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Prohibition was a weird era in US history
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Date: September 16th, 2018 4:46 PM Author: Territorial jew 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: Wild boyish institution (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: Razzle-dazzle burgundy whorehouse 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: vigorous state 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: maniacal brilliant tanning salon 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: Electric greedy old irish cottage 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: rambunctious soul-stirring theater main people 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: Razzle-dazzle burgundy whorehouse (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: Territorial jew (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: domesticated range (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: Appetizing low-t senate 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: Territorial jew 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: Crystalline area selfie (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: Territorial jew (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: domesticated range (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: Plum Spot Toilet Seat (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: laughsome laser beams (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: Opaque cheese-eating parlor (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: Plum Spot Toilet Seat 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: maniacal brilliant tanning salon 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: buck-toothed submissive market 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: Territorial jew 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: maniacal brilliant tanning salon (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: Territorial jew 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: buck-toothed submissive market (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: tan set hairy legs 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: Amber location rigor 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: buck-toothed submissive market 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: Amber location rigor 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: Territorial jew (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: contagious blue sweet tailpipe blood rage 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: Glittery nibblets sanctuary 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: contagious blue sweet tailpipe blood rage 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: maniacal brilliant tanning salon 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: vigorous state 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: wonderful brass international law enforcement agency university 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: Opaque cheese-eating parlor 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: wonderful brass international law enforcement agency university 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: maniacal brilliant tanning salon 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: Territorial jew 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: Territorial jew (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: unholy bat-shit-crazy station Should be reinstated tbh alcohol is poison (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4078804&forum_id=2#37540441) |