Fun fact: Martin Kove was not the director's top choice to play John Kreese in The Karate Kid.
Current politics wikiboxes are pretty niche.
If they weren't, the thread dedicated to them would have much more traffic. Many people don't even know it exists.
Never knew that!Fun fact: Martin Kove was not the director's top choice to play John Kreese in The Karate Kid.
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Quite frankly I suggested probably the simplest solution that @CalBear could take and that is placing a banner above the reply box and with the text "Current Politics are not allowed here, please place all current politics Wikiboxes in the Current Politics Wikibox Thread" with a link to said Wikibox ThreadCurrent politics wikiboxes are pretty niche.
If they weren't, the thread dedicated to them would have much more traffic. Many people don't even know it exists.
Wait, what happened after 1972?Benny the Boss
(inspired by a post by @Persephone a few pages back)
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Benito "Benny" Mussolini, better known by his informal title of "Il Duce" (the duke) was one of the most notorious and succesful gangsters of the 20th century, and is widely recognized as being the main force behind the establishment of "The Comission" and the National Crime Syndicate.
Born in the town of Predappio, northern Italy, to modest parents, Benito's family soon emigrated to the United States, setting up shop in New York city. Benito grew up in Little Italy experiencing the hardships of a poor immigrant upbringing. It didn't take long for the child to get involved in petty criminal activities, seeking opportunities wherever they could be found.
By the early 1900's Benny, as he was known to his friends, had set up business running a gambling den. It's believed that around this time he caught the attention of Don Guiseppe Morello, head of the Morello Crime family. Even though Mussolini had no Sicilian blood in him, Guiseppe adopted him into his family, recognizing Benny's talent at management and natural charisma. By 1910 "Big Talk Benny" (a knickname originating from his predisposition to giving speeches), was a Capo in the family, controling a number of gambling, prostitution and extortion operations around all over Dontown Manhattan. At that same year Morello was arrested under charges of counterfeiting, and his criminal empire in New York was split between Mussolini, Guiseppe "Joe" Masseria and Salvatore D'Aquila.
Mussolini was constantly at odds with other members of the Italian criminal world due to his non-sicilian blood. "Blood alone moves the wheels of this Business" - proclaimed him once, in relation to his family history. Nevertheless his intense belief in a organized business structure (modeled after the Roman Legions, as Mussolini had a historical fascination with said Empire), ensured a more stable operation when compared to his sicilian rivals.
By the 1920's with the advent of Prohibition the Mussolini Crime Family was well established and more powerfull than ever. In 1922 Morello was released from prison and D'Aquila, fearing a threat from his former boss, decided to have him assassinated. Masseria sided with Morello, and Mussolini did the same. Sporadic fighting would go on in NYC until, in 1925, Italo Balbo, a top lieutenant of Mussolini, reportedly assassinated D'Aquila in the streets of the Bronx. From them on the city was divided between Benny "Il Duce" Mussolini and Joe Masseria (Morello settled for being Masseria's consiglieri). Mussolini's power was unprecedented in the criminal world, and he had connections to every facet of business in the city. His ties extended further, with him maintaining good relations with Buffalo, Atlantic City, Philadelphia and the Torio Outfit (later the Capone Outfit) in Chicago. His political connections were also numerous. In one (possibly false) tale, Mussolini once slapped a city councilman he had been bribing. Mussolini then uttered "I have no patience for politics."
By 1930 the tensions between the Mussolini and the Masseria families reached a boiling point, and war for control of the city broke out. The Predappioni War (named after Mussolini's birthplace) created national news and left multiple dead on both sides. By 1931 Mussolini had set up a deal with Masseria's liutenant Salvatore "Lucky" Luciano. On April 15 1931 two shooters (reportedly Luciano and Galeazzo "The Count" Cianno, who was Mussolini's son-in-law) shot Masseria to death while he dined in his restaurant. Mussolini and Luciano then divided New York among the "Five Families", agreeing to set up a "Comission" to handle conflicts between the mafia in the future.
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While there was no official leader, Mussolini was viewed by many as the de facto "Capo di tutti capi" (boss of all bosses). This often generated a tense business relationship between himself and other bosses such as Luciano, Vincent Mangano, Frank Costello, and Joseph Profaci. Another point of contention was Mussolini's overt anti-semitism, with his hostile position towards jewish assossiates such as Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel. For these reasons many saw Benny Mussolini as a "Moustache Pete", an oldschool italian gangster who had no place in modern crime. To his benefit, however, Mussolini never pushed his claim of Boss of all bosses forward. Nor did he openly attack other families dealings with non-italians.
Throughout the 1930's the Mussolini Crime Family was recognized as the most powerful criminal organization in the U.S. Many of Benny's lieutenants such as Italo "The Marshal" Balbo, Michael "Lefty" Bianchi, and Constanzo Cianno (Galeazzo's father) where held in as much esteem as other Don's. Two of Benny's son's, Vittorio and Bruno were also involved in the criminal business. In 1939 Constanzo died of a heart attack. The following year Balbo was arrested for racketeering, and the year after that Bruno Mussolini was shot dead in the streets (some theorize over gambling debts). This string of events, combined with increasing pressure from the other families and law enforcement, convinced Mussolini to retire in 1943.
In 1945, however, Mussolini had a change of heart, and came out of retirement. This reignited federal attention on the family and feuds with Luciano and Meyer Lansky. On the 28th of April, 1945, Benny "Il Duce" Mussolini was visiting the barber when two men walked in and fired 11 shots at him. Mussolini was dead at the spot. Who ordered the hit remains a matter of debate. Most theorize Luciano, while other likely suspects are Frank Costello, Albert Anastasia, Vincent Mangano, or even his own son-in-law, Cianno, who wished to return to a position of power.
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The ore supplies of Relevantium were depleted.Wait, what happened after 1972?
Considering most of them were essentially poor reruns of the last couple of US presidential elections most of us nonAmericans who read this thread don't consider it much of a loss.They made up a significant portion of previous threads. This only proves my point as the isolation of anything remotely related to current politics has likely snuffed out content.
A lot of the big Current Politics wikibox producers tend to post a lot of their work in their test threads instead.Current politics wikiboxes are pretty niche.
If they weren't, the thread dedicated to them would have much more traffic. Many people don't even know it exists.
If 9/11 Didn't happen or was averted/If the World Trade Center wasn't targeted/If the World Trade Center avoided destruction
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Ive read during the planning of 9/11 on Wiki, the Sears Tower, the Empire State Building, the Prudential Tower in Boston, the U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles, the Transamerica Pyramid, and the Columbia Center in Seattle were also targeted besides the WTC and pentagon.So on 9/11, the Twin Towers are not hit but planes but the Sears Tower in Chicago is? Then later on the Freedom Tower is built in the Sears Tower's place?
Hmm, seems interesting.
Well King of the Uzbeks, I bet that this interesting infobox will become one of the top 15 most liked infoboxes on this thread.
Saturday Night Live?I'm suddenly reminded of a television comedy sketch...