• @Stovetop
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    Just to nitpick, the CIA is more the “topple governments” organization.

    I am sure the FBI is involved, but their operations are primarily internal affairs. It’s like MI5 and MI6 in the UK.

    • snooggums
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      The CIA topples foreign governments.

      The FBI topples progressive movements within the US.

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          They did not seem to be very effective when it came to white supremicists…

    • @Katana314
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      Yeah…and they’re being threatened too.

      I wonder if they’d ever consider the White House to be a foreign government to topple.

      • @Stovetop
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        When I heard about the targeted moves against the FBI by DOGE, I got to thinking that the FBI is not the sort of organization you want to anger if you have skeletons in your closet. And even if you don’t, they’ll put one there to find.

        But I’m worried we’re already at the point where the entire agency can be discredited (not entirely undeservedly) just because President Cheeto and Supreme President Musk could label any findings as “fake news” and the majority of Americans would take it as fact.

        They could be the SA to whatever SS the Trump admin wants to replace them with (the Proud Boys?)

    • @GonzakoOP
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      Yeah, this meme is just a glimpse at my external view of the events. To me the CIA, the FBI and those kind of agencies are just lumped together. Appreciated the info tho

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        I mean, that nice and all but it’s just flat out nonsense. That’s not how the two alphabet agencies operate. It’s not a “vibes” based matter of opinion… Understanding how things actually work matters.

        FBI = domestic

        CIA = foreign

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          username checks out

          • @[email protected]
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            That’s about as clever a response as I’d expect from someone that doesn’t understand what the FBI does.

            • @GonzakoOP
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              oh, I’m sorry I don’t know the intricacies of a country I don’t reside in. I hope I haven’t triggered you with my ignorance. Don’t want ya popping a blood vessel

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                I hope I haven’t triggered you with my ignorance. Don’t want ya popping a blood vessel

                Lmao I love it when someone gets mad on the internet and immediately starts accusing everyone else of being mad. You’re projecting on more screens than a Marvel movie right now.

                • @GonzakoOP
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                  Do I sound mad? I think you’re the one projecting. I’m just worrying about you. Maybe you’d take a small break and drink some water. Can I suppose you’re American? If so, I’m sorry your school system hasn’t been able to teach you about perspective.

  • @[email protected]
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    273 hours ago

    (Also murders and discredits civil rights activists in the 60s-80s, so that’s a thing to keep in mind…)

    • @GonzakoOP
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      Oh, yeah, I definitely ain’t supporting their actions this way. It’s just funny seeing a coup happen in public and them doing nothing

      • snooggums
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        133 hours ago

        The people who are doing the coup are aligned with the historical practices of the FBI so it makes perfect sense to me.

  • @seven_phone
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    I think that extends to America generally, all the talk of freedom and equality and now so easily camps are being set up to concentrate undesirable groups of people in and everyone is complying or pretending it’s not happening.

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      I don’t know how much help we can expect from FBI and law enforcement. There was a bill a few years back proposing an investigation to see how deep white supremacy had penetrated law enforcement and the military. EVERY Republican representative voted it down.

      🤔

      • snooggums
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        93 hours ago

        We can expect zero. The FBI has a long history of suppressing the civil rights movement and other progressive causes.

        • @seven_phone
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          Yes but this is not a move to increase civil rights within a still recognisable political system it seems to be the openly declared transition from a democracy to something else via an explorative but expanding coup that is being actively ignored by the sitting powers and wider population.