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 ilsa on Tuesday September 12 2017, @10:20PM (1 child)
Trump has demonstrated quite clearly that this is exactly what *doesn't* happen. All the supporters will do is rally *that much harder* around their preferred candidate, dismissing everyone else as naysayers of some kind, or possibly coming up with wild conspiracy theories as to why their preferred candidate (and by extension, the supporters themselves) is being treated so unfairly.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday September 13 2017, @07:28AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves