The Sam Spade Memorial Good Post Gallery

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Generic platitudes about muh commies are now the height of hindsight, according to the still hilariously-named BRTD.

There's two things that made me completely turn against communism:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;u=6976;sa=showPosts
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;u=6269;sa=showPosts

And of course a realization that if there was any value to Marxism whatsoever, then why does no one except for edgy teenagers and college kids support it today?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Generic platitudes about muh commies are now the height of hindsight, according to the still hilariously-named BRTD.

There's two things that made me completely turn against communism:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;u=6976;sa=showPosts
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;u=6269;sa=showPosts

And of course a realization that if there was any value to Marxism whatsoever, then why does no one except for edgy teenagers and college kids support it today?

If there was any value to hipster Christianity whatsoever, then why does no one except for hipsters practice it?

My lead pastor is a 45-year old father of two who lives in Edina.

Generic platitudes about muh commies are now the height of hindsight, according to the still hilariously-named BRTD.

There's two things that made me completely turn against communism:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;u=6976;sa=showPosts
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;u=6269;sa=showPosts

So, Atlas posters determines yout outlook?

Advocates of an ideology saying utterly horrifying things do, yes. On Atlas and elsewhere.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Generic platitudes about muh commies are now the height of hindsight, according to the still hilariously-named BRTD.

There's two things that made me completely turn against communism:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;u=6976;sa=showPosts
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;u=6269;sa=showPosts

And of course a realization that if there was any value to Marxism whatsoever, then why does no one except for edgy teenagers and college kids support it today?

If there was any value to hipster Christianity whatsoever, then why does no one except for hipsters practice it?

My lead pastor is a 45-year old father of two who lives in Edina.

Exactly, and the point you made is similarly silly.

So Marxists exist today who aren't Snowstalker-ish edgelords, people who casually talk about genocide and gulags as something completely necessary and OK and/or can only communicate in unreadably dense walls of text? Then why are they virtually impossible to find? I mean you'd think this forum with its wide variety of ideologies would attract at least a few.

None of this has anything to do with how terrible Italian communists circa 1948 were of course.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Do any of them make excuses for the Soviet Union and North Korea?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Generic platitudes about muh commies are now the height of hindsight, according to the still hilariously-named BRTD.

There's two things that made me completely turn against communism:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;u=6976;sa=showPosts
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;u=6269;sa=showPosts

And of course a realization that if there was any value to Marxism whatsoever, then why does no one except for edgy teenagers and college kids support it today?

If there was any value to hipster Christianity whatsoever, then why does no one except for hipsters practice it?

My lead pastor is a 45-year old father of two who lives in Edina.

Exactly, and the point you made is similarly silly.

So Marxists exist today who aren't Snowstalker-ish edgelords, people who casually talk about genocide and gulags as something completely necessary and OK and/or can only communicate in unreadably dense walls of text? Then why are they virtually impossible to find? I mean you'd think this forum with its wide variety of ideologies would attract at least a few.

None of this has anything to do with how terrible Italian communists circa 1948 were of course.

You are out of your element Donny (Dude/BRTD)

Pray tell how terrible the Italian Communists were in '48?

So look at a country where the Italian Communists were the only political movement actively engaged in the armed struggle against a brutal Fascist regime for decades, over ten years prior to the rise of the Nazis in Germany....

Sure, there were a few brutal incidents in several provinces of Italy against Fascists and collaborators, in areas that had experienced mass brutality and and genocide.... does it make it right, no.

Meanwhile you have the US/UK secret intelligence agencies that subverted the first Post WW II "Free Elections" in Italy, that basically turned the levers of power over to our "allies" that allowed the rise of the Mafia, and breaking the backs of the Communist Dock Workers in the Port Cities of Marseilles and Naples, essentially created the biggest criminal cartel network that Europe had ever experienced.....

I would recommend checking out the movie "The French Connection" and I can certainly provide you with links to academic books that describe this in much more extensive detail...

Based upon some of your comments regarding US domestic politics, I assumed you were a well read individual, but quite frankly sir, your apologies for European Fascism/Nazism and trying to create a false moral equivalency based upon Minnesota social norms of 2017, is getting a bit tiring, and a true disservice to those that fought and died in Nazi and Fascist Europe during WW II.

Seeing as how I'm pro-Antifa and love Inglorious Basterds, I really don't see how I'm making apologies for European Fascism/Nazism. Which was also irrelevant in 1948 and weren't taking part in the election, rather it was a centrist party (which was also insanely corrupt yes and not really worth defending against anyone other than Stalinists, but at least they didn't send thousands of Italian to labor camps.)

As for why the Italian Communists in 1948 were terrible, gee I don't know, because they were openly supportive of Stalin? I mean, SERIOUSLY. Furthermore look at, I don't know, EVERY COUNTRY IN EUROPE WITH A COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT. They were awful everywhere.

(Also the election was hardly "rigged" by the CIA, as Al noted it wasn't particularly close and it's clear the Communists wouldn't have won without the CIA's involvement either. Furthermore it also completely ignores the massive Soviet intervention as well. Take out both the Soviets and CIA and it's clear that DC would've still won.)

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I've never read any rape apologist posts on AAD FYI. It's funny how some here seem to think it's some sort of wretched hive when the only real content it has that goes beyond here is the swearing and the more borderline NSFW pics in the Hot Girls Thread (which by the way is most contributed to by female posters.)

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

A huge HP. Even setting aside all the Pro 3rd Reich horrificness, his brand of trad-Catholic romantic nationalism and economic protectionism did decades worth of huge damage to the Irish economy and society. WG Cosgrave is the real hero of the early Irish independence. Fortunately over the last 3 decades most of the problems he contributed to have been dramatically alleviated, with some titianic effort from the post FitzGerald governments and the Irish people themselves.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Well, there's plenty of evidence that the establishment hates progressives. David Brock's Shareblue is still bashing Bernie on a regular basis, and Hillary hacks like Whitehouse are spouting their batsh**t crazy conspiracy theories.

My comment really had nothing to do with the validity of your statement. It was just that you brought it up in the first place. It's the same reason you had that "but Hillary" label in 2016. Your commentary is often blatantly fixated on a single subject, and you are largely oblivious to that (or don't care either way). If I had to guess, the overall focus of your political thoughts is around the impure nature of the politicians that represent the views closest to your own - aka Democrats. Not that you have any obligation to focus on anything in particular, but you're practically like the IID of a police department. Your entire focus is inwards.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Well, there's plenty of evidence that the establishment hates progressives. David Brock's Shareblue is still bashing Bernie on a regular basis, and Hillary hacks like Whitehouse are spouting their batsh**t crazy conspiracy theories.

My comment really had nothing to do with the validity of your statement. It was just that you brought it up in the first place. It's the same reason you had that "but Hillary" label in 2016. Your commentary is often blatantly fixated on a single subject, and you are largely oblivious to that (or don't care either way). If I had to guess, the overall focus of your political thoughts is around the impure nature of the politicians that represent the views closest to your own - aka Democrats. Not that you have any obligation to focus on anything in particular, but you're practically like the IID of a police department. Your entire focus is inwards.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Badger is right about Sam's sage vagueness. He also made a lot of hilariously wrong predictions, like that the 2008 recession would turn into a democracy threatening depression.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Ironically Tony would probably flip out and be disgusted and offended if he saw the thread Virginia posts in the most on AAD.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Ironically Tony would probably flip out and be disgusted and offended if he saw the thread Virginia posts in the most on AAD.

By all means enlighten me.

The prude mods here would delete anything I posted from there here. Actually we had a similar thread at one point but it got banned.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Lmao. I love how the AAD cult is trying to turn Tony against Virginia (and failing entirely) because you can't handle the fact that one of your echo chamber's idols was a total douche who wasn't even that good of a poster.

I actually said earlier in the thread that I thought SamSpade wasn't that good of a poster and if I really cared who the thread is named after I'd prefer Virginia. So not sure of your point.