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Can you name a Mafia? There are lots. I'll start. Dixie Mafia. What other Mafias are there?

Posted - April 2, 2019

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  • 44595
    Sicilian Mafia. I knew one. Nice guy. He gave us the password to his private strip club.
      April 2, 2019 9:08 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    Yeah.  So nice.  That's why they called them GOODFELLAS.
      April 2, 2019 9:09 AM MDT
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  • Fun fact: The Sicilian Mafia refer to their organization as "Cosa Nostra" which literally just means "Our Thing". How delightfully vague. 
      April 2, 2019 10:21 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    Black Hand (Italian: Mano Nera) was a type of Italian and Italian-American extortion racket. It was a method of extortion, not a criminal organization as such, though gangsters of Camorra and the Mafia practiced it.

    Thank you.  I got it mixed up with this.  I thought Cosa Nostra was black hand.  I never bothered to consider the WORDS don't match. 
      April 2, 2019 10:50 AM MDT
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  • 6098
    Joseph Merlino - Philadelphia mafia. 
      April 2, 2019 9:13 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    Nice.  Didn't know that one.  I'm wondering if there are Mafias in every major city.
      April 2, 2019 9:32 AM MDT
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  • 44595
    We had a major Jewish mafia here in Toledo in the 30s-50s.
      April 2, 2019 9:38 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    LOL  I'm thinking of all kinds of funny names they can call themselves, but I cannot print them.  

    No I am not anti-semetic.  I love the JEWSIES.
      April 2, 2019 9:41 AM MDT
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  • 6023
    Russian Mafia

    Yakuza (Japanese Mafia)
      April 2, 2019 9:17 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    Oh the RUSSIAN MAFIA?  I think our President is friends with a lot of them.

    Yakuza?  Didn't know their name.  THANK YOU.
      April 2, 2019 9:33 AM MDT
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  • 469
    "Wannabe mobster" Ronald Galati from Philly.  
      April 2, 2019 9:38 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    That is not a Mafia.  

    That is a criminal.
      April 2, 2019 9:39 AM MDT
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  • 469
    Same difference!  
      April 2, 2019 9:41 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    I don't want you to think I'm a jerk. I love you.
      April 2, 2019 9:56 AM MDT
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  • 469
    I knew you did!  Right back atcha!  
      April 2, 2019 2:37 PM MDT
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  • I think there might be a Redneck Mafia ... but don't tell anyone I said that.
      April 2, 2019 9:40 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    Yeah.  It's called Hell's Angels.
      April 2, 2019 9:42 AM MDT
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  • Vroom Vroom!  :)
      April 2, 2019 9:44 AM MDT
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  • Not really.  The Outlaws are the redneck  MC.
      April 2, 2019 3:20 PM MDT
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  • 34219
    Amish Mafia
      April 2, 2019 9:45 AM MDT
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  • That's the most dangerous of all.  They can give you really dirty looks ... :)
      April 2, 2019 9:46 AM MDT
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  • 5391
    They can shun you with the best of them. 
      April 2, 2019 11:42 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    LOL.  They took "shunning" to the extreme, I'm thinking.
      April 2, 2019 11:46 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    Isn't THAT a creepy one?  It's like the Evangelical mafia or something. It just does not fit.  They are so wholesome and quaint and all.

    POW POW POW!!! Yer DEAD.  

    It's like the Vatican Mafia or something.  LOL  This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at April 2, 2019 2:41 PM MDT
      April 2, 2019 9:48 AM MDT
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