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Anu Garg at A Word A Day posted this story of an upcoming mayoral election in the small town of Völklingen, Germany (near the French border, south of Belgium), wherein one of the candidates gave a spectacularly bad answer to a question in a recent debate.
Representative Uwe Faust of the political party Die Partei jokingly asked, “According to the building code, paragraph 126, each owner is obliged to label his property with the number given by the municipality. I find it alarming that in Völklingen many house numbers are displayed in Arabic numerals. How would you like to take action against this creeping foreigner infiltration?”
To which Otfried Best, running with the far-right NPD party, fell for the joke, replying, "You just wait until I am mayor. I will change that. Then there will be normal numbers."
Mr. Best apparently does not know what Arabic numerals are.
(Score: 5, Touché) by pkrasimirov on Tuesday September 12 2017, @09:41AM (8 children)
> Let them destroy themselves with their own stupidity.
Why didn't it work with Trump?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @10:49AM (1 child)
Patience. These things take time.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday September 12 2017, @05:59PM
Time may not be the one thing we have.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday September 12 2017, @12:23PM
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @12:26PM (1 child)
As I was saying for a full year up to the election, the majority of the stupidity was coming from the anti-Trump people... They gave the election to him.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Tuesday September 12 2017, @05:06PM
Don't forget the media.
He bashed them all the time, but he loved the attention and they loved the ratings.
He's still bashing them now, and they still love the ratings.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Tuesday September 12 2017, @01:55PM (1 child)
Because his opponents destroyed themselves with their own stupidity.
I mean, here were some of his opponents:
- Jeb Bush: "Please clap"
- Ben Carson: Zzzzzzzzz
- Chris Christie: Bridgegate
- Carly Fiorina: Her record at HP speaks for itself
- Rick Santorum: A frothy mixture ...
- Rick Perry: Couldn't remember what departments he'd eliminate
- Hillary Clinton: Hired an incompetent firm to manage her email server that she shouldn't have even had
- Gary Johnson: "What is Aleppo?"
- Jill Stein: Just plain wrong about alternative medicine, and she's a doctor
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by chromas on Wednesday September 13 2017, @05:14AM
I suppose, as a presidential candidate, he should be more aware than dummies like me, but I'd never heard of Aleppo until that incident, when suddenly the media started quacking "Aleppo! Aleppo!" all day long, instead of "Syria".
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday September 13 2017, @07:26AM
I know this looks pure flamebait, but you have to remember that the US has a *remarkably* stupid mass population. Its ability to pick leaders is about as thoughtful as that of many of the dictatorships in Africa. They all have democracy theatre, nothing more, and the people *love* that. (The electoral college, and the party-based system, absolutely shreds any claims the US has to having a functioning democracy, there's more rounding error than signal in an election result.) Add to that a mass media that benefits from keeping its viewers ill-informed on such matters, and you can see the results with your own eyes.
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