#godwinslaw — Public Fediverse posts

Ich weiß, ich weiß, das ist nicht fair, Godwin's Law und so weiter, und auch sonst stimmt das in keinem Punkt, aber in einem sind sich #Hitler und #Merz gleich: wenn die Sache schief geht, ist das deutsche Volk schuld, es war zu schwach für den starken Chef.
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#godwinslaw
#Selbstkritik ist nicht ihre Sache

One day someone will invent an anti-Hister meme. This will help many people with their sinus problems.

#BoringNostradamusProphecies
#HashTagGames
#GodwinsLaw

Pluralistic: The Nuremberg Caucus (10 Feb 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/10/miller-in-the-dock/

Pluralistic: The Nuremberg Caucus (10 Feb 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/10/miller-in-the-dock/

Several times now, I experienced discussions that reached a point where someone replied with "But ChatGPT says..." and screenshot. Usually it went downhill from there.
Is this the new Godwin's Law?

"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of someone posting the result of an LLM prompt approaches one."

#ReductioAdHitlerum #godwinslaw

"Godwin’s Law expired last Friday with the publication of the Trump regime’s 'National Security Strategy of the United States of America.' …

None of this is surprising except that it was finally said out loud. Smart people, and also people like me, noticed. So we have just now started calling this, simply, Nazism."

#Trump #MAGA #WhiteSupremacy #racism #Europe #NSS #Nazis #GodwinsLaw
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"Friends, we are gathered here together to mourn the death of Godwin’s Law, the wry, venerated staple of modern-world wisdom, which is summarized thus:

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. The person who first mentions Nazis or Hitler loses the argument."

~ Gene Weingarten

#Trump #MAGA #WhiteSupremacy #racism #Europe #NSS #Nazis #GodwinsLaw
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https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/the-reich-stuff

@SchreibeEinfach Da hat doch @sarahbosetti auch neulich eine Folge "Bosetti will reden" zum Thema gemacht: https://youtu.be/eSGwuru09D0 Find ich gut, dass das jetzt langsam im Mainstream-Bewußtsein ankommt, dass "woke" kein Schimpfwort ist (oder sein sollte). Bzw. frei nach Godwin's Second Law: Wer "woke" als Schimpfwort benutzt, wird sich mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit als Arschloch herausstellen. #woke #GodwinsLaw #wokism

Anyone else remember when Godwin’s law was about overreactions not current events?

Those were good times.

#godwinslaw
#fascism
#CreepingFascism
#dystopia

Ah, the internet's favorite pastime: comparing everything to Nazi Germany 🤦‍♂️. Because nothing screams insightful discourse like invoking Godwin's Law faster than you can say "Heil, math!" 📚🔨. Meanwhile, Florida's busy banning math books because, you know, algebra is the real threat to democracy.
https://undark.org/2017/02/01/math-lesson-hitlers-germany/ #GodwinsLaw #FloridaMath #BanningBooks #InternetDiscourse #AlgebraThreat #HackerNews #ngated

Der Godwin des Monats ist, dass jede Meldung über ein frühes Ableben mit Behauptungen kommentiert wird, dass eine Impfung die Ursache war, sofern die Meldung genügend Verbreitung findet.
#godwin #godwinslaw

Überrascht nahm ich zur Kenntnis, daß viele keinen Schimmer von "#GodwinsLaw" haben, selbst alte weiße Co-Blogger nicht ;)

Godwin war im alten Internet Admin bei der #EFF und beklagte sich über anstrengende #Usenet Diskussionen.

Er postulierte: "die Reife einer Diskussion erkennt man am Nazivergleich."

Schnell waren sich alle 😎 einig: Wer den Nazivergleich zuerst bringt, hat die Diskussion verloren. Und: der geordnete Diskurs ist tot.

Wer jetzt an 1 Blog denkt, liegt imho richtig. #fcsp

@timrichards
This is because internet trolls who fail #GodwinsLaw are in charge.

Hey, anyone remember #GodwinsLaw?

Those were the days, eh?

I think it's time to retire Godwin's Law.

#USPolitics #Nazis #TurdReich #GodwinsLaw

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I still believe that this is his MO - #Trump knows that you die twice, once when your brain activity stops, and then again when your name is spoken for the last time...

He wishes himself immortal.

And this is his only realistic chance of achieving it.

#Resist #Fascism #Fascist #Nazi #GodwinsLaw

#GodwinsLaw 2.0

"Members of a campaign group ­opposing plans to apply VAT to ­private school fees have targeted the ­education ­secretary Bridget Phillipson with ­personal abuse, accusing her of aping the ­tactics of Nazi Germany"

#UKpolitics #Labour #Education #Facebook #GodwinsLaw

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/oct/19/bridget-phillipson-nazis-private-school-vat-facebook-group

@sixtus
Ich bin wirklich kein Fan von Herr #Merz, aber die Phrase Leistungswille im gleichen Satz wie KZ zu führen, schreit für mich nach #GodwinsLaw.

@noelreports

Yes, Herr Ribbentrop is his role model in dealing with Russians!

Or perhaps, as Czech, I can contemplate how appeasement always persuade an aggressor to stop their attack. That would be actually his predecessor as a moral role model. “Peace for our time!”

I know, #GodwinsLaw , but he really asks for it!

@SETSystems I propose a deal: I edit brackets around the dot for the source in that toot and all further toots linking to that site, and you replace the hashtag you use for the Birdsite with something not referencing a mass murderer. Deal? #godwinslaw

@Green_Footballs the horrific book "Mein Kampf" was also out in the public. Nobody took it seriously as it was just so much out of touch with reality.
#godwinslaw

Yes, it’s okay to compare Trump to Hitler. Don’t let me stop you.
By Mike Godwin
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/20/godwins-law-trump-hitler-comparisons/

Yes, it's that Mike Godwin, who Godwin's Law is named after.

One shouldn't make a comparison to Hitler or Nazis lightly. Don't make it as a diversion, or hyperbole, or lob it in bad taste deliberately to shut-down a debate. Reserve it for when you really mean it. He means it.

#Trump #Nazi #GodwinsLaw

@steevc He doesn't want to win; he's already stated he wants to be second. He, like I, fully expects Labour to win.

I suspect his 'plan' is focused on 2030, not 2024, by which time he hopes to have assimilated all the Tory MPs into his party so that he can win almost every seat when Labour fucks everything up.

I wonder if Farage is like Hitler? Telling us everything he intends to do, but people are so busy hating him that they're not listening?

#GodwinsLaw

Whilst I'm sure there may be interesting technical challenges with the development of racist ultra right wing web platforms, I'm not going to talk about them, or platform the people working with them.
#GodwinsLaw

@ahau @lizstl13 Sorry all, looks like it was only a short 3-step process to go from citing Wikipedia to refute #warcrimes, then citing the US state department to claim that the United Nations is antisemitic, to now validating Godwin’s Law. Please leave me out of the remainder of this nonsense. #Gaza #WarCrimes #GodwinsLaw

#Nazi analogies are #fallacies that use the extremely negative perception that #Hitler and National Socialism (Nazism) have in the modern world to boost someone's opinions.

• Reductio ad Hitlerum is, basically, the premise that "everything Hitler supported must be bad and everything Hitler was against must be good". Hitler's opinions serve as the sole parameter to judge something's desirability or morality. The reason this is idiotic is because Hitler wore pants, so by this logic wearing pants makes one a fascist.

• Godwin’s Law, itself a response to reductio ad Hitlerum, asserts that the longer an online discussion grows, the greater are the odds of someone mentioning Hitler or the Nazis. It is something one can verify by oneself and that demonstrates how common such analogies are. Godwin only heard of Leo Strauss' coining of the fallacy 4 decades after he himself had proposed it.

#RationalWiki #nazianalogies #godwinslaw #fallacy
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nazi_analogies

Warum es okay ist, #Trump mit #Hitler zu vergleichen: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/20/godwins-law-trump-hitler-comparisons/
#godwin #godwinslaw

Author of Godwin’s Law speaks.

#democracy #politics #godwinslaw

https://wapo.st/3tgkjBa

The creator of Godwin's law clarifies that it was not intended to protect actual fascists. (Gift link)

#godwinslaw #conservatives #uspol #politics #trump #republicans

https://wapo.st/3tgkjBa

-- Atheists' Morals Don't Make Sense! --
(from Professor Plink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNceNb18CVg

#morality #axiology #atheism #theism #apologetics #argumentFromMorality #GodwinsLaw

#godwinslaw asserts that the probability of internet discourse turning into WWII analogies approaches 1 as it increases in length or participation, but apparently new accounts on #twitter start quite nearby these days.

https://open.substack.com/pub/natesilver/p/inside-the-deranged-mind-of-the-for?r=wk8iw&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post Nate Silver's Twitter account got hacked, but at least we got a bizzare read about how a new account is fed conspiratorial right-wing content and weird memes. :welp:

Mike Godwin (yes, the one from Godwin's Law):

Drawing Bayesian inferences after extensive sampling, I've determined that it's 99-percent certain that anyone who uses "woke" as pejorative will turn out to be a fuckhead. Please don't blame me for pointing this out--it's just science.

Source: https://twitter.com/sfmnemonic/status/1504687870006620163
Archive: https://archive.is/Z7rkB

#woke #godwinslaw

As #Florida sinks into the sea…

Oliver Milman: Videos denying climate science approved by Florida as state curriculum: Prager University Foundation’s animations cast doubt over renewable energy and liken climate activists to Nazis

#ClimateChange #dennisprager #prageruniversity #nazianalogies #godwinslaw #climatedenial
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/10/florida-ron-desantis-climate-vidoes-school-curriculum

Mit zunehmender Länge einer Online-Diskussion über das Stillen nähert sich die Wahrscheinlichkeit für einen Vergleich mit Naturvölkern oder für den Satz "Das natürliche Alter fürs Abstillen liegt zwischen 2 und 7 Jahren!" dem Wert Eins an. #Fedieltern #godwinslaw

The corollary of Godwin's Law needs to be enforced again, that once the Law is demonstrated that particular strand of discourse should to be abandoned.

#GodwinsLaw

Regeringspartiet PiS har släppt höjden av smaklös anti-reklam för helgens demokratimarsch anordnad av oppositionen.
”Över 1 miljon mördades i Auschwitz. 6 miljoner polacker mördades under kriget.
Vill du verkligen gå under den banderollen? #Marsz4czerwca ”
#GodwinsLaw

https://twitter.com/pisorgpl/status/1663805957162319874?s=46&t=LxJ-_4KJmYgGUR0OY0NNmw

In light of the #OSG's assertion that the Manhattan DA was picked and funded by #GeorgeSoros, I think we need an extension of #GodwinsLaw: The longer a Trump supporter talks, the probability of them invoking a Soros conspiracy approaches 1.