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elktownlast Thursday at 10:30 AM3 repliesview on HN

> I would prefer not to link my Reddit account to my HN account

Understandable, no worries.

> I have voted D66 [..] during the last elections

I've been seeing sentiments like this before but I don't value them high because what matter is what people do and decide when things becomes hot and their professed principles need to be actually proven.

As an anecdote, and yes, I know it's an extreme example, but it's interesting to me and brings the point home: When listening to an audio book (it's on Audible if interested, recommended!) a while back that compiles a bunch of interviews with defendants of the Nuremberg trials, a surprising amount of them suggested, paraphrasing; "I was actually a liberal before the war!" (and also a strange amount of teachers curiously!).


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LaurensBERlast Thursday at 11:20 AM

The audio book sounds interesting, could you share the title?

I understand your point about deciding and acting when things become hot but shouldn't we place political vote(s) above comment(s) on social media? Realistically I would hope that the average voter in Europe does not encounter a "hot" situation where his or her morals will be tested as they were during the second world war.

Yet what we vote for influences real world actions, what we say online might influence one or two opinions slightly.

isleyaardvarkyesterday at 6:55 PM

Plenty of people will lie or exaggerate that sort of thing (e.g. "I was a militant atheist before I became born again")

queenkjuullast Thursday at 11:46 AM

Personally learning that tons of Nazis started as liberals isn't even the least bit surprising.