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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)
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.
This is more like Stalin's Great Purge
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
This is what happens when you lose a class war.
The FBI was never on the side of the working class
Was addressing more of the ‘“taking out your government in the dead of night” aspect.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There's so many parts and pieces that all failed to get to where we are today. Each time you reflect a moment and realize that we shouldn't be be here in the first place:
The list is not exhaustive and goes on and on...
And in the background there's all the systemic failures and problems that enabled this: terrible public education, ignoring a large chunk of the electorate for too long, citizens united, social media and outrage culture, rampant disinformation and propaganda disguised as news, the electoral college and de facto 2 party system, too few checks and balances being hard codified, obvious loop holes like presidential pardons, ...
Petty sure historians will analyze this for generations. If we will still live in a world where historians are allowed to about their work freely.
You make Supreme Court judges political appointees, all of this was always going to happen at some point.
All you needed was the right guy to pull the levers.
Petty sure historians will analyze this for generations
Historians have studied the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis in, out, up, down and sideways for 92 years and it amounted to a big fat nothing, as here we are again, dealing with the exact same shit today.
Don't get your hopes high.
The majority of Germans thought Hitler was an idiot. It was the idiots who followed him who brought him to power. Just like maga. The fact is that a few generations from now another idiot fascist will rise to power and another group of people will be equally astonished at the stupidity of their voters.
It'll go something like: "Oh my god WTF are you thinking!?! He's doing exactly the same thing as trump and Hitler!! He's a fucking fascist!! He just did a fucking maga salute FFS !!!"
The problem is that the people who really need to learn from history don't see any need to. It's the idiots who repeat history and we have to sit here watching them stick their dick in a beehive, knowing that everyone is about to get stung.
The ultimate should have is, America should have got it's shit together somewhere in the last 20 years.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives?wprov=sfti1
Wonder what they could be purging dissidents for? 🤔
Another purge.
And another.
A forever purge, if you will.
You slow walk it for him and this is the thanks you get.
Lol really. I understand there's probably a lot of nuance but for the majority of us laymen this is what we saw the whole 4 years Biden was in office. Nothing was done to prevent a return of Trump. Which speaks volumes about those in power even when a democrat is in power.
This has to be illegal in soooo many ways.
It's completely illegal.
Who's gonna do something about it? The FBI?
The supreme... Oh wait.
Congr.... Oh Ya they are part the problem.
That’s the thing,, the system of checks and balances broke down. Even in the scenario where one party captured all three branches we assumed they would at least have the ego to protect their own power.
Trump is not just illegally usurping congress's’ power for a lot of these but they are willingly giving up their power
Something is only illegal if someone upholds the law. And so far no one has upheld anything. And these are the people who tried, and now they're being made examples of just in case anyone else gets the wrong ideas.
And I suppose we'll get more feigned surprise in the "liberal media", pretending they didn't know that donvict is a vengeful asshole that plans on doing NOTHING for the American people and everything to enrich the broligarchy and make others suffer, all while carrying out revenge on anyone he thinks "wronged" him.
Oh, and I'm sure we'll get more gaslighting and total lack of any apology from the idiots that were telling everyone bOtHsIdEs in the run up to the election, because the Democratic Party didn't promise them a pretty pony.
I kinda feel like the people who worked on putting Trump under the fucking guillotine deserve to be fired for failing to do so.
