It's a fantastic film. I have a poster of Shimura from a different movie but I'm definitely Seven Samurai Shimura ITT.
can you explain what you meant or do I just sheep it
i believe it is infection gameplay where the scum are guards and infect other guards to turn coat
The Mafia began as an extralegal force in the 19th century, during the reign of the Bourbons of Naples, and coinciding with Sicily's transition from feudalism to capitalism. Under feudalism, the nobility owned most of the land and enforced the law through their private armies. After 1812, the feudal barons steadily sold off or rented their lands to private citizens. Primogeniture was abolished, land could no longer be seized to settle debts, and one fifth of the land became private property of the peasants.[43] After Italy annexed Sicily in 1860, it redistributed a large share of public and church land to private citizens. The result was a huge increase in the number of landowners â from 2,000 in 1812 to 20,000 by 1861.[44]
With this increase in property owners and commerce came more disputes that needed settling, contracts that needed enforcing, transactions that needed oversight, and properties that needed protecting. The barons released their private armies to let the state take over the job of enforcing the law, but the new authorities were not up to the task, largely due to clashes between official law and local customs.[45] Lack of manpower was also a problem; there were often fewer than 350 active policemen for the entire island. Some towns did not have any permanent police force, and were only visited every few months by some troops to collect malcontents, leaving criminals to operate with impunity in the interim.[46] Compounding these problems was banditry. Rising food prices,[44] the loss of public and church lands,[43] and the loss of feudal commons pushed many desperate peasants to steal. In the face of rising crime, booming commerce, and inefficient law enforcement, property owners turned to extralegal arbitrators and protectors. These extralegal protectors eventually organized themselves into the first Mafia clans.
In countryside towns that lacked formal constabulary, local elites responded to banditry by recruiting young men into "companies-at-arms" to hunt down thieves and negotiate the return of stolen property, in exchange for a pardon for the thieves and a fee from the victims.[47] These companies-at-arms were often made up of former bandits and criminals, usually the most skilled and violent of them.[44] This saved communities the trouble of training their own policemen, but it may have made the companies-at-arms more inclined to collude with their former brethren rather than destroy them.[44] Scholars such as Salvatore Lupo have identified these groups as "proto-Mafia".
1900 map of Mafia presence in Sicily. Towns with Mafia activity are marked as red dots. The Mafia operated mostly in the west, in areas of rich agricultural productivity.
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The early Mafia was deeply involved with citrus growers and cattle ranchers, as these industries were particularly vulnerable to thieves and vandals and thus badly needed protection. Citrus plantations had a fragile production system that made them quite vulnerable to sabotage.[51] Likewise, cattle are very easy to steal. The Mafia was often more effective than the police at recovering stolen cattle; in the 1920s, it was noted that the Mafia's success rate at recovering stolen cattle was 95%, whereas the police managed only 10%.[52]
In 1864, Niccolò Turrisi Colonna, leader of the Palermo National Guard, wrote of a "sect of thieves" that operated throughout Sicily. This "sect" was mostly rural, composed of cattle thieves, smugglers, wealthy farmers, and their guards.[53][54]
The sect made "affiliates every day of the brightest young people coming from the rural class, of the guardians of the fields in the Palermitan countryside, and of the large number of smugglers; a sect which gives and receives protection to and from certain men who make a living on traffic and internal commerce. It is a sect with little or no fear of public bodies, because its members believe that they can easily elude this."[55]
It had special signals for members to recognize each other, offered protection services, scorned the law, and had a code of loyalty and non-interaction with the police known as umirtĂ ("code of silence").[54][56] Colonna warned in his report that the Italian government's brutal and clumsy attempts to crush crime only made the problem worse by alienating the populace. An 1865 dispatch from the prefect of Palermo to Rome first officially described the phenomenon as a "Mafia".[23][57] An 1876 police report provides the earliest known description of the familiar initiation ritual.[58]
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inb4 tl;dr if u say that ur a brainlet
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lucky is annoying as shit but i think his interpretation is plausible.
not reading that but uh dude theres guards asking other guards for signals and shit its sucmmy af
yeah shit's weird af. it's not nothing. something's going on
i dunno if it's infection gameplay like you're saying or faz's earlier theory of multiple scum that don't know who each other are but it's something like that
@mafiabot vote ian
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| Lynch | Votes | Voters |
|---|---|---|
| ian | 2 | epok, gwez |
| bazingaboy | 2 | LuckyArtist, Nyte |
| epok | 2 | DiendaMahdik, bazingaboy |
| faz | 2 | SCSF, sdadasdas |
| sdadasdas | 2 | electrowizard, ian |
| luckyartist | 1 | faZ |
| scsf | 1 | SuPA |
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Alive Players - 12
Majority Vote - 7
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why do u guys keep making it even holy shit
ok. given that we agree that our gracious host is taking his historical context setup seriously and framing the mafia as a protection racket and thus this "town guard" shit is essentially like saying "i'm mafia or about to be" i'm gonna ask u
why bazinga over ian? did i miss something?
I am hard and I am also claiming VT
nyte recommended it and wasnt gonna swithc and i didnt realize at the time by voting for bazinga i was just moving bazinga into the 2 vote scrum
@mafiabot lynch @bazingaboy
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