• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    This…this is literally them listening to their voters?

    No, this is them trying something most Black.people don’t give a fuck about.

    But stereotypes say they do.

    So they do this, rather than something real people actually want, like:

    Healthcare

    Student loans

    Taxing the rich

    Not funding a genocide

    Holding the wealthy accountable

    Etc…

    • kescusay@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Healthcare

      The Biden administration has been fighting to prevent Obamacare from getting gutted.

      Student loans

      He literally just forgave a bunch of student loans a couple weeks ago, and he’s trying to do it piecemeal after SCOTUS blocked his attempt to do it wholesale.

      Taxing the rich

      He has already raised taxes on the rich, via the American Rescue Plan. (It also lowers taxes on the poor and middle class.)

      Not funding a genocide

      Look. His job, as president, is to try to keep the Middle East from descending into WWIII. We can have Biden, who is trying to use what leverage he has on Netanyahu, or we can have Trump, who will gleefully send the Middle East into total war. Pick one.

      Holding the wealthy accountable

      Could you specify what you even mean, here?

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      6 months ago

      No, this is them trying something most Black.people don’t give a fuck about.

      Way to admit you don’t know any Black people rofl

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      6 months ago

      This is literally about saving black ppls lives dude get a clue. Google how many black ppl die every year from smoking and then Google what percentage of menthol smokers are white and then sit down and shut the fuck up.

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        6 months ago

        So if they banned malt liquor on the grounds of saving black lives, that wouldn’t be racist? What about fried chicken? Fried food causes cardiovascular disease. Orange soda causes diabetes.

        But that’s not even the point. The point is, he was going to ban them because they’re bad for you, but decided not to for the votes because black people smoke newports or something. he’s letting them die so he can get reelected

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          He’s letting them make adult choices like everybody else about their health.

          People don’t need to be saved from themselves, and it is extremely condescending to act like the black population has been bamboozled by menthol cigarettes any more or less than any other smoker.

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            6 months ago

            And I’m all about that. I think it’s ridiculous that the president was even considering banning menthol cigarettes. But what’s even more ridiculous is that his campaign manager or whatever put a focus group together and delivered research to his desk saying “Mr president sir, if you ban newports you’re gonna lose reelection because black people won’t like it” and so he decided not to do it.

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        So you’re implying black people aren’t responsible enough to make their own decisions about their health and they need the feds to ban something they like for their own good. That’s the most white savior shit I’ve ever heard

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          6 months ago

          Menthol makes tobacco more addictive, so it’s more harmful than without. That’s the point of the ban in the first place

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            6 months ago

            Menthol makes tobacco more addictive

            That’s just straight up not true.

            And who cares. Let people have their vices. Stop trying to police people’s bodies.

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              6 months ago

              I’m not a proponent of banning drugs, just trying to find some reasoning behind it.