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ObamaCare is like Nazism???? (Original Post) PeggyKR Dec 2013 OP
Once more, words fail me. classof56 Dec 2013 #1
Hard to believe.. PeggyKR Dec 2013 #2
Oh, I have great faith in their stupidity. sheshe2 Dec 2013 #5
I mean seriously... PeggyKR Dec 2013 #6
sadly, in today's media circus culture, those who grab headlines like this make big money. unblock Dec 2013 #3
Media madness... PeggyKR Dec 2013 #4
Reductio ad Hitlerum no_hypocrisy Dec 2013 #7
What a disgusting game of slime... PeggyKR Dec 2013 #8
Some people IrishAyes Dec 2013 #12
They have a 'toon for that Obama Derangement Syndrome.. Cha Dec 2013 #9
Heartless.. PeggyKR Dec 2013 #10
The ENTIRE GOP is a disgrace to the whole planet. IrishAyes Dec 2013 #11

PeggyKR

(177 posts)
2. Hard to believe..
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 08:24 PM
Dec 2013

Just when you think they've sunken to their lowest, one of them goes lower...into the gutter.

sheshe2

(87,272 posts)
5. Oh, I have great faith in their stupidity.
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 08:41 PM
Dec 2013

They will continue to sink to new levels of low. There is no bottom for them. They will continue into the depths of hell and when they reach the last circle they will create a new one.

unblock

(54,128 posts)
3. sadly, in today's media circus culture, those who grab headlines like this make big money.
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 08:28 PM
Dec 2013

they doom themselves to a narrow following, but it's still a rich vein to mine.

PeggyKR

(177 posts)
4. Media madness...
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 08:35 PM
Dec 2013

That's why I don't watch cable news anymore. I just found this on the website....they all drive me nuts. People need to learn to turn it off once and while and gather their sanity.

no_hypocrisy

(48,682 posts)
7. Reductio ad Hitlerum
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 08:51 PM
Dec 2013

Reductio ad Hitlerum, also argumentum ad Hitlerum (Latin for "reduction to" and "argument to" and dog Latin for "Hitler" respectively), is a term coined by conservative philosopher Leo Strauss in 1951.[1] According to Strauss, the Reductio ad Hitlerum is an informal fallacy that consists of trying to refute an opponent's view by comparing it to a view that would be held by Adolf Hitler or the Nazi Party.

According to Strauss, Reductio ad Hitlerum is a form of ad hominem or ad misericordiam, a fallacy of irrelevance, in which a conclusion is suggested based solely on something's or someone's origin rather than its current meaning. The suggested rationale is one of guilt by association. Its name is a variation on the term reductio ad absurdum.

Reductio ad Hitlerum is sometimes called "playing the Nazi card."[2] According to its critics and proponents, it is a tactic often used to derail arguments, because such comparisons tend to distract and anger the opponent.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum

PeggyKR

(177 posts)
8. What a disgusting game of slime...
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 09:02 PM
Dec 2013

People like this need to crawl back into the dark, nasty holes in which they've crawled out of. They wouldn't know an ounce of dignity or humanity if it were staring them in the face...

IrishAyes

(6,151 posts)
12. Some people
Wed Dec 18, 2013, 07:10 PM
Dec 2013

would try to say that since Hitler had a nose, and Pope Francis does too, that makes them alike.

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