Context: The Reichstag Fire is widely believed to have been a false flag and was the pretext Nazis used to persecute all German communists as “Enemies of the nation”

This dude is literally implying that

A: The shooter was a fellow fascist,
B: We should follow the example of the Nazis, or
C: Both of the above

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    The timing makes sense if you consider that it was a reaction to fascists coming into power. With hindsight we know the nazis benefitted, but trying to burn shit down when fascists take power is not an unreasonable action. The main problem I have with the false flag narrative is a very conspiratorial notion, when there is a clear person who had good reason to do it. “See also: cui bono” applies just as much to, say, 9/11, or the assasination attempt on trump, or John Brown, whose actions incited the civil war. The nazis would not have needed a false flag. Anything happening whatsoever could have been used as a reason, and shit was pretty damn fucked so something was bound to happen. Take what comes after your wikipedia quote:

    The consensus amongst historians is the Reichstag was set ablaze by Van der Lubbe;[4] some consider it to have been a part of a Nazi plot, a view Richard J. Evans labels a conspiracy theory.[5][6]