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when it's true?
I am sorry, but the Republican Party today are Nazis.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)I believe the majority of Republican voters, are. Especially a large segment of our police force, considering the brutality and deadly force they wield so quickly on anyone who dares to defy them in any which way - even a cross look!
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)The NAZIs had a state religion, were obsessed with the military, demonized anyone who disagreed with them, had no problem killing those with whom they disagreed, picked out specific groups of people to blame for everything, were obsessed with crazy "race science" and genetics, and hated gays.
and yes, the GOP does share those tendencies, but there must be SOMETHING that is different about them.
Right?
Lancero
(3,011 posts)Republicans could give less then a shit about building and maintaining our road networks.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)another GOP/ NAZI coincidence?
Plus, the autobahn and the interstate highway system had as their intent the facilitation of military movement in the country.
ANOTHER GOP/NAZI coincidence?
Lancero
(3,011 posts)rogerashton
(3,920 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)not organized religion. Although Hitler was obsessed with certain Christian relics but as a source of power.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Godwin's Law is simply an observation about internet discussions: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." It's not meant to assert a fallacy.
What you're thinking of is the reductio ad Hitlerum, which is an association fallacy.
edhopper
(33,606 posts)was that when you compare something to the Nazis, you lose the argument.
at least that is what I was going on.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)It did start as a tool to discourage hyperbolic uses of Nazi comparisons, but nothing about it says invoking Hitler or Nazis causes someone to lose an argument.
There are completely valid comparisons to Hitler and the Nazis; for all other uses, there's the reductio ad Hitlerum.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)the equivalent of reduction ad absurdum?
like your wording.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)In a lot of ways, yeah, I'd say it's similar to reductio ad absurdum.
TheKentuckian
(25,029 posts)I don't think that was the original idea at all but it has devolved into such over the years.
Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)Like pretty much everyone on the internet who uses Nazi analogies, a) you think it's true, and b) you're wrong.
This is precisely the situation Goodwin's law was invented for.