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Doof wrote:
Forget CJ; he's a fascist Pat Robertson wannabe

Odd. I can't stand Mr. Robertson. Or fascism. Or you.

I invoke Godwin's law.

"cjcampbell" wrote in message
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Doof wrote:
Forget CJ; he's a fascist Pat Robertson wannabe

Odd. I can't stand Mr. Robertson.

Funny, you're his philosophic twin.

Or fascism.

Funny, you don't invoke fascism directly (by name) but so much you've
written stems right out of Mussolini and Rocco (conrol over peoples personal
lives, mixed economy...).

Or you.

From a slug like you, that's certainly something I can live _very well_
with.


I invoke Godwin's law.

Fine, but the description fits.

Tom S. wrote:
"cjcampbell" wrote in message
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Doof wrote:
Forget CJ; he's a fascist Pat Robertson wannabe

Odd. I can't stand Mr. Robertson.

Funny, you're his philosophic twin.


I think you would be hard pressed to demonstrate that.

Or fascism.

Funny, you don't invoke fascism directly (by name) but so much you've
written stems right out of Mussolini and Rocco (conrol over peoples personal
lives, mixed economy...).


I think you would be unable to demonstrate that, either. I have no
interest in control over people's personal lives. If believing in a
mixed economy is proof of fascism, then nearly everyone is a fascist,
for nearly everyone believes in some sort of government regulation.
Even the Libertarians.


Or you.

From a slug like you, that's certainly something I can live _very well_
with.


I invoke Godwin's law.

Fine, but the description fits.


And you still lose the argument. Godwin's law has been invoked. The
thread ends.

OK I'm naive. What is Godwin's law?

Bryan "The Monk" Chaisone

Flyingmonk wrote:
OK I'm naive. What is Godwin's law?

Godwin's Law: prov. [Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the
probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is
a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and
whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in
progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper
bound on thread length in those groups.

-- from jargon.net

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

Well you learn something everyday!!!!

Patrick
student SP
aircraft structural mech
(hey George do ya like the SP better? Land is pretty much a gimme ? )

"George Patterson" wrote in message
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Flyingmonk wrote:
OK I'm naive. What is Godwin's law?

Godwin's Law: prov. [Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the
probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."
There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is
over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever
argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the
existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups.

-- from jargon.net

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

Godwin's Law states that the longer a thread on Usenet grows the
probablility of someone calling a Nazi approaches one. There is a
general rule that calling somebody a Nazi, fascist, communist, or some
similar term for those terminates the discussion, with the person who
used the term automatically losing the argument.

There are exceptions. You don't get to terminate a thread just by using
the expedient of calling someone a Nazi. That is cheating. Also, if the
thread is specifically about Nazis in, say, some group devoted to
Holocaust deniers, then Godwin's Law cannot terminate the thread or all
of the threads would be pretty short (not necessarily a bad thing, in
my view).

There have been people who have used sock puppets to call themselves
Nazis simply to terminate a thread and to make it look like they were
the winner, but that is really beyond the pale.