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”

    • BestBouclettes@jlai.lu
      843·
      2 days ago

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

      • klay1@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 day 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·
      2 days ago

      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·
        2 days ago

        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·
          2 days ago

          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.