The irony of this scene is that a member of the mafia talks about hard working italians with pride, not realizing that it's people like him that soil their image.
@Lala Pala completely untrue. mobsters extort businesses, harassing owners/workers to pay up then shut up. they would slit your throat if it meant they would stay in business/out of jail. they were not heroes in their community. honest hard working Italians did not look up to them or appreciate them. Criminals are criminals, regardless of whatever code their gang pretends to live by. I don't understand how somebody could watch this show and think Tony was a stand up guy or had any idea about hard work and honesty. He murdered friends in cold blood and stole from everything and everyone. What made him complex was his desire to be a good father and raise children who could be better than him. Otherwise, he was a total sociopath.
What many people don't understand is that the Mafia was more than what they think they were. The Mafia was more than just an organization. It was a family. Something that a lot of simple minded people wouldn't even know about. When the mob was first formed in sicily it was created to protect the innocent inhabitants of the island from back then northern Italian aggressors. When they arrived to America they needed to find a way to make money during prohibition and the Depression and that's where crime came into the picture. Therefore associating the Mafia with criminal acts which leads to 1920s gangster stereotypes. The mob wasn't and aren't a bunch of guys in nice suits with chicago type writers talking like old Moe from the three stooges.
@@zachbocchino5501 they were criminals, descended from thugs who helped sicilian land owners brutalise peasants into submission. There is nothing glorious honourable about the mafia in any of its incarnations.
@@Evemeister12 You...clearly do not...know your history. And being Italian myself. The fact that you think the Mafia was originated from cold hearted criminals offends me.
@@zachbocchino5501 I have no problem offending someone who wishes to defend the mafia in any way. There is nothing honourable about their origins or their present establishment. They were created to protect the interests of greedy landowners in southern italy. And from there they became even more evil.
brilliant writing... Tony talking about Italians not asking the government for help, while Tony is showing a house to AJ that he's using to literally get money from the government
This is the point and I don't understand why no one else is seeing it. I love the hypocrisy in his speech. There's certainly a grain of truth in it, but at the end of the day he's doing the same thing he's pissed at other people for doing. My dad used to bring me around South Buffalo and talk about the Irish grandparents and what not who made it nice and the insinuation was that now that it's Black, it's a shit hole. While that wasn't wrong, what he didn't realize is that it's all cyclical. Has nothing to do with race. Just circumstance. This scene captured that perfectly.
@@californiacombativesclub202 The show exists to portray tony and his ideals as mostly hypocrisy with a small dash of humanity. Taking the show at face value is the wrong way to approach it. The people cheering on his antics are villains in their own right.
@@sixforks6543 No, we cheer Tony on b/c at least he makes his own money. He only takes out pieces of shit, like the homies on the block. Tony might be a jerk, but he's not laying around getting welfare
@@jasonhelwig1902 No it did, for all Tony's talk of hertitage and culture and how great his people are, he doesn't actually make an effort to live like the ancestors he is so proud of. Just like how he is happy to brag to his son about a church he personally never built or attends.
Gotta love how Tony shoots down AJ's every attempt to engage with the subject matter, ask questions or think for himself, then gets uptight when he loses interest.
at first tony stares at him coz he thinks aj is being a smart arse but then he realises how thick he really is and that aj was being serious and has a look of dissapointment
@@dkeelz when I saw the Church scene I thought It was being guard by Tony's henchmen because that could be a another reason why that Church was clean .
This scene is a perfect biome for the whole series. Tony, a man steeped in multiple disciplines of crime and evil, still feels that he's somehow different than other criminals and evil-doers for some reasons I'm not sure I understand. The show humanises the mobsters a lot but it never, ever lets you forget that at the end of the day they were a bunch of criminals motivated by nothing but cash and power.
but for sure he is different. He takes care of his son and family, doesnt bow people´s head with a gun to stole a cellphone, different than the "minories"
@@LIGIERJS111979 yeah he really is different, he doesn't take a gun to people's heads, he just kills people, extorts under threat of violence or death, a true stand up man. Obviously loves his family too, all the cheating on his wife with prostitutes, raising a kid that ends up depressed and a daughter who ends up relatively ok only because she moves away from his environment.
Tony's implying it is obvious that it's a black neighbourhood because of the horrible state it is in. He's implying blacks are lazy people and responsible for the collapse of the town.
@@rodismantle2809 social media really screws you up. I got a FB account two years ago, used it for a year before I realized it was making me anxious. Now all I use is messenger for friends and I feel much better. I don't post anything on it. It's ridiculous honestly if you reply to something and say the wrong thing It's taken out of proportion and your blocked. My friends always want me to go back and I NEVER will. Also how is this clip owning the liberals? Is it implying that everyone should stay in their own neighborhood
@@Sean12248 Yeah I don't get how this clip owns the liberals either. The uploader is one of those conservative s who seems to have liberals on the brain inserting them into any and everything.
The irony isn't lost but nonetheless Tony's right about Italian Americans giving a $hit about doing well and pulling themselves up by their bootstraps when arriving to the U.S.
Tony talks about hard work, but he makes a living stealing. Most people don’t understand the show is making fun of the mafia yeah just a bunch of crooks and psychos.
Tony believed that Italian Americans were better than everybody else. We really got to give a lot of credit to those who made this show including the actors and the actresses. So many messed up in the head characters and we couldn't take our eyes off this show.
Tony in this scene is essentially complaining about his own generation of Italians allowing the area to turn into a dump. They were the ones who stopped going to church leading to the community church dying and community cohesion falling apart. Then those same Italians made money and left the area. Decades later the older Italians in the area are mostly dead or in nursing homes and the young Italians left a long time ago. Tony blames the blacks. But it’s really his generation of Italians who led to that area failing by leaving.
Not only that, but just like within the "black neighborhoods", once many Italians attained wealth, they sought to "up" their status by moving out of that Italian neighbourhood into "white" areas to better "assimilate" as "Americans" (in their apparent reasoning).
You must not have watched the show. He mentioned to Juliana Skiff that the Italians (now of means) moved up “Ginny Gultch”. They outgrew their humble means and moved to a more affluent neighborhood.
I love how no matter how nuanced and levelled this show is, there will always be dude bros trying to boil it down to “liberals get destroyed by facts and the real way” shame
+Sasha Harney Maddon a mi. This chridrule just doesn't quit. Why do you have to use that derogatory term for? I'm not black, but I still don't feel as though that word was necessary.
If they ever made a Godfather Part 4 and it continues with Anthony Garcia restoring his character as Vincent Corleone the new Don of the Corleone family that would have been awesome to see but also it would have been interesting if James Gandolfini we're still alive he would have played an important role in that movie it would be interesting if they had James Gandolfini playing Vincent's bodyguard and his best friend as well as a Godfather to his children and to support this movie they would have Al Pacino restoring his role as Michael Corleone and talk to you about his life after he lost his daughter during the events of Godfather Part 3 pretty much talking about his life afterwards. And I'm thinking that in the 4th movie it should be directed its original director Francis Ford Coppola end it would be interesting if Ray Liotta and Robert De Niro we're in The Godfather Part 4 as new members to the Corleone family but another thing since they have taken out most of the Italian crime families in New York it would be interesting is Vincent Corleone crime family could take down a Russian crime family but set the year in the movie to sometime in the 80s
You ever kill anyone or bury dead bodies all day in the desert? You ever steal with a straight face in the eye of danger? Mafia life is hard work. Always wanted to be in it when I was young but now I’m just set in my healthcare profession.
"Every Sunday, Italians from the old neighborhood they drive miles to come here to pray; to keep this place alive." "Yeah, so, how come we never do?" Silence..... GREAT moment in the series, highlighting the stark contrast between religion that's merely cultural and that which is born of true faith.
@Caleb Conn the same catholic church that prosecuted galileo for bringing heliocentrism from the muslim world to the european one? the same one that burned giordano bruno at the stake for questioning their beliefs? the same one that forbid people from counting a horses teeth cause one of the scriptures said it had that many, and checking would be blasphemy? the same one covering up priests molesting children as we speak? " allowed society to pursue medicine, art, industry, science." yeah right.
Didn't Tony's sister totally abuse the welfare system? The Soprano family wasn't exactly a shining example of the virtue of hard honest work leading to success and comfort
Отоја Јамагучи it takes effort and dedication to do what soprano does, but all he is doing is taking advantage of unfortunate ppl and stealing from other.
I think the key example of the show portraying Tony's warped morality is when Tony gets apoplectic minutes after the fact about Ralphie murdering his pregnant girlfriend for "disrespecting the Bing" and keeps him on, but later on kills Ralphie for offing a horse for insurance money.
What scary is that after seeing the gun, you could easily think he wasn't afraid but mad that a guy that low on the food chain was threatening someone like Tony.
Notice that when he approached the car, Tony opened the window all the way down, while most people would bring it down just a bit. The boss is still the boss, although its just Jersey.
I like how in the series Tony is proud of his Italian-American heritage. But when he did go to Italy (Naples?) he was just like a lost American tourist. Not as Italian as he made out to be.
@Mr. Bison I reckon there’s 100,000s of Americans who play on their heritage. Pretending their Italian-American because one distant relative 4 generations up the family tree was an immigrant. When in reality they can’t speak a word of Italian, never been and can’t name more than 2 or 3 Italian cities. But they once ate a pizza from a restaurant in the USA, so that makes them Italian
@rishi patel the real mafia had its roots from Sicily. However in the show, he’s from New Jersey and the storyline is the “Italian Americans” are nothing like real Italians living in Italy.
they are not Italian, they are Italian-Americans, we in Italy know it, but most of you Americans continue to relate them to Italy, Italian-Americans are in relation to Italy, no more than an American is related to England
@@ilcontegianuarius7544 As an Italian, i would disagree, there is no uniform "Italian culture" A Lombard has very little in common with a Sicilian bar language and citizenship and even in terms of language it was forced upon both. So they are diffrent in that as well, so i view Italian "Americans" as just another unique extension of Italian culture in the same way i view a Lombard and Sicilian culture both unique however under the overarch of the Italic cultural sphere. Just cause they have trouble speaking the language does not automatically make them non Italian. Being Italian is more than just a citizenship, it is a bloodline as old as recorded history and those Italian "Americans" are part of the Italic cultural sphere whether you like it or not.
@@europatony1520 The point is italian americans not as much italian as they think they're. Some German who would learn italian language and live in Italy long enough would be more italian than those italian americans.
the funniest part about this title is that in this episode, Tony is literally defrauding the federal government of millions of dollars while sitting on his ass in his fancy car/fancy house paid for by extorting and scamming people, a position he was only able to achieve solely due to nepotism from his father and uncle. The Sopranos was wasted on people who never even tried to understand it
U WinTV I think the person who titled the video took Tony’s statement at face value, as in the fact hes disregarding the rest of the show and the fact Tony is a mobster, what Tony said still applies to the real world, most italians who came over to America were poor as shit and never asked for hand out from the govt... they made something out of nothing legally. I think thats the point. But yes, if you watch the Sopranos and take into account Tony’s background then yes the title of the video sounds VERY dumb.
I think the poster fails to realize how completely full of shit Tony is being in this scene. In Tony's own family, the last truly "hard working guy" was his grandfather. His following generations have been leeching and preying upon these neighborhoods, one scam or another, until they've been reduced to what he's complaining about. He's contributed nothing to their betterment, unlike his grandfather, and his dad was no better. The fact that AJ doesn't get what Tony is talking about, at all, is actually doubly insightful (even though unintentionally). The fact that he and his generation completely doesn't give a shot is because Tony's really didn't either, and raised AJ's that way.
@@coolguy-je4pu tony and his gang run a bunch of businesses even though theyre also in extortion, the scene still makes tony out to be somewhat hypocritical, but as far as aj was concerned, his dad is into business and he drove down to buy houses. Because tony has initiative
z M dont tell that to the idiots on these comments, they just want to view videos that sh!t on "liberals" so they can try to be clever with their comments/jokes
Whoever wrote this title either completely missed the social commentary that underlies the plot of this show, or...honestly, I don’t even have an alternative. It’s clear that the entire point of this series went right over their head. How pathetic. People really do watch this show for face value. That’s so depressing.
ita about the political point. Today immigrants DO make their own livings. They build their own churches too, but it isn't the Left that is setting them on fire and painting swastikas on them. People like you who like to talk about "entitlement" really mean YOUR entitlement, or rather your loss of entitlement to persecute without repercussions.
Pokadot101 im willing to bet that the vast majority of these "hate crimes" are fakes, perpetrated by the same people they claim to be against. major cities all of a sudden having racist stuff written around? in a place that votes 95% democrat, and is 60% black.... yeah thats where the racist white people are. NO. these are almost all fakes.
Yeah, Tony Soprano is really such a huge and good role model. Feels like if this is the conclusion you got from watching the show you completely missed the entire point of the show.
@Balls McGee The character in the Sopranos are all lazy hypocrite who call other people lazy while spending their whole day at Bada Bing and Satriale's.
@@syedshah2642 they were murderous sociopaths but they weren’t lazy all the time. Some of the stuff they did was incredibly hard work. like staying up all night disposing of a body etc.
@@JL_Lux To be fair though, we can't really be called hypocrites for what others do, even if they are our family members. Tony is being a hypocrite though enough on his own.
Love to be so completely and totally braindead that I miss the entire point of the show, and instead aspire to become the type of person this show critiques and satirizes each and every episode
@@Cubs1719 yeah it was crazy to me seeing how many people have most of the show go right over their heads So many people think Tony is an amazing father
I assume your response is sarcastic but I’ll help point you in the right direction ace - Andrea Palladio, Pietro Belluschi, and Renzo Piano, to name a few.
I love how the uploader didn't see the irony, For all Tony's talk of hertitage and culture and how great his people are, he doesn't actually make an effort to live like the ancestors he is so proud of. Just like how he is happy to brag to his son about a church he personally never built or attends.
What he's trying to imply is to stand on your own feet and to not be a crybaby who costantly wants to be taken care of.AJ was like that,a "whiny little bitch" as Tony said.Maybe if he grew some balls he could face his depressive gens and achieve great things. It's not about the church neither about the heritage.It's about fighting for what you want in life,and working on your way to achieve it,despite the obstacles.Tony is no coincidence that he was a mob boss,Silvio went to the hospital due to extreme stress when he was about to become a boss.
OP is the person that buys the crackhead neighborhood without a college degree. Everybody offended by op…they’re the ones maintaining the neighborhood.
@@Tony-fq5bn yeah he was such afaggot he got his entire life destroyed by reading some basic ass philosophy and then got sad for like 2 seasons and tried to kill himself. Lol. Loser.
CrazySicily it’s easy to tell Southern Europeans if not darker have more “Arab” type features. You can look at eyes at skull nose hair etc Slavic and germans tend to have harder more defined features
Yes, Tony is a hypocrite duh. That still doesn't invalidate the great points he made about the early Italian, and for that matter early Irish and other European immigrants that built their communities. There were NO government handouts back in the late 1800s when they arrived. They had to work their asses off unlike us today. And yes, that includes Tony being a criminal leech robbing working class people as well as that black neighborhood as well.
That's because they're dumb. Scientifically and provably. Peer reviewed science proves, the more right wing you are: the stupider you are. I have NEVER in my 45yrs, met a right-wing intellectual. Not even once. It goes against nature.
laughable title to this video. if anything, chase means tony's words to be ironic. tony takes pride in the fact that, despite economic hardship and barriers to work, italians never lobbied for government handouts. if you have even the most minimal analytic ability, you can see how ironic tony's pride is given his subversion of lawful enterprise. yeah, you didn't ask for government handouts. instead you're poising society through violence and establishment of illicit markets.
@@jacob910able Tony has some qualities that aren't totally terrible...He's a pretty decent dad, which all in all i guess is a low bar. On the other hand he's totally exploiting everyone and everything..Really, if you want to "destroy libs" this is probably not the place to try and make that case.
The irony of redditor midwits, in their archetypal boundless self-righteousness, completely missing the sarcasm of the title is both hilarious and unsurprising. You have to go back.
The irony of this scene and pretty much all of Sopranos flies over the heads of republicans/conservatives. They should have dubmed it down a bit so they get it😁
It is hard work though. There’s a difference between hard/easy work versus immoral/moral. You could work grueling 18 hour shifts stealing from people and it would be hard work it just won’t be moral
@@Chungus581 If the only definition of “hard“ is intense manual labor then yes. But if you have even a tiny bit of broadening of the definition then it is incredibly hard. They constantly face the risk of jail, betrayal, death. It destroys their family life. It destroys them emotionally and psychologically. It’s a good chance of injury or death etc. etc. Yeah it’s a hard job just like some types of law or medicine are hard. No they aren’t hard in the manual labor sort of sense just hard mentally or in other ways
@@detectiveMM that's not hard work that's called consequences, they just sit around leeching off actual hard working business owners and throw their money at lawyers to deal with any legal problems
I'm so confused. Tony is a rich boss of a costra nostra family. He eats all day and gives orders. The other guy sells drugs for a living at the street level. And who's working harder?
I grew up in East Orange, right next to Newark and much of it looked like this. It used to be one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the country. Then, like many of the large cities, started to go down the toilet after WWII. My mother personally witnessed the riots in Newark. The city never recovered.
The mob bankrupted Jersey. That's why it's in disrepair. Read a fucking history book. Corruption and greed made Jersey a fucking shell of a state let alone city. Check out the mafia series by Thames. UK doc. Breaks it all down
@@a.2419 As I said I lived in Newark as a child and then East Orange for many years before leaving. And yes.....I have read up on the history of urban decay. Jersey wasn't the only place affected. Many of the rust belt cities had a similar fate, Detroit probably being the most tragic example. And yes I agree greed and corruption played a big part. Still does. But it was a combination of other factors: suburbanization, 'white flight', racial tensions, the real estate industry stoking those tensions (greed as you stated). The expansion of the national highway system. It was a social and economic perfect storm.
the point of the scene is he's a hypocrite. the whole show Tony is a hypocrite and is showing what the American Dream has become and how Tony bypasses it as a criminal.
@@pablogats4627 you sure have strong opinions about other human beings for someone whose only contribution to the world is being a troll in youtube comments. even your profile pic is just riding another dude's meat. arent you embarrassed for being such a self-less pathetic excuse for a person?
@@marissasue319 Because he's a lazy thug that bosses his goons around. Criminals aren't hard-working. If they were they wouldn't need to be criminals. I mean, are you kidding me right now?
@@ultimategamer2669 Well, lol, if u really think about it, a LOT of work goes into being a criminal, being a successful criminal, and being a successful criminal who does not get caught, lol! #JustSaying Plus, without crime, how many sectors of people would be without jobs, INCLUDING, the academic institutions that teach crime-related academia e.g. law, policing, prisoning (??), criminology, profiling, hostage negotiating etc etc etc
@@marissasue319 It may be hard work, but they are still being parasites. Best example is "no works" and "no shows". They get paid in full to do job other people are willing to do for actual work. They also harrass local small businesses for "payments" for their "protection". Yes, they often work hard and take risk, but they still take many short cuts and contribute nothing to society. Tony likes to identify himself with the hard working Italians because it makes him feel better about his own actions.
@@greggrozdanis5737 Hun, I'm not condoning or glorifying crime when I discuss all angles of the topic from a neutral perspective. And as much as I LOVE the show & its characters, I also feel tons of HATE, ANGER & RAGE at much of what u stated! Also, add high-class bullies, thugs & goons to that list! To be fair, that's the only life/lifestyle that Tony ever knew and the only one he inherited... 🤷🏼
Yeah, it’s pretty clear that the entire main messages of the show just completely go over some people’s heads. They just see the show as cool mob guys being tough and doing cool mob stuff.
Yeah lol it’s pretty in your face too and people still don’t realize. Like after the white guy whose care is stolen yells “niggers, who else?” It cuts straight to Tony. Poor David Chase tried his best to make it obvious lol
It is hard work it's stress and fearing for your life it's worse then a regular job love tony soprano! He's the biggest bowse besides Rick Ross & Jay z
@@EVERYTHING-dc2od The writers are portraying the HYPOCRISY of Tony Soprano, when he constantly tries to BERATE the fall of US society on criminals while he is a CRIMINAL himself and makes a living on ORGANIZED crime. He is a mafia boss, he kills, he orders murders, he steals, he tortures, he corrupts etc. Everything wrong with society he represents. The fact that some idiots dont see this or are to blinded by racism and hate to only see the negative aspect when POC are criminals just furthers the irony of societies problems. Just notice how many times "black people" are blaimed for mafia crime, like when Jackie Jr is murdered and they blaimed it on "black people" etc
@@elrickojames988 What he's trying to imply is to stand on your own feet and to not be a crybaby who costantly wants to be taken care of.AJ was like that,a "whiny little bitch" as Tony said.Maybe if he grew some balls he could face his depressive gens and achieve great things. It's about fighting for what you want in life,and working on your way to achieve it,despite the obstacles.That's the kind of attitude that makes enterepneurs and that's what AJ would never understand,trapped in his depression pitying himself.
It's frustrating but also kind of sad. Tony clearly doesn't want AJ to go down the same path as him...but at the same time AJ's attempt to try other things are mocked by him, because he still wants his son to look up to him. No wonder AJ was messed up.
great dialog and truth to it....blacks did the same (See black wallstreet) ...and everytime they built something up for themselves, the government came in and tore it down. It happened many times.
Different historial as well.... one group came to america as slaves, the other came in a diferent time and in diferent conditions. The unspoken comparison is incomparable.
2 days ago I would argue with you people on here but not anymore. Life's to short to argue with people who in the end mean nothing to you or your life.
"Did they cry? Did they go to the Government with their hands out? No!" I think he's referring more to the modern lefty Liberals who believe in socialism and the central state controlling everything and working all the problems out for everybody. Conservatives, traditional conservatives at least, believe in hard work of the individual, self improvement, self reliance, the nuclear family and the sense of community.
@Streetsdisciple001 ...Good for you... and your point is? To people of a particular time period (like the period Tony is talking about here) religion was the central pillar of their culture, and as such the local church was the centre piece of their community, where everyone in the community would go for help and guidance to their daily struggles and where the community as a whole would all meet once a week as a community, so Churches back then where very important to people. So as Tony says here; when the Italians where refused to join the church that was already there they went and built a bigger and more beautiful one for themselves, rather than whinge and cry about it and wait for the government to sort it out for them, like the pathetic weasels we have today would do.
@Streetsdisciple001 He's using it as an example of how to stand on your own two feet, to sort your own problems out, he's using it as more of a metaphor, not to go and blindly follow the church. Of course you don't need the church, his point had almost nothing to do with the church, that church was just symbolic of his wider point of how people should be self reliant and sort their own problems out, not go and cry to the government with their hands out I'm struggling to see how you've missed this and are fixating on the church itself and religion, it's just being used as an example and a metaphor of how people should behave in his opinion, which most of us agree with
Chris I watch a couple of Trump videos and all of a sudden I want to see liberals put in their place. At least we know RUclips runs on sound algorithms.
The irony of this scene is that a member of the mafia talks about hard working italians with pride, not realizing that it's people like him that soil their image.
That's the hipocrasy of the scene.
It's not ironic to revere your ancestors and hold them to an ideal, this scene conveyed the duality of american italian identity
@Lala Pala true
@Lala Pala completely untrue. mobsters extort businesses, harassing owners/workers to pay up then shut up. they would slit your throat if it meant they would stay in business/out of jail. they were not heroes in their community. honest hard working Italians did not look up to them or appreciate them. Criminals are criminals, regardless of whatever code their gang pretends to live by. I don't understand how somebody could watch this show and think Tony was a stand up guy or had any idea about hard work and honesty. He murdered friends in cold blood and stole from everything and everyone. What made him complex was his desire to be a good father and raise children who could be better than him. Otherwise, he was a total sociopath.
Mussolini had a perfect solution for the mafia.
The irony of a mob criminal lecturing others about the value of hard work.
What many people don't understand is that the Mafia was more than what they think they were. The Mafia was more than just an organization. It was a family. Something that a lot of simple minded people wouldn't even know about. When the mob was first formed in sicily it was created to protect the innocent inhabitants of the island from back then northern Italian aggressors. When they arrived to America they needed to find a way to make money during prohibition and the Depression and that's where crime came into the picture. Therefore associating the Mafia with criminal acts which leads to 1920s gangster stereotypes. The mob wasn't and aren't a bunch of guys in nice suits with chicago type writers talking like old Moe from the three stooges.
@@zachbocchino5501 they were criminals, descended from thugs who helped sicilian land owners brutalise peasants into submission. There is nothing glorious honourable about the mafia in any of its incarnations.
@@Evemeister12 You...clearly do not...know your history. And being Italian myself. The fact that you think the Mafia was originated from cold hearted criminals offends me.
@@zachbocchino5501 I have no problem offending someone who wishes to defend the mafia in any way. There is nothing honourable about their origins or their present establishment. They were created to protect the interests of greedy landowners in southern italy. And from there they became even more evil.
@@zachbocchino5501 Be offended then.
brilliant writing... Tony talking about Italians not asking the government for help, while Tony is showing a house to AJ that he's using to literally get money from the government
I just watched that episode last week I didn’t put it together
This is the point and I don't understand why no one else is seeing it. I love the hypocrisy in his speech. There's certainly a grain of truth in it, but at the end of the day he's doing the same thing he's pissed at other people for doing. My dad used to bring me around South Buffalo and talk about the Irish grandparents and what not who made it nice and the insinuation was that now that it's Black, it's a shit hole. While that wasn't wrong, what he didn't realize is that it's all cyclical. Has nothing to do with race. Just circumstance. This scene captured that perfectly.
@@californiacombativesclub202 The show exists to portray tony and his ideals as mostly hypocrisy with a small dash of humanity. Taking the show at face value is the wrong way to approach it. The people cheering on his antics are villains in their own right.
Um, no. Tony isn't getting money from the governement
@@sixforks6543 No, we cheer Tony on b/c at least he makes his own money. He only takes out pieces of shit, like the homies on the block. Tony might be a jerk, but he's not laying around getting welfare
“So that’s a crack hoe” Such a underrated line in the Sopranos 😂😂😂😂
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Ya great grandfadduh helped build dat almost eighty years ago
@@kevinkibble8342 y'know who my grandfadduh was
"So how come we never do?"
That may be the one legit point AJ ever made in this entire show, even if he only said it to be a smartass.
Even a stopped clock....
@SurfAlien2 it didnt deflate anything. Maybe one day u will understand why
michael cooper he was being a wiseass
@@jasonhelwig1902 No it did, for all Tony's talk of hertitage and culture and how great his people are, he doesn't actually make an effort to live like the ancestors he is so proud of. Just like how he is happy to brag to his son about a church he personally never built or attends.
michael cooper AJ wasn't wrong. They used good quality materials back then. That's why that church will be there for hundreds of years.
This is the funniest title in RUclips history
@Catharsis hey atleast he could of walked up stairs and not get lost
Criminal republican shows the liberals what hard work is all about.
@Catharsis oh sure much safer today ! Right? Ya stugatz!
@@dkplaysallday7955 Exactly, the OP is obviously over compensating. Will look for any doorway to sh*t on 'liberals'
Accurate too
Gotta love how Tony shoots down AJ's every attempt to engage with the subject matter, ask questions or think for himself, then gets uptight when he loses interest.
"That church is still standing. You know why?" "The bricks?" Long, long stare from Dad.
that's actually subtext right there
I get that alot from my dad
When you get a long stare from dad you fuckin run
at first tony stares at him coz he thinks aj is being a smart arse but then he realises how thick he really is and that aj was being serious and has a look of dissapointment
@Memedalore I @thetartarianmeltdown been thinking about this scene
@@dkeelz when I saw the Church scene I thought It was being guard by Tony's henchmen because that could be a another reason why that Church was clean .
"buy land... cause God ain't making any more of it". Classic
Brian Cammarata
It’s one of the things tony repeats that he doesn’t bungle
Thank the writers
It was written by Mark Twain
Tony heard this from Carmela's cousin lmao
"Yeah, I'm Starsky and this is Hutch"- gets me everytime.
Gotta love Ton’s wisecracks
Oh God, me too!
This scene is a perfect biome for the whole series.
Tony, a man steeped in multiple disciplines of crime and evil, still feels that he's somehow different than other criminals and evil-doers for some reasons I'm not sure I understand.
The show humanises the mobsters a lot but it never, ever lets you forget that at the end of the day they were a bunch of criminals motivated by nothing but cash and power.
Biome? Quasimodo predicted all of this.
@@TheGardiner 😂
class and race, the american way.
but for sure he is different. He takes care of his son and family, doesnt bow people´s head with a gun to stole a cellphone, different than the "minories"
@@LIGIERJS111979 yeah he really is different, he doesn't take a gun to people's heads, he just kills people, extorts under threat of violence or death, a true stand up man.
Obviously loves his family too, all the cheating on his wife with prostitutes, raising a kid that ends up depressed and a daughter who ends up relatively ok only because she moves away from his environment.
"This is our neighbourhood now!"
"Yeah, I can see that"
Roast of the year lmao
Tony's implying it is obvious that it's a black neighbourhood because of the horrible state it is in. He's implying blacks are lazy people and responsible for the collapse of the town.
"Dis our neighborhood now muthafucka!"
[Looks around to see people strung out living in misery and squalor]
"Ya I can see that.."
LOL!!
@nateward Are you being serious?
@@gustavelofsson5611 no shit
@Nate Ward African countries are so poor because that's how Europeans left it
3:18 "So that's a crack ho!" A.J. is so excited to encounter one in real life. He's only seen them in rap music and movies. Great line.
Don't know what kinda rap videos you watch, pretty sure there aren't any in them.
@@dreal500 2Pac - Brenda's Got A Baby- comes to mind but not really but close.
How did she hear him? All windows had been rolled up.
@@Onmysheet Soprano magic ✨
@@Onmysheet She didn't she just threw it to assert dominance, if she heard it she would've acted sooner
If you walk away from this show thinking in any way that Tony is a "hero" there is something wrong with you.
Unfortunately there’s entire social media pages dedicated to thinking this way lmaoo
@@rodismantle2809 social media really screws you up. I got a FB account two years ago, used it for a year before I realized it was making me anxious. Now all I use is messenger for friends and I feel much better. I don't post anything on it. It's ridiculous honestly if you reply to something and say the wrong thing It's taken out of proportion and your blocked. My friends always want me to go back and I NEVER will. Also how is this clip owning the liberals? Is it implying that everyone should stay in their own neighborhood
@Metal Fan yah that's why in nature crops grow in large swathes of monocultures right.
@@Sean12248 Yeah I don't get how this clip owns the liberals either. The uploader is one of those conservative s who seems to have liberals on the brain inserting them into any and everything.
The irony isn't lost but nonetheless Tony's right about Italian Americans giving a $hit about doing well and pulling themselves up by their bootstraps when arriving to the U.S.
Tony talks about hard work, but he makes a living stealing. Most people don’t understand the show is making fun of the mafia yeah just a bunch of crooks and psychos.
To be fair sometimes it did seem like being in the mafia was really hard work. There’s a difference between hard and easy versus moral and immoral
there's mafias in every culture, they just keep portraying the italian culture on the big screen
Tony believed that Italian Americans were better than everybody else. We really got to give a lot of credit to those who made this show including the actors and the actresses. So many messed up in the head characters and we couldn't take our eyes off this show.
A specialty of David Chase.
@@milwaukeemotor5995 The reason is the Italian culture made the mafia huge. No other group will ever make a bigger name for the mafia.
"Every Sunday, Italians come here from miles away to pray."
"How come we never do?"
Boom! Mic drop.
that's the whole crux of this scene. Tony goes on about pride, hard work etc. All of which he couldn't be further from.
@@Cubs1719 everyone in the mob is like this. Hypocrites of the first degree. I wonder if they are even aware of it.
When you are poor 1st generational Italian then yes worship family business .....
Now Americanised .... different story plus you got accepted by WASPs
@@EM-tx3ly ha this is something my father would have said!
Thats why the Sopranos need the translator for every dissing take the costa nostra did
I'm far from being a liberal... but using a mob boss who extorts people of their hard earned money as an analogy defeats the argument lol.
i think the OP thinks liberals are all black
IrishNorse no! WORK HARD!
I love this show, but Americans always have to politicize everything and put race into it. Pretty sad actually.
@@jusdgaf449 poor
@@jusdgaf449 The Sopranos is an intensely political show, but I think the OP really missed the mark on interpretation
Tony in this scene is essentially complaining about his own generation of Italians allowing the area to turn into a dump.
They were the ones who stopped going to church leading to the community church dying and community cohesion falling apart. Then those same Italians made money and left the area. Decades later the older Italians in the area are mostly dead or in nursing homes and the young Italians left a long time ago.
Tony blames the blacks. But it’s really his generation of Italians who led to that area failing by leaving.
Not only that, but just like within the "black neighborhoods", once many Italians attained wealth, they sought to "up" their status by moving out of that Italian neighbourhood into "white" areas to better "assimilate" as "Americans" (in their apparent reasoning).
You must not have watched the show. He mentioned to Juliana Skiff that the Italians (now of means) moved up “Ginny Gultch”. They outgrew their humble means and moved to a more affluent neighborhood.
@@mcdouche2 it's spelt guinea, not ginny. and that's literally the same phenomenon rich was talking about here.
@@copsuicide it’s spelled Ginaè. Learn about it.
@@mcdouche2 yeah it's spelt like that in another language nobody else is conversing in, numb nuts.
I love how no matter how nuanced and levelled this show is, there will always be dude bros trying to boil it down to “liberals get destroyed by facts and the real way” shame
Everything does.
@@rustyshack2349 right on cue
>make a dude, trick yourself into thinking he's real, and then getting mad about it
@@Egonsraad it’s not a straw man it’s literally the title of the video lol
Truth hurts
The Sopranos meets The Wire
+Leon Delvechio Ramirez The Wire fucking sucks.
+Sasha Harney this is the only video that I made that comment you fucking chidrule.
+Sasha Harney Maddon a mi. This chridrule just doesn't quit. Why do you have to use that derogatory term for? I'm not black, but I still don't feel as though that word was necessary.
+al CALABREZ I saw the movie Gomorrah and it was shit
The Wire was one of HBO's best tv series. Along with The Sopranos and Oz.
R.I.P James Gandolfini. One of the best actors ever.
If they ever made a Godfather Part 4 and it continues with Anthony Garcia restoring his character as Vincent Corleone the new Don of the Corleone family that would have been awesome to see but also it would have been interesting if James Gandolfini we're still alive he would have played an important role in that movie it would be interesting if they had James Gandolfini playing Vincent's bodyguard and his best friend as well as a Godfather to his children and to support this movie they would have Al Pacino restoring his role as Michael Corleone and talk to you about his life after he lost his daughter during the events of Godfather Part 3 pretty much talking about his life afterwards. And I'm thinking that in the 4th movie it should be directed its original director Francis Ford Coppola end it would be interesting if Ray Liotta and Robert De Niro we're in The Godfather Part 4 as new members to the Corleone family but another thing since they have taken out most of the Italian crime families in New York it would be interesting is Vincent Corleone crime family could take down a Russian crime family but set the year in the movie to sometime in the 80s
Being able to deliver all this bullshit without breaking down laughing takes a good actor.
@@topleybird2443 Butthurt
@@topleybird2443 wut it is famo!?! Preach that truth, Everyone knows us brothas built this country but the white man he hold us down ya feel me!?! ✊🏾
@@bodhi8297 Now you guys burn loot and steal. great job!!!
"Guy who makes all his money strong arming working class people explains the meaning of hardwork"
Hilarious 😆
You ever kill anyone or bury dead bodies all day in the desert? You ever steal with a straight face in the eye of danger? Mafia life is hard work. Always wanted to be in it when I was young but now I’m just set in my healthcare profession.
@@Filthy_Larry christ what a loser
i’m praying this comment is satire
Yeah and the uploader is too dumb to understand this lol
@@Filthy_Larry glad to have you looking out for our health
Lol, totally missed the point of the show I see.
One of the many points, but yeah, clearly went over uploader's head
No! Tony Badass! Subtext? I dont even know what subtext is!!!
Creation subtext hard :(
The same thing happened with All in the Family, conservatives loved Archie even though he was a caricature of them painted by liberal screenwriters.
Tony Badass, fuck liberals 👊
"Every Sunday, Italians from the old neighborhood they drive miles to come here to pray; to keep this place alive."
"Yeah, so, how come we never do?"
Silence.....
GREAT moment in the series, highlighting the stark contrast between religion that's merely cultural and that which is born of true faith.
Also highlighting the latent hypocrisy in nearly everything Tony does
@@Ugarte966, yes, sir, agree 100% !!!
Caleb, your answer is lengthy, while Tony's was utterly silent. But they both have this in common: Neither answered AJ's question.
@Caleb Conn the same catholic church that prosecuted galileo for bringing heliocentrism from the muslim world to the european one? the same one that burned giordano bruno at the stake for questioning their beliefs? the same one that forbid people from counting a horses teeth cause one of the scriptures said it had that many, and checking would be blasphemy? the same one covering up priests molesting children as we speak? " allowed society to pursue medicine, art, industry, science." yeah right.
Didn't Tony's sister totally abuse the welfare system?
The Soprano family wasn't exactly a shining example of the virtue of hard honest work leading to success and comfort
More to the point, Tony has never worked a day in his life.
@@maryandchild being a mob boss isn't work?
@@HuyNguyen-lt4wc no, it isn't.
Отоја Јамагучи it takes effort and dedication to do what soprano does, but all he is doing is taking advantage of unfortunate ppl and stealing from other.
I think the key example of the show portraying Tony's warped morality is when Tony gets apoplectic minutes after the fact about Ralphie murdering his pregnant girlfriend for "disrespecting the Bing" and keeps him on, but later on kills Ralphie for offing a horse for insurance money.
Tony talking about hard-working Italians like he's one of them even though he's the exact antithesis of them.
What scary is that after seeing the gun, you could easily think he wasn't afraid but mad that a guy that low on the food chain was threatening someone like Tony.
Notice that when he approached the car, Tony opened the window all the way down, while most people would bring it down just a bit. The boss is still the boss, although its just Jersey.
Got to know your battles dude could’ve fired off killing him & A.J with nothing to lose
I like how in the series Tony is proud of his Italian-American heritage. But when he did go to Italy (Naples?) he was just like a lost American tourist. Not as Italian as he made out to be.
@Mr. Bison I reckon there’s 100,000s of Americans who play on their heritage. Pretending their Italian-American because one distant relative 4 generations up the family tree was an immigrant.
When in reality they can’t speak a word of Italian, never been and can’t name more than 2 or 3 Italian cities.
But they once ate a pizza from a restaurant in the USA, so that makes them Italian
@rishi patel the real mafia had its roots from Sicily. However in the show, he’s from New Jersey and the storyline is the “Italian Americans” are nothing like real Italians living in Italy.
they are not Italian, they are Italian-Americans, we in Italy know it, but most of you Americans continue to relate them to Italy, Italian-Americans are in relation to Italy, no more than an American is related to England
@@ilcontegianuarius7544 As an Italian, i would disagree, there is no uniform "Italian culture" A Lombard has very little in common with a Sicilian bar language and citizenship and even in terms of language it was forced upon both. So they are diffrent in that as well, so i view Italian "Americans" as just another unique extension of Italian culture in the same way i view a Lombard and Sicilian culture both unique however under the overarch of the Italic cultural sphere. Just cause they have trouble speaking the language does not automatically make them non Italian. Being Italian is more than just a citizenship, it is a bloodline as old as recorded history and those Italian "Americans" are part of the Italic cultural sphere whether you like it or not.
@@europatony1520 The point is italian americans not as much italian as they think they're. Some German who would learn italian language and live in Italy long enough would be more italian than those italian americans.
the funniest part about this title is that in this episode, Tony is literally defrauding the federal government of millions of dollars while sitting on his ass in his fancy car/fancy house paid for by extorting and scamming people, a position he was only able to achieve solely due to nepotism from his father and uncle. The Sopranos was wasted on people who never even tried to understand it
@U WinTV kind of like the guy who wrote this title lmfao
U WinTV I think the person who titled the video took Tony’s statement at face value, as in the fact hes disregarding the rest of the show and the fact Tony is a mobster, what Tony said still applies to the real world, most italians who came over to America were poor as shit and never asked for hand out from the govt... they made something out of nothing legally. I think thats the point. But yes, if you watch the Sopranos and take into account Tony’s background then yes the title of the video sounds VERY dumb.
Nepotism got his foot in the door. Tony’s strong will made him boss.
Tony just owned a bunch of libtard snowflakes lol
@Softy Liberals are worth less than AJ
“So what did they do, did they cry, go to the government with their hand down?” No, they turned to crime. Which is so much better, lol.
Now the government runs the crime
Actually it is since most U.S. politicians are also criminals. You get more done when everyone is on the same page and knows what their cut will be.
much less than blax. and they didnt do it for drugs and unnecesary violence, but for a better life
It is actually.
@@pelayo341 black people had they’re own communities but stupid whites burnt them down 💀 nice job trying to defend criminal mafia members
Buy bitcoin AJ... because the algorithm makes it exponentially more time and energy intensive to digitally mine...
Buy a GPU, AJ. Because NVIDIA ain’t makin any more of em
I thought this too lmao
underrated comment
Buy bitcoin AJ....because after the 21 millionth one has been mined, there not making any more of them
crypto bros are so annoying and also gay
I think the poster fails to realize how completely full of shit Tony is being in this scene. In Tony's own family, the last truly "hard working guy" was his grandfather. His following generations have been leeching and preying upon these neighborhoods, one scam or another, until they've been reduced to what he's complaining about. He's contributed nothing to their betterment, unlike his grandfather, and his dad was no better. The fact that AJ doesn't get what Tony is talking about, at all, is actually doubly insightful (even though unintentionally). The fact that he and his generation completely doesn't give a shot is because Tony's really didn't either, and raised AJ's that way.
@@sneed472 agree or disagree this is very clearly the point that the shows trying to make you dipshit lmao
FINALLY SOMEBODY THAT UNDERSTANDS
what he was saying is 100% true but the message is lost because tony is a hypocrite
@@coolguy-je4pu tony and his gang run a bunch of businesses even though theyre also in extortion, the scene still makes tony out to be somewhat hypocritical, but as far as aj was concerned, his dad is into business and he drove down to buy houses. Because tony has initiative
z M dont tell that to the idiots on these comments, they just want to view videos that sh!t on "liberals" so they can try to be clever with their comments/jokes
That look Tony gives A.J after he says "the bricks" is absolutely hilarious. 1:04
💀💀💀
Whoever wrote this title either completely missed the social commentary that underlies the plot of this show, or...honestly, I don’t even have an alternative. It’s clear that the entire point of this series went right over their head. How pathetic. People really do watch this show for face value. That’s so depressing.
Tony destroys liberals by explaining you have to be insanely rich to pay people to do hard work for you
no
"see dat choich?"
@Riley Martin excellent story.
Ya great grandfadduh helped build dat almost eighty years ago
Gabba goo!
Yeah....we see it....👍
@@kevinkibble8342 Correction:
"Seedat chuich? Ya gvate gvanfada help-build datomost eightyeaz ago."
If you think the writers were trying to make a political statement then I'm afraid this scene went over your head.
in the early 2000s? yeah this wasnt a political point, but in todays world it shows how entitled/pussy the left has become on so many issues.
*****
? i was responding to the original comment.
Tony saying that is hypocritical of his character but the thing she is saying is relevant to today and is very true.
ita about the political point. Today immigrants DO make their own livings. They build their own churches too, but it isn't the Left that is setting them on fire and painting swastikas on them. People like you who like to talk about "entitlement" really mean YOUR entitlement, or rather your loss of entitlement to persecute without repercussions.
Pokadot101
im willing to bet that the vast majority of these "hate crimes" are fakes, perpetrated by the same people they claim to be against. major cities all of a sudden having racist stuff written around? in a place that votes 95% democrat, and is 60% black.... yeah thats where the racist white people are. NO. these are almost all fakes.
"The bricks?" and "ahh, wire" hold the exact same energy.
Yeah, Tony Soprano is really such a huge and good role model. Feels like if this is the conclusion you got from watching the show you completely missed the entire point of the show.
@Balls McGee The character in the Sopranos are all lazy hypocrite who call other people lazy while spending their whole day at Bada Bing and Satriale's.
@Balls McGee whole point of the show is how shitty the Mafia life is
@@syedshah2642 they were murderous sociopaths but they weren’t lazy all the time. Some of the stuff they did was incredibly hard work. like staying up all night disposing of a body etc.
@@detectiveMM and don’t forget gossiping like high school girls i.e. Ralph’s ginny sack joke
he was still right here and all the times he was trad
either the title completely misses the irony of the scene, or.... is just making a thoroughly sophisticated ironic point ;)
the whole point of this scene is to show tony and the mafia's hypocrisy, not destroy liberals
Then the scene killed 2 birds with 1 stone
-words from a destroyed liberal
It did both
Don't waste your time arguing with cult members. If it's not Trump or Fox News, it's "fake."
@@ademkapovskic8106 Jesus Christ was a hardcore liberal. Bing bong. Fuck your life.
"We didn't ask for any help from the government, we just built that church ourselves. With the money and resources we stole from the government."
"So what did they do? Did they cry? Did they go to the government for a fuckin' shinebox?"
His sister steals checks from the government 😂
@@JL_Lux To be fair though, we can't really be called hypocrites for what others do, even if they are our family members. Tony is being a hypocrite though enough on his own.
Weak AF
Tony is the perfect example of the hypocrisy you see in the country nowadays lol
No, he's an example of the hypocrisy you used to see. Which is somehow an improvement over what we have now, as pathetic as that is.
No, he's an example of the hypocrisy you used to see. Which is somehow an improvement over what we have now, as pathetic as that is.
The hypocrisy in all of us.
@@TerexJ Nah, It is still the same. People think the same, just keep their mouths shut for political correctness.
@@markantony3875 Naaah, it's way worse.
Love to be so completely and totally braindead that I miss the entire point of the show, and instead aspire to become the type of person this show critiques and satirizes each and every episode
there are two types of Sopranos fans...those who dont get they are the butt of the joke, and those who see the joke for what it is.
@@Cubs1719 What about the 3-rd type? All of them are innocent animalsh!
Tony was a successful businessman.
@@Cubs1719 yeah it was crazy to me seeing how many people have most of the show go right over their heads
So many people think Tony is an amazing father
No dude! Tony is a cool guy! Libs destroyed!
"Because our people give a sh*t"
You see that in all the buildings Italians built in America.
Which ones?
I assume your response is sarcastic but I’ll help point you in the right direction ace - Andrea Palladio, Pietro Belluschi, and Renzo Piano, to name a few.
I love how the uploader didn't see the irony,
For all Tony's talk of hertitage and culture and how great his people are, he doesn't actually make an effort to live like the ancestors he is so proud of. Just like how he is happy to brag to his son about a church he personally never built or attends.
Bitch
Exactly!
@@petergriffin7908 Nah shut up fat fuck
@@chrisdawson1776 I'm 28
What he's trying to imply is to stand on your own feet and to not be a crybaby who costantly wants to be taken care of.AJ was like that,a "whiny little bitch" as Tony said.Maybe if he grew some balls he could face his depressive gens and achieve great things.
It's not about the church neither about the heritage.It's about fighting for what you want in life,and working on your way to achieve it,despite the obstacles.Tony is no coincidence that he was a mob boss,Silvio went to the hospital due to extreme stress when he was about to become a boss.
Better title "Tony Destroys the Life of a Hardworking Italian named Sal Vitro."
Thank you! Someone gets it
YOU DON'T WORK THIS NEIGHBORHOOD!
Aj was priceless! “So that’s a crack h0e!” 😂😂😂
OP is the exact kind of person the sopranos makes fun of lol
OP is the person that buys the crackhead neighborhood without a college degree.
Everybody offended by op…they’re the ones maintaining the neighborhood.
Don't cut yourself on that edge
"I saw in a book that you can get a hotel room for 10 cents a week." I find that hard to believe. AJ would never read a book.
Only if it had the centerfold ripped out and he had to take a half hour dump.
He had been reading books, like even nietsche. Did you watch the show?
Ehhh, AJ has been reading book at the begging of the season, did this people see the show????
His whole character arc is kinda based on a book he had to read
@@Tony-fq5bn yeah he was such afaggot he got his entire life destroyed by reading some basic ass philosophy and then got sad for like 2 seasons and tried to kill himself. Lol. Loser.
What's truly ironic about this clip is that the black guy insults Tony by calling him a "guinea".
@CrazySicily Online incl low sac of shit racist think all black people look a like.
Mad 1976 shuddup
@@Mad-wv6ol Can you translate that to Ebonics?
@@JoeyMace28 bully grammar bit is getting old is that you online inecl snowflake.
CrazySicily it’s easy to tell
Southern Europeans if not darker have more “Arab” type features.
You can look at eyes at skull nose hair etc
Slavic and germans tend to have harder more defined features
"So THAT'S a crack ho!" as they drive off.... favorite AJ moment hands down
who do you think had nicer booty cheeks? Furio or Richie Aprile?
I love how the person who titled this clip clearly did not understand Tony's hypocrisy in this scene/episode.
No, Tony was right
Yes, Tony is a hypocrite duh. That still doesn't invalidate the great points he made about the early Italian, and for that matter early Irish and other European immigrants that built their communities.
There were NO government handouts back in the late 1800s when they arrived. They had to work their asses off unlike us today. And yes, that includes Tony being a criminal leech robbing working class people as well as that black neighborhood as well.
@@VCPRPressingIssues no he wasnt
@@Sleepingcoffee979 he was right, thats what makes him a hypocrite in the first place
his hypocrisy literally proves his point, just himself is not like the italians he is talking about
I came here to see if this video was actually real, holy shit wtf i can't believe this is the interpretation some people had of this scene
Subtext be damned
i love youtube
Boomers what can you do
That's because they're dumb. Scientifically and provably. Peer reviewed science proves, the more right wing you are: the stupider you are. I have NEVER in my 45yrs, met a right-wing intellectual. Not even once. It goes against nature.
It’s like the people who watch Goodfellas, Breaking Bad, or Taxi Driver and come out wanting to be just like Travis Bickle or Walter White.
laughable title to this video. if anything, chase means tony's words to be ironic. tony takes pride in the fact that, despite economic hardship and barriers to work, italians never lobbied for government handouts. if you have even the most minimal analytic ability, you can see how ironic tony's pride is given his subversion of lawful enterprise. yeah, you didn't ask for government handouts. instead you're poising society through violence and establishment of illicit markets.
Jesus Delgado shut the fuck up lmao
Italian communities also weren’t infiltrated by the CIA and given crack cocaine to keep them from becoming “too uppity”, so that helps
Ok mr butt hurt liberal 😂😂😂🤣.
TONY IS 100% RIGHT 🤷♂️.
@@lewe7427 blaming everyone all year around doesn't help. :)
CZALEO Cienfuegos found the boomer
AJ is probably the only character that developed the most and went through the most phases.
An astute observation, my fine fellow
OP I think you missed one of the main points of the entire show.
Tony badass
No he got it, Tony is based.
@@kariyam2202 based? on what?
@@kariyam2202 If by “based” you mean “murderer, thief, racist, and mysoginist” than yes, he is extremely “based”.
Troll harder little buddy ❤️
@@RobGordonJC so judgy bro
And "the most contrived RUclips video title" award goes to...
It’s hysterical how many sopranos fans like the show from a perspective that is totally the opposite of what was being conveyed
@@opaljk4835
Same with "Star Trek" and "The Wire"
@@opaljk4835 do they not understand that tony is human garbage and you shouldn’t relate to him
@@jacob910able Tony has some qualities that aren't totally terrible...He's a pretty decent dad, which all in all i guess is a low bar. On the other hand he's totally exploiting everyone and everything..Really, if you want to "destroy libs" this is probably not the place to try and make that case.
@@opaljk4835 Thank you!
so many people missed the point of the show and its hilarious
"So thats a crack ho" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The irony of redditor midwits, in their archetypal boundless self-righteousness, completely missing the sarcasm of the title is both hilarious and unsurprising.
You have to go back.
The point of the show is Tony is cool
@Confessions Of A Movie Freak Woke up this morning, thought Tony was cool
@@VCPRPressingIssues “The crux of Tony Soprano as a character is that the dude fuckin’ rocks” - David Chase
The irony of this scene and pretty much all of Sopranos flies over the heads of republicans/conservatives. They should have dubmed it down a bit so they get it😁
Tony’s face after aj said the bricks 😂🤣 classic moment
In Tony's eyes , stealing and murdering is hard work
It is hard work though. There’s a difference between hard/easy work versus immoral/moral. You could work grueling 18 hour shifts stealing from people and it would be hard work it just won’t be moral
@@detectiveMM it’s not. Most of what they do is sit at no shows and Satriale’s but that’s not what the show focuses on
@@Chungus581 If the only definition of “hard“ is intense manual labor then yes. But if you have even a tiny bit of broadening of the definition then it is incredibly hard. They constantly face the risk of jail, betrayal, death. It destroys their family life. It destroys them emotionally and psychologically. It’s a good chance of injury or death etc. etc. Yeah it’s a hard job just like some types of law or medicine are hard. No they aren’t hard in the manual labor sort of sense just hard mentally or in other ways
@@detectiveMM that's not hard work that's called consequences, they just sit around leeching off actual hard working business owners and throw their money at lawyers to deal with any legal problems
I'm so confused. Tony is a rich boss of a costra nostra family. He eats all day and gives orders. The other guy sells drugs for a living at the street level. And who's working harder?
***** lol really? hahaha cluelessness level 300%
***** working harder? Tony and even his dad used violence as means of getting rich. I would agree he worked smarter, but not harder.
Lmao did Ben Shapiro title this video
I always loved the scenes between Tony and AJ. James Gandolfini and Robert Iler had a great father/son chemistry together
I grew up in East Orange, right next to Newark and much of it looked like this. It used to be one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the country. Then, like many of the large cities, started to go down the toilet after WWII. My mother personally witnessed the riots in Newark. The city never recovered.
What’s he story on the Newark riots. It happened to the entire city of Detroit. At one point of the safest, biggest cities in the Midwest.
Damn. Those Italians that left built an empire of a community. They were literally the Rockefellers of Newark.
The mob bankrupted Jersey. That's why it's in disrepair. Read a fucking history book. Corruption and greed made Jersey a fucking shell of a state let alone city. Check out the mafia series by Thames. UK doc. Breaks it all down
@@a.2419 As I said I lived in Newark as a child and then East Orange for many years before leaving. And yes.....I have read up on the history of urban decay. Jersey wasn't the only place affected. Many of the rust belt cities had a similar fate, Detroit probably being the most tragic example. And yes I agree greed and corruption played a big part. Still does. But it was a combination of other factors: suburbanization, 'white flight', racial tensions, the real estate industry stoking those tensions (greed as you stated). The expansion of the national highway system. It was a social and economic perfect storm.
@@sdegroot1 fair enough 🙏
the point of the scene is he's a hypocrite. the whole show Tony is a hypocrite and is showing what the American Dream has become and how Tony bypasses it as a criminal.
Actually, you need to be a criminal to accomplish the American Dream. Just ask any one in the U.S. Congress.
"Hard working Italians" who sit around all day playing cards when they're not attacking and stealing from people who actually work.
not all italians are mob guys
@@simof9292yea mobsters are like a tiny fraction of Italians, now the 13/52 crew on the other hand...😂
Where did i say that they were@@simof9292
@@pablogats4627 you sure have strong opinions about other human beings for someone whose only contribution to the world is being a troll in youtube comments. even your profile pic is just riding another dude's meat. arent you embarrassed for being such a self-less pathetic excuse for a person?
Detroit was once a beautiful city too.
Im North America was a beautiful continent once too. You wanna go there? Lol
@@kicksomeup6998 You're North America? LuLz
I do hope the title is being ironic
Why, though?? 🤔
@@marissasue319 Because he's a lazy thug that bosses his goons around.
Criminals aren't hard-working. If they were they wouldn't need to be criminals.
I mean, are you kidding me right now?
@@ultimategamer2669 Well, lol, if u really think about it, a LOT of work goes into being a criminal, being a successful criminal, and being a successful criminal who does not get caught, lol! #JustSaying Plus, without crime, how many sectors of people would be without jobs, INCLUDING, the academic institutions that teach crime-related academia e.g. law, policing, prisoning (??), criminology, profiling, hostage negotiating etc etc etc
@@marissasue319 It may be hard work, but they are still being parasites. Best example is "no works" and "no shows". They get paid in full to do job other people are willing to do for actual work. They also harrass local small businesses for "payments" for their "protection". Yes, they often work hard and take risk, but they still take many short cuts and contribute nothing to society. Tony likes to identify himself with the hard working Italians because it makes him feel better about his own actions.
@@greggrozdanis5737 Hun, I'm not condoning or glorifying crime when I discuss all angles of the topic from a neutral perspective. And as much as I LOVE the show & its characters, I also feel tons of HATE, ANGER & RAGE at much of what u stated! Also, add high-class bullies, thugs & goons to that list!
To be fair, that's the only life/lifestyle that Tony ever knew and the only one he inherited... 🤷🏼
'The bricks?!' forgot how funny this show was.
It is... _amazing_ how radically different people's takeaways from the same scene can be. It's like the family getting carjacked all over again.
Yeah, it’s pretty clear that the entire main messages of the show just completely go over some people’s heads. They just see the show as cool mob guys being tough and doing cool mob stuff.
Yeah lol it’s pretty in your face too and people still don’t realize. Like after the white guy whose care is stolen yells “niggers, who else?” It cuts straight to Tony. Poor David Chase tried his best to make it obvious lol
Funny to see criminals that never worked talking about hard work.
It's a hard work. Just because it's illegal doesnt make it less hard lol
Oh, they work and their life is far more dangerous because of it.
dzhabrail92 It's a tv show
It is hard work it's stress and fearing for your life it's worse then a regular job love tony soprano! He's the biggest bowse besides Rick Ross & Jay z
@@Intertronlive I hate people who comment " its a tv show" ...fuck off
Lol yes an upstanding citizen of the United States. You literally fell for what the writers call surface level understanding
Norman Shaw explain please
I think he was being ironic😂😂😂
@@EVERYTHING-dc2od The writers are portraying the HYPOCRISY of Tony Soprano, when he constantly tries to BERATE the fall of US society on criminals while he is a CRIMINAL himself and makes a living on ORGANIZED crime. He is a mafia boss, he kills, he orders murders, he steals, he tortures, he corrupts etc.
Everything wrong with society he represents.
The fact that some idiots dont see this or are to blinded by racism and hate to only see the negative aspect when POC are criminals just furthers the irony of societies problems.
Just notice how many times "black people" are blaimed for mafia crime, like when Jackie Jr is murdered and they blaimed it on "black people" etc
@@elrickojames988 What he's trying to imply is to stand on your own feet and to not be a crybaby who costantly wants to be taken care of.AJ was like that,a "whiny little bitch" as Tony said.Maybe if he grew some balls he could face his depressive gens and achieve great things.
It's about fighting for what you want in life,and working on your way to achieve it,despite the obstacles.That's the kind of attitude that makes enterepneurs and that's what AJ would never understand,trapped in his depression pitying himself.
@@Mpanagiotopoulos tony was not an entrepreneur you stunad, he was an organized crime boss
That’s an accurate portrayal of the black neighbourhood.
It's frustrating but also kind of sad. Tony clearly doesn't want AJ to go down the same path as him...but at the same time AJ's attempt to try other things are mocked by him, because he still wants his son to look up to him. No wonder AJ was messed up.
I came here specifically for the racist comments.
Trill Gates "Everything I don't like is racist - A guide to politics for the mentally challenged"
Artyom Kasumov Was that supposed to be an intellectual reply?
+Artyom Kasumov "anyone expressing views I dont agree with is mentally deficient" see how this shit works?
*****
lmao not even fuckface
***** Shut your dumb ass up.
Unless this guy is a troll, the description shows perfectly the stupidity of the title
I'm gonna get the papers, get the papers
This joke and the joke about how he'd send his grandparents back in a heartbeat are two of the best in the series.
great dialog and truth to it....blacks did the same (See black wallstreet) ...and everytime they built something up for themselves, the government came in and tore it down. It happened many times.
The unspoken comparison between Italians and blacks. Holds true
Different historial as well.... one group came to america as slaves, the other came in a diferent time and in diferent conditions. The unspoken comparison is incomparable.
Does it matter how they came here? Alavert has been over how long now? There is a black president.
Andrew Griffith
What's your point, or do you even have one? I mean, other than you're a generalizing bigot...
2 days ago I would argue with you people on here but not anymore. Life's to short to argue with people who in the end mean nothing to you or your life.
Aww baby boy! Don't get upset baby boy! Shhhh.
Tony has a bunch of goon to do his work for him but yeah he's the model for hard work
@LVhasAIDS Nah, he's a lazy thug that bosses his goons around.
@@ultimategamer2669 did u watch the show
@LVhasAIDS he was a pos, sir
@LVhasAIDS gangsters should not be your role models lol
@LVhasAIDS LOL please watch the final season, this is embarrassing
"Hard working Italians"??
A mob boss "learning" his son about hard working Italians....oh the irony.
Fuck the irony bitch what he said is true
RIP James
A murdering thief fictional character is the example used for a hard working Italian! Seriously?
WallKenshiro I think that's meant to be the irony of it lol
WallKenshiro that's what its come to...
Thanks Obama
WallKenshiro No, his great grandparents who came over with hardly any money and built that church etc.
Probably not much different than a typical DC politician.
Lol the title is fucking hilarious
No it's not
“The bricks” 😂😂😂
Tony being a gamer as usual
Much respect for the Italians & the Irish that came here to America
Agreed they faced a ridiculous amount of discrimination, that for some reason is not really talked about because ppl assume both them with the mob
@@christophermoltisanti9629 gunnies and micks are not white and this is coming from a man with 100% aryan blood
Yeah. Thanks for spaghetti!
One of the best actors ever rip Tony 🙏🏻
The disappointment in Tony's face when AJ said "duu the bricks?" 😂
Absolutely fucking state of that title.
What did that have to do with liberals?
"Did they cry? Did they go to the Government with their hands out? No!"
I think he's referring more to the modern lefty Liberals who believe in socialism and the central state controlling everything and working all the problems out for everybody. Conservatives, traditional conservatives at least, believe in hard work of the individual, self improvement, self reliance, the nuclear family and the sense of community.
@@hd6711 he's talking about the Italian community at a particular period of time, not himself
@Streetsdisciple001 ...Good for you... and your point is?
To people of a particular time period (like the period Tony is talking about here) religion was the central pillar of their culture, and as such the local church was the centre piece of their community, where everyone in the community would go for help and guidance to their daily struggles and where the community as a whole would all meet once a week as a community, so Churches back then where very important to people. So as Tony says here; when the Italians where refused to join the church that was already there they went and built a bigger and more beautiful one for themselves, rather than whinge and cry about it and wait for the government to sort it out for them, like the pathetic weasels we have today would do.
@Streetsdisciple001 He's using it as an example of how to stand on your own two feet, to sort your own problems out, he's using it as more of a metaphor, not to go and blindly follow the church. Of course you don't need the church, his point had almost nothing to do with the church, that church was just symbolic of his wider point of how people should be self reliant and sort their own problems out, not go and cry to the government with their hands out
I'm struggling to see how you've missed this and are fixating on the church itself and religion, it's just being used as an example and a metaphor of how people should behave in his opinion, which most of us agree with
Streetsdisciple001 My guy, just give it up.
shout out to the recommendation gang
Chris I watch a couple of Trump videos and all of a sudden I want to see liberals put in their place. At least we know RUclips runs on sound algorithms.
“The bricks” lmao. Kids are so honest.
Tell me you don’t understand The Sopranos by posting a clip and writing a caption for it.
This world needs Tony soprano more than ever
yeppers. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area has gone down since they moved the mafia out
The video title is too ironic judging from how Tony lived his life hahahaha If anyone seemed more conservative, it was Meadow & AJ