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naznatips on 27 November 2007
stof said:
I don't know if anybody else remembered it, but There was a terrific bit on the daily show dealing with pundits and politicians refering to their opponents as Hitler.

If I may paraphrase his closing.

"Frankly people, when you relate your opponents to Hitler, you denegrade yourself, your point, and frankly... Hitler! That guy worked too long and hard to have any Tom, Dick and Harry come along and say hey, you're Hitler!"

Haha I remember that.  That was such an awesome episode.  



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damkira on 27 November 2007
stof said:
I don't know if anybody else remembered it, but There was a terrific bit on the daily show dealing with pundits and politicians refering to their opponents as Hitler.

If I may paraphrase his closing.

"Frankly people, when you relate your opponents to Hitler, you denegrade yourself, your point, and frankly... Hitler! That guy worked too long and hard to have any Tom, Dick and Harry come along and say hey, you're Hitler!"

 Yes! That was truly one of the funniest things ever on The Daily Show. Do you know if they've resumed making new episodes? Oooh, nevermind. Its on now. I'll just check..

 



stof on 27 November 2007

Writers strike damkira. Nothings getting through any time soon.



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eab on 27 November 2007

Isn't there a "Godwin's Number" or equation that shows a ratio of to



Fuzzmosis on 27 November 2007

Honestly, it actually sickens me how people yell "Godwin's!" when people are discussing as if it adds to the conversation. Has bothered me for years. Kinda like yelling "Freebird" at a concert. Well, I suppose at Lynyrd Skynyrd it would be fine.

Yes, we know about the law, no we don't care you typed it, consider whether the Nazi point is extremely exaggerated or irrelevant, state your opinion as to why or how it was a poor example, and keep talking.

This has actually bothered me since I was 17. I drank some very good beer. I drank some very good beer, I purchased, with a Fake ID! My name was Brian McGee. I stayed up listening to Queen, when I was 17. (Most Canadians actively buy alcohol by the age of 15)



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damkira on 27 November 2007
Fuzzmosis said:
Honestly, it actually sickens me how people yell "Godwin's!" when people are discussing as if it adds to the conversation. Has bothered me for years. Kinda like yelling "Freebird" at a concert. Well, I suppose at Lynyrd Skynyrd it would be fine.

Yes, we know about the law, no we don't care you typed it, consider whether the Nazi point is extremely exaggerated or irrelevant, state your opinion as to why or how it was a poor example, and keep talking.

This has actually bothered me since I was 17. I drank some very good beer. I drank some very good beer, I purchased, with a Fake ID! My name was Brian McGee. I stayed up listening to Queen, when I was 17. (Most Canadians actively buy alcohol by the age of 15)

 It was a reference to a locked thread in which someone called a mod a Nazi for enforcing the rules here.. Since the thread was locked, I guess there isn't any point in mentioning it.

 LOL nice Simpsons reference. 



fkusumot on 27 November 2007

One of the saddest threads was a graphical comparison of Mario to Hitler. Nowadays most half-intelligent posters will avoid the Nazi references and instead call something "fascist".


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Schwarz on 27 November 2007

That reminds me of the funny 'discussion' i had with kirby007 last night.



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Avinash_Tyagi on 27 November 2007
fkusumot said:

One of the saddest threads was a graphical comparison of Mario to Hitler. Nowadays most half-intelligent posters will avoid the Nazi references and instead call something "fascist".

 Problem is that Fascism doesn't necessarily denote the same concepts as Nazism, for eample not all fascists are antisemetic or interested in eugenics or even racial/sexual/religious divisions in general, Fascism in general is a political idealogy focused on the concepts of Nationalism (usually carried to extremes), military expansion and state oriented economics (not quite to the communist/socialist extremes however). For example when dealing with a group with strong homophobic inclinations in their idealogy and whose stories are the origins for antisemetic sentiment in the world only a comparison to Nazism wil do



 

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