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3rd world? We're about to invent the 4th world (or 4th reich, either term works)

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

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?)

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung?wprov=sfla1 this is whats happening

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.

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 FBI // justice department shouldn't be a tool of personal revenge.
• But wait Trump/Musk shouldn't have become presidents to begin with.
• Voters should be educated and well informed enough to simply not vote for an autocrat.
• Merrick Garland should never have become attorney general and even so Biden should have pressured him hard to do his job.
• Trump should have been impeached multiple times already.
• But the democrats too should have had a better alternative candidate.
• The democrats should have had a real primary contest.
• Biden should have never announced to run for another term out of the blue.
• And his handlers shouldn't have tried to hide his frailty for so long.
• If only Donald Trump should have been sentenced for his many crimes.
• And he shouldn't have had the backing of the Republican party for this long.
• Arguably voters should have realized he's inept the first time around.
• The media shouldn't have sensationalized him as much when he first ran as a publicity stunt

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.

The FBI was never on the side of the working class

It's completely illegal.

Who's gonna do something about it? The FBI?

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.