Group behind 'cheerful' San Francisco fentanyl ads explains them

SF Gate ^ | 5/16/2023 | By Eric Ting

[NohSpinZone]

A new San Francisco political group is launching an ad campaign sure to get attention: a series of pastel-colored ads joking about the city’s response to the fentanyl crisis, tied together by the jaunty slogan, “That’s Fentalife!"

This week, the ads will appear in the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods, the two places where overdose deaths have been the most prevalent. The group responsible — TogetherSF Action — is insistent that the ads aren't insensitive to the hundreds of people who have died from drug overdoses in the city and that the “That’s Fentalife” moniker on the ads comes from a place of compassion.

TogetherSF Action is one of several new advocacy organizations in the city aligned with San Francisco's moderate faction of politicians and shares their aim of more resources for law enforcement in policing drug crimes.

Kanishka Cheng, TogetherSF Action's co-founder and executive director, told SFGATE the ad campaign was timed to coincide with the city budget process, in the hopes the ads move residents to demand more money for law enforcement, as well as services for people addicted to fentanyl.

[NohSpinZone]

At first blush I was thinking "what the $@#$" but the more I thought of it, I saw the logic of this being a jarring attention grabber. I get it. We are so mired with bad news about fentanyl that I think much of it gets lost in white noise. The real question is whether anyone will be motivated to take action after they pay attention to this campaign.

[Responsibility2nd]

Are they aiming these pro-fentanyl ads at queers and trannies?

If not, why not. At least they are in the correct city to push this poison.

[frank ballenger]

A Spoonful of Sugar
Song by Julie Andrews

… In every job that must be done
There is an element of fun
You find the fun and snap!

The job’s a game
… And every task you undertake
Becomes a piece of cake

A lark! A spree! It’s very clear to see that
… A Spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
The medicine go down
The medicine go down
Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
In a most delightful way

[The Louiswu]

This is the Bee, right?

[avenir]

It actually seems they are mocking liberals, maybe having a Bill Maher moment?

[chopperk]

The drug dealers are funded by the Cartel.

[VanShuyten]

Another example of rationalism having to look cute and colorful to get the attention of Dims.

[NohSpinZone]

Exactly. If anything, it’s making fun of the pro-crime, pro-addict “culture” - aka San Fransicko as Michael Shellenberger would say.

[Delta 21]

Addicts aint watching the TV, they are pawning it.

FAIL

[dynachrome]

“demand more money for law enforcement, as well as services for people addicted to fentanyl.”

More bureaucrat parasites. More LEO without enforcement is meaningless.