• OBJECTION!
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    114 hours ago

    In the 1932 German Presidential Election, the candidates were Hitler, Hindenburg, and Thälmaan. The SPD endorsed “center-right” Hindenburg as a lesser evil to stop Hitler, and he won. Then he wound up appointing Hitler as chancellor anyway.

    • @orrk@lemmy.world
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      214 hours ago

      and it got to that point after the conservatives already pulled a bunch of voter suppression and the 1933 election where the Nazis got most of the votes, and because the left vote was split, their combine greater total meant nothing

      • @yankturdscum
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        16 hours ago

        Are you saying communists are to blame for the holocaust?

        Be very careful about what you are implying lmao

      • OBJECTION!
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        -514 hours ago

        Sure. Obviously, the split on the left was unfortunate and a major reason why Hitler came to power. Another reason being the declining economic conditions under the governing coalition of the SPD with the center-right.

        I don’t really see how that makes the case for lesser-evilism.