"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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Mafia (Italian) vs Drug Cartels (Hispanic)

Who is stronger in organized crime>

  • Mafia

    Votes: 7 50.0%
  • Drug Cartels

    Votes: 7 50.0%

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Jesse Pinkman

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Who was stronger in their prime?

Mafia in their prime = Al Capone and Five Familes.

Cartels in their prime = Pablo Escobar, Lord of the Sky, and El Chapo.
 

"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.

And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.

Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.

The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.

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I voted for the drug cartels. One of the downfalls of the Italian Mafia/Five Families was involvement in drug trafficking. Too many Mafia guys would get pinched for drug offenses and then snitch on other Mafia guys for other offenses. See Henry Hill as an example.
 

Jesse Pinkman

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I voted for the drug cartels. One of the downfalls of the Italian Mafia/Five Families was involvement in drug trafficking. Too many Mafia guys would get pinched for drug offenses and then snitch on other Mafia guys for other offenses. See Henry Hill as an example.
TBH, the only reason the Mob got ahead is because the Jews focused on becoming educated and getting into academia and the Irish focused on becoming cops. In reality, the Irish gave the Italians marching orders in the northeast. Cartels did not care and even Irish Americans respect Hispanic Americans in a way that they will never respect Italian Americans.
 

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Mafia contributed to the success of Las Vegas.
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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HaleyBaron

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This topic reminds me discussion with my friends at the kindergarden about who was stronger between robocop and terminator.
Terminator cause he has better mobility.
 

BillyPilgrim

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The "mob" was both Italian and Jewish, and the current "Russian mob" is also jewish. Lol I think the caption on the link should read "Jewish-American organized blue collar crime".

But to answer the question, it's the cartels. The mobs had the feds against them, the cartels have the feds working with them.
 

oOh Nasty

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Robocop is cooler, but the Terminator could probably run circles around him. Well, at least the Robocop I remember from the 80s.
 

"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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BackInTheGame78

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None are as strong as the Maple Syrup Mafia in Quebec. They control 70% of the world's maple syrup. The Netflix documentary was pretty interesting.

They are also backed by the government who has said in a court ruling when independent distributors sued that anyone who wants to sell maple syrup there needs to join their syndicate.

If that's not power, I don't know what is.

None of the other gangs ever had the official support of their governments.
 

Machine10033

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Pretty sure it’s the cartels. I don’t recall special forces ever being used to arrest a mob boss. Cartels often have the backing of police and military
 

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None are as strong as the Maple Syrup Mafia in Quebec. They control 70% of the world's maple syrup. The Netflix documentary was pretty interesting.

They are also backed by the government who has said in a court ruling when independent distributors sued that anyone who wants to sell maple syrup there needs to join their syndicate.

If that's not power, I don't know what is.

None of the other gangs ever had the official support of their governments.
No one fvcks with the Avocado Cartel.
 

"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."

Attraction runs on a clock.

She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.

The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."

One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.

Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.

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