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Re:Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect User... by vidarh on Friday November 17, 2017 @11:09AM (#15723157)
While the KPD made many stupid mistakes, and frankly given their Stalinist policies at the time were not much better than the NSDAP in most respect, it was the power hungry right wing parties that entered into a coalition government with Hitler and voted for the Enabling Act.
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Re:Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect User... by zeth__ on Friday November 17, 2017 @11:14AM (#15723220)
Which has nothing to do with the fact that the street battles between communists and nazis allowed Hitler to take 30% of the vote in two consecutive elections.

The left wins elections when it is the victim of violence, it loses when it tries to use violence itself.

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Re:Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect User... by vidarh on Friday November 17, 2017 @11:20AM (#15723305)
You're changing goalposts. If the right had not been willing to suspend democracy in the name of their own hunger for power, 30% or not Hitler would not have gained power.
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