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Transcript: Tweet by Matt Forney from September 10, 2025: "Charlie Kirk being assassinated is the American Reistag fire. It is time for a complete crackdown on the left. Every Democratic politician must be arrested and the party banned under RICO. Every libtard commentator must be shut down. Stochastic terrorism. They caused this."

Context: Reichstag Fire Decree

Joining in and doubling down:

Transcript: User The Sarcastic Republican on Sep 10: "Night of the long knives is due

And it's due in a big fucking way"

Matt Forney in response: "the libtard Kristallnacht is coming"

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[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 102 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wasn't the Reichstag fire a false flag?

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 82 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah, Nazis burned it and blamed the ~~Jews~~ Communists, then used it as an excuse to start rounding them up.

[–] JohnSwanFromTheLough@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They blamed the communists for the fire.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 8 points 1 year ago

You're right, my bad !

[–] klay1@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They caught a guy, Lubbe. As far as i know it is not clear why he set the fire as the Nazis never had any evidence. There are 3 theories:

  • the Nazis ordered him to do it.
  • he was doing it as a communist
  • he just did it as vandalism/arsonism

But we do know that they absolutely used it to crack down against the communists--

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Short answer: Yes

But we live in a time where history is rewritten daily. Hitler was a socialist - bullshit for example.

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People were also conflating Hitler as a socialist then.

The whole point of that was to discredit actual socialism. It wasn't socialism to them, but a dog whistle for nationalism.

It would have been more accurate to call that the National nationalist party.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hitler was a socialist... so as long you were wealthy, ayran, and loyal. Eveyone else got brutal totalitarism and capitalism while fed to a war machine to keep the lie going.