The Atlas Deluge of Absurdity, Ignorance, and Bad Posts

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A wannabe dictator in the Soviet Bloc, he was.

It's a good thing you're posting directly in the Deluge.

Sorry, you're right, there's a decent case he already was a dictator in the Soviet Bloc.  Facts are some crazy sh**t, aren't they?

Kid, do you really want to discuss Soviet Bloc with me?

I've been growing up witnessing a rocky transformation from communism. My immediate family actually lived through communism, older members lived through the entire era. And even those of them who are far from any left-wing sympathies would laugh now at your stupidity and ignorance.

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Also, Congress was very likely to impeach Allende at that point, which means, if we agree that removing him was a good thing, that a bloody coup and bloody years of horrid regime were absolutely not necessary.

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Also, Congress was very likely to impeach Allende at that point, which means, if we agree that removing him was a good thing, that a bloody coup and bloody years of horrid regime were absolutely not necessary.

Oh yeah, that's another thing, Congress did impeach him and he refused to step down.

Wrong. Congress did not impeach him. Chamber of Deputies passed a resolution that has no practical meaning outside of symbolic. And the Senate failed to pass the very same resolution with a required majority.

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Let's assume, for the discussion's sake, that Congress and the Armed Forces would be right to remove Allende in order to protect constitution. But does that justify long years of a bloody dictatorship that followed?

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Batmacumba, you're my hero!

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And therefore we prove why the Latin left shouldn't be allowed power, as we see the nonsensical Castro apologia/promotion, bizarro world-view with no relation to actual reality, Stalinist buzzwords, thinly-veiled genocidal aspirations, complete contempt for human rights and the rule of law, selective "democracy" (winning the narrowest of pluralities using massive fraud against the wishes of the vast majority of the population now entitles one to govern as an absolute dictator), etc. etc.  Hence, why they should never be allowed anywhere near power.  Would people in hindsight have been opposed to a putsch in Germany in 1932?

Deluged.

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I guess the Deluge is damaged irretrievably.

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I guess temporary lock, just to have all calming down, would be a good idea.

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I'd be curious to know how expansively we're defining the 'Latin left' for purposes of this conversation. Is Lopez Obrador the 'Latin left'? Is Lula? Are the Kirchners? Is my uncle Manuel, an anti-Castro democratic socialist Cuban exile?

Obviously, your uncle Manuel wanted to murder Mint's family.

Also, I'm pretty sure Lula is responsible for shooting my grandma's brother in 1940s.

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Congrats, wormyguy. You have singlehandedly murdered the Deluge.

The biggest kill by one man since Rochambeau massacred two or three successive goldmines.

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...Goddammit, guys, could we not do this?  This thread is |------| close to being relocked.  I really don't want to have to go through every one of your posts and edit out the offending quotes, because Atlas has been slow as s**t the last few days and it'd probably take a good 15 minutes, so could we just pretend this didn't happen and move on, or are you really going to make me edit every post that quoted this crap?

Can't you just delete last 7 pages?

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BTW...is Atlas as slow for everyone else?

Indeed it is

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Looks like Inks is on the case. 

BTW...is Atlas as slow for everyone else?

I am?  I've been moving out of my apartment... I haven't done much moderating.  Plus, the forum is slow as heck... I'm not deleting the last 7 pages.

In other words