Blizzard Postpones World of Warcraft 15th Anniversary Event in Taiwan

Re:Blizzard Postpones World of Warcraft 15th Anniversary Eve... by corodra on Monday October 21, 2019 @12:29PM (#21314176)

So a random bunch of twats on the internet are allowed to make "laws" that dictate where people are allowed to make historical parallels?

Fuck Goodwin's law and any asshole that hides behind it because they're too scared to deal with reality. Might as well ban scientific literature and evidence to prove the Earth is round too. "There they go! Eratosthenes' law in action! They're trying to prove the Earth is round with science!"

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Re:Blizzard Postpones World of Warcraft 15th Anniversary Eve... by PavlovsCat on Monday October 21, 2019 @02:01PM (#21315261)

Godwin is alright:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

But the people refer to his quip are often wrong -- certainly in context of a bona fide totalitarian regime that has been murdering dissidents for 7 decades -- and are using said quip as a cheap way out, while projecting that on those who made the comparison.

"Never again" and "don't even think of comparing anything with the Nazis, not even mass murdering totalitarian regimes" don't go together.

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