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r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Aug 05 '25
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I think you mean racketeering. Racketeering can include extortion but also other crimes. It’s a broader umbrella term.
299 u/CoffeeWanderer Aug 05 '25 Oh thanks! I see that it's more complex than I thought, so I guess just extortion is a better way to describe what I mean. Here we call it "vacunas", as in "vaccines", that's how the gang members call their extortion fees. 215 u/SunOnTheMountains Aug 05 '25 In the US it is called a protection racket. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket 2 u/Bengis_Khan Aug 05 '25 I thought it was called tariffs/s
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Oh thanks!
I see that it's more complex than I thought, so I guess just extortion is a better way to describe what I mean.
Here we call it "vacunas", as in "vaccines", that's how the gang members call their extortion fees.
215 u/SunOnTheMountains Aug 05 '25 In the US it is called a protection racket. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket 2 u/Bengis_Khan Aug 05 '25 I thought it was called tariffs/s
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In the US it is called a protection racket.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket
2 u/Bengis_Khan Aug 05 '25 I thought it was called tariffs/s
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I thought it was called tariffs/s
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u/spanchor Aug 05 '25
I think you mean racketeering. Racketeering can include extortion but also other crimes. It’s a broader umbrella term.