solluxisms:

jumpingjacktrash:

hetero-plausible:

cookingwithroxy:

hetero-plausible:

cup-o-fear:

hetero-plausible:

you: we need bipartisanship moving forward
me, an intellectual: 

Which year was this from?

1932

Ah yes. Godwin’s Law.

Jewish person: hey uh this rise of white nationalism seems a little too familiar
You, a jackass: “ah yes. Godwin’s Law”

it’s not a godwin if they really are fascist white nationalists

My Facebook timeline and Twitter feed have been blowing up lately. And whenever that happens, it’s almost always because someone’s making comparisons to Hitler or Nazis or the Holocaust somewhere. Sure enough, as Trump pontificates about immigrants or ethnic or religious minorities, with scarcely less subtlety than certain early 20th-century political aspirants in Europe did, people on the Internet feel compelled to ask me what I think about it.

[…snip for length, read the full article here…]

In 2015, the Internet gives more and more individuals both the information and the skepticism to question what politicians and others say in their Hitler-centered hyperboles. Just as importantly, the Internet gives us the tools to share our criticisms — including the appropriately appalled reaction to Trump’s statements — with one another more widely.

– The actual Mike Godwin that coined the term. (source)

Note that this was said almost a year ago, far before Trump started appointing said fascist white nationalists to the White House staff.