What if I were talking to my girlfriend about this thread? Would you put some listeners in, and report on that, too?

I really don't understand why you're bringing up my comments about this thread that I made on a different site, and posting them in the thread itself of all things (instead of the mod thread). I can only assume it is to make yourself look good and to make me look bad in front of... someone?

Lol, yeah that's the same as that thread. Exactly the same.

I think you do understand. The comment are directly relevant to this thread. i.e Get advised to make about definitions and hey presto! coincidence, maybe.

You obsess far too much about looks. Posters should just know what's going on. No need for you to be ashamed is there?

Well if you completely ignore parts of the post and argue against something else entirely then it's pretty easy to find inaccuracies. I'll quote my post again and give you a little hint as to why your response is not in any way disproving my point:

I am not ashamed of receiving advice from intelligent people, no. There is certainly a dearth of them on this forum, present company included. So, I have to go elsewhere to get my fix.

To a degree, yes. But as tame deuces said, words matter. A common form of bad argument is to define X in your own idiosyncratic way, and then argue that something or someone is X.

That was pretty much my point...

Hey, chez - while you're at it, why don't you also post screenshots of the advice I got? I think it would be informative to this discussion.

I tried reaching out to the OP about closing the thread, but he is AWOHL and I don't have the time to baby-sit this topic anymore, and this is very much a topic I feel that I as a moderator have to baby-sit.

I think it was an important discussion to have since this is a claim that runs rampant in political discourse. At the same time it's a topic that always runs on the dangerous border of excusing extremist ideology, so it is not the most comfortable topic to leave on the table

As closing words I think it is more than safe that we can with a solid rooting in historical facts state that the most dangerous element of Nazi ideology was its nationalism combined with blind worship of authority. This is a lesson that should never be forgotten.