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*** Godwin's Law states that as any debate rages on, the probability of one side bringing up Hitler gets closer and closer to one. Between reasonable, intelligent people who know what they're talking about? Not a problem. On the Internet, which is practically the homeland of insane retards who have no clue about what they're talking about? Guaranteed. The "Hitler rule," a universal Internet rule established based on Godwin's Law, dictates that once the Godwin Point has been reached, the person who referenced Hitler or the Nazis has automatically lost the debate and there is to be no further discussion on the subject. A corollary to the rule, incidentally, holds that invoking Godwin's Law intentionally because you're sick of debating never works.
*** It should be noted that the Hitler Rule itself also fits nicely into the category of a Chewbacca Defense. "This person mentioned Hitler, therefore their argument is false" doesn't really fly.
**** It's a subset of "stopped arguing meaningfully and dived into nonsense" rule, formalized in more generic form by [[Scott Adams]] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20170827021705/http://blog.dilbert.com/post/160696999931/how-to-know-you-won-a-political-debate-on-the on his blog]):
{{quote|That’s essentially a white flag that says, “I have no logical argument, so I will say something ridiculous and act as though it is not.” }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111127141049/http://yourargumentisinvalid.com/ This site] is dedicated to collecting [[Image Macro|image macros]] of these.
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