Voters in the Peruvian town of Queropalca have chosen their new mayor: Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores.

The unusually named candidate for the center-left Ahora Nación party won 34% of the vote. According to local media, the top three candidates were separated by just 42 votes.

Simeon’s candidate application form gives few details (and none about his name), apart from the fact that he manages the Simeon Sac Investment Group.

There have been other politicians called Hitler. In 2018, also in Peru, Hitler beat Lenin in another mayoral race for the district of Yúngar, when Hitler Guesclin Alba Sánchez defeated Lenin Vladimir Rodríguez Valverde.

“I’m the good Hitler,” Alba told broadcasters on the campaign trail, local media reported.

In Namibia, Adolf Hitler Uunona last year won his fifth local election in a row. “As a child I saw it as a totally normal name,” he told the BBC.

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The simple answer is that the protest was not an organic movement, it was entirely driven by the moderators of some subreddits, the communities themselves never wanted to participate, some were OK to show solidarity, but the fact of the matter is that the vast majority of users there weren't being inconvenienced by the API stuff, some were even hostile to the mere mention of migrating elsewhere. Once the mods relinquished, everything went back to normal because it was mostly them being affected by the API changes.

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    The funny thing about it is that you can very much attach any value you want to anything, it's just a matter of how much reach your message has and how many people believe it. NFTs ended up crashing because eventually people realize they were worthless, but not before the snake oil salesmen racked in billions from them.

    If an influencer with millions of followers sold a bunch of autumn leaves, someone would buy them.

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