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Why did some nutjob care about Dylan Mulvaney so much that she decided to make him the face of the company?
Why would anyone in their right mind drink Bud, Coors, or Miller Light in the first place .... when there are so many delicious craft beers out there?
Probably because it's cheap and accessible like fentanyl coming across our southern border.
Fentanyl is big in the red states
Fentanyl is HUGE in blue states.
It's note bigger than in TX, FL and AZ, all red
The rate of black males overdosing tripled between 2015 and 2020 and now surpasses Native Americans as the highest rate by ethnicity. What is this attributed to? Is it poverty? AZ isn't that poor, is it? Is it proximity to the border?
No daddy around.
The no daddy rate tripled between 2015 and 2020? Seems unlikely. There must be more to it than that.
What do you think?
I think you pulled a "fact" out of your ass and now you can't back it up. That happens a lot with you.
So, you don't have any thoughts....
Not about overdose death rates among black males. I haven't looked into the topic and unlike you, I generally don't get into debates about topics I'm not informed about. Besides, discussions with you are usually pointless exercises.
Because drug abuse and drug related crimes have always been about poverty. And once drug and crime become the norm in a neighborhood, it becomes a vicious cycle where the next generation of mothers don't have the right family values that could have come from having a father and a mother guiding them not to have kids out of wedlock with someone who won't be around, with the next generation now also growing up without a father figure. When you relegate a group of people to a lower station in economic standing and make drugs readily available, you get what you get. It is not a color or racial thing. It is the natural result of the social and economic dynamics.
But the way out isn't to make it OK to be stuck in that lower standing by funding that current state, by making it OK to be in a perpetual crime state by lowering cash bail and reducing criminal threshold, or lowering basic human expectations to a much lower standard for a group of people as if they were little children you have to pat on the head for doing their best. The solution is by providing economic opportunity for the next generation, bring pride and human dignity back to doing value-add work and living with character, by building lower income housing in better neighborhoods with better school and near transportation despite the NIMBY attitudes of the "liberals" in the suburbs who talk a good game but block anything that may pop their precious limousine liberal lifestyle, and by having folks not only rely on impersonal government to do the good work on their behalf but actually roll up their sleeves and provide mentorship to kids in inner cities.
But folks on the left think they are being moral by enabling and funding the current state and the right makes poverty be a story about personal inadequacy and racial differences.