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WTF??!!!? - The 'What The F*ck' Thread

Penn · 2011-07-08 11:23:46

Welcome to the WTF! Thread, for all your WTF! needs. This is for pics, gifs and vids which are more WTF! than funny, but not NOPE! enough to be visually disgusting. Same rules as You Laugh You Lose and all other similar threads apply See also post n. 1747

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#2702 25-10-2020 2:50am
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#2705 26-10-2020 1:26pm
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MOD : Moved from YLYL

and link added: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZMRBwpUEAI-qZ2.jpg

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#2706 27-10-2020 12:04am
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[mod]more WTF than cool, not sure where else it fits![/mod]
Edit: yes I wasn't sure where to put it. It's a desperate photo and damning of lost democracy. I found it particularly striking.

In the 1933 German federal election, six days after the Reichstag fire which underpinned the Nazi's anti-communist narrative, and the general climate of fear, the Nazis won 44% of the vote. The next multiparty election was in 1990.

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#2707 27-10-2020 10:22am
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auspicious wrote: »

[mod]more WTF than cool, not sure where else it fits![/mod]
Edit: yes I wasn't sure where to put it. It's a desperate photo and damning of lost democracy. I found it particularly striking.

In the 1933 German federal election, six days after the Reichstag fire which underpinned the Nazi's anti-communist narrative, and the general climate of fear, the Nazis won 44% of the vote. The next multiparty election was in 1990.

The next elections were in 1949 in West Germany and 1950 in East Germany. The unified elections in 1990 did not include all of Germany's borders in 1933, so the 1949 elections were the next ones.

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I think the reference was to "free" elections, in the former East Germany the 1950 elections were largely a staged event as only one party was allowed, the areas that went to Poland probably didn't have elections until around 1988.

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#2709 27-10-2020 7:26pm
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sorry to be such a pedant ..but there were state elections in the Soviet occupied zone (the future GDR) that were indeed multi-party, free and democratic ...in 1946

The SED (a forced union of social democrats and communists) won that election, but not with a total majority.

Their victory however was later used as the "reason" that one party was basically plenty enough

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#2710 28-10-2020 1:18am
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I meant all-German. Unoccupied, free.

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#2711 28-10-2020 1:22am
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Tony EH wrote: »

Jesus, that's disturbing. Looks like a new video from the Aphex Twin.

I was just about to say Bernie is straight from windowlicker!

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#2712 28-10-2020 1:25am
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Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Completely inaccurate and misleading.

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#2713 28-10-2020 9:46am
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auspicious wrote: »

I meant all-German. Unoccupied, free.

Using that definition Ireland has never had a free election

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#2714 28-10-2020 12:17pm
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Deshawn wrote: »

Completely inaccurate and misleading.

I van see the headline now.

Twitter Joker in shock accuracy scandal

auspicious wrote:

I meant all-German. Unoccupied, free.

It was occupied until 1990. So why mention multi-party at all?
As mentioned, above there were multiple multi-party elections from 1933-1990

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#2715 28-10-2020 12:40pm
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Mellor wrote: »

I van see the headline now.

Twitter Joker in shock accuracy scandal

It was occupied until 1990. So why mention multi-party at all?
As mentioned, above there were multiple multi-party elections from 1933-1990

The SED controlled elections up until 1990 so in my mind I recognise that as not being quintessentially multi-party.
Technically multi-party elections were held. But not really imo.
Rather than just write multi-party, I agree I should have been clearer.

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#2716 28-10-2020 2:57pm
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The SED controlled elections up until 1990 so in my mind I recognise that as not being quintessentially multi-party.
Technically multi-party elections were held. But not really imo.

The SED ran a one party state from 1949-1990. I’m not suggesting they “technically” ran multi-party elections. They didn’t.
The election mentioned above was in 1946, before the one party state was form. It was multi-party, and was how SED was formed - when two parties merged.

Of course, that’s only East Germany. The elections in West Germany were multi-party. And they claim to be the continuation of Germany while East was a soviet annex.
I’ve never thought about it, but I’d guess about half the elections in “Germany” from 1933-1990 were single party, and half multi party.

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#2717 28-10-2020 6:28pm
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Politics Forum ———>>>>

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Piehead wrote: »

Politics Forum ———>>>>

Yeah! lets get back to WTF!
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=115080905&postcount=2554

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wally79 wrote: »

Using that definition Ireland has never had a free election

Why when did the Nazis invade Ireland? :pac:

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Achtung! Achtung! Achtung!
OK time to move on!

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Jawohl mein Fuhe....

Oh sorry.

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#2723 28-10-2020 11:00pm
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Yeah! lets get back to WTF!
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=115080905&postcount=2554

I've been doing doggie style so, so incorrectly.

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#2724 29-10-2020 11:36am
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2020 in 20 seconds

https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1321532527958466560

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silverharp wrote: »

2020 in 20 seconds

https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1321532527958466560

Actually, it was the TV show presenters who wanted their guests to dress up for a Halloween special.

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#2726 29-10-2020 1:06pm
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Actually, it was the TV show presenters who wanted their guests to dress up for a Halloween special.

i was aware of the reasoning of it, doesnt take away from the wtf'iness of it

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silverharp wrote: »

i was aware of the reasoning of it, doesnt take away from the wtf'iness of it

True, they should have had the common sense to do the announcement separately.

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#2728 29-10-2020 6:31pm
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^^^^^ Snap. See couple of posts above

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I like the way he held it up with his hand for a few seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_I9PdgSTds

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