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    The Reichstag fire (German: Reichstagsbrand, pronounced [ˈʁaɪçstaːksˌbʁant] ⓘ) was an arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin, on Monday, 27 February 1933, precisely four weeks after Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch council communist, was said to be the culprit; the Nazis attributed the fire to a group of Communist agitators, used it as a pretext to claim that Communists were plotting against the German government, and induced President Paul von Hindenburg to issue the Reichstag Fire Decree suspending civil liberties and pursue a “ruthless confrontation” with the Communists.[1] This made the fire pivotal in the establishment of Nazi rule in Germany.

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    He’s super nonchalant about it. This is how politicians actually feel when they know you’re struggling/suffering. There is no feeling.

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    So this is the moment then when the 2A Magats will take their guns and go for justice, right?

    Right?

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      On one hand this is unrealistic because it directly implicates Trump for starting this conflict and people are going to blame him and the administration for any kind of terrorism on US soil.

      On the other hand, these are not very bright people, they are literally stupider than almost anyone typing on this website. They are only invulnerable because of money and connection.

      Either way it’s not necessary, Trump’s base doesn’t know shit about shit, they’re glued to their TV’s listening to FOX and if the president said Iran conspired with Antifa and the Transes and blew up the entire statue of liberty and Mount Rushmore, the base would believe it and never question it even if you kidnapped them, dragged them to the sites and threw them off.

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        It’s like the 100th time in this country… It’s time for a little national shame at this point.

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    It would be the stupidest thing they could possibly do. The war has like a 20% approval rate. If they attacked on American soil the cowboys would flood the enlistment offices.

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      You’re assuming the decision-makers on any side are supremely intelligent and rational. They are not.

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      To me this sounds like just another reason the Trump regime could do something themself making it look like it was Iran.

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          Since you’re mentioning Bezos: why not leverage the fact that he and Musk are building rockets? Let them realise their aspirations of colonising the Moon or Mars. But let them do it themselves.

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      Even if it’s a target that’s not widely popular, it will be used to push policies that hurt the people of the US more.

      That’s how we got the patriot act.

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        Don’t care. As long as that shit-stain is in power, damage mitigation just plays into his hands.

        The US is plagued by a cancer, and there’s no way to excise it without further casualties. The only hope we have is chemotherapy and the hope that when the smoke clears it’s the patient that survives.

        Apathetic, moronic accelerationists set us on that path. The consolation is that a bunch of THEM will assuredly suffer too.

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    Trump is just trying to bring more people onto the side of supporting his illegal war on Iran by proposing an unrealistic risk of danger to the U.S.

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      I say he is preparing the people for an ‘act of terror by Iran’, meaning there is going to be a false flag incident. He can then use that to claim war powers and dismantle the last sliver of US-American democracy.

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      unrealistic risk of danger to the U.S.

      Bro…

      Have you seen the people in charge of anti-terrorism?!

      It’s a bigger miracle we haven’t had a serious attack in the last year than it was that not a single hurricane made landfall last year.

      We can’t handle any type of disaster, and even routine shit are realistic risks of danger.

      Risk of terrorist attack is sky high and it would likely be something huge that gets thru.

      But…

      trump isn’t doing anything, he’s not driving the bus and hasn’t been for a while. The people who tell him what to do/say are trying to normalize American deaths to him.

      And because he’s trump and he just repeats what people told him a second ago, that’s what he did when he went on camera.

      He’s never concerned about something or trying to reassure anyone. Whatever he blabbers about is what people were saying to him moments ago.

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      the problem is that the reason the folks on US soil have such… douche hubris is because we’ve never got our teeth kicked in because there are a couple of oceans guarding us.

      it is only temporary “unrealistic” a danger, Iran will figure it out and another 9/11 will happen and… queue up the enrollment and bootlicking country songs for 20 years.

      All the while … profit, massive profit, is had.

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      There was some alledged Iranian in Austin last weekend. They claim the guy was wearing an Irani tee shirt.

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      Same with the religious spin ‘this is a holy war’ crap. If you frame this as god’s plan, then being against the war is being against said plan and god. This is an attempt to bring back the Republicans who naturally oppose this war.

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    Why would this be a shock to anyone? He let hundreds of thousands of Americans die to covid.

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    Some people say they want a terror attack, to get emergency declarations and steal the midterms. I just hope this is not true. A lot of innocent people would die for few remain in power. I don’t know what to believe anymore.

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      Fascists are in power. That’s enough to believe in while you go look for historical examples of fascists being peacefully voted out of office. That ought to keep you busy until oh, his fourth term.