At least COINTELPRO did some good things. It dismantled several Neo-Nazi and right-wing extremist groups, including the KKK (which is now a bunch of irrelevant, warring factions all calling themselves the "true" KKK).
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thank you mister FBI for dismantling white supremacy!
Everything is about bad actors and individuals. God forbid you actually address the systems of power that enabled them.
No no, you see it's okay that we have a big red "use the powers of the state to dismantle a civil rights movement through subterfuge and assassination" button at FBI headquarters, because we just won't hire anyone who will push it 🤗
Theres a literal line in the movie about how pointless a name change like this really is.
Gosh, there do seem to have been some bad apples in positions of authority over the years. Good thing we got rid of them!
Very cool, they should replace his name with one of the non-sociopathic FBI directors we’ve had.
-Soulja
Meth Damon's character in that movie was an incredible display of liberalism. The character was kinda unbelievable until I remembered that a bunch of the FBI are Mormons. But I'm pretty sure Meth Damon's character liked whiskey so idk.
Is the joke that they see Hoover as ruining the legacy of the FBI? I think most of them didn't read the article
Are those real people going out of their way to say the FBI is cool? Like why waste the effort?
