Duterte: Hitler killed millions of Jews, I will kill millions of drug addicts

[Antonio the Sixth]

There ought to be limits to free speech. At the very least, saying certain things should make someone ineligible to run for political office.

[Antonio the Sixth]

There ought to be limits to free speech. At the very least, saying certain things should make someone ineligible to run for political office.

 
I'm more concerned with the fact that this is what he thinks than the fact that he says it. And it's much better that he says it so that we know of it. 

Do you live in a world where people not saying things mean they don't happen?

What a public officeholder says has an impact on people's attitudes.

[Antonio the Sixth]

*In my opinion, all of this makes how thoroughly most Germans capitulated later on even more sickening and tragic.

Could it be that the bulk of "hard" opposition to the Nazi regime in its first years was made up of communists, and that it died down after the Molotov-Ribentrop pact?

[Antonio the Sixth]

If the Philippine economy improves, Duterte's popularity will only grow. He rode in as a sort-of agrarian populist socialist (not in the progressive sense, mind you) fighting for Philippine sovereignty and supposedly against neoliberal policies. We'll have to wait and see if his reforms actually end up working or not.

But frankly, take away his drug-killing stance and he basically looks like any other somewhat left-of-center politican.

Yeah..take away the warmongering and mass murder...and Hitler was a veritable Frank Roosevelt.

Sometimes you can't take these things away.

Well that's an extension of my point -- if you begin looking at things simply from a perspective of economic well-being, what ends up happening to your society? Remember that a central part of Duterte's diatribe against drug users is that they're lazy and hamper the country's productivity.

The point is that all this becomes irrelevant when you're a mass murderer.