That point is getting sooner and sooner, and in some cases, reaches into the original posts themselves.

Wikipedia: Godwin’s law does not claim to articulate a fallacy; it is instead framed as a memetic tool to reduce the incidence of inappropriate hyperbolic comparisons. “Although deliberately framed as if it were a law of nature or of mathematics,” Godwin wrote, “its purpose has always been rhetorical and pedagogical: I wanted folks who glibly compared someone else to Hitler to think a bit harder about the Holocaust.”[12]

FWIW, Godwin now asserts that it may be perfectly approriate to refer to Trump and his supporters as Nazis (and certainly to the Charlottesville neo-Nazis (duh) — but not to Antifa, apparently), and his law does not apply to those “discussions.”
(links at Wiki).

Yes, Godwin’s Law isn’t saying much on the face of it. But the unspoken premise behind the law is that the probability that the topic of Nazis will come up in any online discussion is higher than the probability of any other single subject coming up.

Or something like that.

“I hate to go full Godwin here but…”

As I understand it, Godwin’s law is as follows:

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As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.
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It seems to me that this is trivially true. As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving architecture/ballet/Cesium, etc. also approaches 1. If any of the preceding haven’t been referenced, well then, the discussion simply hasn’t gone on long enough.

In other words, I really don’t understand the deference to Godwin’s law.

The Times reports that “Cohen admitted to making false statements to Congress about his efforts to pursue a Trump Tower deal in Moscow during the 2016 presidential campaign.”

In January 2016, before he was the nominee, his associates were working on a project that undoubtedly preceded his announcement he was running.

I hate to go full Godwin here but, with the US media, I keep thinking of why all those intelligent Germans went along with Hitler. Goebbels would be proud of CNN.

AKA “…hiding the truth….” (or if you wish, “obfuscating the truth”, or “lying by omission”—gosh, all these choices!)

Key graph from:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/11/is_the_deep_state_feeling_the_heat.html

“Bad as it may have been, the worst of the Russia Hoax was not the abuse of the FISA electronic surveillance regime for political purposes. Nor is the worst even the patent involvement of our intelligence agencies — and in particular the FBI and CIA — in electoral politics. No, the worst aspect of the Russia Hoax is that our intelligence agencies, including elements of DoJ and the State Department cooperating with the Clinton campaign, enlisted the intelligence services of foreign powers — first in their effort to defeat the candidacy of Donald Trump and, when that effort failed, turning their efforts to what can only be described as an attempted coup against the elected President of the United States.”

File under: Most certainly NOT “All the news that’s fit to print”(!)

Also, see this:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/jerome-corsi-roger-stone-and-the-austin-powers-theory-of-russian-collusion/