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etalian: Mar 20, 2006

paranoid randroid posted:

i thought italy was grafty as hell but maybe thats just good ol silvio "a literal time traveling roman patrician" berlusconi

argentines often joke that their country is so broke and corrupt because they have italian ancestors.

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paranoid randroid: Mar 4, 2007

lmao i just remembered that silvio went on tv and said that women have a very impotant role to play in the political process: baking delicious cakes for their husbands to eat after they come home from voting. and of course then theres all the naked girl parties and poo poo.

and this dudes getting hauled in front of a court consisting entirely of women. dead man governing.

# ? Jul 22, 2014 03:57

Wendigee: Jul 19, 2004

etalian posted:

argentines often joke that their country is so broke and corrupt because they have italian ancestors.

What about the massive inflow of Nazis after the second world war?

# ? Jul 22, 2014 03:58

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

paranoid randroid posted:

lmao i just remembered that silvio went on tv and said that women have a very impotant role to play in the political process: baking delicious cakes for their husbands to eat after they come home from voting.

and this dudes getting hauled in front of a court consisting entirely of women.

he also worked as a cruise ship lounge singer.

Also:

# ? Jul 22, 2014 03:59

paranoid randroid: Mar 4, 2007

o my god he got acquitted.

etalian posted:

he also worked as a cruise ship lounge singer.

haha no fuckin way

# ? Jul 22, 2014 03:59

fuck the ROW: Aug 29, 2008; by zen death robot

etalian posted:

he also worked as a cruise ship lounge singer.

Also:

this guy fuckin rules already, who is he again? Spanish?

# ? Jul 22, 2014 04:00

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

paranoid randroid posted:

o my god he got acquitted.

it owns how you go from the Roman empire which was a world military and economic superpower to laughable modern italy.

# ? Jul 22, 2014 04:00

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

paranoid randroid posted:

o my god he got acquitted.

haha no fuckin way

lol

During his university studies he was an upright bass player in a group formed with the now Mediaset Chairman and amateur pianist Fedele Confalonieri and occasionally performed as a cruise ship crooner.

# ? Jul 22, 2014 04:01

paranoid randroid: Mar 4, 2007

silvio fuckin' blue-eyes.

i wonder if him and sarkozy play golf.

# ? Jul 22, 2014 04:03

Donovan Trip: Jan 6, 2007

not me OP im a plain ol' retard idiot

# ? Jul 22, 2014 04:04

Bip Roberts: Mar 29, 2005

Wendigee posted:

I really like guns (I have 12 or so) and I also think we should have a national single payer system. What am I?

You have a tiny dick and really wish you didn't have to pay for enlargement.

# ? Jul 22, 2014 04:06

Cucking Mama: Sep 27, 2013; Gold Medalist, 2014 shit post olympics

etalian posted:

he also worked as a cruise ship lounge singer.

Also:

love that dude

# ? Jul 22, 2014 04:06

Bip Roberts: Mar 29, 2005

gently caress the ROW posted:

this guy fuckin rules already, who is he again? Spanish?

Berlusconi is one of the rare people like Roman Polanski, Michael Jackson or R. Kelly who is cool enough to gently caress someone way underage and have everyone be cool with it.

# ? Jul 22, 2014 04:08

paranoid randroid: Mar 4, 2007

also hes got like 1 italian out of 5 in his pocket so he could prolly blow someone's granny away in broad daylight and moonwalk away unmolested

# ? Jul 22, 2014 04:10

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

Cucking Mama posted:

love that dude

his quotes own too:

Mussolini never killed anyone, he just sent dissenters abroad for vacation.

We must fight against tax evasion but also defend the rights of tax evaders, or companies that make mistakes

The women of the Right are certainly the most beautiful ... the Left has no taste, not even when it comes to women

They keep calling me a dwarf, but I'm taller than Sarkozy and Putin.

We could not field a big enough force to avoid this risk of rape. We would need so many soldiers because our women are so beautiful.

Ladies, I have a mission for you on election day: cook! Sweet and exquisite things, please. Bring them to the polling station to be examined. The boldest can try making a tart, the most skilful, profiteroles

People will vote for Daniela Santanch� because she is a beautiful babe.

# ? Jul 22, 2014 04:10

paranoid randroid: Mar 4, 2007

etalian posted:

They keep calling me a dwarf, but I'm taller than Sarkozy and Putin

jesus chirst

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TEAYCHES: Jun 23, 2002

op: i am neither of those things. i am a socialist. i reject liberalism. consider this:

mao posted:

We stand for active ideological struggle because it is the weapon for ensuring unity within the Party and the revolutionary organizations in the interest of our fight. Every Communist and revolutionary should take up this weapon.

But liberalism rejects ideological struggle and stands for unprincipled peace, thus giving rise to a decadent, Philistine attitude and bringing about political degeneration in certain units and individuals in the Party and the revolutionary organizations.

Liberalism manifests itself in various ways.

To let things slide for the sake of peace and friendship when a person has clearly gone wrong, and refrain from principled argument because he is an old acquaintance, a fellow townsman, a schoolmate, a close friend, a loved one, an old colleague or old subordinate. Or to touch on the matter lightly instead of going into it thoroughly, so as to keep on good terms. The result is that both the organization and the individual are harmed. This is one type of liberalism.

To indulge in irresponsible criticism in private instead of actively putting forward one's suggestions to the organization. To say nothing to people to their faces but to gossip behind their backs, or to say nothing at a meeting but to gossip afterwards. To show no regard at all for the principles of collective life but to follow one's own inclination. This is a second type.

To let things drift if they do not affect one personally; to say as little as possible while knowing perfectly well what is wrong, to be worldly wise and play safe and seek only to avoid blame. This is a third type.

Not to obey orders but to give pride of place to one's own opinions. To demand special consideration from the organization but to reject its discipline. This is a fourth type.

To indulge in personal attacks, pick quarrels, vent personal spite or seek revenge instead of entering into an argument and struggling against incorrect views for the sake of unity or progress or getting the work done properly. This is a fifth type.

To hear incorrect views without rebutting them and even to hear counter-revolutionary remarks without reporting them, but instead to take them calmly as if nothing had happened. This is a sixth type.

To be among the masses and fail to conduct propaganda and agitation or speak at meetings or conduct investigations and inquiries among them, and instead to be indifferent to them and show no concern for their well-being, forgetting that one is a Communist and behaving as if one were an ordinary non-Communist. This is a seventh type.

To see someone harming the interests of the masses and yet not feel indignant, or dissuade or stop him or reason with him, but to allow him to continue. This is an eighth type.

To work half-heartedly without a definite plan or direction; to work perfunctorily and muddle along--"So long as one remains a monk, one goes on tolling the bell." This is a ninth type.

To regard oneself as having rendered great service to the revolution, to pride oneself on being a veteran, to disdain minor assignments while being quite unequal to major tasks, to be slipshod in work and slack in study. This is a tenth type.

To be aware of one's own mistakes and yet make no attempt to correct them, taking a liberal attitude towards oneself. This is an eleventh type.

We could name more. But these eleven are the principal types.

They are all manifestations of liberalism.

Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension. It robs the revolutionary ranks of compact organization and strict discipline, prevents policies from being carried through and alienates the Party organizations from the masses which the Party leads. It is an extremely bad tendency.

Liberalism stems from petty-bourgeois selfishness, it places personal interests first and the interests of the revolution second, and this gives rise to ideological, political and organizational liberalism.

People who are liberals look upon the principles of Marxism as abstract dogma. They approve of Marxism, but are not prepared to practice it or to practice it in full; they are not prepared to replace their liberalism by Marxism. These people have their Marxism, but they have their liberalism as well--they talk Marxism but practice liberalism; they apply Marxism to others but liberalism to themselves. They keep both kinds of goods in stock and find a use for each. This is how the minds of certain people work.

Liberalism is a manifestation of opportunism and conflicts fundamentally with Marxism. It is negative and objectively has the effect of helping the enemy; that is why the enemy welcomes its preservation in our midst. Such being its nature, there should be no place for it in the ranks of the revolution.

We must use Marxism, which is positive in spirit, to overcome liberalism, which is negative. A Communist should have largeness of mind and he should be staunch and active, looking upon the interests of the revolution as his very life and subordinating his personal interests to those of the revolution; always and everywhere he should adhere to principle and wage a tireless struggle against all incorrect ideas and actions, so as to consolidate the collective life of the Party and strengthen the ties between the Party and the masses; he should be more concerned about the Party and the masses than about any private person, and more concerned about others than about himself. Only thus can he be considered a Communist.

All loyal, honest, active and upright Communists must unite to oppose the liberal tendencies shown by certain people among us, and set them on the right path. This is one of the tasks on our ideological front.

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