Godwin's Law

Originally posted by whodey
The better question becomes, when they found out why did they not rebel?

It is an example of what a strong centralized government can accomplish and should humble us all. Essentially, with such a government any evil can be carried out at a whim and with no opposition of significance.

Don't hijack the thread you heel-clicking brownshirts.

Originally posted by Soothfast
Don't hijack the thread you heel-clicking brownshirts.

A bluegrass evergreen:'Heel Clickin' Brownshirts'.

Originally posted by Soothfast
Don't hijack the thread you heel-clicking brownshirts.

Why does it bother progressives so to bring up the Nazis?

Originally posted by whodey
Why does it bother progressives so to bring up the Nazis?

Doesn't bother me. Nazis are everywhere, under every rock. In the precambrian days fish Nazis evolved to become amphibian Nazis, and eventually there came flying Nazis and Nazi flowers and fungi. Nazis are a fact of life. I say when life gives you Nazis, make Nazi-ade.

Nowadays they're called Republicans, though. 😉

Originally posted by normbenign
Sure. But a lot of bad things start out benignly. Who knew Hitler would do what he did?

Sorry Norm I must have missed the Nazi's 'benign' phase, is that where you got the inspiration for the handle🙂

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I'm reminded of a thread I started about a book called "Hitler's Beneficiaries". The book was written by Gotz Aly, a German historian. In it he attempts to make the connection that the German people were bought off by Hitler through his progressive Nanny state to look the other way when it came to his policies of abject evil.

Originally posted by rwingett
The assumption in Godwin's law is that all comparisons to the Nazis, or Hitler, are either unjustified or overkill. It seems to me that it is most frequently invoked by people who are too lazy to deflect the comparison by other means.

Perhaps a new law is called for (Penfold's law?) which states that: As online discussions involving comparisons to Hitler grow longer, the probability of Godwin's law being invoked approaches 1.

Or perhaps there's just a great many debates on regimes which are inherently crap and very fascist-esque in their behaviour.

The people who scream blue murder about Godwin's law (and defer to it most) are generally right-wing, pro-life, anti-abortionist, pro-war, Christian bastards.

God-awful people, who, ironically, could do with a bit of exterminating.
The sort of people you tend to find online... but actually never really meet in real life... because they'd be chased out of a pub, thrown from a window or puked out into a bucket.

Jist sayin'...