But they didn't know that when they chose the name "Teabaggers" for themselves, and I refuse to stop calling them by their own chosen name just because they don't like it any more.
ah, crap. they can try calling themselves *anything* they like. but they've been teabaggers for years. only in friendly media will anyone care about their sudden and inevitable betrayalstupidity realisation.
Granted, there were also a lot of references to Hitler made by people on the left during the last administration. I'd suggest, though, that Godwin's Law should be updated so that an argument ends at the mention of "socialism."
#1: Godwin's Law doesn't say the argument ends. It says that as an argument progresses, comparison to Hitler/Nazis is inevitable.
#2: When one group *really are*, literally, openly racist and fascist? The comparison's inevitability is really not the point so much as it's accuracy.
Except bona fide nazis are people for whom Freedom of Association (or not) was invented for.
But us nice fluffy liberal socialists tend to spend most of our time pointing out how unsocialist most of that right winger in the Oval Office's policies are ;-)
But us nice fluffy liberal socialists tend to spend most of our time pointing out how unsocialist most of that right winger in the Oval Office's policies are
Much as actual invocations of Godwin's Law rarely have anything to do with actual Nazi policy.
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Date: 2011-04-29 04:51 pm (UTC)But they didn't know that when they chose the name "Teabaggers" for themselves, and I refuse to stop calling them by their own chosen name just because they don't like it any more.
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Date: 2011-04-30 01:39 am (UTC)no wait. their only strength.
no wait. their only excuse.
ah, crap. they can try calling themselves *anything* they like. but they've been teabaggers for years. only in friendly media will anyone care about their sudden and inevitable
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Date: 2011-04-29 05:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-29 05:39 pm (UTC)#2: When one group *really are*, literally, openly racist and fascist? The comparison's inevitability is really not the point so much as it's accuracy.
#3: "Obama is like Hitler BECAUSE HE IS BLACK!"
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Date: 2011-04-29 08:28 pm (UTC)...what is this I don't even...
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Date: 2011-04-29 11:23 pm (UTC)*waves*
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Date: 2011-04-29 11:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-29 11:34 pm (UTC)But us nice fluffy liberal socialists tend to spend most of our time pointing out how unsocialist most of that right winger in the Oval Office's policies are ;-)
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Date: 2011-04-29 11:49 pm (UTC)Much as actual invocations of Godwin's Law rarely have anything to do with actual Nazi policy.
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Date: 2011-04-30 04:41 am (UTC)Let me guess: autocorrect fail?
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Date: 2011-04-30 04:05 am (UTC)Of course, now I see it - all Obama needs is the mustache and then he'll truly be Hitler's doppleganger.