Breaking News: the entire U.S. government is being dissolved due to massive ongoing violations of Godwin’s Law by both sides.
Breaking News: the entire U.S. government is being dissolved due to massive ongoing violations of Godwin’s Law by both sides.
They’re not violating Godwin’s law. Godwin’s law states that at some point, Nazis will show up in a discussion thread, at which point the thread becomes useless.
Unless it’s a thread about Nazis. Maybe.
Now, what’s the law about pedantic posters?
wait wait wait, so we have one comment in gotten a comment about Nazis. Now does this mean that the post has already been rendered useless? Or because this is a post about Godwin’s law mean that it is actually a post about Nazis? And in which case doesn’t that make this whole thing rather self referential and a sort of neo postmodern way?
Let’s read the actual law:
“As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.”