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This whole honesty based approach stopped working a decade ago latest online and in politics, there is no accountability anymore and who is the most persistent
by mxfh 3mo ago
This whole honesty based approach stopped working a decade ago latest online and in politics, there is no accountability anymore and who is the most persistent wins an argument in the public sphere, those actors exactly bank on that most people will give up eventually.
- al_borland 3mo agoIf both are equally persistent, I’d say the first one to fulfill Godwin's law is the loser.
- mxfh 3mo agoThat obviously stopped to be a useful indicator two years ago latest too: I’ve never said that just because you’re invoking the Nazis you’re losing the argument. If you’re going to compare somebody to Hitler or the Nazis or raise the specter of the Holocaust, be sure you’ve got your facts right. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/19/godwins-law-trump-hitler-00132427 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/19/godwins-la...