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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: 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]