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bookmark-extraordinaire · 1 year ago

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I recently had a conversation with a friend that made me realise that (maybe) people might not know that the Italian mafia still exists and actively operates all over Italy. Like, the general international public has this old-timey idea of the mafia that stops at the 1950s, with Al Capone, seedy bars, car chases with tommy guns etc. etc. or at least that seems to be the case for the people who don’t live in Europe, or otherwise close to Italy.

So, I made this poll. DISCLAIMER: this poll is NOT so i could judge people in any way. I can’t really fault anyone for not knowing about a problem so tied to Italian soil and culture, I was just curious.

NOTE: I’m not making a distinction between the actual Mafia, Camorra, Ndrangheta etc. etc. just pretend that all Italian organized crime is one big thing for the sake of this poll.

#this was also prompted by the miriad of Mafia AUs I see everywhere online #not that there’s anything wrong with them! They can be really cool #the aesthetic can be awesome and it can be fun to play with a plot revolving around organized crime #I just need people to keep in mind that the Mafia is still very real and it still kills people to this very day #I don’t care if you watch the Sopranos every day or know the Godfather by heart #hell you can have a poster of Al Capone in your bedroom for all I care #just… idk remember this is real. it’s not just smoky bars and the aesthetic and ‘I’ll make you an offer you can’t refuse’#these people kill. the noble mafioso that protects the less fortunate is just a myth. these people have no morals.#countless people - good people - have been killed by mafiosi bc they tried to expose them #I don’t mind if you enjoy the old-times aesthetic but PLEASE do so with the knowledge that it’s just fantasy #because the reality is much worse #There was a news case some years ago of a Mafia boss hiring a hitman from prison to get his own daughter killed #because she exposed him and landed him in jail #so any perceived ‘nobility’ these people might have in the eyes of the international public it’s just a fantasy #idk this is getting long. i don’t want people to think they can never enjoy a mafia AU ever again. I’ll stop now #polls #my polls #tumblr polls #poll #tumblr poll #roba italiana #Italian tumblr

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