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by sonotathrowaway 2022 days ago
Are you under the impression that 30% of the vote is insignificant? What if I told you that Hitler never won more than 37% of the vote in free and fair elections?
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30% is HUGE, and this is why I do not buy the idea that you can get such percentage of votes because of some evil state actor who posts ads on facebook, with independent press, TV, all being available and popular as well.

If some party got 30% of votes in Germany, stop blaming facebook and 'state actors'. Germans are better then this, they are not zombies, and they have a lot of information sources to pick up news/opinions from.

> Germans are better then this

If they're voting for the Nazis again, maybe they're not better than this.

OK, agree. But then, don't shift the blame to 'malicious state actor'. This is their decision and they own it in full.