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
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    2 days ago

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

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      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–