Do small time gangbanger 5 and dime dealers make regular smokers look bad?
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Originally Posted by JohnnyZ
Yes, I would much rather have a good work ethic than know how to deal drugs. You learn how to count grams and ounces in grade school buddy, don't make it out to be an actual profession. Get real.
How can you possibly stand up for the low life drug dealer types? And how can you say they don't have a defeatist attitude? They take the easy road out and try to become Fiddycent. I'm not ragging on all drug dealers, because without them I wouldn't be high. I am ragging on the fucking wiggers who try and act tough with their sideways hats and Phat Farm hoodies.
If you think it's easy to be successful and to build solid customer rapport in a very competitive market, obviously you haven't been smoking weed long enough. It has nothing to do with ethics because the guys who are most successful at dealing drugs are the most ethical and do good business. They are the ones that last, while the ones who only do it for the hip-hop image fail.
If you think you work any harder than dealers by washing dishes, you are wrong. What do you think they do, just sit there and wait for people to come? If you want your business to grow, you have to expand your customer base, you have to market your product, you have to get good product consistantly by networking. These are all skills you can apply to a real profession.
If you think you don't carry away any marketable skills after you sell anything, you are absolutely wrong. Let's take a look at the responsibilities of a sales manager:
· develop and manage outside sales team
· new business development
· business-to-business sales
· achieving sales goals
· accountability
Any skill you develop regardless of where you developed them can be marketable in the future, you don't have to necessarily learn them from a job.
If this post if any indication, you probably left half your marketable skills off your resume based on ignorance.
Do small time gangbanger 5 and dime dealers make regular smokers look bad?
thcbongman, you raise several good points. However, I'm also reminded of a telling quote from the first season of Weeds: "Drugs sell themselves. You ain't shit." I suppose the truth lies somewhere in between.
Do small time gangbanger 5 and dime dealers make regular smokers look bad?
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Originally Posted by RamblerGambler
thcbongman, you raise several good points. However, I'm also reminded of a telling quote from the first season of Weeds: "Drugs sell themselves. You ain't shit." I suppose the truth lies somewhere in between.
Drugs do sell themselves because people want drugs, that's why a lot of people want to sell weed making it extremely competitive.
However you have to think as a buyer and you didn't have any, if Dealer A has trouble securing good product for a day or two even though he's your regular dealer, would you consider going somewhere else? The answer for most of you would be absolutely.
That's why maintaining your customer base and keep business going is absolutely paramount to being successful. If a dealer is off even for a day, it affects his/her business.
Do small time gangbanger 5 and dime dealers make regular smokers look bad?
You are blowing this so out of proportion. By your reasoning, all kids should drop out of highschool and become drug dealers, because they will acquire enough business knowledge to become the next CEO of Sprint.
Nice life.
Do small time gangbanger 5 and dime dealers make regular smokers look bad?
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Originally Posted by 420_24/7
I compare you to a racist because what you said was comparable to racism. Also, calling them brainless stoners is just lending to the truth of that stereotype too. Just because they wear different clothes than you doesn't mean anything. That's just insulting their lifestyle.
The difference, I think, is that racism is clearly repugnant because it makes assumptions about people based on something they do not choose--just because somebody is born with light or dark skin does not inherently determine what kind of person they will be. How somebody dresses, however, the kinds of words they use, what kind of lifestyle they have...these are all choices. They don't paint a thorough and all-encompassing portrait of an individual's character, no, but they provide clues as to their values, what they think is cool, etc. If a guy wears a pot leaf shirt, he can't yell discrimination when he gets taken for a toker. Likewise, one of these gangsta types can't yell discrimination when people cross the street to avoid them, considering their culture glorifies violence. Having said that, I say give every individual a chance, but presuppositions are sometimes valid; that's all.
Oh, and a part of me died inside when I heard Robert Plant compared to "fiddycent".
Do small time gangbanger 5 and dime dealers make regular smokers look bad?
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Originally Posted by RamblerGambler
But... Robert Plant had talent. "fiddycent" is a corporate creation, yet another in a long line of mass produced, over sampled talentless hacks. Let's not forget how successful he was at his previous occupation slinging rock. I seem to recall him getting a pink slip... in the form of 9 bullets. This isn't to say that I don't appreciate rap, simply I don't appreciate what it's becoming. When MTV helps to find the next hip-hop mogul, something is very wrong. Of course, it was already headed in this direction when Soulja Boy makes millions of nothing more then a hook, and making and selling crack remains the template for way too many songs.
I have a suspicion that Soulja boy is trolling the world. He's actually a really smart guy who's taking advantage of the idiots in the world. (joke)
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Originally Posted by overgrowthegovt
Oh, and a part of me died inside when I heard Robert Plant compared to "fiddycent".
Trust me, I wasn't comparing them in regards to talent. I hate "fiddycent" I was just comparing them as they are both celebrity role models from different eras.
Do small time gangbanger 5 and dime dealers make regular smokers look bad?
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Originally Posted by JohnnyZ
You are blowing this so out of proportion. By your reasoning, all kids should drop out of highschool and become drug dealers, because they will acquire enough business knowledge to become the next CEO of Sprint.
Nice life.
You are applying the same reasoning as freevibe, those anti-drug commercials, all your reasoning against it is based on your hatred of wiggers and stereotypes and wiggers. You state I'm the one blowing it out of proportion when really, that incredulous statement is blowing everything I said out of proportion.
No where did I even imply that kids should drop out of school and sell drugs. No where did I imply you'll become a CEO off selling drugs. All I basically said is there are some marketable skills you learn from dealing drugs. Just like a girl selling cookies, or some boy selling lemonade in his neighborhood. What I said has nothing to do with wiggers, more against this comment you made:
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"Bullshit man. When you're young, you have the whole world before you. It doesn't matter where you come from, you can find work somewhere. I can't stand people with that defeatist attitude. When I was 15 I started washing dishes in a tiny little restaurant making $7/h. Sure you probably make money hand over fist peddling to your buddies, but at least I know what a hard day's work is like.
If you think those kids selling bags in the corner are making pump over fist, you are kidding yourself. Reality is the kid is a drug dealers bitch, like his sales clerk. Unlike what you think no one with the right mind would put up with that bullshit unless they really want to be in the game, I don't care how glorified hip-hop makes it out to be because that's glorified bullshit.
The guy who's really making money are the ones above them and likewise it's incremental. You have to consider a couple factors. They do not work an hourly wage, they work base on profit. Therefore the only way they'll make money is to sell a lot and sell it fast. It isn't easy.
In reality small-time dealers are making less than what you make working as a dishwasher and the work is different but equally as grueling. There's no doubt some are making less than $5 an hour. They have to organize their time around delivery, they have to find new customers, they have to talk to people, they have to negotiate with people. Dealing with all the BS with dealing drugs, it is work because of you don't do that, you aren't going to maintain a profitable flow. Replace marijuana with computer, or cell phone and the same concept applies. Likewise if they are successful, they learned something about entrepeneurship. If they failed, they didn't not learn the concepts properly.
I also believe it's a free world. You can dress what you want, be what you want as long as you understand and accept the consequences.
I met some obnoxious wiggers in my lifetime that I couldn't stand, infact a bunch of friends and I ran from because one decided to punch one friend, smack another over the head with a bottle for no reason and we were outnumbered 2-1. Just one story. I have plenty of experience around crazy wiggerness. I also met some incredibly chill ones who don't hate, are more quiet, but like to express their style. I simply think you shouldn't be hating and judge each person individually on their actions. Stereotypes are just that, stereotypes. I don't what they care about what they rap in hip-hop, it's music, it's suppose to set you free, it isn't reality, it isn't fact, it's expression.
Do small time gangbanger 5 and dime dealers make regular smokers look bad?
I had a wigger friend, even though I think the term "wigger" is as equally disrespectful as the N-word, I don't use either. I have a lot of black friends at school and personally don't care for those words.
OK, so my friend was all out gangsta back in the day, but he is one of the nicest people I know. They will grow out it.
BTW this kind of random.
Do small time gangbanger 5 and dime dealers make regular smokers look bad?
random indeed__but on the topic of street dealers
Listen there are a few types of these dealers ,(wiggers is sort of racist )
Wanksters or false flaggers as i call them are the guys that roll 4 deep in the sled staring at people acting like they are in some weird straight to video movie were white kids in any shape or form are dangerous gangsters.
They hang at parking lots because they still live at home or at there grandmas,they dress overly black style ,like flea market hip hop clothes and shoes,you know the guys...
Like i said before i now there are a few small time guys that have descent jobs and drive nice rides but those arent the guys i was refering too.
And it is common to see a occasional real black guy with these groups of white kids ,and usually the black kid no matter what size he is is the the group leader ..they make WEED LOOK SO BAD ,,,its retarded how bad these groups look to perty much all the public ,hell even my black friends get angry when they see these guys at the mall walking around buying nothing ,freaking out the customers __ill bet the malls around america only have security for these sort of people ,and that cost them thousands of dollars .
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Do small time gangbanger 5 and dime dealers make regular smokers look bad?
I get what Sensi is saying. If you're hanging in parking lots and "looking the part" you're already telling the cops "we're up to no good". And if you're intimidating people ad asking like a badass, you're just asking for it. Especially in the concealed carry states. Never underestimate a frightened little old lady or soccer mom who might be packing a 9 mil.
