1. La Mafia como Estándar de Honor y Competencia.
Una temática recurrente es la idealización de la mafia como una organización con un código de honor, inteligencia y eficiencia, a menudo utilizada para criticar la percibida incompetencia y falta de principios de otros grupos.
- At least the mafia has a code of honor.these are just criminals, bigots, and fanatics.
- The mafia has more respect for both civilians and culture. Plus they're smarter.
- A heap of liars who can’t even keep their stories straight. At least the mafia has leadership, strategy and is organized.
- I feel like the mafia is way more honorable than these fuckers. How fucked up is that?
- They wish they could run things as smoothly as the mafia did. They’re wannabes. Even the mafia had standards.
- It’s like the mafia. But at least the mob had a moral code, intelligence & screwed you with style.
- This gang makes the mafia look good. At least it was reputed that had some honor.
- If we’re gonna have criminals in charge, at least let it be the mafia. They get shit done.
2. La Realidad Criminal: Violencia y Peligro.
En contraste con las visiones idealizadas, muchos comentarios enfatizan la naturaleza violenta y destructiva de la mafia, describiéndola como una organización criminal responsable de asesinatos, tortura y la ruina de vidas, advirtiendo contra su romantización.
- Hey man idk if you know this but the mafia kills people. This is kinda problematic just fyi.
- Can we please stop using the word "mafia" to describe a group of people with a common objectives? the mafia is a criminal organization that has killed, tortured and ruined the life of countless people, is not something we should praise as it was a nice gathering of chill bros.
- This is why i get so pissed when people use the word mafia like it’s something cool. They’re nothing short of animals that would kill you if you tried to show them for the little people they really are.
- I live in sicily and the mafia still exist, there is nothing romantic about them. They are evil and now they focus mostly in drug trafficking .
- Mafia is not gangster gangs fighting each other, is big bullies with guns and other stuff attacking innocent people, coercing them to give money to spare their lives etc.
- I've always had a huge interest in the real life italian mafia, since i was in my early teens, but i've never seen them as anything other than what they were/are - brutal, unrepentant, unredeemable, murderous criminals.
- It’s a mafia!! it behaves like one! they’re not abiding by the law, they’re not showing any signs of compassion or humanity! they’re criminals in every sense of the word!!
3. Definiciones, Orígenes y Distinciones.
Los comentarios exploran la definición específica de la mafia, destacando sus orígenes sicilianos y diferenciándola de otras formas de crimen organizado. Se debate con frecuencia el significado cultural del término y su estricta aplicación.
- Remember, it’s only truly the mafia if it originates in sicily. Elsewhere it’s just sparkling organised crime.
- The mafia refers strictly to italian organized crime. Vernon etc. Are obviously not mafia.
- I was schooled by a mob historian that there's a distinction between "mafia" and "mob." mafia italian mob italians and everyone else (pretty much).
- Ok, i’m apparently ignorant here. What does “mafia” signify beyond “organized crime”?
- The italian mafia was born from a corrupt government of tyrants who would shoot first and ask questions later. Hollywood keeps on forgetting this when they tell these gangster stories.
- Italy isn’t run by just one mafia. It’s run by four criminal empires: cosa nostra – the politicians camorra – the street fighters sacra corona unita – the gatekeepers ’ndrangheta – the ceos.
4. La Mafia como Estructura de Poder y Control.
La estructura operativa de la mafia se analiza como un sistema basado en la lealtad absoluta, el miedo y el poder centralizado. Los comentarios describen cómo los líderes emplean el amiguismo y la crueldad para mantener el control sobre sus subordinados.
- Mafia structure 101: * loyalty is everything. * cronyism is tops, hire goons with no morals or intelligence to be your 'protection' * cruelty is the point. * the 'don' is the only one who wields the power.
- In short: mafia bosses never employ people they fear. They only employ people who fear them.
- It's not about competence and qualifications. It's about loyalty and subservience. It is mafia.
- A mafia don has no use for the law or lawful behaviour. He rules by fear.
- Yeah, it's a real mafia organisation. A state within the state. Once you are in the mafia, there is no way out. You just do what you are told out of fear.
- Philosophy (and education and the truth for that matter) mean nothing in a mafia gang. All that counts is loyalty to the leader and the will to grab whatever power and money you can grab by whatever means you can think of.