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Remember that prepaid cell phone gig I had where I witnessed the death of rural America?
I learned a ton about urban America, too.
And I’m gonna show you how Democrat messaging like this is embarrassingly off the mark. https://twitter.com/petebuttigieg/status/1340773954991116289
Story time!
Remember that prepaid cell phone gig I had where I witnessed the death of rural America?
I learned a ton about urban America, too.
And I’m gonna show you how Democrat messaging like this
is embarrassingly off the mark. https://twitter.com/petebuttigieg/status/1340773954991116289
First of all, “black and brown neighborhoods”—Jesus Christ 
“The projects” will suffice.
Back to BootyGig’s point: That ACCESS—via roads and sidewalks—is a major factor keeping residents of the projects in poverty.
This is LAUGHABLE to anyone with firsthand experience.
“The projects” will suffice.
Back to BootyGig’s point: That ACCESS—via roads and sidewalks—is a major factor keeping residents of the projects in poverty.
This is LAUGHABLE to anyone with firsthand experience.
People in the projects don’t live by an American middle class schedule.
The men don’t kiss their wives goodbye in the morning, and the wives don’t take the kids to school.
Instead, everyone mostly stays within the project complex and does the same shit every day.
The men don’t kiss their wives goodbye in the morning, and the wives don’t take the kids to school.
Instead, everyone mostly stays within the project complex and does the same shit every day.
Many sit on the stoops outside their apartments and talk/yell at others on different stoops.
Others walk around and visit with—or often harass—their favorite targets.
Still others walk to the ONLY immediate commerce—typically, a convenience store of the lowest quality.
Others walk around and visit with—or often harass—their favorite targets.
Still others walk to the ONLY immediate commerce—typically, a convenience store of the lowest quality.
Back in the day, I sold prepaid phones and phone cards to these c-stores.
Locations in the projects always did GREAT because people live from one government payday to another (and because gangbangers and dealers have cash and love burner phones).
Locations in the projects always did GREAT because people live from one government payday to another (and because gangbangers and dealers have cash and love burner phones).
I spent a ton of time at these stores, and I learned how these communities work.
Whereas I came from an omni-commerce world of specialization—a grocery store for groceries, electronic stores for electronics, etc—these people only ever went to ONE shoddy convenience store.
Whereas I came from an omni-commerce world of specialization—a grocery store for groceries, electronic stores for electronics, etc—these people only ever went to ONE shoddy convenience store.
The first of the month was government payday (EBT day).
In the projects, this meant BIG SALES NUMBERS on tobacco products, sugary bullshit, malt liquor, lottery tickets, and...prepaid cell phone stuff.
I made hella money off these stores, so I was motivated to find more!
In the projects, this meant BIG SALES NUMBERS on tobacco products, sugary bullshit, malt liquor, lottery tickets, and...prepaid cell phone stuff.
I made hella money off these stores, so I was motivated to find more!
So I set out to identify all the c-stores I could find that were close to the projects.
This made sense to me.
Surely I could pull huge numbers in many more locations if I could just get close to my target market...
And I expanded my empire (lol) accordingly.
This made sense to me.
Surely I could pull huge numbers in many more locations if I could just get close to my target market...
And I expanded my empire (lol) accordingly.
But these new stores just couldn’t pull the numbers.
Many of them were so bad that I pulled contracts.
Most simply languished compared to their nearby—but right in the middle of project complex—counterparts.
What the hell was going on??
Many of them were so bad that I pulled contracts.
Most simply languished compared to their nearby—but right in the middle of project complex—counterparts.
What the hell was going on??
Eventually, I figured it out—
People in the projects live in a circle with a roughly 1000’ radius.
In other words, nobody goes anywhere!
Day after day, they sit on the same stoops, yell at the same neighbors, and blow every bit of free cash at the same shitty c-store.
People in the projects live in a circle with a roughly 1000’ radius.
In other words, nobody goes anywhere!
Day after day, they sit on the same stoops, yell at the same neighbors, and blow every bit of free cash at the same shitty c-store.
I learned there is no “access” problem for people in the projects.
They don’t f*cking go anywhere!
What they have—and what Democrats like BootyGig simply don’t understand—is a LIFESTYLE PROBLEM.
There is no aspiration.
There are no good examples to follow.
There is NOTHING.
They don’t f*cking go anywhere!
What they have—and what Democrats like BootyGig simply don’t understand—is a LIFESTYLE PROBLEM.
There is no aspiration.
There are no good examples to follow.
There is NOTHING.
Society can try and address this a zillion different ways, but nothing is going to change.
Tear down or re-route a highway?
No one in the projects will change a damn thing.
Build a people-moving walkway from the projects to a legit grocery store?
They still go to the c-store.
Tear down or re-route a highway?
No one in the projects will change a damn thing.
Build a people-moving walkway from the projects to a legit grocery store?
They still go to the c-store.
Democrats don’t understand they cannot project their values onto people in the projects.
No one is home to receive the message.
No one is motivated to change.
And no one gives a shit what “problems” mostly white elitists are trying to “solve.”
It’s just a big, expensive LARP.
No one is home to receive the message.
No one is motivated to change.
And no one gives a shit what “problems” mostly white elitists are trying to “solve.”
It’s just a big, expensive LARP.
