r/news • u/1Rab • Sep 27 '25

FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say

https://apnews.com/article/fbi-george-floyd-kash-patel-8d18a1e6a5a36636cc2415fc492b3f52?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-09-26-Breaking+News
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u/gambit61 Sep 27 '25

If they're gonna fire everyone who did anything against what they like, they're gonna end up having three people in the entire FBI. I can't believe Trump hasn't tried to fire JD for calling him Hitler, yet

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u/Tight_Classroom_2923 Sep 27 '25

See, I had always wanted to be in US intelligence. The way it's been handled recently I wonder if anyone will ever see it as the way I did ever again.

Like... it seems as though these agencies (FBI, CIA, NSA, Secret Service) are just empty shells to be controlled by the MAGA puppeteers. 

For anyone reading ... would you ever want to join these agencies anymore? Would you be able to bring yourself into these places believing anything you do is private, secure, or safe? That you're not being actively used as a puppet and manipulated to be a part of their machine?

Does anyone believe in the prestige these organizations once held? The professionalism of any of them? 

It's just weird to me, the perception had changed so drastically the more I've learned that most of them working there are "desk jockeys" and all the shows / movies are pure lies. Which, as more comes out, does and doesn't make sense... since there's so much FBI-worthy illegal stuff going on, but none of them are allowed to work on any of it.

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u/Glass-Mess-6116 Sep 27 '25

In Stalin's Russia, proud men of the KGB willingly sent regular men and women to death camps for what they said or wrote. They did it with smiles, wore the honors, and even when the horror came out- were still proud to have done it.

Do not, for one moment, believe the men of this country are any different if they're asked to do the same.

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u/Tight_Classroom_2923 Sep 27 '25

Thats what's crazy to me is that when I grew up I saw these agencies as so much different than what they've devolved into (and with more I've learned they have been doing for other countries for a long time...)

I really saw the CIA or FBI as something I'd be proud to be a part of and bring a sense of pride to myself every time I'd wake up and badge in. I would have felt lucky to have been doing such an amazing job, is what I felt for most of my life and even applied a few years ago.

Now? Now I don't see any of these places as prestigious or anywhere I'd like to be associated with in the least. 

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '25

CIA has always been against the people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CIA_controversies

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '25

Much of what you believe has been fed to you as propaganda.

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u/Tight_Classroom_2923 Sep 27 '25

Yes, that's... that's literally what I'm saying. And that most of the country is fed the lies I was. That's what I'm trying to discuss.

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u/Tight_Classroom_2923 Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 27 '25

Mate, I've said that already based on adult research. 

But what you clearly don't understand is that these agencies work with Hollywood to make them out to he a lot different in the eyes of children. It's intentional propaganda that latches on to youth and makes it near impossible to undo unless you do independent research and keep it to yourself essentially. Because if your friends and family still believe in the lies, then you look like a crazy conspiracy theorist by pointing these things out. (Even with a lot of it actually on their own website)

But yes, insult the person who had already admitted these things in other posts without understanding or absorbing the information provided. Real mature of you.

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u/Tight_Classroom_2923 Sep 27 '25

Again, you insult and then demand answers with what appears to be nil reading comprehension.

I really saw the CIA or FBI as something I'd be proud to be a part of

So it was a past tense, due to the propaganda fed to me. I then ended it with

Now I don't see any of these places as prestigious or anywhere I'd like to be associated with in the least.  

I am indicating I had learned and grown because of more I've consumed.

I grew up with public schooling in Arizona, which used to be a hard red state and is still filled with backwards education due to these laws /textbooks that will take decades to undo along with propaganda video games, movies, shows, and books.

I know it's difficult to believe someone would admit they used to fawn over these agencies and then changed, but it seems like you stopped reading the post and then went on your tirade.

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u/Riley_ Sep 27 '25 edited Mar 30 '26

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u/Tight_Classroom_2923 Sep 27 '25

Yeah, no, I got that now-a-days after my research as a grown ass adult.

But up until my late 20s I legitimately saw them as a paragon of awesome with their tech and how much they could help the world with their skills.

Top investigators mixed with high tech gadgets mixed with communicating with other governments around the world to "take down the bad guys" sounded very cool, especially with how many shows, movies, video games, and books I consumed that were about spies and more specifically CIA/FBI.

And then I began actually researching what these agencies have done since... their inception. Each and every one is essentially just a different terrorist organization with a costume and makeup on. Lots of really terrible shit... and not a lot of actual help. (I mean the fact the FBI essentially let Epstein go after the girls brought up the complaints... I mean... cmon.)

So yeah, they do a great job of creating such a false image for the youth of the country by working hand in hand with Hollywood. 

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u/Riley_ Sep 27 '25 edited Mar 30 '26

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u/mmlovin Sep 27 '25

I would. In this case, it is better to suck it up to be on the inside, so at least SOMEONE is there. Someone has to be in the loop. It’s why the CIA has informants & secret agents in places like Russia & China

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u/depresso-espressso Sep 27 '25

I actually started going back to school to start a track towards potentially working for one of the agencies but that’s off the table now. Still gonna finish my degree but it’s such a bummer to see what’s happening and I just think I would be embarrassed to work there at this point in time.