In Other Useless News...
Eve Online
12-03-2007, 18:37
Hitler may soon lose his citizenship..
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,9294,2-10-1462_2081751,00.html
That's right - this thread is Godwinned from the first post. And, we know that of all the really important things the German government could be doing, this is one of those top priorities that just can't wait (well, they did wait since 1945, so I guess that qualifies as "waiting").
Berlin - Sixty-two years after his death, Adolf Hitler risks being stripped of his German citizenship in what a politician said would be a "symbolic step" against the Nazi leader and the horrors he unleashed.
German media reported on Sunday that a deputy in the state legislature of Lower Saxony, Isolde Saalmann, had convinced her fellow Social Democrats to file a motion to review whether the citizenship extended in 1932 can be rescinded
Gosh, those Social Democrats are right on top of things!
The real question is...if you can posthumously rescind citizenship, can you also posthumously extend citizenship? As in, could Barbados, in a fit of governmental insanity (for example) give Hitler citizenship? Would we then have to stop calling him German, and refer to Hitler as 'that crazy Jew-hating Bajan'?
Farnhamia
12-03-2007, 18:47
Can a thread that's actually about the Nazis even fall under the Godwin Rule?
Iztatepopotla
12-03-2007, 18:47
Where is he going to live now? :(
Eve Online
12-03-2007, 18:48
Can a thread that's actually about the Nazis even fall under the Godwin Rule?
Your question may crash the servers here at Jolt...
Hydesland
12-03-2007, 18:55
Bah, taking away someones citizenship isn't that bad, just look at what the Nazis did to..... oh crap this thread has already been godwinned! :(
How can you take away someones citizenship after they are dead?
Can a thread that's actually about the Nazis even fall under the Godwin Rule?
Nope.
Where is he going to live now? :(
He can just stay in $SouthAmericanCountry
Peepelonia
12-03-2007, 18:59
Heheh posthumos punishment, I guess it makse at keast as much sense as a posthumous medal does.
That is none in reality but perhaps is makes people still here feel better.
Where is he going to live now? :(
In the sea, like he currently does. His ashes were thrown in... the river Elbe, I believe, although I might be wrong.
Now that's going to creep you out. You've probably already drank a bit of Hitler...
Ilaer
Eve Online
12-03-2007, 19:59
What the hell is Godwin?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
Deus Malum
12-03-2007, 20:02
What the hell is Godwin?
Curious Inquiry
12-03-2007, 20:05
In the sea, like he currently does. His ashes were thrown in... the river Elbe, I believe, although I might be wrong.
Now that's going to creep you out. You've probably already drank a bit of Hitler...
Ilaer
*nods* There was some Hitler in the beer I raised to celebrate International Women's Day. . .
Curious Inquiry
12-03-2007, 20:07
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
What? You couldn't be arsed to make it a linky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law)?
Deus Malum
12-03-2007, 20:12
What? You couldn't be arsed to make it a linky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law)?
Ah, thanks.
Entropic Creation
12-03-2007, 20:53
This is ridiculous.
Hitler is part of history - accept it and move on.
There comes a time when it is just silly for Germans to keep trying to ‘distance’ themselves from Hitler. It is more farce than anything.
Philosopy
12-03-2007, 20:58
What the hell is Godwin?
One of those stupid internet forum things that people thinks makes them look cool and 'in the club' if they quote it to people who've not heard of it.
Hitler may soon lose his citizenship..
I hear that Queen Victoria is about to send some more troops down to Africa to help reinforce the war against the pesky Boer's, too.
Somehow I don't tihnk Hitler is using his citizenship anyway.........