EarlGrey

I haven't lowered anything, you idiot. Just because I don't think communism is a credible system for economic development doesn't mean that the liberal capitalist system is perfect; indeed, it is the source of every exploitation currently observable among the weaker classes and, looking at today's super-globalized world economy, of poorer countries (which represent the "blue collar" workers in the current social division of labor). The idea that those who vote left don't understand economics is a colossal bullshit that you should go tell my economics professors... Oh right, I hadn't read the question... forgive me...
So, liberal or protectionist... first of all, it's a question that shows the idiocy of the person asking it because it's obvious that the goal of any economy based on a respectable accumulative system is entry into the GLOBAL FREE market. I have already implied my opinion before while discussing the economic development of the USA and Germany (and now I add Japan). I think that a country, or a system of countries (I mean, a hypothetical system of African countries, VERY HYPOTHETICAL...) should adopt protective measures in order to allow its own industries to grow and then, IN A SECOND MOMENT, access the liberal exchange system in the global market...

But why do you continue to associate me with things that I abhor? I don’t understand... have I ever claimed to be a brigatista? Perhaps you imagine me standing on the terrace of my condominium, gazing at the sun of the future while a red flag flutters in my hands in a breeze of change and progress, with my mind turned to the east hoping for a new advent of Bolshevism... but I assure you it is not so. In fact, I hate all terrorists (legalized and otherwise), so I have absolutely nothing in common with the BR... I also hate the old-school communists who are still stuck in the COMINTERN, and I’m starting to hate Prodi, Rutelli, Mastella, and all the ex-thieving centrists and filthy DC members whom I’ll have to vote for just to get Berlusconi out of my hair. And then I think that the right and left are the same in the eyes of the law, so if there are proofs, as there are, of illegalities or injustices committed here or there, THE RESPONSIBLE ONES MUST BE PUNISHED!!!!! I hope I haven't ruined your superficial little picture... I'm a metalhead, I don’t listen to crap like Jovanotti, sorry for you...

Not to start a pointless argument here... but you really overstepped by calling two outstanding bands like Dimmu and Opeth crap... you can't preach musical openness and then consider the two bands you listen to fantastic while labeling all the others as shit...

The Manowar sound amazing for being farmers... I need to take a trip to the countryside. But you're afraid of the confrontation, aren't you? Now I know, you're an idiot!!

You mentioned Marinetti... I’ve read the Futurist Manifesto too, even though I don’t consider myself particularly cultured, and I judged it right from the start for what it is: a series of nonsensical ramblings that seem to have been put on paper by a crazy heroin addict... it’s not that anyone who writes a few nonsense phrases that get published by someone else can be considered a great thinker overall, right? Then even Hitler with Mein Kampf, or Irving’s theories on the Holocaust/farce (who’s since changed his mind…). Berlusconi doesn’t have political culture, but he does have entrepreneurial culture. He’s a great entrepreneur. But he’s had, more than many capable Italian entrepreneurs, the fact of having always been thick as thieves with Craxi, with the DC, and also a bit of being a member of a subversive Masonic lodge... he’s clever, and since clever people are in vogue here in Italy, people even vote for him, so now his connections with the political world are... himself!!! What could be better than that? Do you want a true right-wing thinker I appreciate? Indro Montanelli.

You have done nothing but misunderstand my words or say nonsense... I would like to isolate one point that seems to recur among you exalted thinkers on the right, which can be summed up like this: "where economic liberalism has been applied 'properly', everyone is happy and content. Instead, the countries that are now backward are ALL under corrupt regimes, and have not properly applied Smithian and Ricardian theories"...
THIS IS ABSOLUTE NONSENSE! Do you want to understand this? It's too convenient, isn't it? Perhaps you forget that Germany and the USA, in order to grow economically, applied strict protectionism on trade with foreign countries for a long time, and only afterward did they open their borders, just as the IMF and the World Bank "advise" developing countries to do... But this opening without upstream protections means the destruction of these countries' economies, leading to indebtedness and bankruptcy... and this is right before our eyes; it’s not some strange theory with uncertain effects down the line. It’s NEWS.

In fact, mine was just a simple jab at the TECHNIQUE in particular... nothing much... then, Gianlu, if two really simple riffs (or even downright copied) and solos that... well, let’s drop that... give you all these emotions... good luck. Or maybe it’s the message? Perhaps launched from the stage of a 40 euro concert per person, or from Top of the Pops? Well, whatever... enough with the pointless disputes. Adieu.

I wrote faith,[...], in what they sound like...
if you can't understand the asides... there are appropriate schools, like elementary school.
You, like so many others, come into a discussion about a band like Manowar and, with an air of superiority, claim that, for example, all their albums are the same, without having evidently listened to them... that's why you think they suck... in other words, you justify, like so many others, your (legitimate) negative judgment with a statement that is nothing but a baseless cliché... that's why I consider you snobbish. Because you clearly SNOB a historic band based on silly prejudices.
I then meant to ask you for a band that you consider excellent, to compare it to my disgust, perhaps to show you that everything is ultimately relative... I’m waiting...

But come on, come on...! Let’s not kid ourselves here, please... I’ve been going to a pub for years where every time they show a U2 concert on the screens, then I see the videos, they play on the radio, etc... Despite the fact that some past songs are really beautiful and captivating, thanks in part to The Edge who must have invented them, I won’t deny it, his technique is nothing short of SCANDALOUS, and this is made worse by the fact that U2 has been around for so many years... But after more than ten years, can we really not learn to play the guitar? I don’t think they lack the money to take a couple of lessons, do they?

The problem is that The Edge can't play the guitar... not at all... and then the initial riff of all because of you could have been avoided being copied entirely from TNT by AC/DC, at least change a few notes... and then that damn solo! If you can't do it right, who’s asking you to insist...