Over 50% of Germans equate IDF with Nazi army

[Kuciwalker]

[Ming]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Ming: This thread invoked Godwin's law in the title. You know what to do.

Yep... I just shake my head as people seem to have forgotten their own countries history...

[DinoDoc]

That's not what I was hoping for.

[Drake Tungsten]

Who cares what the Germans think? They're the ones who thought the Nazis were A-OK in the first place, so why exactly should we trust their opinion on other people's actions?

[Ming]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
That's not what I was hoping for.

I didn't think my response was what you were hoping for

[axi]

No. The holocaust has basically nothing to do with actual warfare.

Υοu're more stubborn than a mule. Can't you grasp the meaning of a metaphore? Heck, even the use of the word "blitz" (lightning) in German to characterise warfare is a friggin metaphore!

Plus, when a confrontation has scores of dead and wounded, it's a war, no doubt!

[Agathon]

Nazis? No.

Apartheid? Pretty much.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
The German population has Godwinized itself and is now irrelevant in international affairs.

Godunov's Corrollary:

Whenever a subject involving the Nazis is brought up for discussion, there is a one-to-one chance that some bozo will invoke Godwin's Law incorrectly.

[Ted Striker]

IDF Defender is the best Counterstike weapon

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by axi
Υοu're more stubborn than a mule. Can't you grasp the meaning of a metaphore? Heck, even the use of the word "blitz" (lightning) in German to characterise warfare is a friggin metaphore!

Except it's meaningless. There is no institutionalized slaughter of Palestinians. There is an open military conflict. No one considers people killed in bombing raids on Britain victims of the holocaust. It's a stupid comparison.

Plus, when a confrontation has scores of dead and wounded, it's a war, no doubt!

Uh, no, when you just march people into gas chambers and kill them, it's not war, it's institutionalized mass murder.

[Shi Huangdi]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


Godunov's Corrollary:

Whenever a subject involving the Nazis is brought up for discussion, there is a one-to-one chance that some bozo will invoke Godwin's Law incorrectly.

comparing a group you don't like (IDF) to the nazis is exactly what godwin's law covers

[Ted Striker]

[Pekka]

Yeah, Americans killed indians. I guess their opinion doesn't matter now and never again

That's just plain arrogancy. If 50% of Germans see IDF similar to Nazis, well that's kind of weird. While many here say their opinions don't matter because they had the Nazis is almost as weird.

This is blaming someone for the mistakes someone else did. Yes, most of those people are dead now, and the opinionators in this polls didn't even live then.

[Alexander's Horse]

There are haunting similarities.

[Kuciwalker]

Americans killing Indians wasn't comparable to the holocaust either, because we at least did it just through disease and military force, rather than lining them up and gassing them