An Elon Musk-funded group called Future Coalition PAC is targeting Muslim voters in Michigan and Jewish voters in Pennsylvania with diametrically opposed political advertisements about Kamala Harris. In areas of Michigan with relatively large Muslim populations, the Super PAC is painting Harris as a close friend of Israel and is suggesting that she is beholden to the beliefs of her Jewish husband Doug Emhoff; in parts of Pennsylvania with relatively large Jewish populations, the advertisements call Harris antisemitic and say she “support[s] denying Israel the weapons needed to defeat the Hamas terrorists who massacred thousands.”
Meanwhile, a related PAC also funded by Musk is microtargeting likely Black voters on Snapchat with ads that says Kamala Harris is trying to ban menthol cigarettes (surveys have shown that 81 percent of Black smokers use menthols, and big tobacco has disproportionately marketed menthol cigarettes to Black Americans).
That really is an issue for black voters. I listened to a townhall on it and wow the black voters were mad and felt very targeted by any talk of it.
Yeah, kinda showing your own ignorance if you think this doesn’t matter. I’m white, but grew up in Black neighborhoods and smoke monthol. It absolutely feels like racist targeting. Ban the cigarettes that almost exclusively black people smoke, but keep the cigarettes and chewing tobacco that white people use? Feels pretty fucking racist dude.
Well I get the idea to ban “flavors” and “enhancements”. But you can’t ban tobacco just like you can’t ban alcohol. The townhall didn’t get that, they said if you ban one you should ban the other. But making all tobacco illegal will just make a massive black market.
Hah black market
As if there wouldn’t be a black market for menthols if they were the only product to be banned.
Compared to a black market for tobacco if tobacco was banned? That’s several different orders of magnitude.