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lastlib

(28,598 posts)
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 12:59 PM Oct 2025

Godwin's Law is hereby repealed.

Those who invoke Nazism in describing the current American regime are not losing, they're being accurate.

It's an appropriate term to use in describing the militarized terrorization of American citizens in our cities; it captures the kidnapping and deportation without due process of people who look or speak differently. It explains the use of government power to persecute or prosecute enemies of "der Feuhrer"; it accurately describes the usurpation of power of the legislature and judiciary to the supreme leader, and provides justification of the supine and cowardly surrender of the members of those branches to said leader. When that leader and his party/cult/crime ring check all fourteen of Prof. Britt's boxes*, it can only be called what it is--fascism.



*The Fourteen Defining Characeristics of Fascism

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Godwin's Law is hereby repealed. (Original Post) lastlib Oct 2025 OP
I had to look up Godwin's Law. ananda Oct 2025 #1
What the fuck is Godwin's Law? intheflow Oct 2025 #2
It's an enduring internet trope that holds that whoever invokes Nazis/Nazism/Hitler.... lastlib Oct 2025 #3
Ain't from around here? intheflow Oct 2025 #5
IIRC Godwin revoked this himself many years ago... Wounded Bear Oct 2025 #4
You are correct... IrishAfricanAmerican Oct 2025 #6

ananda

(35,495 posts)
1. I had to look up Godwin's Law.
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 01:01 PM
Oct 2025

You make a good point.

Besides, I think we Democrats always need to
tell it like it is.

intheflow

(30,249 posts)
2. What the fuck is Godwin's Law?
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 01:13 PM
Oct 2025

Yes, I could look it up, and I'm right there with you and Prof. Britt, but seriously. If your headline references a obscure phrase that undergirds your entire post, the least you could do define it for us.

lastlib

(28,598 posts)
3. It's an enduring internet trope that holds that whoever invokes Nazis/Nazism/Hitler....
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 02:47 PM
Oct 2025

...in an internet discussion loses the argument. I thought it was pretty well-known; been around almost as long as the internet. The Felon's regime has negated it.


(Y'all ain't from around here, ere ya? - - - )

intheflow

(30,249 posts)
5. Ain't from around here?
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 03:17 PM
Oct 2025

Dude, I've been here since 2004, you youngster coming in in 2012.

IrishAfricanAmerican

(4,508 posts)
6. You are correct...
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 05:17 PM
Oct 2025
Godwin:

By all means, compare these shitheads to Nazis. Again and again. I'm with you.
— Mike Godwin (@sfmnemonic) August 14, 2017

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