You're all fascists

[mrswdk]

With all your lame busy body justifications for interfering in the way other people live their lives.

[mrswdk]

With the possible exceptions of PS and BBS, but Biebs doesn't come here any more so he doesn't count.

[riskllama]

ha! U have to change your avatar, dontcha?

[KoolBak]

I, for one, don't facebook....so I am NOT a faceist...

[DaGip]

ha! U have to change your avatar, dontcha?

No. It's clearly a Buddha and mrswdk is clearly a worshiper of said deity. The fascist that I am says his freedom of religion out weighs the proposed significance of the stupid little symbol on Buddha's chest.

Look at Prophecy Rock located on the Hopi Resrvation:



Clearly the picture carved into the rock isn't meant to be a fascist symbol. I was told it symbolizes the "Path of the Creator". It symbolizes rotation and cycles.

[Metsfanmax]

It sounds like you're just as unable to detect shades of grey as Phatscotty is.

[Phatscotty]

[tzor]

With all your lame busy body justifications for interfering in the way other people live their lives.

1. Please cite the way I interfere in other people's lives
2. Please cite my "lame excuses"
3. Please present an argument for how either implies I have a connection to national socialism

Failure to provide answers to the above will bring about a motion to dismiss your argument out of hand.

[luns101]

With all your lame busy body justifications for interfering in the way other people live their lives.

So what, I was busy being a fascist and interferring in the way other people lived their lives before it was cool. Most of the others here only joined in because of peer pressure.

[mrswdk]

With all your lame busy body justifications for interfering in the way other people live their lives.

1. Please cite the way I interfere in other people's lives
2. Please cite my "lame excuses"
3. Please present an argument for how either implies I have a connection to national socialism

Failure to provide answers to the above will bring about a motion to dismiss your argument out of hand.

Godwin's Law, your post is invalid.

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I dislike the implications. I demand that this thread be locked, the content be censored, and the op, as well as everyone who posted here; including me, be banned, and/or flogged.

[betiko]

ha! U have to change your avatar, dontcha?

No. It's clearly a Buddha and mrswdk is clearly a worshiper of said deity. The fascist that I am says his freedom of religion out weighs the proposed significance of the stupid little symbol on Buddha's chest.

What s stupid about that symbol?

[tzor]

With all your lame busy body justifications for interfering in the way other people live their lives.

1. Please cite the way I interfere in other people's lives
2. Please cite my "lame excuses"
3. Please present an argument for how either implies I have a connection to national socialism

Failure to provide answers to the above will bring about a motion to dismiss your argument out of hand.

Godwin's Law, your post is invalid.

Godwin's law? Why everyone knows it was the Italians under Mussolini who invented Fascism.

[mrswdk]

Godwin's law?

national socialism

show

[Phatscotty]

While Godwin's Law can point out and disqualify preposterous nazis accusations
Godwin's Law does protect and defend nazis from ever having to identify or explain themselves

[warmonger1981]

God-wins law. Case closed.

[Dukasaur]

Godwin's Law is not some immutable law of nature like the laws of Thermodynamics. It's just a description of a tendency, not much different than saying Italians tend to use too much basil in their recipes.

Furthermore, what most people call "Godwin's Law" isn't even Godwin's actual law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
The actual wording of Godwin's Law:

Godwin's Law (or Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies)[1][2] is an Internet adage asserting that "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1"[2][3]—​ that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to Hitler or Nazism.

The thing about losing is what is known as the First Corollary of Godwin's Law:

There are many corollaries to Godwin's law, some considered more canonical (by being adopted by Godwin himself)[3] than others.[1] For example, there is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever debate was in progress.[8] This principle is itself frequently referred to as Godwin's law.

The inappropriate usage of Godwin's Law to silence people has been well observed:

Although falling foul of Godwin's law tends to cause the individual making the comparison to lose his argument or credibility, Godwin's law itself can be abused as a distraction, diversion or even as censorship, fallaciously miscasting an opponent's argument as hyperbole when the comparisons made by the argument are actually appropriate.[9] Similar criticisms of the "law" (or "at least the distorted version which purports to prohibit all comparisons to German crimes") have been made by Glenn Greenwald.[10]

Following that last link from wikipedia, we come to this article:
http://www.salon.com/2010/07/01/godwin/

Responding to the neocon objections to my post on the universality of war-justifying propaganda, Kevin Drum writes that it’s “time to repeal Godwin’s Law” — at least the distorted version which purports to prohibit all comparisons to German crimes — labeling it an “an endlessly tiresome way of feigning moral indignation.” Kevin adds: ”WWII analogies are extremely useful because they’re familiar to almost everyone.” I agree: the very notion that a major 20th Century event like German aggression is off-limits in political discussions is both arbitrary and anti-intellectual in the extreme. There simply are instances where such comparisons uniquely illuminate important truths: recall, for example, Andrew Sullivan’s consequential discovery of the stark similarities between the Bush/Cheney and Gestapo “enhanced interrogation” documents, both in terms of approved tactics and “justifications.” To demand that German crimes be treated as sacred and unmentionable is to deprive our discourse of critical truths.

[Metsfanmax]

A terrible writer defends using a heavily overused analogy instead of coming up with unique and interesting phrases? What a shock.

[Phatscotty]

It sounds like you're just as unable to detect shades of grey as Phatscotty is.

I assume this stems from your mistake in assuming that if a country's average temperature didn't drop that it must certainly have risen.... whence I reminded you in your fanatical fervor it was possible that an average temperature may also remain unchanged from last year

[Metsfanmax]

It sounds like you're just as unable to detect shades of grey as Phatscotty is.

I assume this stems from your mistake in assuming that if a country's average temperature didn't drop that it must certainly have risen.... whence I reminded you in your fanatical fervor it was possible that an average temperature may also remain unchanged from last year

I didn't bother correcting you because I didn't see the point. But, since you insist, no. Temperature is a real quantity and so the temperature is not going to be exactly the same two years in a row. It is possible that the difference between the two temperatures could be within the measurement errors, in which case we could not say with certainty what the temperature change was, but that is not the same as saying the temperature didn't change.

Phatscotty, you're not a scientist. I don't really care whether you listen to us or not on the issue of global warming... but please don't for one second think that you understand something that we don't, because we're smarter than you and have spent a hell of a lot more time thinking about it. We quite literally don't care about your opinion on the issue.

Have a good one.

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Mets, I gotta say, that actually does sound pretty exclusionary and fascist. I suppose next you're going to say only doctors should practice medicine, and only rocket scientists should build and launch rockets.
Live and let live, man.

[Metsfanmax]

Mets, I gotta say, that actually does sound pretty exclusionary and fascist. I suppose next you're going to say only doctors should practice medicine, and only rocket scientists should build and launch rockets.
Live and let live, man.

I don't have an objection to letting Phatscotty try his hand on the free market for selling his scientific ideas. I'm pretty sure we'll be fine.

[rishaed]

Mets, I gotta say, that actually does sound pretty exclusionary and fascist. I suppose next you're going to say only doctors should practice medicine, and only rocket scientists should build and launch rockets.
Live and let live, man.

I don't have an objection to letting Phatscotty try his hand on the free market for selling his scientific ideas. I'm pretty sure we'll be fine.

Fine buying his hand or his ideas?

[notyou2]

It sounds like you're just as unable to detect shades of grey as Phatscotty is.

I assume this stems from your mistake in assuming that if a country's average temperature didn't drop that it must certainly have risen.... whence I reminded you in your fanatical fervor it was possible that an average temperature may also remain unchanged from last year

I didn't bother correcting you because I didn't see the point. But, since you insist, no. Temperature is a real quantity and so the temperature is not going to be exactly the same two years in a row. It is possible that the difference between the two temperatures could be within the measurement errors, in which case we could not say with certainty what the temperature change was, but that is not the same as saying the temperature didn't change.

Phatscotty, you're not a scientist. I don't really care whether you listen to us or not on the issue of global warming... but please don't for one second think that you understand something that we don't, because we're smarter than you and have spent a hell of a lot more time thinking about it. We quite literally don't care about your opinion on the issue.

Have a good one.

+1

[mrswdk]

inb4 policy makers ignore Mets' opinions about government policy for the exact same reasons and he gets mad