They were already doing that since January. Hasan Piker himself was already detained and interrogated while re-entering the country for his posts and opinions on israel.

I’m saying the reichstag fire wasnt an excuse for them to keep doing what they were already doing but more. It was the inciting event that resulted in the passing of the enablement act which established by law the dissolution of german government as a whole; handing all power to hitler and leading directly to the holocaust.

Are those two things materially different? I personally think there should be a distinction.

Violent repression of dissidents was already widely enforced, well before nazis took absolute power. We still live in a fascist police state, but there is a large gap between what we are seeing and the immediate arrest of all communist members of parliament along with the suspension of all civil liberties in germany. There is still time for us to organize mass resistance. Calling this the reichstag fire gives anyone with an understanding of history a cop out that “its already over” when it isnt. It isnt over until both chambers of congress unanimously vote in support of suspending the constitution entirely.