Original sentence: Finding what he considered the "meme" of Nazi comparisons on Usenet both illogical and offensive, Godwin established the law as a "counter-meme," a term Godwin expressly uses in his 1994 article about Godwin's Law (see link below).Godwin first formalized the law in a Usenet post  dated August 18, 1991.The law's 'memetic function' is not to end discussions (or even to classify them as "old"), but to make participants in a discussion more aware of whether a comparison to Nazis or Hitler is appropriate, or is simply a rhetorical overreach
Edited sentence: Anytime a  party to  a  political  debate  invokes   September  11th in support of their  argument, the  debate is finished and  that party has  automatically lost  the debate.Finding the "meme" of Nazi comparisons on Usenet both illogical and offensive, Godwin established the law as a "counter-meme," a term Godwin expressly uses in his 1994 article about Godwin's Law (see link below).In Defense of Referencing Hitler, B.Rove's corollary.The law's "memetic function" is not to end discussions (or even to classify them as "old"), but to make participants in a discussion more aware of whether a comparison to Nazis or Hitler is appropriate, or is simply a rhetorical overreach