You're Tony Soprano at the beginning of season 1

Christopher only got so far because he was Tony’s nephew. You think guys like Paulie enjoyed that?

muh codes and traditions

They bend more rules than the Catholic Church. They make anybody in Jersey and the way they do it is fucked up, too. They don’t even have a gun or sword on the table.

plant a bunch of incriminating shit on Carmela and AJ

go to the cops

get everybody (including myself bitch wife and faggot son) arrested

go into witness protection with Meadow and Adriana

bang them both repeatedly

anonymously send photos of me fucking Adriana to Chrissy while he's in prison

EZ

Hand over Tony B immediately. That's really it. Still ends up in the can though

I don’t think he could have gotten away with whacking Richie or getting him locked up again but he definitely could have killed Ralph after the Tracee incident.

I'd add

don't go full retard and kill Ralphie

throw a bigger bone to Blundetto so HE doesn't go full retard

cash out all my assets and launder it all

leave the country with my boat full of cash, abduct Meadow, Gloria, Tracee, Adriana to be in my harem

Insulating himself from all the crime they were doing was the right play but he chose Chrissy, an unstable drug addict psychopath, to be his heir. Pretty much the only positives he does in the show are

make uncle jun the lightning rod

send Feech back to the can

whack Masserone

make nice with agent Harris

And the best thing he does, which happens far too late, is set up Bobby to be his number 2 and a stand-in for Chris.

based

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Bobby was a good guy and loyal to the end but I just don’t see him making the cutthroat decisions the game requires at the top. He was on a moral decline but he’s the type to agonize about the types of decisions that are instinct to guys like Paulie and Silvio.

Chrissy might not even have been that much of a problem if Tony didn't personally undermine his attempts at bettering himself. The fact that Chrissy was willing to stick with Tony over Adriana is evidence that he had the kind of loyality needed to perform the function as a street boss of sorts that Tony intended for him. Safe for Silvio it's hard to imagine any other guy in Tony's family to not sell him out under the same circumstances.

Just do everything the exact same I guess? If the objective is to be alive for the entirety of the series that is.

Chrissy might not even have been that much of a problem if Tony didn't personally undermine his attempts at bettering himself

He was a drug addict. Should have cut him off the moment he started being on the weed wagon.

Whack Junior and his whole crew after he sends those mulignans after me
Whack Chrissy the first time he shows signs of a drug problem
Take AJ under my wing early, like 15-16. Teach him the business inside and out, prevent him from becoming the mopey fuckup he turns into. The future of the family is now my own flesh and blood and someone I can trust completely
Keep dealings with New York to an absolute minimum. There’s enough money in Jersey.

Or let Phil have the 25% on the asbestos if you have to correct late

I have a threesome with my daughter and therapist.

You're Tony Soprano

POV

Ritchie let him die via Janice.
Feech back to jail
Send Ralph to Florida or Atlantic city to earn.
Chrissy in rehab earlier, and let him do the movie stuff earlier. If hes in movies and entertainment he can be distant and doesnt have the hard time being sober at the Bing etc.
Jackie Jr, the 2 idiots furio takes 1k off, and those other low level guys, make sure you have easy jobs where new and low-level guys can just easily cycle through to learn the ropes.
Vito, let that resolve itself.
Tony B, buy him the massage parlour, or make him partners with the guy who runs the rub n tug that furio beats down on. Kina like how adriana got the club. Gives him steady legit income. If he starts shit with new York give him up.
Make myself and my guys go to the gym and shooting practice.
Keep jr as the lightening rod
Invest more in easy legit income, and don't sell out all your old buildings (chicken shop) to new upcoming modern age shit, adapt, and turn them into legitimate businesses

Ayy, look at tha smartass ovah here, we's gots us a full on professoh!

>I have a threesome with my daughter and the rapist.

fify

Since you're all so smart...

How about kill Christofuh? Seems like the easiest thing to do with a lot of payoff. Would his absence create any butterfly effect problems?

Chrissy wasn’t very well liked in the family overall, only Paulie would give a shit

Don't kill Ralphie over a fucking horse

Don't undermine Paulie so much to the point where he has to go to Johnny to air out grievances

Promote Patsy to acting capo instead of Chrissy

Hand over Tony B to Phil and have Carlo do the hit on Vito immediately after finding out he's a fag.

To be completely honest I don't think I would survive very long as a mob boss. I can barely tolerate working with people and bossing my cat.

Promote Patsy to captain instead of Chrissy. That's literally it, that's all he had to do.

He killed little Cozette!

be even more paranoid

Lmao yeah this will work out great.

He also allowed her to get deflowered by a Jewish nog.

trusting Johnny Sack at any situation

If Tony would have helped Sack kill Fishlips Lupertazzi, he would have turned on him on the spot. Tony was smart to not do as Sack said.

They're literally the same color.

Stop being a gangster

Relinquish the leadership and retire