Listen, UK Vercetti.

If you want to go on insisting that Tessio did NOT make the 'smart move', then by all means go ahead & indulge yourself since you're clearly too self-absorbed to see this in any way but your own.

However *most* GF fans realize that it WAS the smart move, considering what might have become of Tessio's position within the Corleone Family had he NOT attempted to join forces with Barzini.

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