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When I see Lukin commenting on Psycho, I think we're getting old, no doubt about it :D

I was disappointed, I've known Entertaiment for a long time, it's a nice album but very easy to appreciate and very easy to take out of the player after three "ye ye ye" tracks. Not that it’s composed of 58 musicians playing offbeat, but that damn bassist knows exactly how many notes to play, with what sound, and how many times to repeat a riff. The '80s also produced something beautiful; you have to search really really really really really really really really really really well, but you can find a little bit bit bit bit of something.

<< Is public debt healed by sending them back? >> Public debt can be healed in 800 ways; there is no "one solution." Sending back undocumented immigrants is not a way to heal the debt, but to reduce illegal and exploited labor. If you eliminate the supply, the demand falls into the void; it's a very simple reasoning. Therefore, it's necessary not only to send back the newcomers, but also to kick out anyone who is not legal, who does not pay taxes and does not make the employer pay taxes, regardless of their nationality, color, or social class. It’s not that if a Chinese person drives a Porsche I wouldn’t kick them out; on the contrary, I would kick them out first, and I would seize the Porsche bought with undeclared earnings. Then anyone can come to Italy, as long as they respect the rules; welcome anyone, yellow, black, red, or pink.

<< I imagine those poor souls dehydrated, hungry, thirsty, pissed off, scared, alone, freezing in the middle of the sea. >> If you send them back, after a while no one will dare to venture. The first ones get screwed, the next won't even leave. If people are fleeing their own country because there's nothing, there will never be anything in that country. << I imagine our fathers getting off ships and trains in other nations... >> Other nations? Australia and the USA, STOP. But our fathers were more than welcome because they needed people to build a nation. So don't mix the two things because they have nothing to do with each other. << They’re not racist, they’re just ignorant as goats. >> No, they’re just pragmatic. The coffers are crying, and we can’t afford to be charitable. You want to have your cake and eat it too, a drunken wife, and guests for dinner as well. The money needed for reception centers has far more useful destinations; one, for instance, is Abruzzo. We made our nation, let them make theirs. It's not hate, it's not superiority, it's nothing; in times of hardship, everyone at home said my grandmother. << The people laughing in the mud houses are LIVING, they don’t have the zombie face of the average Italian, >> There you go, and they’re much worse off than us, that’s what I wanted to tell you. So I don’t understand why you criticize Italy when you should be criticizing Italians, which is a very different thing. Moreover, Brazilian TV sucks worse than Italian TV. It's the Brazilians who are smart enough to enjoy what they have; it’s not the Brazilian government that's competent, because there’s much more mafia than in Italy, just that the mafiosi are fewer but much more powerful (How many Rotary Clubs does São Paulo have? 15. How many does Rio de Janeiro have? 1.) << Italy an industrial power? It’s a joke, right? >> Not industrial, but manufacturing, yes. We are the top in clothing production, furniture, automotive, technical building solutions, woodworking. We are at the forefront of style, in every way, and everything produced in Italy is sold with higher profit margins than anywhere else in the world. And there are less than 70 million of us, and we have never stolen resources from anyone, we have never exterminated peoples nor occupied lands to create our wealth (besides that little Libyan episode). When will we stop wallowing in self-pity and maybe think about something else? But I only see fucking complaints from people who want everything without giving anything in return. You want money for yourselves, for the illegal immigrants, for hospitals but also for museums, for roads and concrete but also for greenery, you want more police but more gentle and delicate, you want to arrest criminals but without infringing on privacy. It’s raining! The government is a thief...

<<< why has someone in Italy stopped smoking now? >>> It seems that you have. And many others on this page have as well, along with many more on other pages. And especially Silvio didn't win with 99.9% of the votes, and the voters are not 100% of Italians. So yes, millions of people have stopped smoking, and that's a verifiable fact. The only issue is if you keep thinking that "only I have understood that it's crap," then nothing will come of it. There are already many awake people, and we need to work on awakening others, because in Italy it's not Cuba and we can do free propaganda.

"I want to see if someone will rebel." It's like saying you have a newly formed cancer in your lungs, and instead of quitting smoking while you can still save yourself, you keep going until you're in an iron lung, so you’re left with no choice but to stop... but most likely, you die anyway. In Cuba, few want to rebel because few know it is needed. And it's like that almost everywhere, because that's how it happens in a "well" managed dictatorship.

<< between a Cuban who is escaping and a Mexican is that in Florida they treat him as a political refugee >> And so, would you want to destroy our country to get a green card? Wouldn't it be easier to marry some fat idiot from Wyoming? I couldn’t care less about being a political refugee, me and all of us, thanks to the Italians who came before us, can go to America and stay there for 3 months for tourism, 6 or more for study, and if we find a job that guarantees us a decent life (or marry some stupid cow from Maine) they even give us citizenship. So we’re doing even better than the Cubans, can you believe that? And my mom doesn’t even complain! Incredible, we live in a wonderful place almost...

<<< We need to copy Cuba yes! We need to copy Cuba because life in Cuba is tough just like in Haiti - we need to copy Cuba because there is a dictatorship in Cuba and the whole world knows it - we need to copy Cuba because I'm tired of people who complain and do nothing - we need to copy Cuba because that way we’ll have another embargo and autarky will bring back 50,000 migrants to Carbonia (and Porto Pineddu will be as crowded as Cattolica) - we need to copy Cuba because Castro is a bandit but we have his holiness Uncle Silvio. >>> You forgot: we need to copy Cuba because I want my mom, my sister, my wife, and my daughter to go out and work. This, from what they've told me, is the worst thing about Cuba. If you think about it, it's not funny at all.

<<< In the end, they are opinions, points of view >>> Not at all, they are verifiable economic data. It’s obvious that now a Ukrainian is suffering; their economy has just been born, and especially it was born late, but better late than never. If they had stayed as they were, they would have remained the same for millennia; instead, now, if they want, they can improve. If they want, they can also get worse. <<< In the first elections after the fall of the wall, they voted for the communist party with over 80% >>> Of course, in the beginning. Give them time to understand and try; it is rare for such a large and radical change to be assimilated quickly, especially when comparing years and years against just a few months. Opinions are personal, not economic. For example, in my personal opinion, just the fact of being the same as someone else makes me feel irritated. Not because I want to be better or worse, but simply because it is unacceptable that I be the same and that my position cannot change over time, for better or for worse. To give a ridiculous example, it’s like playing poker without money. There’s no risk or possibility of winning; it’s a apathetic game without final goals that you play half-heartedly. Crap for crap, I’d rather vote for a piece of crap with some purpose in life, rather than one who believes in the nullification of purposes. I always read on these pages that many are convinced that Italians don’t know who Silvio is, while Italians do know, they just see him as the lesser evil. These, indeed, are just opinions.

Copying Cuba? Then you say that in Italy they brainwash you. The most consistent source of income for the people in tourist cities is prostitution (wow!). The source of income for the countryside does not exist; they live off what they grow. Sources of information and cultural growth do not exist. If you want to emigrate, you can't. If you want to share your thoughts with others, you can't. You go to Cuba and everyone tells you "we're doing great," you talk to a Cuban in Italy and they say "until I saw the rest of the world, I didn't realize how messed up we are," and everyone says exactly the same thing. Everyone, the exact same thing. Find a pro-Cuba Cuban who isn't in Cuba; it doesn't exist. Desde Cuba | un portal de periodismo ciudadano <- one of the most famous examples; wanting, there are also small excerpts in Italian link rotto --- I have always considered communism the worst political evil in the history of mankind, but since I have been spending time with some Cubans (wives of friends, or musicians who managed to emigrate) my opinion has deteriorated even further. <<< But maybe it was better before; it was better to have the benefit of the doubt than a bitter certainty. >>> Said by someone who lives in Brazil is really laughable, one of the countries where wealth is most poorly concentrated in the world, and you criticize Italy? The average Brazilian is dominated and content; they could live millions of times better than other citizens of the world, yet they live in a mud hut and laugh. Meanwhile, the heirs of the conquerors live in estates of hundreds of acres, and laugh even more. Okay, Italy is a mess, but there is much worse out there, because at least we know we are in a mess, while many others are convinced they are in water when instead it's diarrhea.