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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 11:26 PM
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Godwin's Law
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Kurt_and_Hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 11:27 PM
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1. This should have been a poll, Hitler.
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 11:28 PM
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2. Is it an exception to Godwin's Law...
Edited on Wed Dec-17-08 11:29 PM by Kutjara
...if the Adolf Hitler mentioned isn't THE Adolf Hitler? Like the poor kid of that name whose nutcase parents got Wal-Mart to write his name on a birthday cake?
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Trajan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 11:29 PM
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3. Fuck Godwin's Law ...
A stupid and fallacious device to derail reasonable analogies along with unreasonable analogies ....
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Fovea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 12:33 AM
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7. agreed.
The dangerous words are the ones you cannot use.
The destructive ideas are the ones you won't write down...

or even think about.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 12:58 AM
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11. It should be noted that Godwin does not actually say that the analogy will be wrong.
He only claims that the longer a discussion continues, the more likely Hitler will be mentioned. The comparison can still be completely accurate.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 11:29 PM
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4. Godwin was a Nazi.
I like to get it over with as quickly as possible.
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 12:38 AM
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8. He may be from Texas but he's no nazi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Godwin
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 12:55 AM
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10. Ah, Hell
He's REAL? Damn.
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boppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-08 11:30 PM
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5. http://xkcd.com/261/
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zonmoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 12:18 AM
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6. I thought w made that law obsolete.
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Sebastian Doyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 12:41 AM
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9. Nice cake, Hitler
Wal-Mart just delivered it.....
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