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by CamperBob2 4927 days ago
We desperately need a Poe's Law or a Godwin's law to describe this common scenario. In any sufficiently-long comment thread, the probability of someone falsely equating the USA and $DICTATORSHIP, or invoking moral relativism to achieve the same end, approaches 1.
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To be fair,

In any sufficiently-long comment thread, the probability of someone making $STATEMENT, approaches 1.

Ah, yes, Borges' Law.