Mafia Dangan Ronpa: War Room Mafia - Endgame - 1/30/15

[Mijzelffan]

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History [edit]
The genesis of Cosa Nostra is hard to trace because mafiosi are very secretive and do not keep historical records of their own. In fact, they have been known to spread deliberate lies about their past, and sometimes come to believe in their own myths.[13]

Post-feudal Sicily [edit]
The Brigand family, 19th century
Modern scholars believe that the Mafia's seeds were planted in the upheaval of Sicily's transition out of feudalism beginning in 1812 and its later annexation by mainland Italy in 1860. Under feudalism, the nobility owned most of the land and enforced law and order 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 was to become private property of the peasants.[14]

Well I am already studying history, so who knows!

 

[HumanDawn]

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Incredible! History is so amazing!

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[Mijzelffan]

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After Italy annexed Sicily in 1860, it redistributed a large share of public and church land to private citizens. The result was a huge boom in landowners: from 2,000 in 1812 to 20,000 by 1861.[15] The nobles also released their private armies to let the state take over the task of law enforcement. However, the authorities were incapable of properly enforcing property rights and contracts, largely due to their inexperience with free market capitalism.[16] Lack of manpower was also a problem: there were often less than 350 active policemen for the entire island. Some towns did not have any permanent police force, only visited every few months by some troops to collect malcontents, leaving criminals to operate with impunity from the law in the interim.[17] With more property owners and commercial activity came more disputes that needed settling, contracts that needed enforcing, transactions that needed oversight, and properties that needed protecting. Because the authorities were undermanned and unreliable, property owners turned to extralegal arbitrators and protectors. These extralegal protectors would eventually organize themselves into the first Mafia clans.

By the way your gifs reminded me I still need to watch the last episode of sailor moon crystal so we're being mutually benificial to each other!

 

[HumanDawn]

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I feel like I could save a life with what you've been teaching me, mijz.

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[Mijzelffan]

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The oldest reference to Mafia groups in Sicily dates back to 1838, in a report of the General Prosecutor of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, although the term "mafia" was not used. Historian Salvatore Lupo described the phenomenon as proto-Mafia.[18] The report described the phenomenon rather than the name: "In many villages, there are unions or fraternities – kinds of sects – which are called partiti, with no political colour or goal, with no meeting places, and with no other bond but that of dependency on a chief."[6][19][20][21]

Banditry was a serious problem at the time. Rising food prices,[15] the loss of public and church lands,[14] and the loss of feudal commons pushed many desperate peasants to banditry. With no police to call upon, local elites in countryside towns recruited 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.[22] These companies-at-arms were often made up of former bandits and criminals, usually the most skilled and violent of them.[15] While this saved communities the trouble of training their own policemen, it may have made the companies-at-arms more inclined to collude with their former brethren rather than destroy them.[15]

For reference purposes this is the 10th informational post about the sicilian mafia, wow!

 

[HumanDawn]

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I love knowledge so much... I'm blushing....

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[Mijzelffan]

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There was little Mafia activity in the eastern half of Sicily. This did not mean there was little violence; the most violent conflicts over land took place in the east, but they did not involve mafiosi.[22] In the east, the ruling elites were more cohesive and active during the transition from feudalism to capitalism. They maintained their large stables of enforcers, and were able to absorb or suppress any emerging violent groups.[23] Furthermore, the land in the east was generally divided into a smaller number of large estates, so there were fewer landowners and their large estates often required its guardians to patrol it full-time. This meant that guardians of such estates tended to be bound to a single employer, giving them little autonomy or leverage to demand high payments.[24]

Why must there be so much violence in the world ;_;

 

[HumanDawn]

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Knowledge is so sexy, honestly when I see books what I really see is this:

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[Mijzelffan]

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Mafia activity was most prevalent in the most prosperous areas of western Sicily, especially Palermo, where the dense concentrations of landowners and merchants offered ample opportunities for protection racketeering and extortion. There, the estates tended to be smaller than in the east, and thus did not require the total, round-the-clock attention of a protector. A protector could thus afford to serve multiple clients, giving him greater independence. The greater number of clients demanding protection also allowed him to charge high prices.[24] The landowners in this region were also frequently absent and could not watch over their properties should the protector withdraw, further increasing his bargaining power.[25]
The lucrative citrus orchards around Palermo were a favorite target of extortionists and protection racketeers, as they had a fragile production system that made them quite vulnerable to sabotage.[26] Mafia clans forced landowners to hire their members as custodians by scaring away unaffiliated applicants.[27] Cattle ranchers were also very vulnerable to thieves, and so they too needed mafioso protection.

Those boobs on chibusa... that ain't right.

 

[HumanDawn]

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So much violence yeah... If only Sailor Moon was real, then all the violence in the world would stop.

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[Mijzelffan]

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In 1864, Niccolò Turrisi Colonna, leader of the Palermo National Guard, wrote of a "sect of thieves" that operated across Sicily. This "sect" was mostly rural, composed of cattle thieves, smugglers, wealthy farmers and their guards.[19][28] 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."[29] It had special signals to recognize each other, offered protection services, scorned the law and had a code of loyalty and non-interaction with the police known as umirtà ("code of silence").[28][30] 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".[5][31] An 1876 police report makes the earliest known description of the familiar initiation ritual.[32]

sects of thieves man, what'ya gonna do about it

 

[HumanDawn]

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Yeah what the heck is up with those breasts.... I guess immortality lets only breasts grow...

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[Mijzelffan]

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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.
Mafiosi meddled in politics early on, bullying voters into voting for candidates they favored. At this period in history, only a small fraction of the Sicilian population could vote, so a single mafia boss could control a sizable chunk of the electorate and thus wield considerable political leverage.[33] Mafiosi used their allies in government to avoid prosecution as well as persecute less well-connected rivals. The highly fragmented and shaky Italian political system allowed cliques of Mafia-friendly politicians to exert a lot of influence.[11]
In a series of reports between 1898 and 1900, Ermanno Sangiorgi, the police chief of Palermo, identified 670 mafiosi belonging to eight Mafia clans that went through alternating phases of cooperation and conflict.[34] The report mentioned initiation rituals and codes of conduct, as well as criminal activities that included counterfeiting, kidnappings for ransom, murder, robbery and witness intimidation. The Mafia also maintained funds to support the families of imprisoned members and pay defense lawyers.[35]

Aww what a cute mako-chan.

 

[HumanDawn]

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How much is left!? My brain can't take all of this...

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[Mijzelffan]

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Fascist suppression[edit]
Main article: Sicilian mafia during the fascism
In 1925, Benito Mussolini initiated a campaign to destroy the Mafia and assert Fascist control over Sicilian life. The Mafia threatened and undermined his power in Sicily, and a successful campaign would strengthen him as the new leader, legitimizing and empowering his rule.[36] Not only would this be a great propaganda coup for Fascism, but it would also provide an excuse to suppress his political opponents on the island, since many Sicilian politicians had Mafia links.
As prime minister, he visited Sicily in May 1924 and passed through Piana dei Greci where he was received by the mayor/Mafia boss Francesco Cuccia. At some point Cuccia expressed surprise at Mussolini’s police escort and whispered in his ear: "You are with me, you are under my protection. What do you need all these cops for?" After Mussolini rejected Cuccia's offer of protection, the sindaco, feeling he had been slighted, instructed the townsfolk to not attend the duce's speech. Mussolini felt humiliated and outraged.[37][38]

Facism is not communist-approved. Also this is the 15th post, time sure flies when having fun.

 

[HumanDawn]

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Me right now....:

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[Mijzelffan]

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Cuccia’s careless remark has passed into history as the catalyst for Mussolini’s war on the Mafia. When Mussolini firmly established his power in January 1925, he appointed Cesare Mori as the Prefect of Palermo in October 1925 and granted him special powers to fight the Mafia.[37] Mori formed a small army of policemen, carabinieri and militiamen, which went from town to town, rounding up suspects. To force suspects to surrender, they would take their families hostage, sell off their property,[39] or publicly slaughter their livestock.[40] By 1928, over 11,000 suspects were arrested.[41] Confessions were sometimes extracted through beatings and torture. Some mafiosi who had been on the losing end of Mafia feuds voluntarily cooperated with prosecutors,[42] perhaps as a way of obtaining protection and revenge. Charges of Mafia association were typically leveled at poor peasants andgabellotti (farm leaseholders), but were avoided when dealing with major landowners.[43] Many were tried en masse.[44][45] More than 1,200 were convicted and imprisoned,[46] and many others were internally exiled without trial.[47]

Sailuhr moown

 

[HumanDawn]

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saaaaiiiiiiillaaaaaa mooooooonnnn~~

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[Mijzelffan]

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Mori's campaign ended in June 1929 when Mussolini recalled him to Rome. Although he did not permanently crush the Mafia as the Fascist press proclaimed, his campaign was nonetheless very successful at suppressing it. As the Mafia informant Antonino Calderone reminisced: "The music changed. Mafiosi had a hard life. [...] After the war the mafia hardly existed anymore. The Sicilian Families had all been broken up."[47]
Sicily's murder rate sharply declined.[48] Landowners were able to raise the legal rents on their lands; sometimes as much as ten-thousandfold.[42] Many mafiosi fled to the United States. Among these were Carlo Gambino andJoseph Bonanno, who would go on to become powerful Mafia bosses in New York City.

What a pretty rei gif. Was that from the finale I still need to see?

 

[HumanDawn]

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This is my favourite scene from Sailor Moon tbh:

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I think that's from the Opening.