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A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived

https://archive.md/bzPSR

Reminds me of the story of Andre Camara, who photographed a favela drug war in the mid 80s.

Take away: criminals are vain too.

2 hours agoweinzierl

For those who don’t know: the film City of God is based on this, and it’s a great movie. One of my all-time favorites. The directing, acting photography and storytelling are all very well done. Worth anyone’s time.

2 hours agoarticulatepang

I have to rewatch what, been a decade.

an hour agobarrenko

From 2002. It's crazy how happy I was to have 360p mpeg rips back then. I'm gonna have to re-pirate it tonight.

26 minutes agonoduerme

Yup, they want to be documented. Tale as old as time.

2 hours agojama211

It angers me that Fascist Italy could push the Mafia to the brink of extinction but Democratic Italy can’t.

2 hours agonull_deref

They pushed them out of Italy, which forced mafia to adapt in the US, eventually becoming richer and stronger. A much more powerful transnational mafia returned back to Italy.

7 minutes agoviktorcode

That’s just the state mafia replacing the other.

14 minutes agonkrisc

Why does that anger you? Democracy is fundamentally unable to solve such issues.

an hour agoblell

Nearly every democratic country in the world is a counter example to this, what do you mean exactly?

10 minutes agoEtheryte

Please elaborate I think there’re quite a few examples that contradict this

26 minutes agonull_deref

One Mafia pushed the other out. No improvement for normal people.

an hour agolocallost

They can, they just don’t do it. This is the case in every western „liberal democracy“.

an hour agoMrBuddyCasino

They just loooooove the campaign contributions.

an hour agoalecco

Off topic, but I'm always amazed by Archive.md/.is/whatever. To this day I don't understand how they manage to bypass a lot of paywalls.

The mystery about the owner makes it even more intriguing.

2 hours agoreddalo

I assume they just pretend to be the Googlebot so the site just gives the text.

30 minutes agoamouat

I just assumed they copied it into their own db

2 hours agojama211

Given to how many people its existence must be incredibly infuriating, it's so odd that it's not being chased down with more haste than pirate bay was. I mean I'm glad it's not, but kinda surprised.