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Prohibition was a weird era in US history
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Date: September 16th, 2018 4:46 PM Author: Idiotic national Just what the hell were we hoping to accomplish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36820063) |
Date: September 16th, 2018 4:47 PM Author: Ruby boyish regret hell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36820066) |
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Date: September 16th, 2018 4:47 PM Author: Shaky Blood Rage cr disastrous female-led movement (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36820069) |
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Date: September 21st, 2018 4:49 PM Author: Razzmatazz Tan Really Tough Guy Space titmfcr-- exactly how prohibition came about (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36858900) |
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Date: September 21st, 2018 4:50 PM Author: sapphire charismatic psychic only in the early ineffective stages. men too over and rammed it down everyone’s throats (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36858911) |
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Date: September 16th, 2018 4:49 PM Author: ivory indian lodge The Ken Burns on that was 180. Was interesting to see what led to it. Seemed like shit had gotten pretty bad and people just didn't know what else to do. It was like the opioid epidemic x 100. But then the cure was worse than the disease and they were like "fuck it, we're going back" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36820077) |
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Date: September 16th, 2018 4:51 PM Author: Yapping Gay Market Headpube It enriched a large amount of criminal families who then began to become legitimate over the next 20-50 years after the its repeal and then rose to prominent positions in government, industry and finance. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36820082) |
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Date: September 16th, 2018 4:51 PM Author: Shaky Blood Rage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36820084) |
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Date: September 16th, 2018 4:52 PM Author: Idiotic national (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36820087) |
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Date: September 20th, 2018 12:39 PM Author: misanthropic water buffalo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36848763) |
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Date: September 16th, 2018 4:52 PM Author: glittery principal's office gaming laptop kind of like weed being illegal for almost a century? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36820088) |
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Date: September 16th, 2018 5:03 PM Author: Idiotic national I don't know, do you think it's comparable? Probably not. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36820169) |
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Date: September 16th, 2018 5:06 PM Author: Galvanic potus property (guy going blind from bathtub marijuana smuggled in from Canada) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36820190) |
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Date: September 20th, 2018 12:35 PM Author: Idiotic national (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36848729) |
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Date: September 20th, 2018 12:40 PM Author: misanthropic water buffalo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36848764) |
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Date: September 20th, 2018 12:44 PM Author: Cocky excitant partner (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36848806) |
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Date: September 21st, 2018 4:42 PM Author: Up-to-no-good vivacious people who are hurt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36858856) |
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Date: September 21st, 2018 4:56 PM Author: Green boistinker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36858945) |
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Date: September 20th, 2018 12:37 PM Author: Cocky excitant partner Or prostitution. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36848743) |
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Date: September 21st, 2018 4:31 PM Author: sapphire charismatic psychic 70% of federal govt revenues were coming from alcohol taxes, lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36858789) |
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Date: September 21st, 2018 4:34 PM Author: Underhanded native national security agency Alcohol consumption levels went down during Prohibition and remained substantially lower than their pre-Prohibition levels after the 18th Amendment was repealed. They remain so to this day.
You can argue that it was a Pyrrhic victory, but it did achieve its basic goal. |
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Date: September 21st, 2018 4:35 PM Author: Idiotic national It was a stupid, senseless goal though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36858809) |
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Date: September 21st, 2018 4:36 PM Author: sapphire charismatic psychic (Hun trying to weaken America with his serpent drink) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36858820) |
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Date: September 21st, 2018 4:39 PM Author: Idiotic national People who are inclined to drink heavily and are prevented from doing so will just find another outlet for their pathos. Even if you are against alcohol consumption (and I certainly am not) there is no angle where Prohibition was anything but a resounding failure. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36858833) |
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Date: September 21st, 2018 4:41 PM Author: Underhanded native national security agency (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36858841) |
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Date: September 21st, 2018 4:38 PM Author: navy razzle-dazzle point alcohol is poison, lib (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36858830) |
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Date: September 21st, 2018 4:41 PM Author: iridescent bawdyhouse internal respiration not sure what you're defining as "alcohol consumption levels" but alcohol consumption per capita is essentially the same today as the pre-Prohibition peak and exceeded it from the mid 60s to the mid 80s
http://digg.com/2017/history-of-american-alcohol-consumption |
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Date: September 21st, 2018 4:43 PM Author: Underhanded native national security agency Huh, guess I was wrong then.
Also LJL at how you can see Boomers entering adulthood on that graph. |
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Date: September 21st, 2018 4:55 PM Author: iridescent bawdyhouse internal respiration the 70s mustve been a fucking wild time. it feels like booze is fucking everywhere today and yet back then they would've drank us under the table (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36858943) |
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Date: September 21st, 2018 4:45 PM Author: Idiotic national (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36858875) |
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Date: September 21st, 2018 4:37 PM Author: charcoal pervert telephone It was largely attached to womens suffrage movements and early feminism and progressives.
The idea that religion was driving it is shitlib revisionism |
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Date: September 21st, 2018 4:38 PM Author: Gaped abode pocket flask its what happens when religious rightwing conservatives gain too much power (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36858831) |
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Date: September 21st, 2018 4:39 PM Author: charcoal pervert telephone Lol, dingfag. See above. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36858834) |
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Date: September 21st, 2018 4:43 PM Author: sapphire charismatic psychic xo Catholics, Lutherans, and Episcopalians were 100% against it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36858869) |
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Date: September 21st, 2018 4:50 PM Author: Razzmatazz Tan Really Tough Guy Space Jesus Christ are you ever right? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36858912) |
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Date: September 21st, 2018 4:40 PM Author: Talking Massive Stag Film Azn Then as now, progressives were batshit insane and instantly destroyed society when they got power. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36858838) |
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Date: September 21st, 2018 4:57 PM Author: Green boistinker alcoholism was a much bigger societal problem then (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36858953) |
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Date: September 21st, 2018 4:57 PM Author: Talking Massive Stag Film Azn stop justifying authoritarianism shitlib (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36858959) |
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Date: September 21st, 2018 4:58 PM Author: sapphire charismatic psychic http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/yes-rudy1.gif (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36858962) |
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Date: September 21st, 2018 5:00 PM Author: Idiotic national funny how when you try to "solve" societal problems you end up creating newer, possibly more insidious ones. what aspect of society is even not a "problem"? anything can be construed as a problem depending on the appraiser's pathology. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#36858974) |
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Date: January 6th, 2019 7:58 PM Author: Idiotic national (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#37540019) |
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Date: January 6th, 2019 9:00 PM Author: hyperventilating black step-uncle's house doctorate Should be reinstated tbh alcohol is poison (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#37540441) |