>by working in waste management, do you mean the ma- Were they really scared to use the m word? In the show Tony often calls it this thing of ours but never use a proper name for it. What did real life criminals call it?
>>217272476They probably avoid announcing they are in a crime family, and there may also be some level of denial.
>>217272476>In the show Tony often calls it this thing of ours but never use a proper name for it.thats the literal translation, cosa nostra means "our thing"
Would you like them to lean closer to the FBI listening devices and say>Why yes, I am a member of the Italian-American crime syndicate known as Cosa Nostra. I am in the mafia. The mob.
>>217272476U didn't name drop lcn (la cosa nostra) or omerta. you certainly didn't say mafia. they'd have trained these words out of their vocabulary. joe columbo had all mention of those 3 words removed from the godfather script *allegedly*
>>217272476"thing of ours" is what they unironically still call it
>>217272476This is racism against Italian Americans, anon
>>217272476>Its a stereotype, and its OFFENSIVESopranwoke