It's what you do to not lose track of your topic in a discussion. I don't have to explain to you how anecdotal rhetoric (ignoring truth) drives political opinion.

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Lets talk about Germanic (as tribes) medieval forest creatures and wenches on flying broomstick

Would reading a book give me more anecdotes that apparently don't further the discussion? Whats with this arbitrary distinction of anecdotes and evidence?

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But if you want to talk excessive police force, I'm all here for it. Only if you think the solution to that is to become a facsist state, you really have never read a book.

The incident you're referring to, as far as I followed it, was misconstrued. The guy was already investigated for posting nazi slurs in violation of Germany's constitution. The two issues just happened to coincide.