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Re:Those who exercise free speech should also defend it even... by missosoup on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:21PM (#23647379)
> It worked majority of the time. It typically stopped to work only when power to be ceased to have power.

Which is to say it has never worked. Because all power structures eventually collapse and yet the ideologies they tried to suppress remain and rise again. And sometimes, it's actually the resurgence of those suppressed ideologies that destroys the established power structures. As is the case in the USA right now.

> The suppression of nazi ideology post WWII did not lead to blow back either.

You can't be serious.

https://www.ft.com/content/dcd4aee8-936f-11e9-aea1-2b1d33ac3...

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Re:Those who exercise free speech should also defend it even... by watwut on Friday June 26, 2020 @04:54AM (#23650022)
By that measure, nothing works ever, because every system dies one day regardless of what they suspend. Such standard is completely useless. Also, "ceased to have power" typically means failure to suppress.

That being said, Nazi Germany did not lost because of internally suppressed people raising, they lost because foreign forces won on battle field. They were quite successful in keeping control.

> You can't be serious.

I am serious. There is nothing to suggest that contemporary German issues have anything to do with post WWII suppression of Nazism. They don't.

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