It’s not humiliating, Hugo. English is the only truly international language. It’s called “soft power”.https://twitter.com/hugorifkind/status/1093209208995151872 …
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Godwins Law of course, and not comparable to Brexit (just a point re this notion of democracy never being wrong) but in 1933, the Nazis won power with the largest share of the vote. I say not comparable, interestingly it was 17,277,180 people.
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Actually, no single party held a majority through ‘32-33. Hitler was appointed chancellor with the support of industry. Power was cemented through emergency powers later used to abolish opposition parties. Only SD resisted in Reichstag.
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They still were the largest party, even in 1932, with 11 million. The "democracy is never a mistake" idea - and btw, I think it's very rarely a mistake - still applies, they had massive popular support.
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Yes, Hitler rose to power in a democratic system but within a year he used violence to dismantle that democracy and became a dictator. Had democracy persisted in Germany, he would have been stopped, no?
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You mean they’d have had another vote and changed their decision ?
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No. She means resistance in the Reichstag to the grabbing of emergency powers that were used to abolish all opposition.
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Gr8...we are agreed...let's have a second ref.
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The only mistake is that we didn't leave sooner. In fact the biggest mistake was being lied to in the beginning when it was the EEC. now look at it. A failing globalist project along with the €uro. Fingers crossed the EU & the €uro will be gone soon.
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Hitler?
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Great, let’s have a vote on a deal or no deal, glad you’re on board...
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It’s not a bloody tv show!
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Tell that to the No Dealers
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Oh so does that apply to the democratically elected president of Venezuela or does democracy have a specialist meaning for you and the rest of your ilk.
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You do realise, with that comment you’ve just made the case for a second referendum don’t you?
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Imagine a referendum on becoming a communist state won by 52% to 48% based on lies, backed by Russia. Democracy? You would happily go along with that one as well?
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It is if the voters have been lied to and manipulated
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They were lied to. Most however were able to see through them.https://joelrwrites.wordpress.com/2018/12/11/the-many-lies-of-the-remain-campaign/ …
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You’re confusing predictions that didn’t come true with demonstrable lies
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Incorrect. All of those listed are demonstrable lies, because the methodology of coming up with the predictions was fundamentally dishonest. Cameron asking Obama to say the "back of the queue" quote is particularly unbelievable.
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Unbelievable isn’t demonstrable. Brexit is based on lies, xenophobia, foreign money and interference, criminality and ignorance. That’s why democracy, in this case, is a mistake.
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Yes, it is a demonstrable lie. The USA has never based its trade negotiations on a queue system. Linking a country's GDP to household income is another demonstrable lie.
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Lol, he wasn’t talking about a literal queue
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He literally said "back of the queue", implying there was a system of priority. There isn't.
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