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		mathgeek 43 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US air traffic controllers start resigning as shut... I don’t know if it’s reasonable or not to wish that, as an analogy, the German people had started a true civil war with the Nazis when they seized power. I can see how folks would wonder though.

actionfromafar 43 days ago [–]

Germany was not the hub of the world back then. Very different situations.

mathgeek 43 days ago | [–]

Yes, that is what an analogy is...

> A similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar. A comparison based on such similarity.

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