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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, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @01:07PM (4 children)
are there actual quotes from people with actual names that have suggested that liberals have engaged in "chanting stuff about all white people need to be eliminated via open borders, and anyone not a Marxist is a Nazi"?
that seems really like echo chamber propaganda from some biased publication.
the antifa also don't have much to do with the hippies--but I remember back in the BBS days, people doing what the antifa did were simply labeled anarchists. they didn't care what political leaning you had because they didn't really have one, or at least, just needed a reason to try out those text files and decided that anarchy was as good of a cause as ever.
it can be hard to not read too much into someone else's point of view when your own is a biased filter, but take into context there are trouble makers on both sides. giving them names and trying to prop them up enough to support your cause -- as to why the other side is bad -- that doesnt give you shoulders of giants to stand on, that just makes it harder to see at your own ground level when the trouble makers on your side are getting under foot. Too much of that and your platform comes crashing down due to their antics or stupidity. Any side is subject to its own extremes, since the focus is often on the other side's extremes.
it's what gave the republicans the tea party, and trump. they lost the edges of their platform and it's set them on fire. i don't think the R party as we know it can survive like this, at least not with the votes they depend on. They'll carry on, but they'll be fractioned--just like how the democrats can't find a solid base right now.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:10PM (3 children)
I can't believe someone took the time to write an insightful reply to VLM. He may claim to not like murder, concentration camps, etc. but his "well, guess we'll have to fire up the ovens oh well" bit is very telling. What a piece of crap, if he doesn't get his way he'll be OK with using violence.
You're a piece of shit human being VLM.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday September 12 2017, @07:21PM (1 child)
"getting my way" must have a peculiar and unusual definition to you.
That's the exact point of my article. "I'm not so into this white genocide idea" "You're a piece of shit human being" "OK thanks for XYZ more votes for R party next time around"
The modern left is just weird. I can understand "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as propaganda from the 1850s. Or I can understand soviet era death threat and torture oppression. But modern lefties seem to have nothing left philosophically other than calling people who don't blindly believe and obey in a religious manner pieces of shit, then act surprised when they're savaged at election time, so they riot.
As wide scale strategy its bizarre. On a very individual scale it would be like a campaign tactic of walking door to door and telling anyone who doesn't already have a Hillary sign a piece of shit, and then acting surprised when it turns out to be counterproductive where the population doesn't support her. Abstracting from politics, could you imagine a TV commercial where the line is "Unless you love McDonalds with all your heart, you're a piece of shit".
As a guy on the right, I love watching the left melt down with this totally bizarre propaganda strategy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @10:57PM
Like this? "If you don't smoke Tarrlytons...fuck you!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqLt_CW8sr4 [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday September 13 2017, @07:33AM
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