My argument was that in politics you should focus on the policy values and ideas and not the person(e.g. Hitler). Even 2 years later you still refuse to focus on ideas and you're literally making this thread about me as a person. Ad hominem is when you direct arguments against a person instead of the actual position they are maintaining and the post that was linked above clearly shows that I was endorsing the opposite of Hitler's agenda.
I'd advise everyone involved to drop the whole "Hitler" thing. It's just gonna be a loop of accusation and denial that will only be stopped when it gets the thread closed.
What is a person, if not an amalgam of ideas? The reason Hitler the person is bad, is because he took his ideas on the road... Hitler, isn’t Hitler, without the ideas and values... that would be an unfunny Charlie Chaplin...
Edit: Why exactly do you think people are arguing against, when they bring up Hitler? Short people? People with funny mustaches? Populist orator? His art?
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Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
I think this might be part of the problem with the age of Trump... It’s not very likely the intent is malice...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
if they succeed they can call themselves the Pure Boys