with Republicans decrying the “deep state,” the F.B.I. is cautious about investigating far-right groups.
This, as much as anything else, is what is wrong with the US right now. EVERY fucking topic, EVERY fucking solution, comes down to “let’s not piss off the right.”
Motherfuckers, when is it time to stop giving a shit whether we piss them off, and worry more about doing the right thing?
Because the right wingers are voting in the politicians that hold the purse strings of the department and right wing politicians have historically increased funding to the department.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/fbi-trump-mar-a-lago-raid-prosecution/673251/
Alternate title: ‘Right wing terrorism succeeds as keeping federal investigations at bay.’
We should really make a corrected titles news channel.
Holy fucking shit this country is in a downward spiral and the only cure is to cut out the MAGAt tumors.
In what other country could the headlines say “CONVICTED FELON calls the justice system rigged, so the law enforcement branch has decided to let their cult of outspokenly bigoted, dangerously violent, sprinkled with domestic terrorist in-group do whatever they want while destroying things in order to try and keep them from destroying things”
I remember reading some headlines from about 80 years ago with similar headlines, only it was from Germany. Can’t punish them TOO much or they might take over the country and start exterminating… Oh… Wait… That is exactly what happened.
They’re literally showing a group favoritism to avoid seeming like they’re playing favorites.
This is no different than the school bully screaming about how unfair the teachers are after they were punished for hitting another student. Except now the teachers started saying “well if we keep punishing him then he will go hit someone” as if that in any way shape or form is a logical conclusion.
Fuck the system. If it doesn’t work for the betterment of society then there isn’t a reason to abide by it.
Why does the FBI care about the opinions of domestic terrorists? FBI agents aren’t elected to their positions. It’s not like you can vote for your local district chief. They’re not fucking county sheriffs.
Maybe it’s because most of those that join forces are the same that burn crosses?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement
I think it’s more because those terrorists are either supported by or are actively holding political offices that are responsible for funding the FBI. I don’t think that the FBI isn’t corrupt or anything but they do a better job of weeding out KKK members and don’t actively recruit them like most police departments do.
I cannot speak directly to that, and likely as not we’ll never know. However historically fascists often get the benefit of doubt from whichever conservatives are in power when the fascists are active. It’s how fascists often rise to power.
I agree with your initial point, also I wasn’t explicitly clear. Tbe FBI are the US Top Cops, and well, cops don’t like to investigate other cops.
Agreed
the right is always pissed off, its better if they’re afraid of you.
Edit: I also can’t think of a better reason for shutting down the FBI than them refusing to do their job because criminals might be upset at them.
Society really needs Kompromat on Fox News et al
To decent people, their regularly scheduled programming should be Kompromat enough.
For compromising information to be an effective lever, the subject must have the ability to feel shame.
Society needs compromising private information on the “news” organization that it can then leverage for blackmail, extortion, quid pro quo agreements to exert control over decisions and actions of the news organization?
I know Citizens United made corporations akin to people, but I didn’t know you could blackmail them now.
This is a great new development.
You think we can use any of these articles for that then? The viewers of Fox News are unlikely to have read them so that’s close to private I guess.
https://newrepublic.com/article/182008/erik-prince-secret-global-group-chat-off-leash
https://politicalwire.com/2024/08/20/trump-called-his-own-supporters-basement-dwellers/
They are not brown so they get a pass
This is how nations destabilize. States perpetuate themselves through maintaining the exclusive monopoly on violence and using that monopoly to secure certain guarantees for or against its people. The Roman empire saw a similar decline of administrative willpower and rises in both vigilantism and shitty little civil wars between the wealthy elite who really ran the show (spoiler alert). I’m convinced that Balkanization of the US is, at this point, inevitable. I’m not saying that’s necessarily a good or bad thing in its own right. On one hand, it might be better for both the states and the world if we went to more of an EU type structure. On the other hand, a nuclear armed independent Texas.
On one hand, it might be better for both the states and the world if we went to more of an EU type structure.
That’s what the US already was once, under the Articles of Confederation. It didn’t really help in the way you’re hoping it would.
I don’t know that I’d agree that the EU and the articles of confederation are comparable. There were a few big differences, including states printing their own currency without a common exchange medium (as opposed to the Euro), and that the mechanism for funding the federal government was (IIRC) entirely voluntary. States could just choose to not send money without consequences, and most or all made the obvious choice of not funding the federal government. The articles of confederation also had a few things about it that were more progressive than the constitution; for example, if I’m remembering right, it offered automatic citizenship to all native Americans, which pissed a lot of the farmer-settlers right off.
It was also 250 years ago, so yeah.
Still, I think mentioning it is still at least somewhat useful in terms of demonstrating what “an EU type structure” is (a confederation, as opposed to a federation like the United States is now) and pointing out that weakening the central government in exchange for more sovereign individual states doesn’t necessarily mean the public in those various states would be appeased.
It’s kinda funny because every FBI newsletter or press release for the last decade is nothing but right wing terrorism alerts with a few currently politically relevant blurbs like Gaza/Israel.
Remember fascists, everyone around you that you “trust” is actually a fucking snitch about to turn you in any minute… You trusted them, you worthless fuck? They are ALL collecting evidence on you and when you least expect it, you’re getting your door kicked in… Don’t fall asleep tonight, they’re coming for you…
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