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In reply to the discussion: Do not ever make the mistake of thinking that the Republicans are anything but the enemy. [View all]truebrit71
(20,805 posts)...the concept that to compare something to the Nazis automatically voids the position being made is, frankly, fucking stupid.
There are plenty of instances when it is perfectly legitimate to bring up a Nazi reference/comparison, just as there are plenty of instances to bring up Stalin/Gulags/Communism etc etc...Just because some silly git somewhere came up with this "law" doesn't mean it is actually valid. In fact, it sounds like he was probably losing the argument he was having and had to divert attention from the subject matter in a vain attempt to win conversational points...I therefore come up with my own law that says that the first person in an online discussion that uses Godwin's law, or references it in any way immediately invalidates the entirety of their own argument and must submerge their head promptly into a bucket of cold spaghetti whilst singing 'Ave Maria'....
I believe that my law is an even more brilliant observation of lameness...