Like seriously what is to be gained from ur home town mafia being the strongest. Does that make you proud to be from chicago? Why root for these guys? They wouldnt root for you. Hell they probably dont even root for each other. Whats the fucking point? Why are you proud that chicago has a powerful crime family? I hate seeing fuckin nerds on here goin around calling other nerds fanboys bc everyone is on here bc of some kind of interest in this thing. Im not worried about any kinda morality about how one makes a living, you do what u gotta do. But ur not gonna see me go "Boy i wish the decavalcantes will regroup in the shadows and i will defend their credibility to my grave!"... Its fuckin stupid and childish. Grow up. Shits getting old
Out of the mouths of babes. Kid's 19 years old and he made more sense with this post than almost anyone in the entire thread.
The truth is, none of these families are what they used to be. None of them. They'll always be around to a degree because crime will always be here, but it will never be the same. And sure, guys like the DiFronzos are insanely rich. But guys like Matty and Fat Tony left
generational wealth behind, too. But their kids and grandkids are completely removed from the scene so you don't read about it.
But it doesn't matter, anyway. Whether it's New York, Chicago, Boston or fucking New Orleans. My point is, there aren't any 20 year old kids coming up today who are going to make money like that ever again. The DiFronzos and Salernos and Accardos and Gambinos of this world got to keep their money and leave it behind. But if anyone thinks that guys are going to build that kind of money and legacy from the ground up today, they're out of their collective fucking minds. The Government won't allow it, and that's that.
But also remember that many posters on here were not old enough to remember when the the mob was the strongest. I can understand why they want to see them be powerful cause they missed out on the time when people would turn on the news and a few times a year they would open their cities paper and see "Gangland Slaying. Looks like its tied to local organized crime."
Get over it, kid. You were born too late. You'll never know what life was like around these guys when they were strong. Movies like "Goodfellas" and (especially) "A Bronx Tale" were very accurate. I was born in '59, grew up in the Belmont section of the Bronx at the same time as Chazz Palminteri did, and he did a great job of recreating that area and that era. But it's never going to be like that again.
