• Lmaydev@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    This is a super simple view of the conflict.

    They elected them in 2006. So there hasn’t been an election in almost 20 years.

    This is a stupid position to take imo.

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      1 year ago

      Germans voted for the Nazi party to take power. And guess what? Germans supported that party, even after that party they chose to put into power suspended elections. If you elect a government that suspends elections, you’re still responsible for electing that government. You put them there: you and your fellow citizens gave consent.

      • Shiggles@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Yes famously every single german citizen unanimously supported the nazi party from 1933 to 1945.

        Have you ever learned about how the Nazis came into power? The cycle that Hitler became Chancellor, they won only 37% of the vote. Before that, it was a meager 18%. One election of 37% was enough for emergency powers to be seized, the reichstag to be burned, and quite simply the ball to be put in motion. I’m sure you would’ve been first in line to protest their actions beyond that point, but it certainly would’ve been quite the challenge to change the course after that point.

        If you’re cool damning an entire population off the decision of 37%(of the population that voted), then I guess your reasoning stands.

      • filister@lemmy.world
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        Funny that you mention it, but do you know why Germans voted for the Nazis, because they were desperate and put into a corner, after the end of the WWI and the Versailles treaty they were so bad economically that people were desperate, and guess what, desperate people choose desperate solutions. So in a way, Hamas is in power thanks to the Israelian policies.

        Do you truly believe that if those people were in peace and living comfortably Hamas would have been elected in the first place?