AProudLefty
Black Kitty Ain't Happy
Let's see how long before someone follows the law. 
Godwin's Law
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Let's see how long before someone follows the law.
Goodwin is a rule and not a law.
AProudLefty
Black Kitty Ain't Happy
A term that originated on Usenet, Godwin's Law states that as an online argument grows longer and more heated, it becomes increasingly likely that somebody will bring up Adolf Hitler or the Nazis. When such an event occurs, the person guilty of invoking Godwin's Law has effectively forfieted the argument.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Godwin's Law
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Godwin's Law
AProudLefty
Black Kitty Ain't Happy
Maybe.
It's a voluntary rule with no teeth to it.
AProudLefty
Black Kitty Ain't Happy
Yeah true.
T. A. Gardner
Thread Killer
It has to be inappropriately. That means if you bring up Hitler and the Nazis in a discussion about WW 2 in an historical context the law isn't violated. It's when you invoke the use of Hitler or Nazis in an inappropriate comparison or as an insult that Godwin's law is invoked.
Thus, comparing some present day politician to Hitler / Nazis because you don't like that politician is a violation. Telling off another poster using Hitler or Nazi references is a violation. Discussion of the Holocaust or the WW 2 era and bringing Hitler / Nazis into the discussion is not a violation.
VIOLATION
NOT A VIOLATION
VIOLATION
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AProudLefty
Black Kitty Ain't Happy
It has to be inappropriately. That means if you bring up Hitler and the Nazis in a discussion about WW 2 in an historical context the law isn't violated. It's when you invoke the use of Hitler or Nazis in an inappropriate comparison or as an insult that Godwin's law is invoked.
Thus, comparing some present day politician to Hitler / Nazis because you don't like that politician is a violation. Telling off another poster using Hitler or Nazi references is a violation. Discussion of the Holocaust or the WW 2 era and bringing Hitler / Nazis into the discussion is not a violation.
VIOLATION
NOT A VIOLATION
VIOLATION
NOT A VIOLATION
There is no word "inappropriate" in the law. Sorry Charlie. No cigar for you.
It has to be inappropriately. That means if you bring up Hitler and the Nazis in a discussion about WW 2 in an historical context the law isn't violated. It's when you invoke the use of Hitler or Nazis in an inappropriate comparison or as an insult that Godwin's law is invoked.
Thus, comparing some present day politician to Hitler / Nazis because you don't like that politician is a violation. Telling off another poster using Hitler or Nazi references is a violation. Discussion of the Holocaust or the WW 2 era and bringing Hitler / Nazis into the discussion is not a violation.
VIOLATION
NOT A VIOLATION
VIOLATION
NOT A VIOLATION
Didn't you see this????????????
In December 2015, Godwin commented on the Nazi and fascist comparisons being made by several articles about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, saying: "If you're thoughtful about it and show some real awareness of history, go ahead and refer to Hitler when you talk about Trump, or any other politician."[12] In August 2017, Godwin made similar remarks on social networking websites Facebook and Twitter with respect to the two previous days' Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, endorsing and encouraging comparisons of its alt-right organizers to Nazis.[13][14][15][16]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
AProudLefty
Black Kitty Ain't Happy
It has to be inappropriately. That means if you bring up Hitler and the Nazis in a discussion about WW 2 in an historical context the law isn't violated. It's when you invoke the use of Hitler or Nazis in an inappropriate comparison or as an insult that Godwin's law is invoked.
Thus, comparing some present day politician to Hitler / Nazis because you don't like that politician is a violation. Telling off another poster using Hitler or Nazi references is a violation. Discussion of the Holocaust or the WW 2 era and bringing Hitler / Nazis into the discussion is not a violation.
VIOLATION
NOT A VIOLATION
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NOT A VIOLATION
Created for you.
T. A. Gardner
Thread Killer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
A direct comparison of some modern day politician to Hitler is hyperbolic and inappropriate particularly when the comparison is based on rhetorical devices rather than actual events. That makes it a Godwin's Law violation.
It has to be inappropriately. That means if you bring up Hitler and the Nazis in a discussion about WW 2 in an historical context the law isn't violated. It's when you invoke the use of Hitler or Nazis in an inappropriate comparison or as an insult that Godwin's law is invoked.
Thus, comparing some present day politician to Hitler / Nazis because you don't like that politician is a violation. Telling off another poster using Hitler or Nazi references is a violation. Discussion of the Holocaust or the WW 2 era and bringing Hitler / Nazis into the discussion is not a violation.
VIOLATION
NOT A VIOLATION
VIOLATION
NOT A VIOLATION
The white supremacists in Charlottesville are Trump supporters are they not????????????
The creator of Godwin’s Law explains why some Nazi comparisons don’t break his famous Internet rule
Hundreds of white supremacists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members descended on Charlottesville this past weekend. One man, described as a Nazi sympathizer, is accused of plowing into a crowd of counterdemonstrators with his car, killing one woman and wounding several other people. And so a stranger asked Godwin to weigh in: When it comes to the white supremacists in Charlottesville, is it okay to compare what they believe and do to what the Nazis believed and did?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...parisons-dont-break-his-famous-internet-rule/
T. A. Gardner
Thread Killer
AProudLefty
Black Kitty Ain't Happy
Cute, but I had to call in an expert:
Yep. I know it's cute because you're being cute thinking that you did a "gotcha".
No matter how hard you try, it isn't a violation of Godwin's law.
It is also cute how you interjected the word "inappropriate" into the law.
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
I believe it is not an application of Godwin's Law if I say that, like Hitler, APL has a small penis......
AProudLefty
Black Kitty Ain't Happy
PoliTalker
Diversity Makes Greatness
There is no mention in the concept of whether any discussion is appropriate or inappropriate, in compliance or noncompliance, with any standard. It merely states that the longer a conversation goes on, the greater the chances of it coming around to Hitler. And that is simple logic. As a discussion expands, more and more subjects are drawn into it. Hitler is a subject of conversation. It is a simple odds thing.