Mike Godwin stated that when an online discussion
reaches the stage of one party calling another
a Nazi, or finding some apparent consistency
of virtue in some part of Third Reich regulations
-say their virtuoso book keeping skills-
then the argument has reached a level of absurdity
from which agreement cannot be retrieved.
But the same is now true for right wing
populist governments of a more modern hue,
as democracy and progressive government
seems to be part of a tide that is retreating
and government take more control
of what the public knows about them
as they put more public services online.
Tired citizens who disagree with the media
under these right wing led governments
find themselves unable or unwilling
to find good in what their government does
and find saying bad things is useless;
it does not make the government go away
and does not change the (lack of) reason
that is the principle by which they are ruled.
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