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Early internet users even made up a term, called “Godwin’s Law”—the observation that every heated digital conversation devolves into comparisons with Nazis—to describe the vicious debates that happened on Usenet in the 1980s.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
“The law codifies this: whatever is for the good of the people is permitted, and ideologies are invented to excuse those actions” (Zweig, 1939, p.168-169). The Historiography of Tomorrow
Goodhart's law, coined by the British economist Charles Goodhart: when a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measure.
Vincent Deary • How We Break
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it,” Goebbels allegedly said; this was in fact the distillation of a cynical truth Hitler had commented on in a chapter on reasons for Germany’s surrender at the end of the First World War in the first volume of Mein Kampf. But big lies require big
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Die Grenzen der Mehrheitsdemokratie und die Rechtfertigung, schädliche politische Kräfte zu beschränken, um die Gesellschaft zu schützen.
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Ich glaube halt, dass man, also wenn jetzt einer von uns dreien hier im Raum depressiv ist, dann muss man dem helfen. Aber man darf diesenjenigen jetzt nicht entscheiden lassen, was wir machen, wie wir die Probleme lösen oder wie wir den Fortlauf des Tages gestalten.
Wenn wir zu dritt in einem Raum sind und einer eben der Meinung ist, alles ist
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Adolf Hitler
James McBride • The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel
This actually turns history on its head. The truth is that, before their rise to power, Nazis and their ideas were regularly censored. Anti-Semitism and ‘insulting communities of faith’ were imprisonable offences in Weimar Germany. Leading Nazis, including Joseph Goebbels, Theodor Fritsch and Julius Streicher, were all prosecuted for falling foul
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