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> Which part of this appeared to be pro-mafia to you?
Well, all of it. You put mafia folks into realm of rationality

Historians may debate to which extent Hitler, Stalin (and Vlad Tepes and Caligula and...) were rational. That doesn't make those historians who argue that they were in fact (more or less) rational "pro-Hitler" or "pro-Stalin".

In short, I don't think the word "pro" means what you think it means.

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