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Sure, just stipulate that any election with results you don't like isn't "an actual free election". No True Scotsman is indeed alive and well.
by pdonis 4y ago
Sure, just stipulate that any election with results you don't like isn't "an actual free election". No True Scotsman is indeed alive and well.
- ixs 4y agoUhm. That’s a nice straw man to support the “no true Scotsman” fallacy. Well done. :-) I did a bit of digging on Wikipedia. And based on the description in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1933_German_federal_election https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1933_German_federal_el... I think the claim that the ‘33 election wasn’t a free election isn’t baseless. Having your fascist enforcers “monitor” the election, helping elderly people to the voting booths and “helping” them to vote correctly all seem to be indicators that the election is fishy. And even then, the fascist party didn’t even get a majority…