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Comes from Usenet - FAQ on Godwin's Law. "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." So, technically, it doesn't mean that the comparer has lost - just that the thread's become a waste of time.
Curiously, in the context of the Guardian, I was thinking about it this week when I read that column by some Washington Post hack, who compared Arafat to Hitler in I think it was the fifth paragraph.
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