death squads active in Iraq.....Follow

This place is less about solid arguments and more about eliteism and cliques.

Yeah, 'cause there were no worse people than those who objected to the Holocaust

The ole switcharoo only works when it makes sense. "You hating foreigners and non-English speaks = ****", yes. "Me disliking xenophobes and racists = ****", not so much.
Just like the *****!!!

QFT...

At any rate shadowmen, you technically already won the argument. Godwin's is the law of the land.




At least he's better than shadowrelm...

Edited, Tue Mar 14 14:21:22 2006 by Eske

Not when knowingly and intentionally invoked.

I knew just what I was doing when I said "Hitler"

Maybe, but not particularly hard today.

Here we go again. I never once said I hated someone for speaking a different language. I never said I even hated the guy for smelling putrid. Take my post for what you want. There is no use arguing with you on this issue. Go ahead, keep thinking I am racist, i am not going home and beating my dog over it (accuse me of being an animal beater now).

To each his own.....

Not complaining, just trying to put an end to a ridiculous misunderstanding and disagreement

We understand.

After the first Gulf War, you noblely joined the Red Crescent to do humanitarian work in Kuwait. There you saw a pregnant 14 year old. You returned a changed man -- one who hated foreigners and demanded that everyone in the United States speak English even while conducting personal phone calls. But no one is allowed to call you on it because those are your super-special opinions.

Did I miss anything?

Didn't someone call me a camel f*cker too?

Godwin's law:

The Law is generally used on Usenet as an indicator of whether a
thread has gone on too long, who's playing fair and who's just slinging
mud, and who finally gets to "win" the discussion. It has, over time,
become the closest thing to an impartial moderator that Usenet can get.

So, what this means in practical terms:

o If someone brings up ***** in general conversation when it
wasn't necessary or germane without it necessarily being an
insult, it's probably about time for the thread to end.
o If someone brings up ***** in general conversation when it
was vaguely related but is basically being used as an insult,
the speaker can be considered to be flaming and not debating.
o If someone brings up ***** in any conversation that has been
going on too long for one of the parties, it can be used as
a fair excuse to end the thread and declare victory for the
other side.

If you're going to try to be clever by copying from a FAQ, at least read the whole thing:

6. "Hitler!" Ha! The thread is over!

Nope, doesn't work that way. Not only is it wrong to say that a
thread is over when Godwin's Law is invoked anyway (Usenet threads virtually always outlive their usefulness), but long ago a corollary to the Law was proposed and accepted by Taki "Quirk" Kogama (quirk@swcp.com):

Quirk's Exception: Intentional invocation of this so-called "**** Clause" is ineffectual.

Sorry, folks. Nice try, though.

By acknowledging that my posting invokes Godwin's, I de facto eliminated the Godwin's effect.

So I was going through this thread rating shadowrelm down and realized I was rating "shadomen" awful as well. Two birds with one stone

You rated me down for defending myself against your attacks. Just shows who the douche bags are around here...

GFY