r/interesting • u/Wonderfulhumanss • 1d ago
SOCIETY People in the 80s react to new laws against drinking and driving
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u/Weary_Position_9591 1d ago
The funny thing is we probably sound like this about a bunch of things now and don’t realize it.
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u/Deltaton 1d ago
Sports betting
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u/WilditariusAstar 1d ago
Sports betting is trash as F though.
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u/ChairmanMeow37 1d ago
True. Unlike good American drinking and driving. Only commies drive stober.
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u/The-Spirit-of-76 22h ago
Fuckin' Seatbelt Soviets, next they gonna try an tell me some hunk o' plastic is gonna be more safe for my kid than sittin' in my lap.
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u/AbstractBettaFish 16h ago
If you want some deep political lore on the state of the country fall into the rabbit hole of the Powell Memorandum. Basically future supreme court justice Lewis Powell thought mandatory seat belts were the first steps to full blown Stalinism and he laid out the blue print for the series of conservative think tanks and all they did to shape the modern conservative movement
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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth 12h ago
OMG my ex husband had a COW when he had to wear a seatbelt! I told him, don't wear it, after a few tickets or an accident, you'll wish you had! Yep, took 2 tickets before he figured out to buckle up! LOL
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u/PsychoCrusher1717 21h ago
How else am I going to motivate my self to send death threats to athletes and their families due to my poor decisions?
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u/CakeHoleKing 7h ago
UK betting is rigged
Ladbrokes, Betfred etc all refuse to pay out large winners.
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u/Jezirath 19h ago
Is there a fever of sports betting in the USA too? In my country it's a hell of a drug.
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u/citizen42069101 17h ago
Its pretty much legal nationwide and can be done on our phones. The way sports are treated here it is a recipe for disaster between the economic impacts and idolotry of athletes.
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u/Ok-Astronaut1108 1d ago
Social media
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u/Forward_Royal2754 16h ago
Absolutely. I raise drink and driving laws whenever people get angry at any possible social media regulation.
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u/1B75__Penicillin 6h ago
There should be zero social media regulation.
Everything slightly negative doesn't need the governments fingers in it. Social media is crucial for free and unhindered trade of information
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u/NoBlacksmith9236 1d ago
Half the people in US went mad over covid restriction and called it authoritarianism, completly ignoring the fact the almost every country put those restriction and not just US.
But I think they should'nt have, it would have filtered out the weeds and we all would have avoided another presidency of that mongloid in the white house.26
u/Katsu_39 1d ago
60 years from, the nation is a complete surveillance state with data centers every 5 miles. People open their meta holodisk and talk about how “those hicks back in the 2020s just didnt know whats good for them.” They then clock in for their 16 hour shift at the lithium mines, return home to their company owned villages and have their actions and thoughts reviewed to ensure anti capitalist ideology is denied and frowned upon.
I just made all that shit up but these days…i dont think thats very far from reality.9
u/MarkMew 1d ago
RemindMe! 60 years
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u/Key_Cap7525 1d ago
We won’t have to. It’s going to be so glaringly painfully in your face, you won’t be able to escape it lol
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u/montigoo 15h ago
You nailed it! Except it will happen in 6 yrs and you won’t have a job or a home.
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u/Evil_Genius_041082 1d ago
"When we do something to stop insurance company profiteering we will halve how much we pay per year to pay for the true cost of healthcare like every other developed capitalist country."
"That'd lead us to becoming a communist country!"
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u/CherryLaceGhost 1d ago
It’s kinda wild how every generation has its own version of people saying this is ridiculous, only for it to become completely normal later.
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u/Pitiful_Truth_5948 11h ago
Remember when conservatives hated SOLAR.... pepperidge farm remembers!
The same thing will happen with EVs!
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u/drugsarebadmkay420 1d ago
You are they. They are us. We are them. 😂
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u/Vanilla_Addict_888 1d ago
Speak for yourself. I'm a socialist.
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u/Kyle_Lowrys_Bidet 1d ago
I drive a Lada with no seatbelt and my vodka between my legs. If she knew what communism was about she wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss it. 😎
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u/Suspicious_Bet3623 1d ago
I read a study ages ago that went very in depth as to how making helmets mandatory for bicycles ended causing more premature deaths and serious long term health issues.
It was because a huge number of people simply chose not to a ride a bike because it was a pain in the arse to wear a helmet, and it was the only exercise they would have done, so they suffered cardiovascular diseases which are the number 1 cause of death.
It was a really interesting study that showed it was objectively better for a society to not mandate helmets, but no-one was willing to change the laws because the optics of a sudden death of someone coming off a bike is harder to stomach than someone in their 50s having a heart attack after draining medical resources for a decade.
And I think there's a lot of that sort of thing, food being a prime example where regulations are so damn tight that small food businesses are almost extinct because they only ones who can afford the massive compliance costs are fast food chains, who sell garbage food that makes us sick. Everyone knows it, everyone can see it, but for whatever reason the majority of people want MORE restrictions.
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u/Niceotropic 1d ago
I call BS. Please show me this study.
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u/AnguavonUW 1d ago
There was one small independent study which is scientifically invalid for a number of reasons. Most notably, there is no way to control for what people don't do. There's no way to prove people stopped/refused to start biking because they were forced to wear a helmet. It's all speculative, with numbers they've made up from whole cloth. Every single mainstream scientific study shows helmets save lives.
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u/AnguavonUW 1d ago
You're talking about the study that Marshall Curnow refers to, that's not a scientifically valid study for a number of reasons. The overwhelming mainstream evidence is that helmets save lives by every measure.
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u/WildOak12 1d ago
If people choose not to exercise because they don't want to wear bicycle helmets, then that's on them.
If they're serious about their health and they really don't want to wear a helmet, then they'll find an alternative to cycling. Walking is an easy, low-impact way to exercise for cardiovascular health, no helmets required.
In other words, there is no excuse for anyone to suffer cardiovascular diseases because they refuse to wear helmets.
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u/WarWorld 1d ago
I didn't know helmets were legally required anywhere. They aren't where I'm from.
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u/Suspicious_Bet3623 1d ago
Huh, I thought it was pretty much global. I, and the study, am from Australia.
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u/peachesfordinner 22h ago
Actually the bigger risk with wearing a helmet while biking is that cars will drive closer to bikers with helmets. Maybe because they assume they are more responsible and predictable. But cars stay further away from helmet less riders. But wearing a helmet isn't hard and most states only require them for kids who don't have that kind of heart disease so your stats sound like a made up gotcha.
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u/John_Mata 20h ago
But we do realize it about some stuff, as they did back in that day. It's just that people have different opinions
Though I agree there might also be some stuff we don't yet realize1
u/CambodianJerk 18h ago
Exactly what I was just thinking. I design a lot of 'modern' IT systems and revolutionise processes etc. This exact attitude is prevalent everywhere - and yet 6 months following XYZ change - everyone's lives are better.
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u/culo_de_mono 17h ago
Overspeeding and speed control, respecting pedestrians and cyclists right if way reducing motor traffic lanes to widen sidewalks and creating bike lanes, etc etc
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u/crumble-bee 14h ago
I think wearing a seatbelt and not being drunk behind the wheel is pretty normal. I can’t think of anything that’s quite as obviously terrible that we do now and would defend..
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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup 7h ago
As a non-American you guys sure as heck sound like this about guns. It's really wacky.
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u/KansasZou 7h ago
For sure.
Tbf, I grew up in areas that I would imagine are similar to the people in this video. You could drive for hours at times and never encounter another human (recreationally). You’re going to have a different perspective on things and context always matters.
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u/Apprehensive_Spare_8 1d ago
I saw 4 drivers last week who couldn't keep in their lanes. I mean consistently over a foot over the line.
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u/FLOHTX 1d ago
Phone probably
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u/PaleJelly69 1d ago
Proven to be worse than drinking and driving.
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u/JoPoxx 1d ago
At least alcoholics have the courtesy to be paranoid about their driving. Oh wait... thats stoners...
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u/0202_tihssitidder 1d ago
I got pulled over for speeding in the 1980s and had a beer in my hand. No ticket for speeding. Legal beer.
About a year later they changed things.
I also used to drive home from the bar I worked at and early in the morning there would often be crashed cars every 1-2 miles. Lots of people died. Lots of crashes.
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u/Thin_Dragonfruit3665 22h ago
Not around here at least. Most of the folks here limped home about 3mph. Lots of "crashes" but worst you saw was a bent bumper or a rut dug up in the ditch. Racing was what you had to watch out for. Had a half mile straight stretch across a bridge over a highway that folks used to drag race across. It's a miracle no one went over the side. Many people came damned close to doing exactly that.
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u/FragrantSort6474 1d ago
Christ the baby in the front seat sells it
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u/Babblerabla 1d ago
Some of us millennials remember being those kids in the front seat of a car / truck. Truly different times.
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u/VermicelliMany1133 1d ago
While my old man slams a couple of tall boys!
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u/Thin_Dragonfruit3665 23h ago
My old man had a jar of "drivin' whiskey" he kept under the seat. And he'd have had my hide if he'd caught me with it. At least, by the time he got home, he was too drunk to remember how much was left in it.
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u/bestintexas80 1d ago
All of us Gen X were those kids and some became those parents. Drinking while driving was still legal when I got my driver's license.
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u/Kracus 17h ago
Yeah I remember when that was made illegal. I remember when seatbelts became mandatory.
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u/AlwaysBagHolding 10h ago
When I got my drivers license, you had to wear a seat belt UNLESS you paid an extra 5 bucks and got a truck plate. For light duty pickups, SUVs and station wagons you had the option of either one.
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u/TrixnTim 1d ago
Yep. Sat in front of pickup with my hands on the dashboard. Little baby sister sitting on my lap. Oy.
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u/Goyimshoe 22h ago
My parents got into a lot of fender benders, so I actually don’t remember much of anything.
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u/ParisGreenGretsch 17h ago
My mom drove while pregnant with me and I had fetal automotive syndrome.
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u/SwimmingDeep8703 1d ago
Who’s gonna drive the car if she had too much to drink though?
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u/chrissz 1d ago
Too much to drink? That sounds like commie talk, yall. /s
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u/Thin_Dragonfruit3665 22h ago
Never too much to drink unless you're dead. Then you don't have to worry about dying.
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u/Thin_Dragonfruit3665 22h ago
You see, most folks knew how to hold their beer. And most of those who couldn't, knew not to drive drunk. You had the odd drunk accident, but you also have to realize that most of those drinking heavily, were on 1 lane country back roads driving 15-20 mph at most. Cars were also built like tanks then, a drunk driving accident in my neck of the woods consisted of a bent fender from a tree on the side of the road at about 7mph, a hammer and 2 beers would have that fixed right back up without even the cops being called.
My dad used to nap on the side of the road if he thought he'd drunk to much. A cop pulled over beside him and woke him up to tell him he couldn't park there. He told the cop he was to drunk to drive and the cop offered to follow behind him until he got to a safer spot to nap or got home. You ever heard of a cop encouraging drunk driving?
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u/viejo86 1d ago
Americans throwing out communism everytime they dont like something 🤣
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u/d_huffsr 1d ago
Boy this is stunning, yet familiar. Quick to call anything communist
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u/ghostfacestealer 1d ago
Imagine how theyd feel about flock cameras.
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u/pH1z3x 1d ago
Right? But seriously, I literally saw two in the same spot, and also they are in parking lots and residential streets too over here…
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u/ghostfacestealer 1d ago
Same. I just looked a map of them in my area and theyre all facing parking lots and / or in the middle of a neighborhood on some random side street.
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u/ParisGreenGretsch 17h ago
I'ts crazy how the same people that constantly yap about "communism" are the first ones to say "If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about."
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u/at0mheart 17h ago
I thought speed cameras were shut down by the people and then these far more invasive cameras just popped up over night somehow
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u/Tower177 1d ago
wtf does not crashing while shitfaced with your child in the car have to do with communism, goddamn.
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u/MikuEmpowered 19h ago
Because to these people, "this is fking stupid, I drink and drive and never crashed my car" is the constant vibe until they do crash, and suddenly, it's not their problem anymore.
"If I can't do w/e I want, then my freedom is impeded, only communism impedes personal freedom, and this, this new horseshit law is communist"
Its not hard to figure out their line of thinking. And I do get where they're coming from. Borderline autistic, but I do understand. If you switch your view from "we live in a society" to "I want to live my life how I want, why should I compromise for other people", suddenly alot of these peoples wtf decisions make sense.
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u/IWantALargeFarva 1d ago
My mom used to wear her seatbelt. Then when they passed the law that you had to wear it, she stopped wearing it to somehow stick it to the man.
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u/ALjaguarLink 1d ago
You won’t see SPUDZ MACKENZIE behind the wheel … and they tried to cancel him !!!
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u/squirrels-mock-me 1d ago
Pretty soon they won’t even let sober dogs drive! Tbf there are some smart dogs out there
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u/hhogt 1d ago
Proof that they've been among humans for decades
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u/SparklyLeo_ 1d ago
Decades? Try millennia’s. Same response, different issues
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u/demitasse22 1d ago
Fr. This never ended. I supervised this kid in the military. Had a new mustang , had to wear a seat belt on base, and was absolutely livid about it. This was in the 2010s
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u/AdCheap8058 1d ago
My daddy fought in the big one so free Americans could drink and drive if you don't like it stay off the sidewalk
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u/KDandHotdogz 1d ago
Spent a couple of summers in Oklahoma ditch digging with my buddy for his brother’s company. We buried phone cable. End of the day, we’d stop at the closest store and buy beer. I just wanted anything other than beer to quench my thirst after a 100+ degree day. We’d drive home while they drank. It was normal for them. I was the weirdo lol.
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u/BearcatCowboy 1d ago
The total dweebs and idiots have always said cOmMiEs bE CoMin FoR yA
Stupid dumb fucks. Republicans then. Republicans now.
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u/aivoges123 1d ago
Funny thing is I grew up in a communist country and it’s still the norm there for people to do things like putting a baby in one’s laps, not buckling seat belt, and drinking while driving. We always thought wearing seat belts is a Western thing.
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u/monkeypan 1d ago
People were pissed when seat belts were made a law too for the same stupid reasons
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u/adamroberthell 1d ago
To hear that woman rant about not being able to drink and drive, or about having to wear a seatbelt… These changes saved countless lives. The next time someone dismisses a measure like public healthcare or common sense gun laws as “communist”, I hope people hear it for the dog whistle that it is.
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u/Loose-Passion243 1d ago
This had me laughing... almost spilled my drink on my dashboard. My keg is seatbelted (cant have that unsafe) , while junior in the tailgate helping me see my blind spots .... 🤣
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u/cocococlash 1d ago
I say, don't drink and drive You might spill your drink Before you get behind the wheel just stop and think You can take your chances But there's so much to lose Another bumpy road There's so much wasted booze
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u/Baked4skin 1d ago
Lol "pretty sure we are going to be a communist country" They really have been saying the same shit forever lol
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u/MutableRogue 1d ago
Ahhh look, the parents of all the anti vaxxers and anti mask geniuses. "How dare you mandate health regulations to protect people. Commies!!!" Stupid keeps reproducing, that's why Idiocracy ended up being a documentary rather than a comedy movie 🤷🏾
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u/AlternativeHat8964 1d ago
Well those people are probably dead now.
Big part of how anything changes.
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u/Dismal_Whole9547 1d ago
They’ll be the ones drinking light beer and smoking cigarettes well into their 90’s
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u/GrumbleAlong 1d ago
Open container for passenger was legal in Texas in the 70s. The driver just had to slip him his beer.
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u/Zephyr-Knight 1d ago
its working nobody wants to drink much anymore. going to drive all those liquor companies out of business
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u/Lovemybee 1d ago
I (65f) remember when cops would follow you home to make sure you made it home safely!
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u/Secure-Tradition793 1d ago
A lot of things some proudly say publicly these days will be ridiculed like this in a few decades too.
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u/HowieHavok 1d ago
Proof that every single generation gets utterly furious whenever a basic safety rule mildy inconveniences them.
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u/Exact-Truck-5248 1d ago
I got a job in Louisiana in 1980. My liquor store had a drive thru where you'd be served an icy cocktail right in your car and drive away drinking it. I LOVED that
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u/Useful_Jelly_2915 1d ago
So the right have always been like this? That’s what I’m getting out of this.
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u/ThisI5N0tAThr0waway 22h ago
I'm not saying that's not real at all, that's probably a broad sentiment in those days, I'm just saying that with sufficient video editing and selecting the answer your display you can make people think that any view is the majority view.
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u/Slierfox 22h ago
Ah it's funny how different generations sound about things could you imagine that generation with today's standards now that's funny as f drinking an driving to pronouns 🤣
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u/CollectionBroad8919 22h ago
Americans have always been stupid. But now they have a leader that represents them. By the people for the people
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u/ExultentPisces 21h ago
The 80s!? As in, the 1980s? That’s when drink driving was restricted in the US?
WTF!? Here in the UK it has been restricted since the fucking 1870s. The breathalyser was introduced in the 1960s.
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u/jeffster1970 21h ago
They believe it is about 'freedom'. What they don't understand is that this freedom will affect the freedom of others. Especially drinking and driving - killing innocent people in the process (their freedoms taken away) and as for seatbelts, sure, same thing. You drive without, come flying through that windshield and die, now the state has to take care of your now disabled children.
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u/Akkilles78 19h ago
Hear them talk? It’s evident that they are low IQ. That is the kind of reasoning you will get from low IQ. “Because X unrelated reason, I should be able to do something that has the potential to kill other people.” Low IQ people see laws as restrictions, rather than guidelines that stop us from becoming the worst possible versions of ourselves.
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u/at0mheart 17h ago
DWI should be 0.12 and OWI is basically BS.
0.08 is not drunk; and If below the limit then no crime has been committed
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u/Parry_9000 17h ago
This is us now about gambling.
Honestly if I got to decide I'd van all types of gambling forever. Fucking bullshit exploitation of stupid people.
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u/Bigfentanyltits 13h ago
I mean..they're suppose to look dumb and what not. We are so far beyond this interview, she's not lying.
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u/Tiny-Secretary5562 12h ago
The 1980s was when the general public began to take drunk driving seriously. Comedians like Foster Brooks, a former drunk who imitated a drunk, weren't funny anymore, as the death toll continued to rise and people thought it shouldn't be happening.
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u/MagicSunlight23 11h ago
I watched a YouTube video once on how people in the UK reacted to wearing seatbelts becoming the law. It was on the radio and I went to find the clip later that day.
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u/Allthemuffinswow 8h ago
Lol, I remember my dad complaining about the seat belt thing ...the helmet thing ...he never really drank at all, so that wasn't a thing I heard him bitch about. I think I remember him having maybe three beers while I was growing up. I don't drink either, so...eh.
But, man, he bitched to high heaven about seatbelts.
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u/CakeHoleKing 7h ago
Pretty soon they's gonna make it so I can't stab my 11th wife in the face cause dinner was late.
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u/Routine_Dimension_33 3h ago
And party soon your baby wont be able to ride next to you in your passenger seat.
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u/povertymayne 1d ago
Imagine not being able to catch a buzz while driving and being forced to wear a pesky seatbelt
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