes.
Longer knives.
This is more like Stalin's Great Purge
Saddam Hussein , 1979. Have you seen that video?
Their own "night of the long knives" but with mere illegal firings.
Makes me wonder why they didn't give em the ol' dirt nap.
If I had to guess, it's because they are cops, and it's more important to have them loyal and not questioning their positions.
The FBI is just another group of cops that are assholes. The ones that "went after Trump", didn't do shit for 4 years, and those that didn't want to will be wishing they had once they cross Trump for some other bullshit and find themselves on the chopping block.
When you support corruption you'll get fucked by a corrupt fucker sooner or later.
I wouldn't say the FBI are good people, but these agents that are removed are probably at least not anti-constitution.
Merrick Garland fucked it up. FBI doesn't prosecute, the DoJ does. Fuck Garland.
(Also: Is Biden an idiot? What the fuck is a right-winger doing in a neoliberal cabinet?)
What the fuck is a right-winger doing in a neoliberal cabinet?
I don't understand what's surprising about that. I'd expect most people in a neoliberal cabinet to be right-wing.
I don't want to defend cops, but in this case they did as good a job as expected from them. FBI can't prosecute, they can only make the case, and that's by design and that's the good design. They made very good cases. All the cases died with judjes that Trump appointed the last time.
the ones that tried might have just failed, i wouldnt blame them to this point
This is not at all worrying /s
It's frightening how a dictatorship is setting itself up in plain sight, at an accelerated pace, almost hour after hour, and nobody does a damn thing about it.
Well someone is going to do something, likely a lawsuit because these firings are pretty clearly illegal. Now if the Supreme Court (again) decides the law doesn't apply to Trump, then maybe it's time to freak out. But that'll take over a year and then it'll be midterms time. And as terrible as Democrats are at winning, they'll have to really suck to screw that up.
First they came for the FBI, and I did nothing, just like those pigs did when they had the chance to do something.
Why? It's literally what half the country voted for
Half the country didn't vote. A quarter of the country voted for this.
Half the country didn't vote for fascism. Half the country voted for anyone who promised to lower the price of fucking groceries, danger and morals be damned.
Yes, half of the country is thick as pig shit. But they're not all fascist to the core.
I'm trying to remember what that phrase about people who aren't bothered about fascism is. Something like "If there are nine nazis sitting at a table and someone is okay with sitting with them then there are ten nazis sitting at the table".
Unless that tenth person is a bit of a thickie, uneducated or was deceived into thinking the Nazis just had a mild case of right-wingness but otherwise offered solutions to their problems by constant exposure to "fair and balanced" media. Then you have nine Nazis and one fool sitting at the table.
So, 10 Nazis.
If you're not fighting against it and just going along, you're still a Nazi. Not every German was walking around in Hugo boss uniforms rounding up Jews. Plenty we're just keeping their heads down and trying to to get through the unpleasantness.
Plenty we’re just keeping their heads down and trying to to get through the unpleasantness.
And that made them Nazis?
Those who were fooled into voting Hitler were idiots. Those who didn't weren't. And although I intensely despite those who voted Hitler out of idiocy, as much as I despise those who voted Trump for the same reason, at the end of the day, they were and will be all victims.
The true Nazis, then and now, are those who voted Hitler and Trump fully knowing, understanding and willing what was on the menu.
See my comment above.
"I was duped" is just as bad as "I was following orders". You don't get to weasel your way out of responsibility for your acts.
Does that matter anymore?
It does because at some point, those people who voted Trump will need to realize what they did and feel the shame.
These are fascist purges. The way a military dictatorship would take over. This kind of thing is what you see in undeveloped poor countries, banana republics.
This kind of thing is what you see in undeveloped poor countries, banana republics ^after the dictator backed by the US takes over.
You forgot that last part
Yeah it's honestly pretty fucked to use Banana Republic as an insult from the nation that did the military invasions.
As it turns out, American exceptionalism is bullshit propaganda.
Well that tracks since the US is a poor, underdeveloped country that spent all its money on a Gucci belt.
We've had failing grades on infrastructure like bridges since the god damn Bush Jr. era. That's pushing 20 years and no maintenance has been done.
