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Tigermoose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 09:55 PM
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I hereby invoke Godwin's Law upon George W. Bush.
Bushco have officially ran out of plausible excuses, and is left to associate his enemies with Hitler, Fascists, and Communits. His rhetoric has become freeperish and lame. I, therefore, invoke Godwin's Law to immediately terminate the pathetic excuse for rhetoric and propaganda drooling from the bloody maw of this double plus good administration.

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Godwin's Law
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"Godwin's Law (also Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies) is a mainstay of Internet culture, an adage formulated by Mike Godwin in 1990. It is particularly concerned with logical fallacies such as reductio ad Hitlerum, wherein an idea is unduly dismissed or rejected on ground of it being associated with persons generally considered "evil".

The law states:

Godwin's Law
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. <1>

Godwin's Law

Godwin's Law does not dispute whether, in a particular instance, a reference or comparison to Hitler or the Nazis might be apt. It is precisely because such a reference or comparison may sometimes be appropriate, Godwin argues in his book, Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age, that hyperbolic overuse of the Hitler/Nazi comparison should be avoided, as it robs the valid comparisons of their impact.

Although in one of its early forms Godwin's Law referred specifically to Usenet newsgroup discussions<2>, the law is now applied to any threaded online discussion: electronic mailing lists, message boards, chat rooms, and more recently blog comment threads and Wikipedia discussion pages.
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Corollaries and usage

There is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically "lost" whatever debate was in progress. This principle is itself frequently (though perhaps incorrectly) referred to as Godwin's Law.

It is considered poor form to arbitrarily raise such a comparison with the motive of ending the thread. There is a widely recognized codicil that any such ulterior-motive invocation of Godwin's Law (in the above sense) will be unsuccessful. This is sometimes referred to as "Quirks's Exception". It should be noted however, that continued expansion of the Internet has recently given rise to "RGB's Restriction of Quirk's Exception", to wit, "In cases where the subject of the comparison to Hitler fails to recognize the applicability of Quirk's Exception, Quirk's Exception shall not apply and Godwin's Law shall take effect in its normal manner."
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Psephos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 09:58 PM
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1. You mean George W. Bushitler? lol n/t
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 09:59 PM
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2. I have never made the comparison. Bushitler's actions speak
for themselves, so does redrummy's, red rover, beaversleeza, gonzozales etc.
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