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In reply to the discussion: Never again ask "How did Germans let it hapen?" [View all]Irish_Dem
(45,621 posts)36. Yes but social media was used to lie and to subvert the election.
It is a two edged sword.
And Germany did not have a ruthless wealthy oligarch who helped the Nazis get power and keep it.
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Oct 2017
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We're letting a minority of this country change our democracy, if not outright destroy it.
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Whoops! Sorry Upton - you were a great man. Wish we had more like him nowadays. But people
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WOW !!! So Germany was tip of the spear society before Hitler. US is third largest country on Earth
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I said during the voting season "Vote like it's 1932- only this time, you can do something about it"
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+1, ... and most Germans living in those towns STILL ... STILL DID NOT BELIEVE UNTIL ...
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