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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

view from the mod

View from a user: removing my original comment because you disagree is a dick move, period. Not trying to weasel through anything since there is nothing to “weasel through”: afd got one vote every five voters, it’s insanely high and CDU performance (nor the other parties) were clearly not good enough; okay CDU+CSU are only one party, great, they still got a 9% more than a neonazi party.

And btw, in this whole thing the only one pedantic about it is you (and the other user) since be it 21 or 29, it’s less than a 10% away to becoming the largest party in Germany

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think anybody claimed that CxU had a great showing. Or that Afd's percentage is somehow a good sign.

The contested point was that you insisted that CDU only did 2% better than Afd which is completely misleading. Hence I removed that for "misinfomation".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Okay, and you could have said that instead of “implying” I wanted to be correct on some pointless technicality, more so when I had already explained what I meant and what I wanted to highlight

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I read all your responses and didn't read them that way. Sorry that I misjudged your intentions.💜

(I will keep those two comments deleted nonetheless though, the deletion rationale still applies there imo.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

No problem lel