Well that’s good news, at least.

And honestly, that was such a stupid fucking hill for him to want to die on - and he wants to die on a whole fucking lot of stupid hills.

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In that case, I think you want

rm -rf "'folder'\$'\\003'"

Note the double escape before 003, which will render to the character literal \

Alternatively, start typing

rm -rf \'fo

And then hit tab until fish autocompletes the directory you want to kill, and run it.

Side note: i would absolutely not tolerate directories named like that lol

beegsota

That’s one of the big reasons. Hoover was deeply misguided in what he did and how he did it. But at the same time, he was definitely more mission-driven - in the sense that a large part of his motivation was to establish the FBI as an investigative agency beholden to the country, not any politician in particular. It’s just that his interpretation of “what’s good for the country” unfortunately included a lot of somewhat paranoid and violently reactionary motivations, because he perceived a lot of relatively benign political disagreements as personal attacks on him and/or the agency.

Tbh, the J Edgar Hoover era was deeply problematic for a number of huge reasons, but one issue they didn’t have was investigatorial independence from whoever was in office. This whole “the regime gets to wield the DoJ and FBI as a cudgel against our political opponents and people who don’t support them” thing is unbelievably caustic, on so many levels.

I mean it’s probably because they saw the client list and were like

wow so uh all these guys control our salaries and are on all the oversight committees and are Big Deals in the executive branch, so maybe we shouldn’t piss them off 😳

Which, to be clear, is the most absolutely fucking heinous and pants-on-head stupid reaction a person can have to this sort of thing. But, you know, it’s the US government, so that’s pretty true to form.

More or less, yeah.

And the same takeaway can be applied to American (and, I presume, a lot of other countries) politics.

It was one of my favorite YouTube eras, ngl. I caught every single one once I found out about them.