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Do gangsters lean left or right?
#28042468 - 11/09/22 05:11 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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what do you guys/girls think?
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Re: Do gangsters/mafiosos lean left or right? [Re: 336]
#28042491 - 11/09/22 05:25 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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You can't tar them all with one brush.
Most organized crime is intensely hierarchical, cross the boss and you're dead, so that is more rightwing than leftwing.
There are also brotherhoods of equals that are more leftwing.
Money hasnt got a political color
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Re: Do gangsters/mafiosos lean left or right? [Re: 336] 1
#28042624 - 11/09/22 07:03 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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If I were a gangster or a mafioso instead of a pimp , I would be a libertarian .
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Re: Do gangsters/mafiosos lean left or right? [Re: Psilynut2]
#28042865 - 11/09/22 09:21 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Invalid poll, gtfo.
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Psilynut2 said: If I were a gangster or a mafioso instead of a pimp , I would be a libertarian .
Which is to say, gangsters are basically anti-statist, anti-political.. they would prefer to make their own laws
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Re: Do gangsters/mafiosos lean left or right? [Re: Lynnch]
#28042868 - 11/09/22 09:22 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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i personally feel like it depends
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Re: Do gangsters/mafiosos lean left or right? [Re: 336]
#28042871 - 11/09/22 09:24 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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...on whether they fit your narrative?
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Re: Do gangsters/mafiosos lean left or right? [Re: Kryptos]
#28042885 - 11/09/22 09:29 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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nah, i know some lean left, some lean right, some are total anarchists, some don't give a fuck
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Re: Do gangsters/mafiosos lean left or right? [Re: 336]
#28042898 - 11/09/22 09:43 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Mafiosos aren't anarchist. They definitely believe in a hierarchy
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Re: Do gangsters/mafiosos lean left or right? [Re: Lynnch]
#28042900 - 11/09/22 09:44 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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true
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Re: Do gangsters/mafiosos lean left or right? [Re: Lynnch]
#28042903 - 11/09/22 09:46 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Are you kidding? You know if the soprano characters were real they’d be hardcore MAGA
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Re: Do gangsters/mafiosos lean left or right? [Re: koods]
#28042917 - 11/09/22 09:57 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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maybe i fucked up with my title; i meant gangsters in general; not just Italian mafiosos. lol
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Re: Do gangsters/mafiosos lean left or right? [Re: koods] 1
#28042934 - 11/09/22 10:12 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Costa Nostra started as a response to the powers that be in Sillian society.....lots of crime coupled with disputes of the populace. From what I have read, law enforcement was nil.
This lead to people turning to others that could "protect" them. Get that theif, get that dude who fucked my daughter, ect. They were not mercenaries, but higly organized from the beginning. These protectors almost turned clan like and extra judicial in a way....they were heavily involved in land, labor, and construction for the rich. See any parallels even after the morph in the US?
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Re: Do gangsters/mafiosos lean left or right? [Re: SirTripAlot] 1
#28042946 - 11/09/22 10:21 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Gangs and governments are fundamentally the same thing. They both declare themselves to be the only legitimate source of violence in a given territory.
Which is why gangs tend to form in the absence of government authority. It's a localized protection scheme.
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Re: Do gangsters/mafiosos lean left or right? [Re: Kryptos] 2
#28042950 - 11/09/22 10:25 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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They toke a lot I bet.
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Re: Do gangsters/mafiosos lean left or right? [Re: christopera]
#28042981 - 11/09/22 11:00 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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or coke a lot lol
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Re: Do gangsters/mafiosos lean left or right? [Re: 336]
#28044804 - 11/11/22 05:27 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Gangsters mainly lean hard right; on any kind of capitalism/socialism scale they are pro-market even if they never made a legal dollar in their lives. On social issues they could go either way.
During WWII several bigtime American gangsters were helpful with the war effort, whether through patriotism or self-interest, in securing the waterfronts that they largely controlled.
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Re: Do gangsters/mafiosos lean left or right? [Re: Brian Jones]
#28044850 - 11/11/22 06:48 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Depends on which side the driveby is at.
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Re: Do gangsters/mafiosos lean left or right? [Re: Asante]
#28044868 - 11/11/22 07:12 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
Asante said: Depends on which side the driveby is at.

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Re: Do gangsters/mafiosos lean left or right? [Re: mushboy]
#28044983 - 11/11/22 08:52 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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I think they mostly lean in whichever direction dat sizzurp is located.
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Re: Do gangsters/mafiosos lean left or right? [Re: TheDirtFarmer]
#28045551 - 11/11/22 03:15 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Blast I was just coming up with a promethazine joke too...
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