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URI A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived
sooheon wrote 34 min ago:
The 2020 adaptation of ZeroZeroZero, mentioned in this article, is one
of the best crime shows I've ever seen, with basically zero buzz.
Pretty interesting reading the reason for the authenticity.
antirez wrote 1 hour 44 min ago:
Sciascia, btw, is one of the biggest thinkers and writers of '900. It
is not really defined by his mafia-related novels and takes. He used to
be friend with Borges, and was regarded as one of the top men in
humanistic culture. Disclaimer: I was born in a town (Campobello di
Licata) near his town (Racalmuto), but I'm not saying this because of
this fact.
If you never read Sciascia, I suggest you starting from his last, tiny
novel: "Una storia semplice". I believe there are English translations
that can be found around as ebook or used on eBay.
newsclues wrote 1 hour 57 min ago:
Modern version has spawned TV show
URI [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Saviano
lormayna wrote 1 hour 53 min ago:
Saviano is exactly one of the "antimafia professionals" that Sciascia
complained about.
null_deref wrote 3 hours 31 min ago:
It angers me that Fascist Italy could push the Mafia to the brink of
extinction but Democratic Italy canât.
silcoon wrote 1 min ago:
[delayed]
trhway wrote 1 hour 58 min ago:
With Putin's Russia transition to authoritarian and recently becoming
fully totalitarian, the Russian Mafia of 90s (with the 90s being the
most democratic time in Russian history), is pretty much no more. FSB
and police have replaced them in the protection and extortion domain.
Thus nowdays an arrested colonel of FSB or police may easily have a
couple cubic meters of money (euro and dollars) at home, to the envy
of many mafioso around the world. Or Chechnja - instead of many
smaller (and poorer and less organized) warlords of 90s, now there is
only one with personal army of 40000 and exploiting the whole region
in the style of the most cruel mafia.
pandajoy wrote 28 min ago:
How about America? And what about Trump?
viktorcode wrote 2 hours 6 min ago:
They pushed them out of Italy, which forced mafia to adapt in the US,
eventually becoming richer and stronger. A much more powerful
transnational mafia returned back to Italy.
nkrisc wrote 2 hours 13 min ago:
Thatâs just the state mafia replacing the other.
blell wrote 2 hours 51 min ago:
Why does that anger you? Democracy is fundamentally unable to solve
such issues.
Etheryte wrote 2 hours 9 min ago:
Nearly every democratic country in the world is a counter example
to this, what do you mean exactly?
dauertewigkeit wrote 1 hour 15 min ago:
Not true. Organized crime operates largely where people have
money, i.e. in Europe, it's mostly UK, Netherlands, Belgium,
Germany, Sweden...etc.
null_deref wrote 51 min ago:
Iâm no expert on global crime stats, but it feels like
organized crime used to be way more 'in your face.' Back in the
day, the countries you mentioned including Eastern Europe,
youâd hear about car bombings, public shootouts, and blatant
protection rackets. Doesn't the relative disappearance of that
kind of chaos suggest things have actually improved? Look at
the UK, for instance the fact that average police officers
patrol without firearms feels like a pretty strong indicator of
a more stable society, doesn't it?
blell wrote 1 hour 7 min ago:
Hell, Belgium is basically a narcostate at this point.
null_deref wrote 2 hours 26 min ago:
Please elaborate I think thereâre quite a few examples that
contradict this
MrBuddyCasino wrote 3 hours 24 min ago:
They can, they just donât do it. This is the case in every western
âliberal democracyâ.
alecco wrote 2 hours 48 min ago:
They just loooooove the campaign contributions.
locallost wrote 3 hours 26 min ago:
One Mafia pushed the other out. No improvement for normal people.
reddalo wrote 3 hours 49 min ago:
Off topic, but I'm always amazed by Archive.md/.is/whatever. To this
day I don't understand how they manage to bypass a lot of paywalls.
The mystery about the owner makes it even more intriguing.
moffkalast wrote 2 hours 27 min ago:
Given to how many people its existence must be incredibly
infuriating, it's so odd that it's not being chased down with more
haste than pirate bay was. I mean I'm glad it's not, but kinda
surprised.
dewey wrote 6 min ago:
The music or movie industry lobby is much more aggressive Iâd
assume.
amouat wrote 2 hours 29 min ago:
I assume they just pretend to be the Googlebot so the site just gives
the text.
dewey wrote 7 min ago:
Wonât work for any popular site. You can try that easily by using
extensions to set the user agent. If you are not checking the
public list of IPs that Google publishes for the crawler you are
doing it wrong.
jama211 wrote 3 hours 34 min ago:
I just assumed they copied it into their own db
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