Mafia (Italian) vs Drug Cartels (Hispanic)

Who is stronger in organized crime>

  • Mafia

    Votes: 7 50.0%
  • Drug Cartels

    Votes: 7 50.0%

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Jesse Pinkman

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Who was stronger in their prime?

Mafia in their prime = Al Capone and Five Familes.

Cartels in their prime = Pablo Escobar, Lord of the Sky, and El Chapo.
 

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I voted for the drug cartels. One of the downfalls of the Italian Mafia/Five Families was involvement in drug trafficking. Too many Mafia guys would get pinched for drug offenses and then snitch on other Mafia guys for other offenses. See Henry Hill as an example.
 

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I voted for the drug cartels. One of the downfalls of the Italian Mafia/Five Families was involvement in drug trafficking. Too many Mafia guys would get pinched for drug offenses and then snitch on other Mafia guys for other offenses. See Henry Hill as an example.
TBH, the only reason the Mob got ahead is because the Jews focused on becoming educated and getting into academia and the Irish focused on becoming cops. In reality, the Irish gave the Italians marching orders in the northeast. Cartels did not care and even Irish Americans respect Hispanic Americans in a way that they will never respect Italian Americans.
 

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Mafia contributed to the success of Las Vegas.
 

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This topic reminds me discussion with my friends at the kindergarden about who was stronger between robocop and terminator.
Terminator cause he has better mobility.
 

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The "mob" was both Italian and Jewish, and the current "Russian mob" is also jewish. Lol I think the caption on the link should read "Jewish-American organized blue collar crime".

But to answer the question, it's the cartels. The mobs had the feds against them, the cartels have the feds working with them.
 

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Robocop is cooler, but the Terminator could probably run circles around him. Well, at least the Robocop I remember from the 80s.
 

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None are as strong as the Maple Syrup Mafia in Quebec. They control 70% of the world's maple syrup. The Netflix documentary was pretty interesting.

They are also backed by the government who has said in a court ruling when independent distributors sued that anyone who wants to sell maple syrup there needs to join their syndicate.

If that's not power, I don't know what is.

None of the other gangs ever had the official support of their governments.
 

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Pretty sure it’s the cartels. I don’t recall special forces ever being used to arrest a mob boss. Cartels often have the backing of police and military
 

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None are as strong as the Maple Syrup Mafia in Quebec. They control 70% of the world's maple syrup. The Netflix documentary was pretty interesting.

They are also backed by the government who has said in a court ruling when independent distributors sued that anyone who wants to sell maple syrup there needs to join their syndicate.

If that's not power, I don't know what is.

None of the other gangs ever had the official support of their governments.
No one fvcks with the Avocado Cartel.
 
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