In addition to their amazing contributions to the Apollo program, Southern Italians and Sicilians are also famously great inventors.

33  2015-08-11 by [deleted]

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Let's have an open and honest discussion about how a high school dropout inundated with headline mainstream news and social media can fool himself and his legions of followers into thinking he's a political science expert.

True, but he did master the fine art of shitting in a paint bucket on a job site.

paint bucket

spackle bucket, you filthy casual listener.

/pedant

wait, people think he knows anything about politics, he's beyond a lightweight surface scratcher

But that's everyone. Look at this site full of le genius political masterminds.

I hate to be a guinea wop faggot, but this post makes me hard

Are black crime statistics fake?

What do black crime statistics have to do with the stimulus or global warming or ISIS? Apparantly reading up on black crime makes Ant a scientist, economist, and a foreign policy expert!

Are black crime statistics fake?

Are you not a douche?

ARE NIGGER STATISTICS FAKE?
/s

Because in the history of the United States, Italians, and Sicilians in particular, have never been involved in criminal activity of any kind. To associate them with such is a hurtful prejudicial generalization.

I don't live in post-prohibition America. I live in 2015.

Are black crime statistics fake?

A sub-poverty level crime statistics fake?

Being poor makes you attack people

Where are all the Russian, Indian and Chinese dindus?

I can't speak for the Indians or Asians (actually there were a shit ton of Asian criminals where I grew up, but they were mostly Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese) but I can tell you where the criminal Russians are: they're selling you shitty speakers out of a "scam van".

Do you know why Asians do not get hassled like blacks do? Because for many generations, they decided to get their shit together, stop organized criminal activities, and got jobs.

It's astonishing the "racist evil whiteys" don't hound Asians anymore, but we have a crack team of scientists working on the solution for this mystery.

Yeah, because the Gotti's didn't exist in the 1990's and the Italian mafia doesn't exist at all anymore.

Does this mean the state of black crime is all made up?

Northern Italy is known for the Roman Republic and Empire, the Renaissance, centuries of economic prosperity, the establishment of commerce across the Mediterranean world, innovations in banking, artists and inventors like Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci, writers like Dante and Machiavelli, explorers like Columbus, Vespucci and Verrazzano, architectural styles which make northern Italian cities some of the most beautiful in the world, the proliferation of the Latin language, serving as the religious capital of Western Europe for most of the Christian era, and influencing the Founding Fathers themselves to model many aspects of their new government on ancient Roman institutions.

Southern Italy is known for its women sleeping with Moors, and organized crime.

Yeah Anthony, feel free to rely on that birthright of yours as a basis for hating on the blacks.

I love when he used to rant about the "Stop Snitching" movement when he grew up with mobsters, same with Keith.

You're right about Keith (I think he's Roy DeMeo's nephew), but I doubt Ant has any mob ties whatsoever. His family seems too low on the social ladder to have any connections.

"I thought you said I'm alright spider."

I'm gonna go get the NY studio. Get the NY studio.

Remember his mom got him a fur coat? Do you really think she'd just go out and buy that for him?

Ant talked about an uncle storing stolen goods in his garage when he was a kid.

Definitely nothing like KtC's connections, but still had some goons around.

Opie used to caddy for upper echelon mobsters. Never forget.

Ant's not connected, although Keith's uncle was Roy DeMeo. If you don't know who that is or was, suffice to say, he was one of the most violent gangsters in American history.

The Gemini Room baby

The Gemini Lounge

The Gemini Method

Magna Graecia (sicily) is what made Rome "Rome", my friend. That's where they picked up that lovely greek culture.

So, really, southern italians are arrogant and violent because they're all sons of achilles.

The South stinks, even Southerners will tell you that. There's nothing good about the area, that's why everyone flees for the North or America and Canada.

It's practically a 3rd world country, filled with some of the most ruthless criminal organizations active today.

I'm sure this is all based on your extensive travel throughout Southern Italy.

The Roman Republic began in Rome (geographically, Southern Italy) and began expanding southward, at first.

The name Italy was actually taken from a small band of people living in Calabria - aka mainland Italy's southernmost point.

Also, Italy as a whole is a "genetic island" - with nearly homogenous DNA from north to south. source

Maybe do some research before you spout off nonsense?

Shenanigans; your source only says it's a "genetic island" in relation to Europe, not the entire surrounding Mediterranean. This says otherwise.

Your source heavily cites Greece and Spain. Last I checked, those Mediterranean countries are European.

My source labels Italy one of only two genetic islands on the entire continent (the other being Finland) - and cites the Alps as a major deterrent from foreign incursions.

Or, you can follow this source - which suggests that any African/Middle Eastern genetic markers are remnants from Neolithic settlement and that no major incursions from Africa/Middle East have occurred since then.

The idea of total domination of Southern Europe by these people borders on myth. African and Arabic armies were in a constant state of war in Southern Europe - there was no time for settlement.

An example - It took Arab armies 100+ years to conquer Sicily. They then controlled it for 100 years - before being beaten, rounded up and expelled.

Did the Normans not do any fucking during their stint, either? The Greeks didn't make a genetic dent? We're still dealing with the same bunch of Sikels from the Neolithic?

It cites Greece, Spain and Italy; southern Europe in general (and the map in your source sure looks like south Italy's genetic commonalities overlaps with Spain and Portugal, instead of being an "island" like Finland).

Yeah the Alps were a major deterrent from foreign incursion, just for armies approaching from the north. For North African armies targeting southern Italy it was pretty wide open (and vise versa, since Rome had the first real naval fleet). I mean, Sicily was a fucking Islamic Emirate for 250 years.

I'm not saying Dennis Hopper's monologue from True Romance was 100% historically accurate, just that....uh....fuck it, I dunno, Italians stink.

well organized crime, masonic groups, which is what cosa nostro is, secret fruitcake group whatevs dvv dvv, are everywhere, the sicilian mafia has just been played up in america by movie kikes.

Cosa Nostra*

Oh literal stevie janowskii, Not really, they're fucking evil.

They also did amazing in World War 2 in their conquest of Greece, oh wait never mind, they couldn't even pull that off so Hitler sent in a few soldiers and conquered it in 24 hours.

Germany was fighting two fronts and those incompetent dagos couldn't take North Africa, for God's sake.

They got beat by the fucking Ethiopians! You'll never hear Ant bring that up!

Ah yes, from the Moorish Conquest to Mussolini -- stretching all the way to the Cumias of today -- the Italian people have a long and storied history of getting publically embarassed by black people and cowardly running away, which has cultivated a rich tradition of overcompensation. What's wrong with taking pride in that, HUH?

Comment of the day this is

I'm not even from Italy and according to this map my country produced more Italian inventors than Sicily.

Dirty Slav, also why do you guys squat so much.

Squatting is an artform thats passed from father to son through generations. It's applications are endless, and you're way less visible when plotting some shady shit behind the bushes.

Slavs are a result of eons of banditry combined with the affinity for wearing comfortable sportswear.

Your post crapped out.

"See, way back then, Sicilians were like wops from Northern Italy. They all had blonde hair and blue eyes. But then the Moors moved in there and, well...they changed the whole country. They did so much fucking with Sicilian women, they changed the whole bloodline forever. That's why blonde hair and blue eyes became black hair and dark skin."

Nice to see your base of knowledge is a Dennis Hopper quote.

Oh, literal baraksobamas.

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please stick to peer reviewed sources only on r/opieandanthony we have a reputation to maintain for pete's sake

And the Moors, are of course......

well, the white north has more inventors..shocker

the south was / poor many people moved here to america. Like every else, the north was cooler, whiter and wealthier. generalizing of course.

Too much sun in not good for the brain.

Archimedes didn't make your list?

Archimedes didn't make the cut, too inconvenient - and according to OP, Naples isn't in Southern Italy.

Another quality post here.

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Context? Holy shit this sub moves so fast sometimes.

was anthony born in south italy or sicily?

the further south you go, the dumber they get.

It's true in almost every country

All you really need is one brilliant invention really, the Cumia Space Rocket Lab always deliver

Nice doctored image cunt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Italian_inventors

Where is this picture from?

Lets pay out on the Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas next for being full of farmers too.

I'm sure your heritage/ethnicity is utter dog shit coward.

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"I don't like Gavin's politics, but I enjoy being more racist than the KKK if it means having a go at Ant" - The O&A sub

You know the moors conqured Sicily?

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