'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?

Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by saithound on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:32PM (#50374392)

Yeah, we remember. And thanks to the attitude displayed in your comment, these complaints were not taken seriously. until these specific Italians ended up with control of massive illegitimate industries, gambling, and loan sharking, ran protection rackets that victimised and intimidated thousands of legitimate small businesses, and murdered hundreds of innocents.

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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by linksnapzz on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:09PM (#50374664)

...which was finally ended by the RICO act; which is almost certainly unconstitutional, but has been allowed to fester b/c the Mob was (so far) worse.

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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by cucumber3732842 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @08:36AM (#50378906)

>but has been allowed to fester b/c the Mob was (so far) worse.

It's been allowed to fester because the late 20th century was (so far) the high water mark for societal tolerance of that sort of thing and it hasn't been abused enough since to really see much legal scrutiny.

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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by skinfaxi on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:10PM (#50374676)

So people should have been discriminatory against Italians? What are you getting at?

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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by FiniteField on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:15AM (#50377414)

There was always the option to just not let them in in the first place. Many people at the time (HP Lovecraft being an example) thought that Ellis-Island migration into the United States was an existential mistake.

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