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The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy

204 points · 269 comments · runeks

glimshe · 1790334077 · focus · HN ↗
"For years I paid my people extra so they wouldn't do that kind of business. Somebody comes to them and says, 'I have powders; if you put up three, four thousand dollar investment, we can make fifty thousand distributing.' So they can't resist. I want to control it as a business, to keep it respectable. I don't want it near schools! I don't want it sold to children! That's an infamia."
When AI can write screenplays like this one, then it's game over.
1. dmos62 · 1790334872 · focus · HN ↗
  Expand? This is part of plot to The Godfather. Not what you'd call exotic, I'd think?
  1. glimshe · 1790336752 · focus · HN ↗
    It's just considered one of the best movies and screenplays of all time. My quote is a relevant line in said movie.
    nixon_why69 · 1790340996 · focus · HN ↗
    You missed the kicker at the end where he says just sell it to the blacks, they're animals anyways. Leaving that out makes it sound noble.
    glimshe · 1790342478 · focus · HN ↗
    That was deliberate. I don't think a casual reader, like most are, would have understood the nuance and the post would have been another casualty of indignation culture. I got downvotes as it was!
    nixon_why69 · 1790343411 · focus · HN ↗
    Fair, it could sound like you were endorsing it instead of just sharing a wicked movie quote.

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