Godwin’s law

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the well known online doctrine that, as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis tends towards 1. Also, that whoever it is in the argument that first mentions the Nazis, loses.

There is a less well-known corollary — less well known because we made it up. But here it is.

Whoever first alludes to John Lennon’s staggering ode to the privileged man’s absence of emotional intelligence, Imagine, in an argument is the biggest libtard.