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Lifestyle => Train of Thought => Topic started by: Ant on December 19, 2004, 09:56:27 PM

Title: Did you know....
Post by: Ant on December 19, 2004, 09:56:27 PM
Hitler was democratically elected? We all seem to assume that a democracy generates optimal results, but that assumption is clearly false. You could argue Putin is another example of a democratic system failing. 
Title: Re: Did you know....
Post by: mauzip on December 19, 2004, 09:59:29 PM
Did you get your first history lesson yesterday? :)
Title: Re: Did you know....
Post by: Ant on December 19, 2004, 10:33:48 PM
no i've known this for awhile but i mentioned it to someone today and they seemed stunned so i figured id bring it up.
Title: Re: Did you know....
Post by: mauzip on December 19, 2004, 10:39:39 PM
No offence, but that person must be a complete moron. That's one of the first things you learn when you study WW2 at school.
Title: Re: Did you know....
Post by: Sikotic™ on December 19, 2004, 10:42:40 PM
The guy was an amazing speaker and he told the people what they wanted to hear. The people wanted change and he gave it to them.
Title: Re: Did you know....
Post by: Elevz on December 20, 2004, 04:45:05 AM
The guy was an amazing speaker and he told the people what they wanted to hear. The people wanted change and he gave it to them.

Yup, he had a charism never seen before, and he straight up said what the German people were secretly thinking. Around the time it got obvious what Hitler was on about, there was no turning back.

Anyway... I think most people know about Hitler being elected democratically. It's that one lesson we all must learn from WW II, the main goal of history classes.
Title: Re: Did you know....
Post by: mauzip on December 20, 2004, 06:56:33 AM
In Germany the reason why a party has to get at least 5% of the votes to get a seat in the Parlement is because Hitler started with 3%. It's something like that; 7even probably knows this better than I do.
Title: Re: Did you know....
Post by: BigBDrugStores on December 22, 2004, 02:18:56 PM
Did you get your first history lesson yesterday? :)
funny
but yeah thats old news. that person must have been 10 years old
Title: Re: Did you know....
Post by: 7even on December 22, 2004, 05:05:27 PM
In Germany the reason why a party has to get at least 5% of the votes to get a seat in the Parlement is because Hitler started with 3%. It's something like that; 7even probably knows this better than I do.

Plus that way nationalistic parties (normally :/ ) won't make noise.. however lately our right-wing party NPD got 7% in one "state".. more to come maybe.
Title: Re: Did you know....
Post by: dexter on December 23, 2004, 07:25:45 AM
Government aint close 2 perfect!