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butdiduvote

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23. In my opinion, yes.

Reply to Tiggeroshii (Reply #21)

Wed Feb 22, 2017, 04:02 AM

Feb 2017

Unless if they had some type of cognitive deficit that made them incapable of understanding what they were doing, I can't think of too many reasons why they wouldn't be deserving of the consequences they imposed on the rest of us. "I didn't really believe he would do it," isn't a valid excuse for voting for someone who ran a campaign fueled by pure hatred, and neither is any variant of "I couldn't vote for Hillary/but abortion/but SCOTUS."

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Just curious: if you voted for an evil policy, do you deserve the outcome even if it means execution [View all] Tiggeroshii Feb 2017 OP

Did "many Jews" vote for Hitler? MrPurple Feb 2017 #1

Yes. There was a well funded organzation for the sole purpose of getting Jewish support Tiggeroshii Feb 2017 #2

I'd still be curious what percentage of German Jews actually voted for Hitler MrPurple Feb 2017 #10

The Final Solution didn't begin until 1941. Charles Bukowski Feb 2017 #3

Actually it was within a few months that preparations Tiggeroshii Feb 2017 #4

Trump was pretty explicit Charles Bukowski Feb 2017 #8

It wasn't hard to read in between the lines, obviously Tiggeroshii Feb 2017 #9

Kristallnacht was 1938 and it had been ramping up before then MrPurple Feb 2017 #6

Straw-man argument... regnaD kciN Feb 2017 #5

Yeah, the jumping right to execution made me uncomfortable. butdiduvote Feb 2017 #7

I apologize for the flawed logic. But your take on it was exactly what I was looking for. Tiggeroshii Feb 2017 #21

In my opinion, yes. butdiduvote Feb 2017 #23

Thank you for pointing this out Takket Feb 2017 #11

Slippery slope really, but I'll take it. (jumping to conclusions) Tiggeroshii Feb 2017 #22

wtf are toy talKing about ? people are objecting to seeing them as victims. nobody said to enact bad JI7 Feb 2017 #12

Exactly Bettie Feb 2017 #15

victimization of trump supporters. now they are comparable to jews under nazi germany JI7 Feb 2017 #13

What the fuck. ismnotwasm Feb 2017 #14

Now we are equating what happenned to Jews under Hitler to what might happen jmg257 Feb 2017 #16

Of course this is phrased as a bad analogy, but MrPurple Feb 2017 #18

That I get...they are planning to build more detention centers for border control. jmg257 Feb 2017 #20

Wow! hrmjustin Feb 2017 #17

I voted "absolutely not." BigDemVoter Feb 2017 #19