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Testing Godwin's Law

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 2 comments
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Last week I came acrossGodwin's Law. Many of you may already be familiar with it. For those of you who aren't, Godwin's Law, according to wikipedia, states: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."

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dinotrac ·
Seems ridiculous to me, especially in these days of mini-Hitler editors goose-stepping their way through fora.

It always happens --

Now, anytime somebody gets frazzled by a logical blitzkrieg, you wait for Godwin to be invoked like a panzer counter-attack.

But, seriously, with today's PC SS, who would want to make Hitler references in any thread these days?
jezuch ·
What happened to Stalin, BTW? He was a friend during WWII, so he's cool? Or maybe it's my Central-European biased perspective? ;)

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