>I look at you these days, String, you know what I see? I see a man without a country. Not hard enough for this right here and maybe, just maybe, not smart enough for them out there
Avon basically called Stringer Bell a midwit for talking about Econ 101 shit to drug dealers. Based.

String was basically co-running the organization. Don't know why Avon was so hard on him.

>>213074426
envy

>>213074426
because avon was warring with marlo and needed everyone on board but stringer was fucking around getting his ass scammed by clay davis

>>213074090 (OP)
Avon was right only because Stringer went too big. This is more of an issue of classism than intelligence. Stringer had no connections within the government or "polite society" to be able to go legit in the way he wanted to. He should have stacked his money, bought another shop or two, and just quietly retired from "the game". At least then he could have slowly laundered his money, graduated, got a job in the government (through the bribes and campaign donations he made), and then he gets bank loans and got into real-estate that way, instead of using his drug money.

>>213074630
fr fr

>>213074090 (OP)
>what did I tell you about them away games?

>>213074090 (OP)
not the first time Avon threw shade at Stringer over this either
>This ain't about your business class, String. This ain't that "part" of it. This that other thang.
Stringer came off so cool in S1, and then you learn he's basically the same kind of idiot as the hoppers he belittles. He just has delusions of grandeur. Say what you will about Avon, but he knew who he was, and he played his part perfectly. Meanwhile, Stringer dumps cell phone stock in the early 00s because he think Poot having 2 cell phones means the market is saturated and sales are gonna drop. Fucking clown.
My favorite indictment of Stringer is actually Dee's words on Gatsby in S2:
>He frontin' with all them books. He got all them books, and he ain't read nary one of em.
I could talk about this fucking show all day.

>>213074453
Yeah but in the end he was acting like Stinger was just a hanger-on when back in S1 he was the face of the organization while Avon was a ghost. He ran the shit while Avon was locked up. His personal misfortunes aside, he didn't fuck anything up for gang, he didn't leave a trail, he stayed clean, he laundered all the money for Avon, and Avon's like "hurr, you're not hard enough for this." Avon didn't want to go to war either, he was relieved as hell when the cops raided them.

>>213075064
Avon said it himself, he's just a gangster who wants his corners. For guys like him and Marlo, the money is literally just a bonus. It's about names ringing out.

>>213074426
Avon was mad that Stringer killed his nephew, even though he knew it was the right thing to do.

>>213075064
>he didn't fuck anything up for gang
What do you think would've happened if Avon wasn't there to back up my rumble tumble nigga Slim when String was trying to send him out to pop a fucking senator?

Think that would've been good for the gang?

>>213074702
>I could talk about this fucking show all day.
Too much fuckin' talkin' around here lately, man. Niggas need to shut the fuck up, for real

>>213074426
Because he was waging a war and wanted his 2IC all in, not squandering his time and money getting played in a world he wasn't cut out for.

>>213075410
Slim probably would have turned it down even without Avon behind him. He may not be cut out to be no CEO, but he wasn't a stupid man

>>213075426
Fuck them west coast niggas

in B-more we aim to HIT a nigga, ya heard

>>213075478
Hey yo, who made that track, "Shake it and Jiggle it"?

>>213075466
He'd absolutely know it was a stupid fucking idea, but how exactly would he have been able to get out of it if Avon wasn't around?

Say if it happened when Avon was locked up, and all the muscle and all the little hoppers were totally in the clear about String calling all the shots while Avon is gone?
You can't just fucking say "no thanks" then, right?

>>213075466
>He may not be cut out to be no CEO
He was the only one left standing at the end.

>>213075503
you laughin

I been schooled dawg, furreal

>>213074630
And Stringer was right because as the knockos point out, if Stringer succeeds then he's Clay Davis tier, untouchable, they can't get to himno more and there's no worry he might catch a cap in his ass from other drug dealers.

>>213074630
I said this exact shit to a college professor once and she told me that it's white privilege to think that way.

>>213075592
>the knockos

>>213074630
Ironically Marlo is able to make penetration in the world Stringer wants simply by being more ruthless than the competition as an actual gangster with zero regard for economics or diplomacy like Stringer.

>>213075592
I'm not so sure about him being safe from getting capped, maybe not by dealers for the sake of money but he did fuck a lot of people over through the years

I bet Omar would've gladly hunted his ass all the way out to the suburbs if he had gotten that far lmao

>>213074090 (OP)
string couldn't even ace the econ 101 despite putting in huge effort. he had dedication, but with his dedication idiots like ziggy or herc would have aced the course. string was probably the dumbest character in the whole series

>>213075528
I'm quoting his own words, retard. Plus he meets Vondas with Fat Face Rick by his side at the end.
Maybe try actually watching the show, anon. It's not the kind of show you can half-watch while dicking around on your phone.

>>213075679
Aside from Omar there was nobody else and he was already distanced from that world.

>>213075528
But not for long, he was gonna get dropped eventually. But its fine, it's all in the game anyway.

>>213075624
And a good evening to you, Sergeant Carver

>>213075526
You can 100% say no to murdering somebody, not even the most mentally unstable criminals on the street would get upset about it. You'll be out of a job and possibly demoted, iced out, or straight up kicked out of the gang but no one will try to hurt you for saying no to catching a murder charge.

>>213075592
the whole point is that Stringer wasn't going to succeed. Clay Davis wasn't the only one fucking him around, Andy Krawczyk was bleeding him too. Just like Avon said, they saw his mark ass coming from miles away. All of these people knew who they were dealing with, some street cat with ambition, and they were taking him for all he was worth. They were never going to let him join the club.
>>213075597
I mean that's true, but so what?
Pointing out white privilege is like pointing out that tall people make better basketball players than short people. It's like... yeah? And? The fuck is your point? The facts are still the facts

>>213075716
uhhh...

>What if we taught these young bloods how to sell drugs more efficiently?

>>213075716
>Aside from Omar there was nobody else
That's funny, I could've sworn even his actual death scene had another stone cold cartoonish megamind nigga pumping him full of lead right along side Omar

And who says there weren't more of them? Even outside of what we see, Avon and String had been doing this shit since they were teens
Who knows how many other people that snake fuck ripped off or insulted over the years?

>>213075526
...yes, you literally can?
this isn't some fucking slavery arrangement, Slim is an employee. He can just quit. You know, like Cutty did. Like Black Donnie turned down Avon when Avon was trying to soldier up and take back his corners.

>>213075760
>the whole point is that Stringer wasn't going to succeed
And Avon wasn't going to (and didn't) succeed without him. They actually reigned long because the combination was good. Compared to any other drug leaders Stringer was a genius, compared to all the other drug dealers, Avon had muscles and had some street smarts well above average. Stringer's ambition was good but he simply didn't know how to play that game, but you can't fault a guy for trying to reach higher.

>>213075777
>>213075802
He pissed them off at the same time, obviously it's a package deal. But aside from them he kept his distance.

>>213075811
>Compared to any other drug leaders Stringer was a genius

>>213075838
Fatboy died like a bitch in his own home. Stringer only died because he was literally betrayed by his best friend.

>>213075855
Fatboy managed to fuck Omar over and get away with it. How did that turn out for Stringer again?
Whoops...

>>213075597
>she
Not even trying to be funny but the fact she's a woman is probably why she thinks that way. Baltimore is majority black and so is the government and the middle and upper class population of the city and surrounding counties. Maryland has the wealthiest black people in the country. And class has nothing to do with race.

>>213075759
You are completely clueless and it really shows that you've never actually been around any kind of gangsters

If they're kicking you out of the gang they might as well kill you just to make sure you snitch once you whole life and identity is gone.
Even if you don't snitch, what the fuck do you think he would have to do? He'd have to join one of the other mobs, of course, since that is literally all he knows. Do you think they want more competition and the risk of secrets and methods and stash houses etc getting leaked to another gang?

Think, man.
People are killed for a lot less than that. ESPECIALLY in shitholes like Baltimore where the murders are fucking constant and the police barely care and don't have the time or the resources to actually investigate them fully.

Never go into business with shady people, man. You don't have the mindset or the nack for it

>>213075885
you have no idea what the fuck you are talking about

>>213075885
Yeah, one of you two anons has never been around any gangsters...

>>213075910
That is pure projection, my boy.

You're clueless.

>>213075915
I was in a literal gang for 6 years, dumb nigger.
I still have gang tattoos because my job pays shit and getting them off is expensive as shit here

>>213075664
Marlo gets into that world by using Levy instead of trying to do it himself, like String.

>>213075885
>you're clueless about gangsters
>unlike me, who has watched too much TV and thinks he knows something
nobody is capping good muscle for turning down a stupid hit, you're retarded
100% you're some white middle class faggot who used to hang out at his Mexican weed connects house now and then when he went over to cop and thinks he's hard because of it

>>213075949
post tattoos with timestamp right now or you're a lying faggot.

>>213075925
>>213075949
This is just more evidence of you not know what you are talking about. You've made several assumptions that are wrong btw.

>>213075956
Which Levy even tells String he should have done. Who knows, maybe String had a chance if he had the right intro

>>213075949
>Nobody gets out of a gang alive they'd just kill you!
>I got out after 6 years though
Well, you've certainly got the IQ of a gang member

>>213075961
Hilarious how delusional you are

String is literally stupid enough to try to kill a fucking senator, you fucking mongoloid. You think he's not stupid enough to kill the nigger he's already wanting to send away for life to do his retarded hit?
You might actually be dumber than Stringer. Damn

>blahblah making up shit about american kids and mexicans
I'm from eastern europe and I've never even met a mexican
What I have done is join one of the local gangs in my city, because that's who runs your area and a big chunk of the shitty poor kids in the neighborhood join them since there is nothing else to do for money

You're completely wrong and you don't know shit a bout me or the underworld, just accept it

>>213076017
1. literally not what I said, at all
2. Slim's situation is a fuck of a lot different than mine was

>>213075759
This is why the Italians were always better at it. If you said no to clipping a guy who the boss told you to clip, you were gonna get clipped.

>>213076065
>>213076096
Post tattoos with timestamp or you're a lying faggot. Last chance.

>>213075973
Yes, I'll post my very specific gang tattoos on 4chan as soon as you post your face and ID

>>213076065
>starting to chimp out
>pretending to be from eastern Europe to deflect suspicion that he's lying, despite the fact that it undermines his argument ("I know what American criminals act like and you don't")
>posts this incipient meltie instead of tattoos with timestamp
yeah, i'm thinking this guy is a faggot

>>213076181
Yeah, i'm thinking you're a samefaggot spammer and you've never witnessed a crime in your life

>>213076129
>Nooo I won't post my gang tattoos
>which are very specific and identifying information
>even though they're gang tattoos
>which means everyone in the gang I was part of has them
>but noooo they're specific
Lying faggot confirmed. Also retarded.

>>213076211
Lmfao nigger I used to sling. Unlike you I actually committed crimes in my lifetime.
You're just some larping faggot who thinks watching TV shows about gangs makes you well-informed.

Yo, you should watch Belly (1998) and decide what type of n**** you wanna to be. Make the right choice, homie.

https://youtu.be/oJbQd601UaQ

Which character by the end had the best redemption arc?

>>213076377
Nah. I'm more of a New Jack City man

>>213076392
Cutty is a contender. Bubbles is probably the best, though.
I do like Wee-Bey doing the right thing for his son from behind bars

Why do they hate Herc so much? He didn't even do anything that bad. The won't stop sucking Bodie's dick and he murdered a child.

>>213077356
he got Randy's house torched ya dingus

>>213075064
Stringer was retconned (or flanderized) slightly after season 1.
He took part in the nitty gritty tortures and so on. But when Avon's back he's suddenly somehow apart from the street game and ignorant

>>213077443
They don't know that yet.

It's not about Stringer being smart or dumb, it's about him being an effective administrator. And the Barksdale crew had the most opsec discipline, a strong chain of command, and ruthlessly tied up loose ends. Avon talks shit about string not being hard enough, but really Stringer was the most ruthless by authorizing a hit on a church sunday, killing dee, and leaking Avon's info to the cops, and trying to kill Brother Mouzone, and killing that low-level kid from the low-rises.

>>213074090 (OP)
He wasn’t wrong. String called for Davis’ assasination like a tard.

>>213076377
The speech at the end of the movie is particularly important.

Stringer should have killed Avon. Avon is a dumb nigger rap gangster wanna be, Stringer was pushing the business to some certain levels and was basically becoming untouchable

>>213074426
This nigga WAS running this shit, he did way more than Avon ever did

>>213081550
Stringer didn't have that in him. All the deaths he's responsible for were just his order moving someone else's hands. He would have had to hire out like he did to take out Dee, but he already fucked up New York, so what now?

>>213081658
The Barksdale crew didn't get to where it is in the first place without Avon. We just came in after the dirt was done.

>>213074426
when avon went to jail every move stringer made fucked him over

>>213082793
Prop Joe's package saved their asses, fuck you mean?
Stringer made bad moves but they weren't all bad moves