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Comment author: skeptical_lurker 14 March 2016 05:46:56PM -1 points [-]

Normally, no, I wouldn't take a punk band's politics seriously, but when the frontman of a Nazi punk band gets elected, that's different.

Plus, he's not the only one:

As depicted in a picture taken on 14 September 2012, Panagiotis Iliopoulos, another Golden Dawn MP, has a tattoo reading the Nazi greeting Sieg Heil.[139]

I mean, obviously a random member of a party's views do not represent the party, but when they are leaders or get elected, thats different.

Comment author: Lumifer 14 March 2016 06:10:20PM 0 points [-]

when they are leaders or get elected, thats different.

When they get elected, that's evidence about the voters, not about the party.

Comment author: skeptical_lurker 14 March 2016 07:17:52PM -1 points [-]

But the party approved their candidacy.

Comment author: Lumifer 14 March 2016 07:28:31PM *  0 points [-]

The party admitted them as a member, and given that, why wouldn't it approve their candidacy? Especially since I don't think there was much of an in-party contest in this case. It's not like the primaries for POTUS elections.

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