• seeigel@feddit.org
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    19 days ago

    Yes. That’s why you should quote what they literally say. It’s not a quote if you write what you think they say.

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        19 days ago

        Thanks, I would have looked differently at your comment if you had directly added that source.

        it’s very likley

        Then it is still not a quote.

        In general, if somebody can proof something easily but does not, then I assume that it is wrong. If others think like me, you create the opposite message of what you want.

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              19 days ago

              No worries. I kind of agree with you both.

              The AfD are not “literal Nazis” because they are not the NSDAP, which doesn’t exist anymore. But they are as close as you can get and a spiritual successor. But the proper term is neo-nazies. And yeah you shouldn’t make up quotes, when there are so many real ones you can pick from.

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            19 days ago

            I am sorry to tell you but if I didn’t know better, this exchange would have made me question the critics of the AfD and start seeing the AfD as the choice of reason.

            You say there are lies but you just offer a strawman argument in the form of a sack of potatoes. If you don’t back up these claims I usually conclude that they are wrong.

            You don’t have to convince me that the AfD is ineligible. I am with you. But you can’t claim that the AfD makes up causes and you make up your own. That makes all your claims unbelievable.

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              3 days ago

              Hi friend, I hope you are well. Remember this exchange? In the meantime, the German federal service for the protection of the constitution has found the AfD as a whole to be “assuredly right-wing extremist”, which is legalese for “they are literally neonazis and we have proof”.

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                3 days ago

                That’s good but besides my point. My issue is that you make up conversations.

                You don’t have to convince me that the AfD is ineligible. I am with you. But you can’t claim that the AfD makes up causes and you make up your own.

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                  3 days ago

                  Making up things is bad because it may mislead people. My example was an accurate representation of that party. “Sieg heil” is even a direct quote.

                  Would you also object to me making up quotes about Mussolini or Stalin if these are to the best of our knowledge accurate depictions? Probably not.

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                    3 days ago

                    Yes I would.

                    You normalize fake quotes. Then the AfD can also make up quotes and claim that that represents foreigners.

                    You understand that it is bad when the AfD does it. Generalize that understanding. There can’t be exceptions for fighting the good fight. Everybody thinks they do.