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Godwin’s Law?

Godwin’s Law states: “As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”

It’s often mixed in with Reductio ad Hitlerum: Invoking Hitler automatically makes you lose the argument.

On that basis, given the video below, should Obama bow out of the US Democratic candidacy race? ;)

(the video, by the way, is an absolutely brilliant instance of a novel Internet meme, putting new subtitles over scenes from Downfall, a good film recounting Hitler’s last days before his suicide oin a Berlin bunker – but it’s doubtless very offensive to HillDog)

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The weekend’s almost here, so here’s 5 minutes of gleeful madness
Sound is essential. Enjoy. It’s taken from a 2001 (very musical) madcap scifi film (The American Astronaut) from the Sundance film festival that, as one commenter to the Youtube thread puts it, is “so utterly, almost unfathomably cool”. Oh my christ. I quoted a youtube commenter, without any note of mockery or sarcasm...

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  • Ethan Bauley
    dude this was awesome
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